Beverly Baker Fleitz
US tennis player (1930-2014) · United States · On the map · Tennis Players · Died at 84
Beverly Joyce Fleitz was an American tennis player from the United States who was active in the late 1940s and during the 1950s.
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According to John Olliff and Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Fleitz was ranked in the world top 10 in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958, and 1959, reaching a career high of World No. 3 in these rankings in 1954, 1955, and 1958. Fleitz was included in the year-end top 10 rankings issued by the United States Lawn Tennis Association from 1948 through 1951 and in 1954, 1955, 1958, and 1959. She was the top-ranked U.S. player in 1959. She was ambidextrous and played with two forehands.