This list of University of Florida tennis players includes former athletes of the men's and women's tennis teams of the University of Florida who have competed on the professional tennis circuit. The list includes such athletes as Lisa Raymond, Nicole Arendt, Jill Craybas, and Jesse Levine. [1] [2]
| Name | Notability |
|---|---|
| Jillian Alexander | Former pro tennis player |
| Nicole Arendt | Former pro tennis player |
| Brooke Austin | Former pro tennis player |
| Andrea Berger | Former pro tennis player |
| Marrit Boonstra | Former pro tennis player |
| Dawn Buth | Former pro tennis player |
| Julia Cohen | Former pro tennis player |
| Jill Craybas | Former pro tennis player |
| Anna Danilina | Active pro tennis player |
| Ingelise Driehuis | Former pro tennis player |
| Lauren Embree | Former pro tennis player |
| Jill Hetherington | Former pro tennis player |
| Kourtney Keegan | Former pro tennis player |
| Whitney Laiho | Former pro tennis player |
| Jessica Lehnhoff | Former pro tennis player |
| Jesse Levine | Former pro tennis player |
| Mark Merklein | Former pro tennis player |
| Jeff Morrison | Former pro tennis player |
| Ingrid Neel | Active pro tennis player |
| Stephanie Nickitas | Former pro tennis player |
| Siobhán Nicholson | Former pro tennis player |
| Gregory Ouellette | Former pro tennis player |
| Sofie Oyen | Former pro tennis player |
| Lisa Raymond | Former pro tennis player |
| Shaun Stafford | Former pro tennis player |
| Ryan Sweeting | Former pro tennis player |
| Allie Will | Former pro tennis player |
| Belinda Woolcock | Active pro tennis player |
The Florida Gators are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Florida, located in Gainesville. The University of Florida, its athletic program, its alumni and its sports fans are often collectively referred to as the "Gator Nation." The Gators compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and are consistently ranked among the top college sports programs in the United States. The University of Florida currently fields teams in nine men's sports and twelve women's sports.
Lisa Raymond is an American retired professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. Raymond has eleven Grand Slam titles to her name: six in women's doubles and five in mixed doubles. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world No. 1 ranking in doubles for the first time, becoming the 13th player to reach the milestone. Raymond was ranked No. 1 on five separate occasions in her career over a combined total of 137 weeks and finished as the year-end No. 1 doubles player in both 2001 and 2006. She currently holds the record of most doubles match wins (860) and most doubles matches played (1,206) in WTA history, and earned more than $10 million in prize money in her career.
Jill N. Craybas is an American former professional tennis player.
Jesse Levine is an American-Canadian former professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high singles rank of world No. 69 on October 1, 2012. Levine represented the United States through 2012, and he represented Canada starting in 2013.
Bryan Shelton is a former American college tennis coach and former professional tennis player. Shelton played collegiately for Georgia Tech from 1985 to 1988, and then played professionally from 1989 to 1997. He subsequently returned to his alma mater to coach the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's tennis team, which won the NCAA Women's Tennis Championship in 2007. He previously served as the head coach of the Florida Gators men's tennis team of the University of Florida, where he coached the Gators to winning the 2021 NCAA Championship. He is the only head coach to have won a national championship in both men and women's NCAA Division I Tennis.
Nicole J. Arendt is an American retired professional tennis player. Arendt won sixteen doubles titles in her career. The left-hander reached her highest singles ranking on the WTA Tour on June 16, 1997, when she was ranked 49th in the world. Arendt reached her career-high doubles ranking of No. 3 in the world on August 25, 1997.
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Ryan Sweeting is an American former professional tennis player.
Mark Merklein is a Bahamas-born former college and professional tennis player. He played for the Bahamas Davis Cup team from 1999–2004.
Jill Hetherington-Hultquist is a Canadian former professional tennis player. She played college tennis for the University of Florida, and was women's tennis head coach at the University of Washington until May 2014.
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The Florida Gators men's tennis team represents the University of Florida in the sport of tennis. The Gators compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team hosts its home matches in Linder Stadium on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. Bryan Shelton has served as the men's tennis coach since 2013.
Shaun Stafford Beckish, née Shaun Stafford, is an American former college and professional tennis player who played on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour from 1989 to 1996. As a collegiate tennis player, Stafford won the 1988 NCAA national singles championship while playing for the University of Florida. She won two WTA tournaments in her professional career, one in singles and the other in doubles.
Andres V. Brandi is an American college and professional tennis coach. He is currently co-head coach of the LSU Tigers tennis team with his son, Chris Brandi.
The University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame includes over 300 former Florida Gators athletes who represented the University of Florida in one or more intercollegiate sports and were recognized as "Gator Greats" for their athletic excellence during their college sports careers. The University of Florida, located in Gainesville, Florida, is a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and fields twenty-one intercollegiate sports teams, all of which compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
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Dawn Alexis Buth is an American former college and professional tennis player. As a collegiate player, she played for the University of Florida and won two national doubles championships. As a professional, she played on the ITF Women's Circuit (ITF) and WTA Tour (WTA) from 1998 to 2001. She served as head coach of the women's tennis team at George Washington University (GWU) from 2004 to 2013. She is currently the Director for Government Relations at the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA).
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