Megan Falcon (born July 19, 1985) is an American tennis coach and former professional player. Born in 1985, Falcon was raised in

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. She was the country's top ranked player in the 16-and-under age group and the first collegiate player at

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(LSU) to claim the number one ITA rankings. In her three seasons at LSU she earned three singles

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selections was the 2007 SEC Player of the Year. Falcon represented the United States at the

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in Rio de Janeiro and made it to the bronze-medal game in women's doubles, with

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. Ranked as high as 331 in the world, Falcon's best performance on the professional tour came at the

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, a

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tournament in Bogota, where she won in the first round against top 100 player

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. She lost her second round match in three sets to sixth-seed

Ľudmila Cervanová Ľudmila Cervanová (; born 15 October 1979) is a former tennis player from Slovakia. She turned professional in 1997, and reached career-high rankings of world No. 58 in singles in March 2004 and No. 186 in doubles in May 1997. Biography Cervan ...

. Falcon is the women's head coach at

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, previously coaching the

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from 2019 to 2021.

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