Gracyn Wheeler Kelleher

Career She played her first senior tournament in May 1930 at the Southern California Championships. In September that year she reached her first final at the Santa Monica Championships where she lost to Violet Doeg. In December 1931 she won her first singles title at the Los Angeles Midwinter Championships against Elizabeth Deike.

Wheeler won the singles title at the Pacific Southwest Championships in September 1936 after a win in the final against Alice Marble who had become U.S. National champion earlier that month. At the Tri-State Tennis Tournament in Cincinnati, Wheeler won the singles title in 1934 and was a singles finalist in 1940. At the Canadian National tournament, she won the singles title in 1933.

She and Helen Bernard reached the finals of the 1940 National Clay Court Doubles Championships, then lost to Alice Marble and Mary Arnold at a final played in Cincinnati. She won the doubles title at the U.S. Women's Indoor Championships in 1940 partnering Norma Taubele Barber.

In August 1939, it was reported that she would marry German tennis player Henner Henkel in October that year. On August 15, 1940, she married Robert J. Kelleher, an American district court judge in Los Angeles, former U.S. Davis Cup captain, president of the United States Tennis Association, and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She won her final singles title in July 1947 at Vancouver where she beat Eleanor Young Connelly. She reached here last final in March 1950 at the La Jolla Summer Championships in San Diego where she lost to Dodo Cheyne. She played her final event in May 1961 at the Northern California Championships in Sacramento.

She has been inducted into the Southern California Tennis Association Senior Hall of Fame.