Jeanne (Evert) Dubin dies at 62

It has been a pretty terrible tennis news day, as the Evert and Dubin families and the south Florida tennis community mourn the loss of Jeanne Dubin.

Dubin was 62.

She died after a valiant, 2 1/2-year battle with ovarian cancer, according to her obituary.

Sincere condolences to the entire Evert clan, which lost father Jimmy in 2015 at age 91.

Big sister Chrissie, nearly three years Dubin’s senior, had the Hall of Fame career – and ended up a lot taller than little sister Jeanne’s 5-foot-1.

But Dubin also played successfully on the WTA Tour.

She reached the round of 16 at the US Open in 1973, and the third round five years later during a pro career that played out from 1972-1978 in the shadow of her sister’s great success.

Her career-high ranking was No. 42.Embed from Getty Images

Rogers Cup connection

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She met her husband, Brahm Dubin, when he worked in promotion at the Rogers Cup in Montreal in 1978, during her final year on tour.

They married a year later and had two children, Eric and Catherine – and later, four grandchildren.

Montreal-born, a graduate of McGill University and a chartered accountant, Brahm Dubin was a well-known and respected figure in the Delray Beach area. His company managed the Delray Beach Tennis Center where this week’s ATP Tour event is taking place, and numerous golf course facilities.

A kidney transplant survivor, Dubin died of lung cancer in 2006 at the young age of 56.

Dubin carried on as an active owner of the company, and also coached at the Delray center for many years as well as running the women’s league program there.