Rianna Tei Valdes (born 3 September 1996) is an American
pickleball
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player and former
tennis
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player.
Valdes has a career-high
WTA singles ranking of 498, achieved on 11 May 2015. She also holds a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 328, set on 28 July 2022.
Valdes won her first and sole ITF title at the
2019 Thoreau Tennis Open, in the doubles draw partnering
Angela Kulikov
Angela Kirsten Kulikov (born 31 March 1998) is an American tennis player who specializes in doubles.
She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 57, achieved on 24 October 2022.
Kulikov has played college tennis at the University of South ...
.
She played college tennis at the
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...
.
ITF finals
Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)
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1996 births
Living people
American female tennis players
Tennis players from Boca Raton, Florida
USC Trojans women's tennis players
American female pickleball players
21st-century American sportswomen
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