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Özlem Uslu
Özlem Uslu developed through Türkiye’s junior tennis teams and Okyanus High School before competing for Virginia Tech.
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Özlem Uslu developed through Türkiye’s junior tennis teams and Okyanus High School before competing for Virginia Tech. Her college biography records national-team participation across U12, U14, U16 and U18 age groups, fourth place at the 2018 ITF World Junior Tennis finals and an ISF world school title in 2019.
As a Virginia Tech freshman in 2022–23, she went 16–7 in singles, reached the NCAA singles second round and earned second-team All-ACC and ITA Atlantic Region Rookie of the Year honours. Reaching the last 16 at the November 2024 NCAA singles championships made her the programme’s first All-American. Her 2024–25 record included 21 combined fall and spring wins and a peak collegiate ranking of No. 21.
In 2025–26 she recorded nine singles and 13 doubles wins. With Arina Gamretkaia, she received third-team All-ACC doubles recognition.
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Her college biography records national-team participation across U12, U14, U16 and U18 age groups, fourth place at the 2018 ITF World Junior Tennis finals and an ISF world school title in 2019.
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