Doubles champion in tennis

Carole Caldwell Graebner, 65, a tennis player who won doubles titles at the U.S. and Australian championships in the 1960s, died Wednesday in New York City after a brief battle with cancer, said her daughter, Cameron Graebner Mark.

The top-ranked doubles player in the United States in 1963, Graebner teamed with Nancy Richey to capture doubles titles at the 1965 U.S. Championships, now called the U.S. Open, and the 1966 Australian Championships, now known as the Australian Open.

She also won doubles titles at the 1965 and 1966 U.S. Clay Court Championships and was a finalist in singles at the 1964 U.S. Championships, losing to Maria Bueno.

Born June 24, 1943, in Pittsburgh but raised in Santa Monica, Graebner was ranked in the U.S. top 10 in singles from 1961 to 1965 and in 1967. She was on the inaugural 1963 U.S. Fed Cup team and played college tennis alongside Billie Jean King at Cal State L.A.

Graebner later served the U.S. Tennis Assn. as chairwoman of the Fed Cup committee. She was a vice president of Tennis Week magazine and a radio and television commentator.