{{short description|American tennis player}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox tennis biography | name = Jane Albert | image = | fullname = Jane Albert Willens | country_represented = {{USA}} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|06|02}} | birth_place = Los Angeles, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|11|30|1946|06|02|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Jane Willens Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/jane-willens-obituary?id=53803630}}</ref> | death_place =Los Angeles | height = | plays = Right-handed | careerprizemoney = | singlesrecord = | singlestitles = | highestsinglesranking = | FrenchOpenresult = 2R (1965) | Wimbledonresult = QF (1965) | USOpenresult = 3R (1965) | doublesrecord = | doublestitles = | highestdoublesranking = | WimbledonDoublesresult = QF (1966) }} '''Jane Albert Willens''' (June 2, 1946 – 30 November 2023) was an American tennis player. She was the daughter of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Frankie Albert.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Walsh |first1=George |title=Faces in the Crowd |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1961/08/21/586639/faces-in-the-crowd |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=August 21, 1961 |language=en}}</ref>
A right-handed player, Albert was a member of the tennis team at Stanford and was the 1964 AIAW singles champion.<ref name="ITA">{{cite web |title=Jane Albert Willens |url=https://itahalloffame.org/inductees/jane-albert-willens/ |website=ITA Women's Hall of Fame}}</ref>
While at college she competed on the international tennis tour, including Wimbledon, where she made the quarter-finals in 1965. En route she beat Norma Baylon, Helga Schultze and Françoise Dürr.
Albert represented the United States in the 1966 Wightman Cup, partnering Billie Jean King in doubles.<ref name="ITA"/>
In 1967, her senior year, she won the AIAW doubles championship with Julie Anthony and competed at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, winning two gold medals for doubles and a bronze medal in the singles.<ref name="ITA"/>
Albert's daughter, Heather Willens, played tennis at Stanford and briefly on professional tennis tour in the early 1990s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Despite Injury, Former Palisades High Player May Compete at Riviera |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-29-we-971-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 29, 1992}}</ref>
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