Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The preference for easy exhibition money over the demands of playing through a grueling tournament has littered the tennis calendar with nonscheduled two-man events and, too often, left promoters and sponsors with literally empty nets. Without top tennis names in the tourneys, gate sales slump and sponsors disappear. Late...
The Justice Department has periodically examined the intertwined business interests of pro tennis for antitrust violations. Often the same men have painted both sides of the tennis fence. Promoters fumed at the power of Lawyer Donald Dell, who served both as agent for a number of top players and as...
For all its internal woes, the quality of play in the decade since tennis went open has become the best in the history of the game. No longer are players required to banish themselves from the top tournaments in order to earn an honest living. Kramer remembers: "If you took...
In many respects, the new National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadow typifies the change in the game itself. Built with U.S. Tennis Association financing for $9.5 million, it will pay for itself in short order: $6.5 million was donated to U.S.T.A. coffers by CBS in exchange for rights to televise...
Granier-Deferre's talents perfectly suit that spirit. The textures of a period costume, the mood of a grand hotel or a diplomatic corps tennis tournament-these he dreamily recaptures for us in a way that gives the film its strangely innocent, almost wistful quality. How one wishes that...