Jane Bartkowicz

Jane Bartkowicz
Full name	Jane Marie Bartkowicz
Country (sports)	United States
Born	April 16, 1949 (age 75); Hamtramck, Michigan, United States
Turned pro	1969
Retired	1974
Singles
Career record	199–86
Career titles	20
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	2R (1969)
Wimbledon	3R (1969, 1970)
US Open	QF (1968, 1969)
Doubles
Career record	17–9
Career titles	3
Grand Slam doubles results
French Open	QF (1969)
Wimbledon	QF (1969)
US Open	QF (1969, 1970)
Mixed doubles
Career record	0–2
Career titles	0
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon	2R (1969)
US Open	2R (1970)
Medal record
Representing United States
Olympic Games

Jane Bartkowicz (born April 16, 1949), known during her career as Peaches Bartkowicz, is a former top tennis player from the United States in the 1960s.

Career

She played her first tournament in July 1963 at the Tri-State Championships in Cincinnati, where she progressed to the final, losing to Stephanie DeFina. Bartkowicz was a protégé of Jean and Jerry Hoxie. Bartkowicz first title came at the Tri-State Championships in which she won both the singles and the doubles titles and repeated this feat in 1967. In 1968, she won the singles title at Canadian International Championships in Toronto against Faye Urban.

In major tournaments, she was a quarterfinalist in singles at the US Open in 1968 and 1969 as well as a quarterfinalist in the women's doubles at the French Open in 1969, Wimbledon in 1969 and the US Open in 1969. She also reached the quarterfinals of women;s doubles at the US Open in 1970. She played her final tournament and won her 20th career singles title on 12 July 1970 at the Swedish Open Championships in Båstad, Sweden against Ingrid Bentzer.

Bartkowicz had a 7–0 record in singles in Fed Cup play, and she was a member of the US team which won the cup in 1969.

As a junior, Peaches won 17 titles, including the girls' singles title at Wimbledon in 1964. She attended Queens College in New York City.^{[citation needed]}

She was part of the Original 9 group of women tennis players who took part in the inaugural 1970 Virginia Slims Circuit.^[1] Also she was a pioneer in using a two-handed backhand.^[2]

Bartkowicz retired as a player in 1974. She has been enshrined in the United States Tennis Association/Midwest Hall of Fame. She was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.^[3] She was inducted into the National Polish American Sports Hall of Fame on June 24, 2010.^[4] Martha MacIsaac plays Bartkowicz in the 2017 film Battle of the Sexes.^[5] Her sister Plums Bartkowicz was a national No. 1 junior tennis player, but she did not pursue a professional career.^[6]

ILTF Circuit finals

(incomplete roll)

Legend
Grand Slam	0
WTA Championships	0
Tier I	0
Tier II	0
Tier III	0
Tier IV & V	0

Singles 8 (6–2)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	1963	Tri-State Championships	Hard	Stephanie DeFina	7–5, 6–2
Win	2.	1966	Tri-State Championships	Hard	Peachy Kellmeyer	6–3, 6–3
Win	3.	1967	Tri-State Championships	Hard	Peachy Kellmeyer	6–3, 6–3
Win	4.	1967	Tri-State Championships	Hard	Patsy Rippy	6–4, 6–1
Win	5.	1967	U.S. Women’s Hardcourt Championships	Hard	Valerie Ziegenfuss	6–4, 6–4
Loss	6.	Oct 1968	Olympics Demonstration, Mexico	Clay	Helga Niessen	4–6, 3–6
Win	7.	1968	Olympics Exhibition, Mexico	Clay	Julie Heldman	6–3, 6–2
Win	8.	1968	Canadian International Championships	Clay	Faye Urban	6–3, 6–3

Doubles 6 (3-3)

Titles by surface
Hard	2
Clay	1
Grass	0
Carpet	0

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	1966	Cincinnati, Ohio, US	Hard	Peachy Kellmeyer	Patsy Rippy Becky Vest	6–1, 6–4
Win	2.	1967	Cincinnati, Ohio, US	Hard	Patsy Rippy	Pixie Lamm Marilyn Aschner	6–3, 6–0
Loss	3.	May 27, 1968	La Jolla, California, US	Hard	Sue Shrader	Valerie Ziegenfuss Stephanie Grant	6–8, 7–9
Bronze	4.	October 1968	Olympics Demonstration, Mexico	Clay	Valerie Ziegenfuss	Lourdes Gongora Patricia Montaño	6–2, 6–1
Loss	5.	October 26, 1968	Olympics Exhibition, Mexico	Clay	Valerie Ziegenfuss	Rosy Darmon Julie Heldman	0–6, 8–10
Loss	6.	March 18, 1971	Detroit, Michigan, US	Carpet	Judy Tegart Dalton	Mary-Ann Eisel Valerie Ziegenfuss	6–2, 2–6, 3–6

Mixed doubles 2 (1-1)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Bronze	1.	October 1968	Olympics Demonstration, Mexico	Clay	Jim Osbourne	Rosie Darmon Pierre Darmon	6–4, 7–5
Silver	2.	October 1968	Olympics Exhibition, Mexico	Clay	Ingo Buding	Zaiga Jansone Vladimir Korotkov	5–7, 4–6

References

^ "Original 9 Reunion: It's A Wrap!". WTA.
^ How Two Grade-Schoolers Set Off a Tennis Revolution - Carl Bialik - FiveThirtyEight, November 3, 2016
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 28, 2007. Retrieved January 5, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Jane "Peaches" Bartkowicz". National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013.
^ Eisenberg, Eric (September 20, 2017). "How Battle of the Sexes Brought Together a Fun Superbad Reunion". Cinemablend.com. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
^ Steve Flink (June 16, 2020). "Original Nine Spotlight: Peaches Bartkowicz". USTA.

External links

Jane Bartkowicz at the Women's Tennis Association
Jane Bartkowicz at the International Tennis Federation
Jane Bartkowicz at the Billie Jean King Cup

[1] "Original 9 Reunion: It's A Wrap!". WTA.

[2] How Two Grade-Schoolers Set Off a Tennis Revolution - Carl Bialik - FiveThirtyEight, November 3, 2016

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 28, 2007. Retrieved January 5, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] "Jane "Peaches" Bartkowicz". National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013.

[5] Eisenberg, Eric (September 20, 2017). "How Battle of the Sexes Brought Together a Fun Superbad Reunion". Cinemablend.com. Retrieved September 22, 2017.

[usopen-6] Steve Flink (June 16, 2020). "Original Nine Spotlight: Peaches Bartkowicz". USTA.

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