Word: atp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected, Howard Sands, Harvard's top tennis player the past four years, has turned pro and will sign a contract this week with a management agent group. The recent graduate will spend the summer trying to qualify for pro tournaments and establish an ATP ranking...
...Longwood's problems, however. The tournament will probably never rebound until its directors recognize the need for substantial professional help in running the affair. As professional tennis has turned big time, so has the organization of most stops along the Grand Prix circuit. Though the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has been nominally involved since 1975 with supervising Longwood, only in the last two years have ATP experts been on hand before the tourney, and only in an advisory capacity. The long-established clique that has traditionally monopolized tourney direction continues to do so--it was their unprecedented decision...
Sporadic attempts to involve more members in running the tourney have failed. Current President Merton E. Thompson sent letters to all club members asking for help, as did Harold Solomon, president of the ATP and this year's second seed. But many who offered aid were turned aside. One person wanted to sell advertising for the program; bickering over commissions and authority finally drove her away, as they have so many others...
...asshole any more. He doesn't toss his racquet or curse; he pouts only occasionally. More often he follows a miscue with a fierce sneer as he stomps cross court, determined to punish the ball for betraying him. The youngest player ever to receive an Association of Tennis Professions (ATP) world ranking has risen above the junior tennis mentality that constricted my back hand on big break points and has been the downfall of many wunderkind who far surpassed me in talent. He is playing now to challenge himself, to fulfill a greatness he knows is his, not to prove...
Jaime Fillo is 34 years old, is president of the ATP and has faced the game's most fearsome giants. He didn't just praise Arias's grace or poise in a post-match interview. Fillo said flat out, "I think Jimmy already is playing better than Connors at that age." Jaime Fillol knows he could very easily have lost that match...