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Anne Smith

Anne Smith (born July 1, 1959, in Dallas, Texas, U.S.) is a female former professional tennis player from the United States. Smith's highest women's doubles ranking was World No. 1 in 1980 and 1981. Her highest singles ranking was World No. 12 in 1982. Smith is the author of Grand Slam: Coach Your Mind to Win in Sports, Business & Life, with a foreword by Billie Jean King, and The MACH 4 Mental Training System: A Handbook for Athletes, Coaches and Parents. Smith is a licensed psychologist in Texas, Massachusetts, and Arizona; a licensed specialist in school psychology in Texas; and a certified school psychologist in Arizona. She received a doctor of philosophy degree in educational psychology at The University of Texas and a bachelor of arts in psychology at Trinity University. She has been the coach of the WTT Boston Lobsters team since 2005.

Grand Slam record

Australian Open

Women's Doubles champion: 1981 (with Kathy Jordan)

French Open

Women's Doubles champion: 1980 (with Jordan), 1982 (with Martina Navratilova)
Women's Doubles runner-up: 1983 (with Jordan)
Mixed Doubles champion: 1980 (with Billy Martin), 1984 (with Dick Stockton)

Wimbledon

Women's Doubles champion: 1980 (with Jordan)
Women's Doubles runner-up: 1981, 1982, 1984 (with Jordan)
Mixed Doubles champion: 1982 (with Kevin Curren)

U.S. Open

Women's Doubles champion: 1981 (with Jordan)
Mixed Doubles champion: 1981, 1982 (with Curren)

Grand Slam women's doubles finals

Wins (5)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1980	French Open	Kathy Jordan	Ivanna Madruga-Osses Adriana Villagran	6–1, 6–0
1980	Wimbledon	Kathy Jordan	Rosemary Casals Wendy Turnbull	4–6, 7–5, 6–1
1981	Australian Open	Kathy Jordan	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–2, 7–5
1981	U.S. Open	Kathy Jordan	Rosemary Casals Wendy Turnbull	6–3, 6–3
1982	French Open (2)	Martina Navratilova	Rosemary Casals Wendy Turnbull	6–3, 6–4

Runner-ups (4)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1981	Wimbledon	Kathy Jordan	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–3, 7–6
1982	Wimbledon (2)	Kathy Jordan	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–4, 6–1
1983	French Open	Kathy Jordan	Rosalyn Fairbank Candy Reynolds	5–7, 7–5, 6–2
1984	Wimbledon (3)	Kathy Jordan	Martina Navratilova Pam Shriver	6–3, 6–4

Grand Slam mixed doubles finals

Wins (5)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	'''Score in Final
1980	French Open	Billy Martin	Stanislav Birner Renata Tomanova	2–6, 6–4, 8–6
1981	U.S. Open	Kevin Curren	Steve Denton JoAnne Russell	6–4, 7–6
1982	Wimbledon	Kevin Curren	John Lloyd Wendy Turnbull	2–6, 6–3, 7–5
1982	U.S. Open (2)	Kevin Curren	Barbara Potter Ferdi Taygan	6–7, 7–6, 7–6
1984	French Open (2)	Dick Stockton	Anne Minter Laurie Warder	6–2, 6–4

Other wins

Event	#
Women's Doubles	5
Mixed Doubles	5
Total	10

Anne Smith was the first American woman to win the French Open junior singles title in 1977. Additionally, she was on the WTA Doubles Team of the Year in 1980, of which she partnered Kathy Jordan. She was a member of the Wightman Cup and Federation Cup teams. She was also the 35-and-over doubles champion at the U.S. Open in 1997, and at Wimbledon in 1996 and 1997. She was the winner of the Orange Bowl Junior International Tournament in 1977.

Awards and Accomplishments

Mary Lowdon Award (Texas) -1974–1977
Maureen Connolly Brinker Sportsmanship Award (Memphis, TN) -1976
Most Promising Player award by Seventeen (magazine) – 1976
Winner Seventeen Magazine Tournament of Champions – 1977
Winner Maureen Connolly Brinker Outstanding Junior Girl Award (Philadelphia) -1977
Enshrined into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1993
Mental Training Coach for Harvard University Women’s Tennis Team – 2005–2006
Inducted into the Trinity University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1999
35-and-Over Wimbledon Doubles Champion in 1996 & 1997
Appointed Member of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Sport Science Committee 2001, 2002
Coach of the WTT Boston Lobsters – 2005, 2006, 2007