Julia Cohen

Cohen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 23, 1989.^[2][3] and started tennis at the age of three.^[2] Her father, Dr. Richard Cohen, played tennis for the Penn Quakers at the University of Pennsylvania and then played professionally for two years. Her brother Josh was an All-American tennis player at the University of Miami who later was named head coach of the Philadelphia Freedoms, a World Team Tennis team.^[3][4]

At the age of six, she was ranked No. 1 in 18-and-under doubles in the USTA Middle States region, which includes Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.^[3] In 1997, at the age of eight, she became the youngest player to win an adult match in a Middle States Tennis Association tournament.^[5] She was then the US champion in the 9-and-under division.^[3]

In 2001, she won the USTA National Spring Championships 12-Under Division Championship.^[6] In 2006, she was the top-ranked American girls tennis player.^[7] That same year, she and partner Kimberly Couts reached the quarterfinals in doubles at the Wimbledon Championships.^[8]

When she was 15 years old, she was No. 6 in the junior world rankings.^[3] On 11 June 2007, she was ranked No. 4.^[9]

She was coached by her brother's friend, Conor Taylor, and won five singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.^[9] Cohen played in the 2012 Baku Cup where she made it to her first and only WTA Tour final, before losing in straight sets to No.5 seed Bojana Jovanovski.^[9] That year she reached No. 121 in the WTA doubles rankings, and No. 97 in the singles rankings.^[9]

She played in World TeamTennis for the Philadelphia Freedoms and the Boston Lobsters.^[9]

In 2017, Cohen was hired as an assistant coach for the men's and women's tennis teams at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.^[10]

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