Renee Richards, transgender tennis icon, ‘still amazed’

Renee Richards, the retired professional tennis player, posing on the front porch of her home in Carmel, New York.

Three decades since retiring her tennis racquet, the transgender athlete recalls her trailblazing years on the women’s professional tour in the 1970s.

For all the frenzy around Olympian Bruce Jenner’s reported decision to transition to a woman, the transgender pioneer Richards – born Richard Raskind – believes nothing could be tougher than what she endured in the 1970s.