Peachy Kellmeyer

Peachy Kellmeyer
Nation:	United States
Birthday:	February 19, 1944
singles
Career title:	1
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Fern Lee "Peachy" Kellmeyer (born February 19, 1944 in Wheeling , West Virginia ) is a former American tennis player and official.

Life

Kellmeyer won her first tennis tournament at the age of 11. In 1960 she was the youngest player to take part in the American Championships (now the US Open ) and lost to Nancy Richey in the quarter-finals . In 1961 she won the Cincinnati tournament . She later studied at the University of Miami . In 1964 she took part in the Wimbledon Championships , but was eliminated in the second round against Sweden's Gudrun Rosin .

Kellmeyer became known beyond tennis in 1966 when she brought and won a lawsuit against the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The NAIA was forced to drop a regulation that banned the granting of scholarships to young female athletes. The judgment later formed the basis for the constitutional amendment Title IX of 1972, in which all discrimination on the basis of sex was prohibited in state-sponsored training programs.

In 1973, Kellmeyer became the first employee of the newly founded Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and was a member of the executive committee of the WTA in the following decades. Today she works as a tour advisor for the WTA and is a member of the Fed Cup Committee of the ITF . In 2011 she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame for her contributions to the equality of women tennis players .

Web links

• Peachy Kellmeyer on the page of the International Tennis Hall of Fame
• Women's Tennis Pioneer Peachy Kellmeyer to be Inducted in 2011. International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum, January 27, 2011, accessed November 11, 2013 .