Editor's Note: Jane Brown Grimes, a transformative tennis industry leader who held roles as President and CEO of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Managing Director of the Women’s Professional Tennis Council (precursor to today’s WTA), and Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO of the United States Tennis Association, died at home in New York City on November 2. Brown Grimes, a lifelong New Yorker, was 80 years old.
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Brown has channeled her years in tennis into a fruitful academic path, and is currently in the midst of writing a PhD thesis on the history of women's game.
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Brown Grimes' Masters thesis centers on Martina Navratilova's return to communist Czechoslovakia in 1986 (Getty Images).
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![Brown Grimes' PhD thesis ends at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, where "Venus Williams [was instrumental] in getting equal prize money for the women so all of the Grand Slam tournaments finally had parity" (Getty Images).](https://images.tennis.com/image/private/t_16-9_768/f_auto/tenniscom-prd/c3smuxk9dyal9rdekgzb.jpg)
Brown Grimes' PhD thesis ends at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, where "Venus Williams [was instrumental] in getting equal prize money for the women so all of the Grand Slam tournaments finally had parity" (Getty Images).
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