Barbara Krase

Barbara Krase Chandler (October 27, 1923 – November 20, 2019) was an American tennis player.^[1][2]

Barbara Krase

Full name	Barbara Krase Chandler
Country (sports)	United States
Born	(1923-10-27)October 27, 1923 San Francisco, California
Died	November 20, 2019(2019-11-20) (aged 96) Boise, Idaho
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 8 (1947, John Olliff)
Grand Slam singles results
US Open	QF (1941, 1947)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
US Open	QF (1947)

Born and raised in San Francisco, Krase was active on tour in the 1940s, before moving with her husband Bill Chandler to Boise, Idaho in the 1950s, where she continued to compete locally.^[3]

Krase twice reached the singles quarter-finals of the U.S. national championships, as an unseeded player in 1941 and as the eighth seed in 1947. Her biggest career title came at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships in 1946, with her run including a semi-final win over Shirley Fry. She beat Virginia Kovacs in the final.^[4]