Career
Fageros best singles result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the fourth round at the 1957 Wimbledon Championships in which she was defeated by Rosie Reyes. In the Wimbledon doubles and mixed doubles events she reached the quarterfinals in 1959 and 1958 respectively. She played for the United States team in the 1958 Wightman Cup, the annual women"s team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain.
Partnering Dorothy Head Knode in the doubles match which they lost in straight sets to Shirley Bloomer and Christine Truman.
That same year she was runner-up at the singles event of the United States. Women"s Clay Court Championships, losing the final in three sets to Knode. After she had competed in the 1958 French Championships wearing gold lame underpants she was initially banned from competing at that year"s Wimbledon event because her dress might distract her opponents but she was reinstated when she promised to cover them with white lace.
At the end of 1959 she signed a $30,000 professional contract to play a series of exhibition matches against Althea Gibson as the opening act for the Harlem Globetrotter basketball games and lost 4–114.
