Английская Википедия:Anita Kanter
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Anita Kanter (born 1933) is a former amateur tennis player from the U.S. who played in the 1950s. In singles, Kanter was ranked # 6 in the United States (and # 10 in the world by World Tennis magazine) in 1952, and # 9 in the US in 1953.[1][2][3]
Early life
Kanter was born in Santa Monica, California, and is Jewish.[4][5] She attended Santa Monica High School.[6]
Tennis career
Kanter won the 1949 US Girls National Hard Court Singles Championship.[3] She won the US girls tennis championship in 1951 as an 18-year-old sophomore at the University of California-Los Angeles, as well as the 1951 National Hard Court Doubles and Mixed Doubles championships.[7][3]
In 1952, she won the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships, and was the runner-up at the Foothills Cup.[7][3] That year at the Cincinnati Masters, she won both the singles and doubles titles.[8]
In 1953 she won the US National hard court tennis championship,[5] successfully defended her doubles title,[3] and reached the singles final. She was seeded no. 1 in singles and doubles in both appearances in Cincinnati. In doubles in those two years, she paired with Joan Merciadis in 1952 and with Thelma Long of Australia in 1953.[9]
Maccabiah Games
Kanter, who is Jewish, competed in Israel in the 1953 Maccabiah Games—the "Jewish Olympics".[10] At the Games, Kanter, ranked #9 in the US at the time, lost the women's singles title to Angela Buxton and ended up with the silver medal,[11][12][13] but won two gold medals, one as she won the mixed doubles title with Grant Golden and one as she won the women's double title with Toby Greenberg - beating Angela Buxton and Carol Levy of Britain in the final.[7][14][3]
Hall of Fame
In 2014, she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[15][3]
See also
References
External links
- ↑ Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver (1965). Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports
- ↑ Martin Harry Greenberg (1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 3,5 3,6 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Ron Kaplan (2015). The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 Шаблон:Cite book
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- ↑ 7,0 7,1 7,2 Kanter, Anita: Jews In Sports
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Best Sports Stories, 1954.
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- ↑ Eric Sondheimer (September 16, 2013). "15 selected for Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame," Los Angeles Times.
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