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Bobbie was a beautiful person who welcomed all into the Tennis Week Family. She was very devoted to her Family, loved sharing stories about her grandkids, and she had a natural, easy rapport with people.
When Gene Scott ( Eugene L. Scott) was alive, so many of us believed it would be in the best interest of professional tennis to have a Commissioner of Tennis and that Gene would be the most suited to the job.
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.
Outside, the falling autumn leaves might give voice to a song but inside the vast stadium on the banks of the Seine, Rafa Nadal was calling the tune.
“He’s a One Off.” It’s said about many people with varying degrees of accuracy. But if you spent any time in the company of Vitas Gerulaitis, it did not take long for you to realize that he was an original
Greetings readers. It's been 6 years ago That we started the tennis website 10sBalls_com. Our goal was to try and save Gene Scott's "Tennis Week " from going "Dark" we tried to buy it from IMG to no avail.
Silence of the Lambs would never fly as a title for a tennis movie. Silence is rare in our sport and lambs have not been sighted for some time. Issues instead bellow out for attention.
I have been thinking about this; about how to write about a friend and a colleague called Gene Scott who was so many things to so many different people...
10sBalls.com was a reactive thought set into motion by some serious people within the tennis family. Real insiders walking a fine line from years past of being a stealthy force that kept quiet or ran info via TENNIS WEEK and Gene Scott till his site went "DARK" to a force to be reckoned with.
Does anyone still wonder why professional tennis can't have a commissioner? One only has to examine the game's structure (sic) to understand how quixotic such a job title would be for our sport. Four men and one woman are currently paid over $1 million a year to administer totally different segments of tennis.
When we were teenagers, perspective was always defined in terms of railroad tracks retreating into the distance. Now that we are adults, there are no tracks. None related to any discussion of perspective.
Those of you who seek clarification of the editorial drift of Tennis Week enunciated a few issues ago, would do well to note that this column covered the Australian Open without once mentioning Mats Wilander or Martina Navratilova.
The following is a reprinted “Vantage Point” column that was written by Gene Scott and appeared in Tennis Week on May 26, 1987.
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The Knights of the round table! " King Arthur " and his court. Or were they the "Four Musketeers "? What a mighty foursome of tennis greats !!!! That's a Davis cup team.
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