Audra Cohen

Audra Marie Cohen (born April 21, 1986) is an American former professional tennis player and current college tennis coach. She was the # 1 collegiate female tennis player in the United States in 2007. At the University of Miami in 2005-2006 she was named the ITA National Player of the Year and was the National Indoor Champion, and in 2006-07 she won the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championship, the NCAA Singles Championship, and the ITA National Player of the Year award. She is currently the head women's tennis coach at the University of Oklahoma.

Her career-high world rank was 229 in singles, and 271 in doubles.

Early life Cohen was born in California and is Jewish. 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. She learned tennis at Bill Clark's Tennis Academy.

High school Cohen attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She won the Florida state championship in singles and doubles as a junior and a senior, and was undefeated and an All American and was named the Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel Player of the Year during both her junior and senior seasons. She was named the ITA National Player of the Year, National Indoor Champion, ACC Player of the Year, and All-ACC team. She won the ITA National Player of the Year and ACC Player of the Year awards. Cohen was honored by Miami-Dade County with “Audra Cohen Day” on June 29, 2007. She earned her B.A. in Psychology cum laude in 2009.

Pro tournaments She defeated world No. 92 Olga Savchuk, in August 2006 in New Haven, Connecticut. Cohen defeated world No 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, Cohen defeated world No. 59 Elena Likhovtseva of Russia. At the 2007 US Open, she entered as a wild card and was defeated in the first round by Andrea Petkovic of Germany. In April 2008 in Amelia Island she beat world No. 89 Galina Voskoboeva. In May 2008, partnering with Heidi El Tabakh, she won the Landisville doubles.

In September 2008 in Beijing she defeated world No. 84 Anne Keothavong of Great Britain in straight sets. Cohen's season-ending rankings were No. 579 in 2006, No. 384 in 2007, and No. 230 in 2008. In 2011, she retired from tennis.

Pan American Games Cohen was a captain on the 2007 Pan-American Games Team USA, playing both singles and doubles in tennis. She was three-time Atlantic Sun Coach of the Year.

In 2016 she became the women's tennis program head coach at the University of Oklahoma.

ITF finals

Singles: 2 (1–1) Legend $100,000 tournaments $75,000 tournaments $50,000 tournaments $25,000 tournaments $15,000 tournaments $10,000 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (1–1)Clay (0–0)Grass (0–0)Carpet (0–0) OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWinner 1. July 25, 2006 Evansville, United States Hard Lauren Albanese 2–6, 6–2, 6–1Runner-up 2. January 13, 2008 St. Leo, United States Hard Anastasia Pivovarova 4–6, 0–6

Doubles: 2 (2–0) $100,000 tournaments$75,000 tournaments$50,000 tournaments$25,000 tournaments$10,000 tournaments OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponents in the finalScoreWinner 1. May 25, 2008 Landisville, United States Hard Heidi El Tabakh Stefania Boffa Anna Fitzpatrick 6–3, 7–6(7–3)Winner 2. November 18, 2008 Puebla, Mexico Hard Megan Moulton-Levy María Fernanda Álvarez Terán Veronica Spiegel 6–2, 6–4