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Jan 1, 2001 · Official tennis win-loss records of Richard Raskind including by surface, Grand Slams, ATP Tour, Challenger and ITF Futures.
Aug 29, 2019 · As a tall and well-built youngster he tried various sports, including swimming and baseball, before settling on tennis as his real passion. However, instead of embarking on a full-time tennis career Raskind preferred to concentrate on studying medicine, finishing the University of Rochester where he studied ophthalmology.
This interview has been condensed and edited. When Dr. Renée Richards ’55 attended an all-male Yale, she was captain of the Yale men’s tennis team. Her later attempt to quietly begin living life as a woman was derailed when the lethal lefty serve of the former Richard Raskind was recognized. She sued and—in a landmark 1977 decision by ...
Sep 1, 2018 · In 1975, a former Yale University tennis star named Richard Raskind had a sex-change operation and became a woman, establishing a new identity as Renee Richards. Raskind had been captain of the Yale men’s team in 1954 and a successful player in senior competition. He reached the semifinals of the US Men’s 35 Championships in 1975.
Aug 31, 1976 · Before she underwent a sex‐change operation last November, Dr. Renee Richards was known as Dr. Richard Raskind, an amateur tennis player who in 1974 ranked third in the East and 13th nationally ...
Mar 26, 2015 · More than three decades after putting down her tennis racquet, Renee Richards is still astonished she had the moxie to join the women's professional tour after living the first 34 years of her ...
Richards, Renée (1934–) American doctor, tennis player and transsexual. Name variations: Renee Richards. Born Richard Raskind, Aug 19, 1934, in New York, NY; graduate of Yale University; married and div.; children: 1 son, Nicholas. Began life as Richard Raskind; served as captain of Yale's tennis team, competing at Wimbledon, before becoming ...
