Meet Ashnaa Rao, the first Johns Hopkins tennis player to win a national title

"I came from a boarding school tennis academy where you played five hours each day. All that tennis matured me as a player. Now I just take it one point at a time."

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Why you should know her: Rao became the first JHU tennis player, male or female, to win a USTA/ITA national championship when she won the 2014 USTA/ITA National Small College Singles Championship in October. The sophomore also was the first player in program history to win the USTA/ITA Southeast Singles Championship, held in September.

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