Anita Kanter Explained

Anita Kanter
Birth Place:Santa Monica, California
College:University of California-Los Angeles

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] She attended Santa Monica High School.[5]

Tennis career

Kanter won the 1949 US Girls National Hard Court Singles Championship. 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.[6]

In 1952, she won the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships, and was the runner-up at the Foothills Cup. That year at the Cincinnati Masters, she won both the singles and doubles titles.[7]

In 1953 she won the US National hard court tennis championship,[8] successfully defended her doubles title, 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.[14]

Hall of Fame

In 2014, she was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[15]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver (1965). Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports
  2. Martin Harry Greenberg (1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews
  3. Web site: ANITA KANTER-KAPPEl; Tennis - 2014. Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. August 4, 2020. June 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160618235704/http://www.scjewishsportshof.com/kanter-kappe.html. dead.
  4. Ron Kaplan (2015). The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games
  5. Web site: UCLA Daily Bruin. August 4, 1912. Los Angeles . Internet Archive.
  6. http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=tennis&ID=65 Kanter, Anita: Jews In Sports
  7. Web site: Tennis - WTA Tour - Cincinnati : Medal winners and event presentation. www.the-sports.org.
  8. Book: Day by Day in Jewish sports history . 2008 . Bob Wechsler . KTAV Publishing House . 9781602800137 . March 20, 2011.
  9. https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9MNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22anita+kanter%22+ucla Best Sports Stories
  10. News: Anita Kantor Wins in Tel Aviv Games . March 20, 2011.
  11. Book: The match: Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton: how two outsiders--one Black, the other Jewish--forged a friendship and made sports history. HarperCollins . Bruce Schoenfeld . 2004. 9780060526528. March 20, 2011.
  12. Book: Great Jews in Sports . Robert Slater . 2000. J. David Publishers . 9780824604332 . March 20, 2011.
  13. Web site: ISRAEL'S LEADING NETTER Arieh Avidan Will Be at Forest Hills. Jewish Post. June 28, 1957 . Jack Leon .
  14. Web site: The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 2, 1953 · Page 3. Newspapers.com. October 2, 1953 .
  15. Eric Sondheimer (September 16, 2013). "15 selected for Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame," Los Angeles Times.

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