Word: riordan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taubman continued his study of the superstar's style - both on and off the court - during interviews with his tennis-pro mother Gloria Connors and his Wimbledon-winning sometime fiancée Chris Evert. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein talked to Connors' manager Bill Riordan, tennis officials and a courtful of American and Australian pros, including Newcombe. When Rosenstein grew up in Brooklyn, his game was boxball, a kind of street tennis that is played with a "Spaldeen pinkie" ball on a court made up of sidewalk squares. "These pros have a certain panache," Rosenstein concedes, "but they couldn...
...live this second "Heavyweight Championship of Tennis." Caesars Palace is adding a purse of $250,000 plus $50,000 for expenses. The sale of foreign broadcast rights should yield another $100,000. The approximate payoff: the winner $400,000, the loser $250,000 and the promoter (Connors' manager Bill Riordan...
...played on a small winter indoor circuit run by his manager Bill Riordan, refusing to join most of the pros on the big-time World Championship Tennis (W.C.T.) tour...
...male player (Don Budge and Laver were the others) to win the tennis Grand Slam, which includes Wimbledon, Forest Hills and the Australian Open as well as the French Open. Late last week in an unrelated action, A.T.P. Director Jack Kramer filed a $3 million suit against Connors and Riordan accusing them of making "defamatory" statements about...
...game volleys have already begun. Piqued by hecklers at an earlier tournament, Connors at first offered to buy 536 courtside box seats for his confrontation with Newcombe at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. No, thanks, said hotel officials. Then last week Connors' manager Bill Riordan gave a quick backhand to Golfer Jack Nicklaus, who, Riordan claimed, had labeled such big-money, head-to-head sports contests as "ripoffs of the public." Huffed Riordan: "Nicklaus wouldn't be making the big money he does if it weren't for Arnold Palmer, who turned the public...