Sandy Collins (born October 13, 1958) is a retired professional
tennis
Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player from the U.S. who played from the late 1970s until 1994.
Collins is a native of
San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino ( ) is a city in and the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the city had a population of 222,101 in the 2020 census, making it the List of ...
. Sandy went to
Odessa College, where she played tennis for Coach Virginia Brown and the Wranglers. After two seasons, she transferred to the
University of Texas of the Permian Basin, where she completed her college career.
During her professional career, she won four doubles tournaments on the
WTA tour. Collins spent the next 17 years on the pro tennis tour, beating
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943), also known as BJK, is an American former World number 1 ranked female tennis players, world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in w ...
in her second year as well as
Tracy Austin (then ranked #2 in the world) in the quarterfinals of the
German Open. At different times in her career, Collins was ranked as high as 17th in the world in singles and doubles. She became the first tennis player to be endorsed by Oakley Sunglasses. After retirement, Collins coached privately for a time, eventually taking a job at Texas Tech University (1999) as the women's tennis assistant coach and then named head coach in November 2002. She is currently the associate AD/event operations and sports administrator (women's volleyball/men's tennis) at Texas Tech University.
WTA Tour finals
Singles 1
Doubles 18 (4–14)
References
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Tennis Magazine 1982
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1958 births
Living people
Sportspeople from San Bernardino, California
American female tennis players
Texas Tech Red Raiders women's tennis coaches
Texas Tech University faculty
Odessa College alumni
University of Texas Permian Basin alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women
Tennis players from California
Tennis coaches from California
20th-century American sportswomen