Carole Caldwell Graebner

Carole Caldwell Graebner (* June 24, 1943 in Pittsburgh, † November 19, 2008 in New York City ) was an American tennis player who won the doubles title of the U.S. Open in 1965 and the Australian Open in 1966 and 1964 in the singles final of the U.S. Open stood.

Career

Graebner grew up as an only child in Santa Monica. Only at the age of ten she received her first tennis racket. The following year, she played in junior tournaments, where she met for the first time Billie Jean King, with whom she remained on friendly terms for the rest of their lives. In 1959, she realized for the first time the earning potential in the tennis circuit, and began to train with more commitment. Between 1961 and 1965, and in 1967 it was performed in the top ten of the U.S. tennis players. She was a founding member of the Federation Cup teams in the United States, with which they could win in the inaugural tournament in 1963 at the finals in London the title. In addition, she won at the Pan American Games gold medal in doubles.

After the end of her active career, she worked as a functionary in the Federations Cup Committee, head of the advertising department at the magazine Tennis Week as well as a radio and Fernsehkommentatorin. Caldwell was married since 1964 with the tennis pro Clark Graebner, with whom she had two children. In 1975 they separated, the marriage was never divorced. Graebner lived almost 40 years in Manhattan, where she at the age of 65 years died of cancer in 2008.

Success at Grand Slam tournaments

• Australian Open - 1 title
• U.S. Open - 1 title