Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a decade, open tennis is becoming, well, decadent
It was the usual time: the last week in August and the first week of September. The usual people were in attendance: Grand Slam Candidate Bjorn Borg with a fortune in endorsement insignia to grace his tennis togs; new women's No. 1 Martina Navratilova with a fortune in...
Forest Hills-abandoned in favor of bigger gates at the new 25,500-seat facility -is the most prominent casualty of the tennis boom. In the ten years since shamateurism gave way to open competition, and open compensation, under-the-table payments have been replaced by out-of-this-world...
At the end of a decade of undisciplined expansion, growing pains have begun to set in. On the eve of the U.S. Open, 15 former tennis greats-among them Fred Perry, Tony Trabert, Vic Seixas, Roy Emerson and Alice Marble-put their names to a two-page warning in a...
In the oldtimers' view, a vision shared by many in tennis, money alone has not been the root of such evil; indeed, they consider the closet professionalism of the past to have been much worse for the game. But they fear that an overabundance of lucre has choked off...