Sandy Collins (born October 13, 1958) is a retired professional tennis player from the U.S. who played from the late 1970s until 1994.

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Sandy Collins

Country (sports)	United States
Born	(1958-10-13) October 13, 1958 (age 65) San Bernardino, California, United States
Turned pro	1978
Retired	1994
Prize money	$610,261
Singles
Career record	264–273
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 17 (Aug. 18, 1981)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	2R (1984, 1988)
French Open	3R (1981, 1982)
Wimbledon	3R (1981)
US Open	2R (1982, 1984)
Doubles
Career record	247–249
Career titles	3 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 17 (May 11, 1992)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	QF (1987, 1988)
French Open	QF (1991)
Wimbledon	3R (1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1992)
US Open	QF (1991, 1993)

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Collins is a native of San Bernardino, California. Sandy went to Odessa College, where she played tennis for Coach Virginia Brown and the Wranglers. After two seasons, she transferred to the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, where she completed her college career.

During her professional career, she won four doubles tournaments on the WTA tour. Collins spent the next 17 years on the pro tennis tour, beating Billie Jean King in her second year as well as Tracy Austin (then ranked #2 in the world) in the quarterfinals of the German Open. At different times in her career, Collins was ranked as high as 17th in the world in singles and doubles. She became the first tennis player to be endorsed by Oakley Sunglasses. After retirement, Collins coached privately for a time, eventually taking a job at Texas Tech University (1999) as the women's tennis assistant coach and then named head coach in November 2002. She is currently the associate AD/event operations and sports administrator (women's volleyball/men's tennis) at Texas Tech University.