Natasha Prokhnevska
Roosevelt Island Racquet Club
About Natasha
Natasha has been playing tennis since she was 6 years old, after watching Maria Sharapova win Wimbledon and deciding she wanted to be a tennis player. As a Junior, she was top 25 in the US and played in college for Georgia Tech, competing all 4 years on the team in singles and doubles. During her senior year, Georgia Tech was ranked 12 in the country, and successfully made it to NCAA sweet 16s. After graduating with a B.S. in Biochemistry she did post-graduate work at Emory University and taught tennis in midtown Atlanta. While teaching at RIRC part-time, she works full-time at Mt. Sinai Medical Center doing research on improving therapeutics for liver cancer patients.