The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women’s Tennis signs international standout Anastasia Abbagnato
12.15.2025 | Women's Tennis
Anastasia Abbagnato, a native of Palermo, Italy, who has been ranked in the WTA top 400 in both singles and doubles, will join the Longhorns’ roster for the spring 2026.
Austin – University of Texas Women's Tennis has signed international standout Anastasia Abbagnato to an Athletic Scholarship Agreement (ASA), head coach Howard Joffe announced Monday. Anastasia Abbagnato will join the program in the spring 2026.
"We are beyond excited to have Anastasia joining our tennis program at Texas," associate head coach Biana Turati said. "Anastasia is an exceptional tennis player who is already established in the professional tour. What impressed us the most about her is the passion she displays and how determined she is, as well as her big and aggressive tennis style. Anastasia has a strong personality and is full of positive energy, and I have no doubt she will be a great leader on our team and will help us succeed. Being Italian myself, it's exciting to have a great Italian player joining our squad."
"I can't thank everyone at Texas enough, and I'm very happy to be joining the Longhorns," Abbagnato said. "Not only will I be surrounded by great athletes, but I'm excited because I really like my new teammates as people. It motivates me a lot, and I'm sure that we will all work well together. I love the energy of the program, and I know we'll achieve great things. I'm so happy and look forward to getting started with my new team!"
A native of Palermo, Italy, Abbagnato has posted a career high WTA singles ranking of No. 400 and is currently No. 416, while in doubles, she has reached No. 188 and is currently No. 231. She has registered 11 career pro titles with 10 of those coming in doubles, while her singles title came in the W15 Villena in Spain in 2023. She also reached the singles final of the W35 Trieste in Italy in 2024 and the W15 Cairo in 2022.
In doubles, she has collected three crowns in W35 tournaments this year, including Seville in Spain, Knokke-Heist in Belgium, and Buenos Aires in Argentina. She posted victories in two other W35s in 2024, both in Italy in Santa Margherita di Pula and Trieste. In 2023, she claimed the championship at the W25 in Ortisei in Italy, while her first four tournament titles came in W15s. She won in Monastir in Tunisia earlier in 2023, along with three in Egypt in 2022 that included two in Sharm ElSheikh and one in Cairo. She also has appeared in seven other tournament finals in her doubles career.
Abbagnato has competed in six WTA 125 events in doubles and one WTA 250 in Palermo in her career, but in 2024, she received a main draw wild card to the WTA 1000 in Rome where she and partner Aurora Zantedeschi earned a first-round win over Lucia Bronzetti and Linda Noskova before falling in the second round to Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini.
In juniors, Abbagnato won six doubles titles with two per year from 2019-21, including J2 Hammamet and J3 Megrine in Tunisia in 2021, J4s in Palermo and Algiers, Algeria in 2020, and the J4 Ioannina, Greece and J5 Tirana, Albania in 2019. Abbagnato was also an Italian U14 Team Champion and an U16 runner-up.
