Peaches Bartkowicz

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Peaches Bartkowicz Tennis player
Nickname: Peaches
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: April 16, 1949
Resignation: 1971
singles
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open 2R (1969)
Wimbledon 3R (1969, 1970)
US Open VF (1968, 1969)
Double
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  0
Australian Open -
French Open VF (1969)
Wimbledon VF (1969)
US Open VF (1969, 1970)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jane "Peaches" Bartkowicz (born April 16, 1949 in Hamtramck , Michigan ) is a former American tennis player .

Career

After Bartkowicz found a tennis racket in a bush at the age of seven, she started playing tennis. She was nicknamed "Peaches" by one of her tennis coaches, Richard Sunday, who said she had a peach of a shot . She won her first singles and doubles titles in 1960 with the US Lawn Tennis Association. Between the ages of eleven and seventeen she won 17 national junior tournaments; In 1964 she won the girls’s Wimbledon Championships. In 1969 she won the Federation Cup with the US team and in 1970 the Wightman Cup . She won a total of 14 tournaments and reached 8th place in the world rankings in 1969.

At the demonstration competition of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico , Bartkowicz won the gold medal in singles.

Bartkowicz is one of nine players, the Original 9 , who played the Virginia Slims Invitational in 1970 , hosted and sponsored by Gladys Heldman .

Personal

Her mother is from Russia and her father from Poland. In 1948 the parents left Germany to settle in Hamtramck.

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments

singles

competition 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 Career
Australian Open - - - - - - - -
French Open - - - - 2 1 - 2
Wimbledon 1 - - 2 3 3 1 3
US Open - - - VF VF 2 - VF

Double

competition 1968 1969 1970 1971 Career
Australian Open - - - - -
French Open - VF AF - VF
Wimbledon 1 VF 2 2 VF
US Open - VF VF - VF

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wtatennis.com: Original 9 Reunion: It's A Wrap!
  2. ↑ wtatennis.com: Still Feisty and Fabulous
  3. ↑ polishsportshof.com: Jane “Peaches” Bartkowicz
personal data
SURNAME Bartkowicz, Peaches
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartkowicz, Jane (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamtramck , Michigan , United States