Sloane Stephens is better known as an American professional tennis player. She achieved a career-best ranking of world No. 3 after Wimbledon in 2018. Stephens was the 2017 US Open champion and has won seven WTA Tour singles titles in total.
Where did Sloane Stephens Varvara go to college and high school?
Stephens graduated from Indiana University East with a bachelor’s degree in communications studies in late 2017. She finished her degree while recovering from foot surgery earlier in the year. She credits her time away from playing tennis that was spent on her studies and her job with the Tennis Channel for improving her perspective on being a professional tennis player.
Stephens was born on March 20, 1993, in Plantation, Florida, to Sybil Smith and John Stephens, both of whom were accomplished athletes. She moved to her mother’s hometown of Fresno California at the age of two.
Stephens started playing tennis at the age of nine at the Sierra Sport and Racquet Club, a tennis facility located across the street from her house where her stepfather regularly played and her mother was taking lessons.
Two years after she started playing tennis, Stephens relocated to Boca Raton in Florida. She began training at the Evert Tennis Academy founded by John Evert and also run by his sister, International Tennis Hall of Famer Chris Evert. The following year at age 12, Stephens switched to the Nick Saviano High-Performance Tennis Academy and also began online homeschooling.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
