Taylor Johnson (born August 7, 2000) is an American
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.
Johnson started playing tennis at the age of five in her home town of Phoenix, Arizona. She moved to California at the age of 11 continuing to play tennis.
On August 13, 2017, Johnson and her partner
Claire Liu
Claire Liu (born May 25, 2000) is an American tennis player. On 24th October 2022, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 60.
In 2017, she was the world No. 1 in the junior rankings, after winning the Wimbledon girls' sing ...
won the 2017 USTA Girls’ 18s National Championship. This win led to Johnson being ranked 8th in the world. With this victory, the pair earned a wild card into the main draw of the women's doubles tournament at the
2017 US Open.
Johnson graduated from Connections Academy, and committed to play tennis at the division one level at UCLA. In her four years at UCLA, she was very successful. She was named to the athletic directors honor roll all four years, named ITA scholar athlete 2019-20 school year, and was on the Pac-12 spring honor roll sophmore through senior year. Her junior year the Bruins won the Pac-12 regular season championship. Taylor graduated with an undergrad in communications in spring of 2022. She continues to play tennis still.
References
https://uclabruins.com/sports/womens-tennis/roster/taylor-johnson/10966
https://blog.universaltennis.com/taylor-johnson-makes-most-of-tennis-career-with-billie-jean-king-by-her-side/
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2000 births
Living people
American female tennis players
Sportspeople from Phoenix, Arizona
Tennis people from Arizona
21st-century American women
UCLA Bruins women's tennis players
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