That's only since Kiki left!
Karel Nováček, high as no. 08, reached the semis of the U.S.O. and quarters of the F.O.
^Great poast. Excellent memory.^
The beloved jose luis Clerc, victor pecci and Vijay Amritraj (from Octopu$$y).
If i may add...
Eric Korita. Massive serve. Grew up in Chicaaago and played college tnenis, I think, at southern methodist in texas. Huge serve. Prince poster at every club pro shop in the mid eighties.
Ray moore. Southeffrican pro with a light brown afro. Controversial co-tournament director at indian wells. Not at all a happy ending to that chapter of his life.
Nicolas pereira. Top Venezuelan in the late eighties. Bolletieri product. Smooth, attacking game. Very talented. Now does broadcasting, latinAmerican espn, i think?
Hugo chapacu, responsible for the demise of a certain us davis cup in the eighties.
Jeff Borowiak. I think the world of this guy. Played against him in a pro am in CA in the late nineties. Such a cool guy.
John McEnroe. Played at Standferd for a year after winning RG mixdbls with mary Carillo. Qualied for wimbledon men's singles the same summer. Kind of a hothead...intense fella with a nasty Holden Caulfield complex. Not sure what ever happened to him, but the guy played with some nice feel for the ball and the court. Quicker and taller than he looked. Young Johnny seemed to be friendly with Vitas Gerulaitis. Kind of followed Vitas around.
Vitas Gerulaitis. One of the nicest guys in the world. Great with kids, adults, women, fellas, suits, average joes. A generous, sweet magnetic person with a quick, swashbuckling, attacking game. He died in the nineties. Mysterious Carbon monoxide poisoning on Long Island.
I saw Hanika (East German) beat BJK in the semis of a Virginia Slims tourney in Boston (1983), on "Billie Jean King Day", which was pretty rude of her. She was a lefty. King said she liked playing lefties because they'd hit to her strength.Sylvia Hanicka - top 10 player from Germay hardly ever gets a mention.
Brian Teacher - Australian Open finalist
Chris Lewis - from NZ was Wimbledon finalist
I remember watching Jeff Borowiak playing in the West of Scotland Open in the early 80s. A great pre Wimbly pro tournament that had some history although it was played on hard courts. I saw Pat Cash play it when he was about 16.
Sylvia Hanicka - top 10 player from Germay hardly ever gets a mention.
Brian Teacher - Australian Open finalist
Chris Lewis - from NZ was Wimbledon finalist
I remember watching Jeff Borowiak playing in the West of Scotland Open in the early 80s. A great pre Wimbly pro tournament that had some history although it was played on hard courts. I saw Pat Cash play it when he was about 16.
Well that makes it even more pertinent.Ummm, Teacher was Australian Open champion.....
Yep. Second round. Mayotte was seeded tenth, and went on to lose in the next round to Pernfors.He was also nicknamed Rambo. As I remember nobody used baseball caps then. So this was his trademark.
Also remember how he almost loose his shorts on Centre Court during his lost five-setter battle with Tim Mayotte in 1987 at the Championship.
Godfather of the Western grip.Zenzo Shimidzu
David Pate.
Thank you for information. Definitely i will not call him, i'm in Europe. I could not afford his lessons.You can ring him. His number is on the web page. But I can tell you from trying in person that he has about zero interest in talking about the "glory days."
http://www.ballystennis.com/the-pros.html
Thank you for information. Definitely i will not call him, i'm in Europe. I could not afford his lessons.