College can shape the girl and boy they are into the woman and man they will be. Many professionals know this well and many athletes know this well. College shapes a person’s future. And also the Internazionali BNL d’Italia semi-finalist Danielle Collins knows this well. Danielle – who will retire from tennis at the end of the season but is having fantastic results in 2024 – already achieved excellent results when she was a tennis student at the University of Virginia. During her years with the Virginia Cavaliers she won the 2014 and 2016 singles titles at the NCAA Tennis Championships and she won the ACC titles with her team in 2014 and in 2015.
Danielle Collins & Aryna Sabalenka will face each other in the Rome semifinals.
Aryna leads the head to head 5-0.
When Aryna won their last match in Madrid, she became the only player to beat Danielle since Indian Wells, but it was very close.
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Danielle talked on the Served with Andy Roddick Podcast about how important her college years were in her career development and personal emotional growth.
“I’m really grateful that I had those years to mature and develop strong resilience, because you have to have…