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Talia Neilson-Gatenby Season 2025-26

Height5-7
ClassSophomore
HometownAshby De-La Zouch, England
High SchoolLoughborough College

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Career Accolades

Signed in June 2025 as part of Saia’s second recruitment class

2025-26 (Sophomore)

Spring

  • Totaled a 14-6 record in 26 singles matches
  • Played on court four mainly for singles
  • Recorded a 14-8 doubles record on courts two and three with Artemis Aslanisvili and Romana Cisvoska as partners
  • Totaled 11 straight-set wins and 33 set wins

Fall

  • Went 2-1 through three singles matches played
  • Did not play a doubles match

2024-25 (Freshman-Florida)

  • Was ranked No. 122 by the ITA in preseason singles
  • In the 2024 ITA Preseason Newcomer ranks, she came in at No. 8 in the nation

Spring

  • Posted six singles wins during dual play 
  • Played the majority of the season at the No. 3 position for singles 
  • Grabbed four doubles wins for UF at the No. 2 position 
  • Tallied a win for UF at the 2025 SEC Tournament to help lift the Gators over Alabama 
  • Six of her matches were forced to three sets 

Fall

  • Defeated No. 71 Shelly Bereznyak to mark her highest-ranked career win in singles
  • Tallied three singles wins during fall play
  • Earned doubles wins with three different partners
  • Advanced to the round of 16 in the ITA Regional Championships

Personal

  • On the ITF circuit she held a career-best No. 541 world ranking in singles and a No. 896 in doubles
  • In May of 2024, she secured the 15k ITF doubles title in Monastir
  • Neilson-Gatenby has competed at the 15k ITF Sharm El Sheikh and the W15 Monastir, in both tournaments, she advanced to the quarterfinals and defeated top-5 seeds
  • In 2022, Neilson-Gatenby qualified for the Wimbledon junior event after making it to the 18 & Under Junior National Title finals
    • Made it to the second round before falling to Annabelle Xu, an ITA All-American and a First Team All-ACC player at Virginia