Cal State Fullerton Titans tennis Eagle Tina Watanabe their Number 1 player on the team and a 1973 NCAA National Collegiate Singles Tournament finalists that was held in Auburn, Alabama Watanabe had victories on the Women's Pro Circuit over Tracy Austin, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles and had a World Singles Ranking of 79th at one point in her professional career. Another standout Titan tennis player on that 1973 team is Michelle Rauland who after competing on that '73 team in January 1974 competed with the professional women tennis players at one of the circuit stops for the Virginia Slims Tour in Mission Viejo, California
Martina Navratilova Navratilova was named by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the LGBT History Month. Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book "The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century" (1999), named her as the second best female player of the 20th century, directly behind Steffi Graf. In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by "Time". In March 2012, The Tennis Channel named Navratilova as the second greatest female tennis player of all times, behind Steffi Graf, in their list of 100 greatest tennis players of all