[6] Kanter won the 1949 US Girls National Hard Court Singles Championship.
[7][3] In 1952, she won the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships, and was the runner-up at the Foothills Cup.
[8] In 1953 she won the US National hard court tennis championship,[5] successfully defended her doubles title,[3] and reached the singles final.
In doubles in those two years, she paired with Joan Merciadis in 1952 and with Thelma Long of Australia in 1953.
[10] At the Games, Kanter, ranked #9 in the US at the time, lost the women's singles title to Angela Buxton and ended up with the silver medal,[11][12][13] but won two gold medals, one as she won the mixed doubles title with Grant Golden and one as she won the women's double title with Toby Greenberg - beating Angela Buxton and Carol Levy of Britain in the final.