Carole Caldwell Graebner

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From left to right: the USA Fed Cup team with Carole Caldwell Graebner, Julie Heldman and Billie Jean King in Turin (Italy), after winning the Federations Cup in 1966 against the West Germany Fed Cup team

Carole Caldwell Graebner (born June 24, 1943 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † November 19, 2008 in New York City , New York ) was an American tennis player who won the double title of the US Open in 1965 and the Australian Open in 1966 and in 1964 The individual finals of the US Open stood.

Career

Graebner grew up as an only child in Santa Monica . It wasn't until the age of ten that she received her first tennis racket. The following year she played in youth tournaments, where she first met Billie Jean King , with whom she remained on friendly terms for the rest of her life. In 1959 she realized the earning potential in the tennis circus for the first time and began to train with more commitment. Between 1961 and 1965 and 1967 she was in the top ten American tennis players. She was a founding member of the USA Federation Cup team, with which she won the title at the 1963 finals in London . She also won a gold medal in doubles at the Pan American Games .

After the end of her active career, she worked as a functionary in the Federations Cup Committee, head of the advertising department at the specialist magazine Tennis Week and as a radio and television commentator . Caldwell had been married to professional tennis player Clark Graebner since 1964, with whom she had two children. They separated in 1975, but the marriage never ended in divorce. Graebner lived in Manhattan for almost 40 years , where she died of cancer in 2008 at the age of 65 .

Success in Grand Slam tournaments

Web links

Commons : Carole Caldwell Graebner  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary at ESPN (English)
  2. ↑ a b ( Carole Caldwell Graebner, Tennis Star, Dies at 65 - Obituary for The New York Times (English) )
personal data
SURNAME Caldwell Graebner, Carole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2008
Place of death New York City , New York