INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2010 TO HONOR STARS AND LEADERS IN WHEELCHAIR TENNIS AND THE OPEN ERA MOVEMENT
NEWPORT, R.I., U.S.A., March 1, 2010 – Christopher Clouser, chairman of the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum and Tony Trabert, Hall of Fame president, have announced the newly elected Class of 2010. Two powerful doubles teams will be inducted in the Recent Player category with the election Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, the [...]
BOLLETTIERI SHOULD BE IN HALL OF FAME
By Charles Bricker
First, a standing ovation for tough-blogging tennis writer Pete Bodo (http://tennisworld.typepad.com/tennisworld/2010/02/ihop.html) for criticizing the voters at the International Tennis Hall of Fame for refusing to accept into their “club” Mr. Nick Bollettieri, a man who does more for tennis in one week than most of these people have done in a lifetime.
Next, a few thoughts of my [...]
A Wimbledon Champion Remembers His First Turkey
The following is an excerpt from the November, 1981 issue of WORLD TENNIS magazine where 1931 Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood discusses how tennis scored him a Thanksgiving Day turkey. Wood, a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, was also a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team in 1931 and 1934 and was [...]
ANDRE MADE A BAD MISTAKE, BUT HE HAS MADE UP FOR IT SINCE, AS THE GAME’S LEADING HUMANITARIAN
By Bud Collins, courtesy of www.BudCollinsTennis.com, the official website of the Hall of Fame tennis personality and the world’s most famous tennis historian.
Is Andre just another book salesman?
By now everybody from here to the Somalian pirates knows that Andre Agassi has come clean in his new memoir (”Open”) about using illegal drugs (crystal meth) and [...]
