Career
Living in Plantation, Florida, who was the # 1 collegiate female tennis player in the United States in 2007. She is currently the head women"s tennis coach at the University of North Florida. Her career high world rank was 229 in singles and 271 in doubles.
When Cohen was a child, she first excelled at swimming, but she picked up a tennis racquet at the age of nine, and became a self-described “club rat,” who would hit as much as possible – first at her local club in California, and then in Florida, where she relocated with her family when she was 12.
She learned tennis at Bill Clarks Tennis Academy and still visits Bill and Debbie. She was one of 12 collegiate players to be named to the 2006 USTA Summer Collegiate Team, an elite training program designed to give college’s top players exposure to professional tennis by competing on the USTA Pro Circuit.
Cohen played in four USTA Circuit events, and reached the semifinals or better in three, including the $10,000 event in Evansville, Indiana, where she captured her first professional title. She defeated world Number 92 Olga Savchuk, in August 2006 in New Haven, Connecticut.
She defeated world Number 93 Varvara Lepchenko in a three-set match, in October 2006 in Augusta, Georgia.
In August 2007 in Forest Hills, New York, in her greatest upset to date, she defeated world Number. 59 Elena Likhovtseva of Russia. At the 2007 United States Open, she entered as a wild card and was defeated in the first round by Andrea Petkovic of Germany.
In April 2008 in Amelie Island she beat world Number.
89 Galina Voskoboeva. In September 2008 in Beijing she defeated world Number.
84 Anne Keothavong of Great Britain in straight sets. Her season-ending rankings were Number.
579 in 2006, Number. 384 in 2007, and Number.
230 in 2008. 2011 retired from tennis. Singles: 2 (1–1)
Doubles: 2 (2–0).