TENNIS STAR GRAEBNER DIES

TENNIS STAR GRAEBNER DIES

American tennis star-turned-TV personality CAROLE CALDWELL GRAEBNER has died at the age of 65.
Graebner - who served as a member of the United States Olympic Committee - died on 19 November (08) in New York after losing a recurring battle with cancer, according to her daughter Cameron Graebner Mark.
Graebner was ranked in the U.S. top 10 in singles from 1961 to 1965 and again in 1967.
She was also a top-ranked doubles player; she captured doubles titles at the 1965 U.S. Championships and 1966 Australian Championships with partner Nancy Richey, and served the U.S. Tennis Association as chairwoman of the Fed Cup committee.
Graebner and fellow tennis star Billie Jean King helped inaugurate the international tennis competition in London in 1963.
In addition to her athletic accomplishments, Graebner was vice president of Tennis Week magazine and a radio and television commentator.
She is survived by her daughter, son Clark, and four grandchildren.