Jane Bartkowicz

She played her first tournament in July 1963 at the Tri-State Championships in Cincinnati where she progressed to the final before 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 that feat again in and 1967. In 1968 also won the singles title at Canadian International Championships in Toronto against Faye Urban.

In major tournaments was a quarter-finalist in singles at the US Open in 1968 and 1969, as well as a quarter finalist in the women's doubles at the French Open in 1969, the Wimbledon Championships the same year and the US Open. She also reached the quarter finals of the US Open again in 1970. She wplayed 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 was a member of the US team which won the cup in 1969.

As a youngster, Peaches won 17 junior titles including the girls' singles title at Wimbledon in 1964. She attended Queens College in New York City.

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 double 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 did not pursue a professional career.[6]

(incomplete roll)

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

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