West Virginia University Athletics

2024-25 (Senior)

• Spring 2025
  • Finished 6-8 overall, including 2-1 in singles play and 4-7 in doubles play
• Fall 2024
  • Did not compete
• Named a 2025 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete
• 2025 Spring Academic All-Big 12 First Team

2023-24 (Junior)

• Finished 21-9 overall for the 2023-24 season
• Was one of six players to win 20 or more matches during the 2023-24 season 
• Spring 2024
  • Finished 21-9 overall, including 12-4 in singles and 9-5 in doubles play 
  • Had the third-most singles wins for the year
• Did not participate in the fall
• 2024 Spring Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Named a 2024 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete

2022-23 (Sophomore)

• Finished 12-21 overall for the season, going 8-11 in singles play and 4-10 in doubles play
• Played as the No. 5 and No. 6 seed in singles play
• Played primarily as the No. 3 seed in doubles play with Maja Dodik
• Named to the 2023 Spring Academic All-Big 12 First Team
• Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
• First Team Academic All-Big 12

2022 (Freshman)

• Joined the Mountaineers in January
• Posted a 21-22 overall record during her first collegiate season, including a 12-9 singles record
• One of two Mountaineers to secure singles wins against Big 12 opponents
• Her and Bovolskaia defeated Oklahoma’s Sleeth and Staker, 6-4 and Kansas’ Smagina and Sonia 7-6
• In two-straight sets, Lipatova defeated KU’s Raphaelle Lacasse, 6-3, 7-5
• Against TCU, she topped Isabel Pascual, 6-4, 6-3

Prep

• Highest ITF Junior Ranking of 849 (2021) with four valid singles tournaments and spectacular doubles tournaments out of five possible in 2021
• First place at the Samara All-Russian tournament in the adult category
• Took first in the Togliatti All-Russian tournament in the 17 and under category
• Her doubles pair finished first in the Saransk All-Russian tournament
• Doubles pair semi-finalist of the international competition in Togliatti and Samara
• Made it to the quarterfinals at the 2020 J3 Almetyevsk Cup and the ITF Junior J5 Kazakhstan Open

Personal

• Daughter of Sergey and Olga Lipatova
• Has one brother, Alexey Lipatova, was a member of the 2009 Russian National Tennis Team
• Birthday is June 24
• Majoring in Sport Management
• Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll
• Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll