Frederick Kovaleski

Full name: Frederick Thomas Kovaleski
Nickname: Fred

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Bio	He was an American tennis player, spy, and businessman. He grew up in Hamtramck, Michigan. Hamtramck was majority ethnically Polish at the time, and both of Kovaleski's parents had immigrated from Poland. In high school, he showed aptitude in handball and tennis, and was coached by Jean Hoxie. Kovaleski's father declined to buy him a $10 racket, Jean Hoxie did, and she taught him to play. By age 17, he played on the junior US Davis Cup team. Fred began playing tennis at age 11, because of his handball skills. He caught the eye of tennis coach and promoter Jean Hoxie. She took him under her wing, providing racquets and balls, and teaching him tennis, social graces and dress code on and off court. He quickly rose in the ranks to the top 5 in the 15 and under and then the 18 and under. He enrolled at the College of William & Mary on a tennis scholarship, but enlisted in the United States Army as an air cadet in 1942. In World War II, he helped liberate a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Los Baños, in the Philippines. After the war, he returned to William & Mary and the men's tennis team. With Kovaleski as a member, the team won the 1947 and 1948 NCAA Tennis Championships. At the latter tournament, he and Bernard Bartzen won the overall doubles title. After graduation in 1949, Kovaleski continued to play tennis. He competed at the 1950 Wimbledon Championships, losing in the fourth round to Australian Frank Sedgman. Kovaleski was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency, with international travel providing him a cover for performing espionage. He left the CIA when he fell in love with Manya Jabes, a woman of Russian ancestry, and the CIA did not approve, though the agency would later hire both of them to translate Russian. After the birth of his son Serge, Kovaleski left the CIA for good. He went on to work in the international divisions of Pepsi, Revlon, Schering-Plough, and Nabisco. Having twice won the European 90 and over championships. He took the National 85 Grass singles from 2010 to 2012. And in doubles he won 5 national senior titles playing with the great Tom Brown. Kovaleski lived in Manhattan when he died of prostate cancer on May 25, 2018.
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