Career
Chaffee reached the semifinals of the 1950 United States. Championships as an unseeded player but was beaten in three sets by Margaret Osborne duPont. She reached Number. 4 world ranking in 1951. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament came in 1951 when, partnered with Patricia Todd, she reached the final of the doubles competition at the United States. Championships.
They were defeated in the final in two straight sets by Shirley Fry and Doris Hart.
She was later married to sportscaster Jack Whittaker. Chaffee later became sports commentator for American Broadcasting Company, developed tennis programs at resorts and in 1992 co-founded the Cartier tennis tournament in Long Island"s East Hampton, an amateur mixed-doubles fund-raising event to benefit the American Cancer Society.
Nancy Chaffee died on 11 August 2002 of complications from cancer. Doubles
= Runner-up =.