Laxmi Poruri-Madan (born November 9, 1972) is a retired American professional tennis player and the first Indian-American female to play professional tennis on the WTA Tour in the modern era.

[citation needed] Poruri was born in Guntur, India and raised in Central California where, from a very young age, she was known as a tennis prodigy.

She attended Stanford University from 1990 to 1994 on a full athletic scholarship, where she was a four-time All-American athlete, the 1994 Player of the Year,[2] and the top-ranked women's collegiate tennis player in the country.

Upon retiring from professional tennis, Poruri taught English for a year in Boston, MA.

[citation needed] As of 2015, she resides in Austin, TX with her husband, Ajay Madan, a corporate and securities lawyer, and daughter.