Kaysie Smashey (born April 11, 1980) is an American former professional
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player.
Smashey, who was born and raised in
El Paso
El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the s ...
, played college tennis on a scholarship for the
Texas Longhorns
The Texas Longhorns are the athletic teams representing the University of Texas at Austin. The teams are sometimes referred to as the Horns and take their name from Longhorn cattle that were an important part of the development of Texas, and a ...
between 1999 and 2002. On the professional tour, Smashey reached a best ranking of 451 in singles and 146 in doubles. She made four doubles main-draw appearances on the
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
WTA Tour tourna ...
, with her best performance a quarterfinal appearance at Memphis in 2005. Her four
ITF doubles titles included the $50,000
Waikoloa tournament.
ITF Circuit finals
Doubles: 14 (4 titles, 10 runner-ups)
References
External links
*
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smashey, Kaysie
1980 births
Living people
American female tennis players
Texas Longhorns women's tennis players
Tennis people from Texas
Sportspeople from El Paso, Texas