I was a world class tennis star, winning 22 world-class women’s tournaments, and notching victories over all the top stars of my era, including Billie Jean King, Margaret Court, Chris Evert, and Martina Navratilova. My highest women’s rankings were number two in the U.S. (twice) and number five in the world (twice). I represented the U.S. on two winning Federation Cup teams (the world team championships), and at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, where I won three medals, a gold, a silver, and a bronze. After I retired from competitive tennis, I became a successful journalist and a tennis broadcaster on network TV, and later a lawyer and then a businesswoman. During my competitive years, I suffered from trauma resulting from child abuse and from undiagnosed mental illness. In my mid-50s, I had a cataclysmic breakdown that lasted nearly 15 years.