Archive: eugene-l-scott
As truth teller, tournament director, world champion and respected tennis voice, Eugene L. Scott served many roles and had a staggering impact on Open Era tennis.
If your bent is not for chatty columns, flip the page; this one's going to have the concentration span of a poorly groomed Cocker Spaniel. These days that's the nature of the news in our sport with no orderly progressions to follow from stage to stage.
Reaction to U.S. Tennis Association decisions over the years has ranged from yawning to fawning. Not surprising. The Association is, after all, an organization of stout volunteers whose mission is ministration not innovation.
Perhaps it's just as well this country took a sabbatical at the French Open this year. With American men not surviving the second round, Venus and Serena losing in the quarters and Jennifer Capriati embarrassed in her semifinal, the stars and stripes hung at half-staff in a city where ambivalence to our flag would be considered progress.
If Broadway's hottest musical is “Sunday In The Park With George,” the hottest act in tennis is the French Open. One does not have to reach far to find parallels. The setting is the same (Paris) and the musical's motif is the famous Impressionist painting whose color is dabbed on canvas by thousands of pigment points which could easily be metaphors for the quarter-million fans that inhabit Stade Roland Garros over its fortnight.
Hey suits how come we don’t have one of those either? ... No super bowl. Or a... Super Bowl weekend... No All-Star game... Or All-Star weekend.... We have stars. We have super stars!!
