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THE NEW ENGLAND SENIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION BULLETIN 2016 USTA New England Hall of Famers

Jill Craybas Jill Craybas grew up just 20 miles away from Newport and now she’s back as a six-time WTA champion and member of the USTA New England Hall of Fame. As a junior, Jill attained a No. 1 New England ranking in the Girls 18s division and climbed to a high of 4 nationally. She continued to shine in college, winning national championships with both the University of Florida and the University of Texas, twice earning All-America honors. Craybas turned pro in 1996 and was a mainstay on the WTA tour. She competed in 45 straight Grand Slams and maintained a top- 100 ranking for 10 consecutive seasons. Her highest singles ranking was No. 39 and doubles, No. 41. Craybas also had the unique opportunity to represent her country as she was selected to the 2008 U.S. Olympic team and was a member of the Fed Cup team for five years. Wade Frame A competitive tournament player for the past 26 years, Wade Frame has achieved No. 1 New England rankings 19 times between singles and doubles. In 2014, he climbed as high as No. 19 nationally in 55 Singles and No. 5 in 55 Doubles with partner Chris Holmes. Despite his success though, he has never let tennis get in the way of family time. He’s always maintained a steady balance, and contributing to that is his competitive play with both his son Warren and daughter Alissa. He achieved a high Father/Son ranking of No. 11 nationally in 2010 and was No. 16 nationally in the Father/Daughter rankings in 2004. Off the court, Frame serves as the treasurer of the New England Senior Tennis Foundation and is the seeding chair for the Men’s 55 division. John Mayotte Jr. John Mayotte Jr. came from humble beginnings, growing up learning the game of tennis at Forest Park in Springfield. He didn’t get to experience the country club lifestyle, and never received formal coaching or lessons as a child. But his love for the game and determination to develop as a player willed him to success. He became a top-ranked New England junior in both singles and doubles and went on to win multiple Western Massachusetts titles and state championships. He continued his tennis career at the College of the Holy Cross and later became a part of the New England Tennis Stars (NETS), a former pro circuit throughout New England. Mayotte currently lives in Clarksville, MD, where he still competes regularly in tournaments. In 2014, he won the National Singles Championship in the 65 age division. More details on page 6 2 – Fall 2016

New England Senior Tennis Foundation, Inc. An organization established by Bernice and Irving Levine for the general purpose of promoting tennis among senior adults in New England.

Administration Board Peter Allen, President Irving Levine Wade Frame, Treasurer Amy Read Dorcas Miller, Clerk George Ulrich Carol Redden Ken Miller Sheila Weinstock Judy VanRaalte Steve Gulla

To facilitate the promotion of senior tennis, the following strategies will be implemented: 1. To provide instruction for seniors interested in learning how to play the sport or improve their skills; 2. To support the publication of material to help seniors learn how to play the game, improve their skills and knowledge of the game, and un- derstand the latest health research information relating to the sport of tennis; 3. To distribute a newsletter on a regular basis that freely discusses issues in the sport of ten- nis and at the same time reports the results of tournaments and other competitions and news of interest to seniors; 4. To run tournaments and other competi- tions for seniors innovatively and in such a way as to help participants fully enjoy the sport; We mourn the passing of our 5. To develop and support interstate, inter- long-time editor, Richard "Dick" sectional and international competitions for Ernst, September 19, 2016. He seniors; will be missed. Rest in Peace, old 6. To respond to changing needs and interests friend. of senior tennis players; 7. To recognize and respond to opportunities Dick Ernst of Cranston, R. I., to provide leadership within a larger context for Senior Tennis Bulletin editor and the development of tennis (i.e., to support or op- long-time Rhode Island tennis pose actions by tennis groups that either further coach and ranking senior tennis or diminish the growth and support of the sport); player. 8. To provide where possible and to support facilities for senior players at either a reduced rate or at no cost to them; 9. To create and support a governance struc- Please send any suggested ture that ensures continuity to the Foundation stories and or pictures of interest and support for its goals and strategies. for NESTF’s 1,000+ contacts to our Webmaster, Ken Miller, at [email protected].” Fall 2016 – 3 with Dick Ernst Editor’s Corner... Senior tennis newsletter editor and long-time Rhode Island tennis coach and ranking senior circuit player Former N. E. Tennis Star (The Athlete) SEATTLE STU North Seattleite Stu Fitelson takes life at a gallop Submitted by Dan Raley ON A MONDAY NIGHT, Capitol Cider, a popular Pike Street bar and music venue, is packed full of people. It’s a young crowd. The 20- and 30-somethings have come to listen or dance to the Latin music, sample the selection of hard ciders or simply hang out. Stu Fitelson is there, too. Fitelson is drawn to the vibrant atmosphere, inhaling it like oxygen. He hopes to sit in with the band, offering an easy drumbeat. He might ask someone for a dance, demonstrating graceful steps. He’ll be 83 in November. Even as the years pile up, Fitelson never thinks about dying-he’s far more interested in living. No one does it with more energy or purpose. No one thumbs his or her nose at the aging process quite like he does. “There’s no end with me,” the North Seattle man said. It’s a little ironic that Fitelson works as a life insurance salesman. He still puts in six hours a day trying to sell term policies out of a cluttered Third Avenue office. He spends the rest of his time showing people why they don’t need one. Music and insurance are just a small part of this man’s regular routine. A former college basketball player and touring tennis pro, the man who calls himself “Seattle Stu’’ still plays five different sports without interruption. He spent the summer competing for a 35-and-older baseball team and 60-and-older soccer team. He won a pair of gold medals in an all-comers track meet. He resumed play in the fall in a 50-and-older basketball league at the Washington Athletic Club. “Stu is pretty amazing, to be frank,” says Jim Kristof, 62, a lawyer, basketball teammate and former University of Washington football player. “Will I still be playing at 82? I don’t think so, but I hope so. I’ve got to make it to 82 first.” Fitelson gets up late and works late. On the way home from his office, he often stops for a workout at Green Lake’s outdoor parks and recreation facilities, located in the middle of the urban hustle and bustle. He runs 100-yard sprints. He trades tennis strokes with whoever is willing. After workouts, he frequently holds court downtown, dining at Wild Ginger or Roberto’s; he picks his spots to indulge himself. He might order the occasional steak and a Scotch, but not every day. It works for him. Fitelson prefers to stay relevant in a world that rewards youth rather than old age. And if for some reason he can’t get into Capitol Cider, he might end up at the Highway 99 Blues Club, another pulsating, well- attended nightspot. 4 – Fall 2016

NESTF President’s Message I’m sad to convey the recent passing on September 19 of Dick Ernst, our longtime bulletin editor. Dick’s accomplishments and lifelong contributions to tennis in Rhode Island and throughout New England are legendary, as written in his obituary, http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/providence/obituary. aspx?pid=181488745. He will be greatly missed. Best wishes go out to Dick’s wife Rollie, who has assisted Dick with all past NESTF publications, including this edition. Turning to tennis news, New England again provided an outstanding tournament schedule for senior players who value both competition and camaraderie! Most weekends from May through September offered an outdoor tournament for multiple senior age categories. We players owe great thanks to all tournament directors and clubs that host annual senior events, treating us as their welcomed guests. The special New England Senior “Slam” events, initiated in 2010 by the vision and commitment of longtime NESTF Board members Ken and Dorcas Miller, remain New England’s best attended. First, the Hardcourt Slams at Yale in early June attracted 137 players, many from outside New England due to National Category II designations. Second, the Clay Slams, split between Concord and Beverly, together attracted 112 competitors. And finally, the September Grass Slams at the International Hall of Fame in Newport, RI attracted 84 competitors. The Millers deserve our ongoing thanks for continuing their time-consuming oversight and devotion to this remarkable series of Senior Slams. The NESTF Board’s subsidy of $5,500 for the Slams continued to provide their extra amenities and hopefully attract even more players. Senior players in New England all benefit from subsidies that NESTF can award to such fine tournaments, including over $2,000 to several other Tournament Directors who run particularly welcoming events. Besides tournament subsidies, NESTF also supports the many senior teams representing New England annually, with 2016 team funds totaling over $4,000. NESTF also regularly budgets $2,000 to support several grants for effective senior tennis programs that may apply. NESTF’s Board members remain committed to NESTF’s sole focus on promoting senior tennis in New England. Having so generously co-founded NESTF with his wife Bernice in 1996, Irving Levine turned 95 in September with a big party and still hits tennis balls on his court as often as he can. Irv remains an inspiration and role model for us all. Other major NESTF contributions to applaud are: our webmaster Ken Miller’s highly informative website and “Breaking News” emails, and our late editor Dick Ernst’s gathering of excellent articles for this online annual publication. In summary, NESTF continues to invest nearly $20,000 annually to enhance New England’s senior tennis excellence. Please call (508- 366-0312) or e-mail me ([email protected]) anytime you have suggestions to improve senior tennis in New England, including NESTF subsidies, articles, and the like. You’ll be interested to know that both USTA New England and NESTF are discussing best ways to address diminishing participation in “non-premier” multi- day tournaments. USTA nationwide is experimenting with shorter “Fast4” match scoring in single-day events, hoping to foster greater participation in this time of increasing demands on everyone’s more limited free hours. I highly recommend your reading the great article on this topic in Tennis Magazine’s Sept/Oct issue on page 44, in case you missed it. Best wishes for an active, healthy autumn and winter, and remember: “Use or lose!” Resolve now to enter more outdoor events next summer with your senior tennis friends.

Yours in Tennis, Pete Allen, President New England Senior Tennis Foundation Fall 2016 – 5 Chaffee - Hart - Alden Senior Tennis Tournament July 15-17 Submitted by Co-director Ron Plock This year’s tournament went off without a hitch and had great weather for the 3-day event. But one thing was seriously lacking - PLAYERS. The turnout in 2015 was one of the best in recent years - 51 participants and many new faces. So, co-directors Ron Plock and Dot Houston were perplexed when only 22 players participated in this year’s event, especially when you consider the many cultural attractions in the northwest corner of Massachusetts. These include the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the Williamstown Theater Festival, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in nearby North Adams, and Tanglewood which is less than an hour away from Williamstown. No one could offer an explanation for the drop off and we would like to get input from players who did show up and those that didn’t as to why the drop-off from 2015. Please email Ron Plock at pnick@ berkshirevalley.com with your comments and suggestions- and be assured we will listen. But we did have a tournament and so here are the results: In the Men’s 75 singles Julien Hennefeld of Bennington,VT, defended his title from last year with a hard fought victory over top seeded Nicholas Ourusoff of New London, NH, 6-3, 7-5. Hennefeld got to the final by beating George Lynch of Woodstock,VT, 6-2, 6-1. Ernest True of Northfield, VT, won the consolation against Allan Gardner of Belmont, MA, 6-1, 6-0. The Men’s 70 doubles featured Lynch and 85-year-old Bernard Burg of Dunnellon, FL,- both of whom played down - defeating the younger team of Charles Crowell of Williamstown, MA, and Louis Clark of Wilmington, VT, 6-1, 6-1. Lynch’s usual partner for doubles- Raymond Brodeur of Avon, CT- had to withdraw because of a knee injury. Burg won the consolation in the Men’s 80 singles over Barry Stone of South Burlington, VT, in 3 sets, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. The 80 singles title went to top seeded Malcolm Swanson of Windham, NH, over number 2 seed Richard Canepa of Newburyport, MA, 6-0, 5-7 and 11-9 in a third set tie break. With 3 teams in the Men’s 80 doubles, there was a round-robin event with Robert Fougere of Millbury, MA, and David Lowry of Newton, MA, winning their two matches over John Clarno of Adams, MA, and Richard Mount of Chestnut Hill, MA, 6-0, 6-1, and the team of Canepa/Swanson 6-4, 6-3. There was also round robin play in the Women’s 60 singles with Denise Brosseau of Hudson, MA, winning her two matches over Susan Welsch of Stamford, VT, love & love, and Elizabeth Endicott of Weybridge, VT, 6-4, 6-2.

Mixed 65 Doubles l-r Gerald Rothman /Annabelle Men's 80 Singles, l-r Dick Canepa and Malcolm Swanson, Ambrose 7-6, 6-0, (defeated Beverly Canepa /Allan Gard- 6-0, 5-7, 11-9 tiebreak. ner)

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Continued from page 1 (HoF) Former WTA Champion Craybas Selected For USTA New England Tennis Hall Of Fame WESTBOROUGH, MA - The United States Tennis Association (USTA) of New England has announced that six-time Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) champion, Jill Craybas, has been selected for induction into the Hall of Fame Class of 2016. The ceremony took place on Saturday, June 11 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI. Craybas began her tennis career in East Greenwich, RI, where she excelled as a junior. She attained a No. 1 New England ranking in the Girls 18s division and climbed to No. 4 nationally. She continued to shine in college, winning national championships with both the University of Florida and the University of Texas, twice earning All-America honors. Craybas turned pro in 1996 and was a mainstay on the WTA tour. She competed in a whopping 45 straight Grand Slams and maintained a top-100 ranking for 10 consecutive seasons. Her highest singles ranking was No. 39 and doubles was No. 41. Craybas also was selected to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team and was a member of the Fed Cup team for five years. “I feel very privileged to be recognized by such a prestigious and established organization that helped me jumpstart my tennis career,” Craybas said. “There have been a lot of moments in my career that have meant so much to me, but the ones I cherish the most are the ones that hit closest to home. That is why I am so happy to be able to come back to my roots here in New England to be among my family and friends who helped me reach all my goals and accomplishments.” Craybas currently lives in Huntington Beach, CA and is still greatly involved in tennis. She works as a broadcaster for BBC Radio, Live@Wimbledon and TV World Feed. She also runs USTA clinics and coaches high-performance junior players.

Top Tournament Player Frame Has Been Inducted Into USTA New England Tennis Hall Of Fame WESTBOROUGH, MA - The United States Tennis Association (USTA) of New England has announced that top-ranked tournament player, Wade Frame, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame Class of 2016. Frame, of Marblehead, MA, has been involved in tennis for 43 years and has played in New England tournaments since moving to Massachusetts in 1990. He has held a ranking in each of his 26 years and reached No. 1 in singles nine times and No. 1 in doubles 10 times. In 2014, he achieved his highest national ranking in both singles and doubles in the 55 division, finishing No. 19 in singles and No. 5 in doubles with partner Chris Holmes. In addition, Frame has been greatly involved in one of his favorite pastimes, Father/Son and Father/ Daughter tournaments, playing competitively with his son Warren and his daughter Alissa. “One day when my son was a senior in high school, I saw they had Father/Son Nationals at Longwood Cricket Club (Chestnut Hill, MA), so we tried it out and had a blast. I wish we had started earlier,” Frame said. “It’s the best. You can’t beat playing with your kids, competing on a national level and taking home hardware. The competition aspect was great, but more importantly, we loved the bonding it provided.” Frame earned a No. 11 national ranking with his son in 2010 and No. 16 with his daughter in 2004. Off the court, Frame serves as the treasurer of the New England Senior Tennis Foundation and is the seeding chair for the Men’s 55 division. He has also served as captain for the Talbert Cup and Atlantic Coast 45. Fall 2016 – 7

“It is an honor and thrill to be inducted into the USTA New England Hall of Fame, and to be included with players, coaches, volunteers, writers and others who have contributed to tennis in New England, is fantastic,” Frame said.

Springfield Native Mayotte Selected For USTA New England Tennis Hall Of Fame WESTBOROUGH, MA - The United States Tennis Association USTA) of New England has announced that John Mayotte Jr., a former No. 1 New England junior, has been selected for induction into the Hall of Fame Class of 2016. Mayotte has been involved in tennis for 60 years, beginning in Springfield as a junior player. He grew up playing at Forest Park without the luxury of formal coaching or lessons, but his love for the game and determination are what willed him to success. He broke through to become a top-ranked singles and doubles player throughout the 1960s and went on to win multiple Western Massachusetts titles and state championships. “I really just enjoyed playing and competing and loved the individual development aspect,” Mayotte said. “I would travel to Boston to watch the pros play and I fell in love with Rod Laver. I would do whatever I could to copy him and I just kept finding myself get a little better and better.” Mayotte continued his tennis career at the College of the Holy Cross and went on to become a mainstay with the New England Tennis Stars (NETS), a former pro circuit throughout New England. He played competitively in New England until the age of 30. Now a resident of Clarksville, MD, and bit by the tournament bug once again, Mayotte is back in the competitive tennis game. In 2014, he won the National Singles Championship in the 65 age division and has been ranked as high as No. 3 in the division. Mayotte is the older brother of former ATP Tour players Tim Mayotte (USTA New England Hall of Fame Class of 1996) and Chris Mayotte. “I’m very honored and excited because I’ve been involved in tennis in New England and all around the world for a long time and it’s a huge part of my life. Means a lot to me to represent my family, and there are no words that can really justify the great feeling I have.”

USTA New England Hall of Fame The USTA New England Hall of Fame exists to recognize those tennis players and non-players in New England whose achievements as sportsmen or sportswomen are worthy of the highest commendation and recognition, or whose contributions as officials or individuals in a tennis-related activity have been so outstanding over a significant period of time as to justify the highest commendation and recognition.

About USTA New England USTA New England, one of 17 regional sections across the country that comprise the United States Tennis Association (USTA), is a not-for-profit organization committed to promoting and developing the growth of tennis and increasing participation in the sport in New England by offering quality recreational and competitive programs for people of all ages and abilities. For more information, visit www.ustanewengland.com. 8 – Fall 2016

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And in the final match of the tournament, the 65 Mixed Doubles team of Gerald Rothman /Annabelle Ambrose of Chestnut Hill, MA, defeated Beverly Canepa and Allan Gardner 7-6 (5), 6-0. Running next year’s tournament will be a new team, but Plock and Houston will be involved in making sure everything runs smoothly and with hopefully a larger turnout. Our sincere thanks to those who have participated in this tournament for the many years (50+) it’s been held at the Williams College Clay Courts in picturesque Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Men's 75 Singles, l-r Julien Hennefeld and Nicholas Ou- Spectators rusoff, 6-3, 7-5.

Men's 70 Doubles, l-r George Lynch/Bernard Burg def. Women's 60 Singles, l-r Elizabeth Endicott and Denise Charles Crowell / Louis Clark 6-1, 6-1. Brosseau 6-4, 6-2 winner Round Robin.

Men's 80 Doubles, l-r Dave Lowry and Robert Fougere (Round Robin Winners). Fall 2016 – 9

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Massive Rotator Cuff Tear and Secondary Arthritis or Rotator Cuff Arthropathy, may be very dis- abling. Osteoarthritis (arthritis from wear of the shoulder joint). develops as a consequence of massive cuff tears which allow the humeral head (hall of the upper arm) to migrate through the rotator cuf tear, hitting the acromion (bone which caps the shoulder). This may lead to pain, limited range of motion, grinding of the shoulder, and poor functional capacity of the upper extremity. Normally, the Deltoid muscle elevates the arm and the Rotator Cuff acts to balance this upward disrupted by a massive rotator GENERAL cuff tear (review the image above). The shoulder is the most mobile joint in the body. Its remarkable range of motion is achieved by a design Symptoms with less stability than a ball and socket joint like the hip. The shoulder resembles a golf ball sitting on a Symptoms generally include limited range of motion. crepitation or a grinding sensation within the joint tee. It falls off easily (dislocates) and the normal restraints for this are the capsule with its incorporated on movement and significant weakness. Pain is often exacerbated by activity, and night-time awakening ligaments, and the rotator cuff. The rotator cuff is a sleeve of tendons whose muscles originate primar- is common. The base of the neck may be “tight” with recurrent spasm, but sensation in the arm is gener­ ily from the shoulder blade (scapula). The tendons of these muscles insert in a ring at the perimeter of ally normal. Patients do not complain of numbness or tingling, only pain. As in arthritis in other joints, the humeral head (ball of the joint). These muscles are so named because they provide rotational motion as the surfaces wear, and hone against bone contact ensues, motion becomes increasingly limited. It is of the arm. They also act to hold the head of the humerus down, by their general downward inclination common for a patient with shoulder arthritis to present with complaints which are little different than from the humerus to the scapula. The deltoid is the most superficial muscle over the shoulder, and covers those of a rotator cuf tear. The patients have the same limited active range of motion with pain at the it like a hood. It elevates the arm but at the same time, elevates the humeral head against the acromion. extremes, and night-time awakening, but with rotator cuff tear there is also weakness of rotation. In this The deltoid originates from,the acromion (shoulder cap), the clavicle, and the spine of the scapula, and situation the plain X-Ray exam is very helpful in diagnosis. Generally there is no need for MRI or other inserts halfway down the upper arm. study unless there is a question of coexistent rotator cuff tear, when this will substantially alter treat- ment. SYMPTOMS Treatment Impingement occurs when the rotator cuff tendons are pinched between the acromion and the humeral Treatment of the shoulder with arthritis is dependent upon the cause of the condition and the sever- head. This causes characteristic anterior shoulder pain which is "tooth-ache" like in nature. Pain gener- ity of the arthritis. Patients may have rotator cuff tear, distal clavicle arthritis, or cervical arthritis with ally radiates down the front of the upper arm. Overhead activities aggravate this condition, and reaching symp­toms. Nerve entrapment in the upper extremity may even mimic symptoms of shoulder osteoar- behind the back is painful. Neck pain or scapular pain may result with associated muscle spasm. Night- thritis. Patients who have had recurrent dislocation or massive rotator cuff tear may develop arthritis time awakening is common. of the shoulder as a consequence of humeral head impaction against the undersurface of the acromion. “Conservative” measures for the treatment of arthritis of the shoulder consists of oral anti-inflammatory CAUSES drugs, gentle passive and active range of motion exercises, and strengthening of the rotator cuff muscu- Any force which causes recoil of the humeral head against the acromion increases symptoms. Throwing lature which remains intact to maintain function of the shoulder and minimize pain. Ice after aggravating or raquet sports may increase symptoms. Shoulder instability, which allows for abnormal motin of the activities, and heat application during intervals between times, may be soothing for symptomatic relief ball relative to the cup (subluxation) may also cause impingement. Repetetive overhead arm use, reach- of symptoms. 10 – Falling, 2016 or scrubbing motions with the arm may aggravate symptoms.

Normally a bursa (sac) is interposed between the rotator cuff and the acromion. This lubricates the mo- Surgery tion of the tendons minimizing friction and wear. Normally, the bursa is thin and resembles a plastic bag Reverse Total Shoulder replacement may be performed for massive unrepairable rotator cuff tears with with a few drops of oil inside. Bursitis or inflammation of the sac causes thickening and less space for coexistant arthritis. It is also sometimes used for severe fractures of the shoulder which include the rota- the tendons. This causes more symptoms of impingement with catching and crunching sounds on over- tor cuff when slow or poor healing may compromise shoulder function. The reverse design places the head motion of the arm. This occurs as the bursa is pinched between the acromion and humerus. With Ball on the normal cup side of the shoulder and the cup on the humeral stem. This maintains the shoul- prolonged inflammation, the rotator cuff tendons are rubbed on directly and slowly are abraded. Even- der in its anatomic location without superior migration with reaching and lifting. Shoulder function and tually this may result in a rotator cuff tear. Here the tendons rip from their attachment into the humeral pain are often dramatically improved. head. Early this may be painful with little functional loss. Alarge tear, however, is often vety debilitating Hospitalization and causes weak rotational strength and limited arm elevation. The symptoms of impingement on physi- Shoulder replacement surgery generally requires a day or two of hospitalization. The surgery can be per- cal exam are fairly characteristic. A special x-ray view is also highly correlated with symptoms. Cervical formed with General Anesthesia or Scalene Block with IV sedation. In either instance, a scalene block spine problems or arthritis between the acromion and clavicle may mimic the condition. is utilized for pain relief in the immediate postoperative period. This is an injection of local anesthetic at the base of the neck which numbs the shoulder and gives excellent pain relief for 12 hours or more. Oral TREATMENT pain medicine can often be used immediately with this technique, eliminating intramuscular injections,­ Treatment is in three stages. Initially, rest from irritating activities and oral anti-lnflammatoty medicine or IV analgesics. This usually lessens pain after surgery more effectively, since oral analgesics have a helps relieve bursal swelling. Rotator cuff strengthening helps hold the humerus down and open the ten- longer duration or action than injections. don space. If this is not effective, subacromial steriod injection may act directly in the space to rapidly Rehabilitation decrease inflammation. More than 80% of patients treated by these means improve to their satisfaction. Physical therapy begins the day after surgery. Motion of the shoulder is initiated actively and passively, If symptoms are not relieved with conservative measures exhausted, arthroscopic decompression may be gentle circles like a pendulum. This minimizes the load on what rotator cuff can he repaired after shoul­ performed to remove the bony impingement against the rotator cuff. This is performed as an outpatient der replacement. The shoulder is protected with a sling for a few weeks, and rotation is limited primarily procedure, and has an 85% good to excellent result in carefully selected patients. in external rotation to avoid pulling on the subscapularis tendon. Those with associated rotator cuff tears may be treated arthroscopically with simultaneous repair of the Week 1-2: cuff through a small incision directly over the tear. If the tear is too large, however, a standard operative Passive Range of Motion exercises and modalities for pain and inflammation. (ice and oral anti­ anterior approach is required. This may require overnight recouperation in the hospital, or as an oupa- inflammatories). tient procedure. Week 2-8: Active forward elevation and early strengthening using isometrics followed by light active strengthen- REHABILITATION ing. The shoulder is highly susceptible to postoperative stiffness. It is important to maintain a normal range Week 8-12: of motion after surgery. When arthroscopic decompression is only needed, rapid return of motion and Active shoulder use including reaching at arms reach and overhead. Rehabilitation may need to be modi- strength are encouraged without restrictions. With rotator cuff repair, passive elevation only is allowed fied when shoulder replacement is combined with repair of a torn rotator cuff. for 6 to 8 weeks while tendon healing is in progress. Muscle strengthening is then encouraged beginning Complications with rotator cuff strengthening. As with any surgery, there are risks. The shoulder is a complex joint to replace. It relies on soft tissue balance and prosthetic orientation to maintain stability. Dislocation may occur if therapy is improper, SUMMARY soft tissue balance or prosthetic orientation is not correct, or injury occurs. As with any prosthetic joint, In summary, impingement syndrome is a mechanical pinching of the rotator cuff increased by certain infection is the most worrisome risk. This may necessitate prosthetic removal, clearance of the infec- activities and anatomic variation. Conservative measures generally relieve symptoms in about 85% of tion and reimplantation. After surgery, antibiotics should be taken before dental cleaning, oral surgery or patients to their satisfaction. If this fails, surgical intervention improves pain and disability in a high colonoscopy to minimize the risk of late infection. percentage of patients, and often can be perfomed on an out-patient basis. Summary Reverse Total shoulder replacement is generally highly effective for pain relief in instances of severe shoulder arthritis with massive rotator cuff tear. This may be complicated in instances of infection, frac- ture, or prior shoulder surgery. The shoulder may also be moved gently by dangling the arm and swing- Compliments of Center for Sports Medicine, Orthopaedics & Podiatry ing it forward and back and in.

Compliments of: Ortho RI Blackstone Orthopedics & Sports Medicine 588 Pawtucket Avenue, Pawtucket, R. I. 02860 (401) 722-2400 Fall 2016 – 11 Dick Mount Plays His 25,000th Set For YTF The entire crowd was anxiously awaiting the arrival of Dick Mount. It seemed that he was late for his own party. A group of over 350 invited guests had gathered at the Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline, Massachusetts­ to witness an unusual occurrence. A 74 year old man playing in his 25,000th competi­ tive set. Mount had planned the day as an event to raise money for the YTF and to celebrate the great game of tennis. As a tennis teaching professional,­ a high school tennis coach and an avid player, Mount had been promoting­ tennis for From Left: Stan Mescon, Roy Emerson, Tim Mayotte & Dick Mount much of his life. But where was Dick? Was he going to default the most public of his 25,000 competitive sets? Additionally,­ how did he know how many sets he had played? In 1962, Mount decided that he wanted to track his improvement­ by jotting down in a three ring binder every set and result he had on the court. He is willing to admit that he hasn’t improved measurably since then, but he’s had a lot of fun playing tennis and helping others­ improve their games. Always an incredibly devoted Youth Tennis Foundation board member and tireless fundraiser for tennis, Mount was awarded the 2007 Gardner Ward Chase Memorial­ Award for outstanding contri­ butions to tennis by USTA New England. His love of tennis and positive attitude has encouraged so many players around him. His role has been vital to the growth of tennis­ in New England. What was happening? The crowd was getting restless. Did Mount get cold feet about playing that 25,000th set? Maybe he couldn’t take the pressure of playing a set of this magnitude against Hall of Famer and 12 time grand slam champion Roy Emerson. Was he afraid of losing? He had lost 8,969 sets (29.9% of all his sets played), so he must have been used to it by now. Of course this was doubles, and former world top ten player Tim Mayotte would be on his side as his partner. Maybe he was sick of playing tennis, suffering from “tennis burnout”? It would be understandable. He once played 24 hours of consecutive tennis against 24 different opponents for charity. For certain people though, “tennis burnout” is not possible. Mount’s love of tennis has always been so evident that the entire crowd believed that Mount would begin his march toward 50,000 sets the following day. As the crowd began to worry about Dick’s well being,­ their talk could no longer drown out a noise in the distance. That sound became­ a roar from the sky as the wind picked up around the grounds of Longwood. A helicopter carrying the tireless­ tennis player got closer and closer and eventually touched down on the hallowed soil of the old tennis club. Dick Mount was finally there to play. He was not “burnt out” or afraid of losing. He was there to compete­ in his 25,000th set of the game he loved and to raise money for a great cause. What a spectacular entrance! Mount explained “My car was in the shop and it's not easy to get a taxi in this town.” 12 – Fall 2016 At 94 Years Old, a Fund Manager Finds Himself Back on Top by Suzanne Mcgee IN TENNIS, Irving Levine is known for being a careful player, and not making errors. “Whoever I’m playing against might overwhelm me, but I won’t beat myself by making a misjudgement,” the 94-year-old says. Mr. Levine has won our quarterly IRVING LEVINE: Still serving up a good stock-fund performance Winners’ Circle contest—which measures the best 12-month performance by a stock- fund manager—using the same approach to investing the $82.9 million of assets in Copley Fund. He launched the fund back in 1978—less than a year after “Saturday Night Fever” was released—to invest in dividend-paying stocks. Some of the holdings in the fund (symbol COPLX) have been around almost as long as the fund itself, and Mr. Levine describes his management strategy, like his tennis game, as “steady, involving no gambling or big risk-taking, and doing what ought to be done carefully.” Copley Fund’s win, with a 16.84% gain for the past 12 months, marks the second quarter in a row that dividend-paying stocks have ended up in the spotlight in the contest. The five diversified U.S.-stock funds that turned in the best performance over the past 12 months all devote themselves to picking stocks that can pay hefty dividends, rather than those that can generate big capital gains or earnings growth. As usual, every diversified U.S.-stock fund that has at least $50 million in assets and a record of more than three years is eligible for the contest, as long as it is actively managed. Index funds and exchange-traded funds don’t count; neither do sector funds, nor hybrid funds that generate returns from a combination of debt and equity. Leveraged funds don’t qualify, since that leverage can distort their returns. What’s not so usual is the identity of this quarter’s winner. Mr. Levine is more likely to make the pages of his hometown newspaper, the Herald News of Fall River, Mass., for his tennis prowess than for his investment accomplishments. Moreover, he came late to investing. By the time he launched Copley Fund, in 1978, he had already started and sold one business—manufacturing women’s handbags—and had “retired” once, in 1965. But he had already acquired a taste for investing, having realized in the 1950s that he would never acquire wealth simply by collecting a salary. “I saved up $25,000 and went to see Studley Shupert, a firm that at the time managed about $1 billion for clients in Boston and $2 billion in Philadelphia,” Mr. Levine recalls. The firm’s usual minimum for new clients was $100,000 but Mr. Levine persuaded them to take him on as a client, arguing that he would be accumulating assets steadily to add to his portfolio. “I got stock in Haloid, which became Xerox, and Polaroid, and IBM—the growth stocks of their day.” Mr. Levine’s stock-picking prowess impressed Studley Shupert’s executives enough that they recruited him as an investment manager. In turn, he persuaded them to launch the firm’s first no-load fund. “We ran it for a number of years, until it was bought by an insurance company,” he says. Then, in the mid-1970s, Mr. Levine decided to launch his own independent fund. The goal, he decided, would be to never distribute the holdings or profits; rather, if investors wanted to capture any Fall 2016 – 13 gains, they would have to sell shares. Essentially, he created a mutual-fund version of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway holding company, only instead of an operating company, it’s an investment firm. Like Mr. Buffett’s share price, Copley Fund’s net asset value per share has soared in the years since its launch, from about $3 to more than $81 today. The fund’s 16.84% gain put it more than half a percentage point ahead of the runner-up in the contest. Accustomed to defeating younger rivals on the court, in this competition he beat 50-year-old David Abella, manager of the New York-based City National Rochdale Dividend & Income Fund (RIMHX), a $225 million fund also devoted to dividend investing. The two men take similar approaches to investing, hunting for solid companies in a position to increase dividend payouts. The biggest difference between them is that Mr. Levine hardly ever trades. The last time he added a new stock to his portfolio, he calculates, was two years ago, when he bought Kimberly-Clark for about $60 a share. (It now trades at about $137 a share.) Some of his fixtures have seen enormous changes, not only in their industries but in their holdings. “All of my oil companies have merged into only two stocks; when deregulation broke up AT&T, I bought all those businesses, and now it’s back to only two telecom companies again,” he says. Those long-term holdings have created some headaches for him. Although he has succession plans (if he can’t manage the funds, one of two institutions will take his place), the Securities and Exchange Commission became alarmed at the size of the unrealized gains building up in the portfolio and demanded he set aside a provision to cover the tax impact if he is forced to liquidate the fund. While Mr. Levine says that won’t happen, he has complied, and that has driven up the fund’s expense ratio to what he says is artificially high. (Morningstar pegs it at 1.33%.) “We’ll never distribute, so it’s academic,” Mr. Levine says. He adds that if a new president succeeds in lowering the corporate tax rate, it would benefit the fund’s investors. For his part, Mr. Abella is a more-active investor. He cut back on his fund’s holdings in the energy sector and in pipelines, noting that “good performance is also about avoiding the losers, and you can never take a dividend for granted in any company.”

l-r: Vinnie Richards, Richard Williams, "Little Bill" Johnston and "Big Bill" Tilden. July 1937 14 – Fall 2016 Bud Collins, Who Covered Tennis With Authority and Flash, Dies at 86 by Richard Goldstein Bud Collins, the passionate, often irreverent face of tennis for nearly half a century in his Wimbledon broadcasts and his newspaper and magazine columns, died on Friday March 4, 2016 at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 86. His death was announced by his wife, the photographer Anita Ruthling Klaussen, on her Facebook page. Mr. Collins had largely been away from tennis International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum since tearing tendons in his left194 leg Bellevue in Avenue a fall at his Newport, RI 02840 hotel room while attending the 2011 United States www.tennisfame.com

Open in New York.About The the International injury Tennis required Hall of Fame& many Museum surgical The International Tennis Hall of Fame was established in 1954 and is a non- procedures. profit institution dedicated to preserving the history of tennis, inspiring and encouraging junior tennis development, enshrining tennis heroes and But last September,heroines, and accompanied providing a landmark for tennisby enthusiastsMs. Klaussen, worldwide. For more information on the International Tennis Hall of Fame and its programs, please call 401-849-3990 or visit the International Tennis Hall of he attended a ceremonyFame official websiteat the at www.tennisfame.com Open in .which the Presented by the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum new media center was named in his honor. A plaque October 4, 2007 for him reads, “Journalist, Commentator, Historian, Mentor, Friend.” “Either the ball goes over the net or it doesn’t,” Mr. Collins wrote in the opening sentence of “Bud Collins’ Modern Encyclopedia of Tennis.” Having stripped the sport to its essence, he nonetheless observed, “For some degenerates, tennis is a way of life, even a religion.” It was much that way with Mr. Collins, who popularized tennis for millions of Americans in its boom years after the emergence of the Open era in 1968, when professionals were finally allowed to compete for the major championships. Mr. Collins was a flamboyant part of the tennis scene. Balding and sometimes bearded, he could be spotted in a crowd by his wardrobe, one that favored bow ties and his custom-made signature slacks. Yellow, violet and burgundy were among his favorites, and strawberry embellishments were added for Wimbledon. Reporting on tennis for NBC, he was best known for “Breakfast at Wimbledon,” his play-by-play and commentary at the tournament’s finals, broadcast live on weekend mornings. But Mr. Collins considered himself as much a print journalist as a TV personality. His first bylined article in The Boston Globe appeared in December 1963, when he covered Davis Cup play in Australia. His final article for the newspaper appeared in September 2011, when he was reporting on the United States Open. He was a writer and senior editor at World Tennis magazine. His encyclopedia, written with Zander Hollander and first published in 1980, went through several editions, and he followed it with “The Bud Collins History of Tennis” and “Total Tennis.” While he focused on tennis, he mused about anything that caught his eye in his travel column, “Anywhere,” and he covered combat in the Vietnam War. Mr. Collins was much the showman. He often quoted his imaginary Uncle Studley’s reflections on tennis. Steffi Graf was “Fraulein Forehand,” Bjorn Borg was “the Angelic Assassin” and the hard-serving Venus and Serena Williams were “Sisters Sledgehammer.” He considered himself the representative of the everyday player, or the hacker, as he put it. Fall 2016 – 15

Mr. Collins did the play-by-play for “Breakfast at Wimbledon” at its inception in 1979, after NBC had previously confined coverage to taped matches. In 1983, NBC shifted him to analysis and interviews when Dick Enberg was given the main broadcasting role. “Bud’s enthusiasm when he’s doing play-by-play can be a little overwhelming,” Michael Weisman, the executive producer of NBC Sports, told Sports Illustrated in 1985. “It goes back to my philosophy that less is more. I’m a big fan of Bud’s, but I thought if he made only one reference to his uncle instead of six, it might play better.” Mr. Collins was dropped by NBC in 2007 after 35 years with the network; afterward, he broadcast for ESPN and the Tennis Channel while continuing to write a column for The Globe. “The guy is utterly unique,” the sportswriter Frank Deford wrote on Sports Illustrated’s website in the summer of 2007, expressing his dismay when NBC dropped Mr. Collins. “There isn’t another American journalist so identified with his sport as Bud is with tennis. He is the very soul of the game — as historian, as authority, as devotee, as enthusiast.” He was a fine player, as well. Mr. Collins won the national indoor mixed doubles at Longwood Cricket Club in suburban Boston in 1961, teaming with Janet Hopps, and he reached the final of the French Open senior men’s doubles in 1975, playing with Jack Crawford. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., in 1994. His reverence for tennis did not extend to the bureaucracy that ruled it in the amateur era. Writing in Sports Illustrated in February 1968 as the Open era dawned, he described the United States National Lawn Tennis Association as “an organization that, in terms of efficiency and coordination, rivals that of the New York Mets.” Arthur Worth Collins Jr. was born on June 17, 1929, in Lima, Ohio, and grew up in Berea, where his father was the athletic director and a coach at Baldwin-Wallace College. As a youngster, Mr. Collins thrilled to radio broadcasts of the United States Nationals from Forest Hills, Queens. At age 18, he drove with two high school friends to Forest Hills for the 1947 Nationals — the forerunner of the United States Open — arriving there just as play was ending for that day. “Sprinting up a steep concrete stairway, we burst through a portal and were stunned by a green flash,” he wrote in his memoir, “My Life With the Pros” (1989). “Two men in white were still playing to a congregation of perhaps two hundred. The minarets of the Forest Hills Inn and the groves of Forest Hills Gardens, the comfortable residential pocket in which the club nestles, stood confidently in the gloaming, sturdy defenders of the faith, gray against an azure evening. Forest Hills. It was indeed revelation to the weary, sticky pilgrims, a romantic encounter.” Mr. Collins played tennis at Baldwin-Wallace and graduated in 1951. After Army service, he enrolled at Boston University, seeking a master’s degree in public relations, but left to join The Boston Herald’s sports staff. He covered tennis for the first time when his editor apologetically sent him to Longwood for an event when everyone else on the paper’s sports staff was shunning tennis, considered by many at the time as an outpost for elitist amateurs. Mr. Collins became The Herald’s lead sports columnist in 1959. He also coached the Brandeis University tennis team, whose roster included Abbie Hoffman, destined for far greater notice in the counterculture movement of the 1960s. Mr. Collins moved to The Globe in 1963, when he also began broadcasting tournaments for WGBH, Boston’s educational television outlet, which pioneered TV coverage of the sport. He covered the Nationals for NBC in 1964 and the United States Open for CBS from 1968 to 1972, then returned to NBC to cover Wimbledon and other major events. In May 2009, Boston University awarded him the master’s degree in public relations he had never completed, citing his writings on the history of tennis as sufficiently scholarly. Besides his wife, Mr. Collins is survived by his stepchildren from that marriage, Danielle Klaussen and Karl Klaussen; a daughter, Suzanna Mathews, from his first marriage, to Palmer Collins, which 16 – Fall 2016

ended in divorce; his stepchildren Betsy Bartelt, Kristin Hunt, Sharon McMillan and Gretchen West from his second marriage, to Mary Lou Barnum, who died in 1990; Rob Lacy, a son of Judy Lacy, a companion of Collins’s and now deceased, whom he raised with her; and 11 grandchildren, The Globe reported. When the United States Tennis Association announced it would take the United States Open out of Forest Hills and move it to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Mr. Collins reflected on some of the great names and matches in remembering the setting that had entranced him on first blush while a teenager. “Before smog, there was Forest Hills,” he wrote in The New York Times in September 1977. “Before short pants. Before Big Bill Tilden, who filled the house year after year, and finally came apart. Before Helen Wills, who beat Kitty McKane in the inaugural match in the stadium.” He added, “Before Jack Crawford, who fortified himself with gulps of brandy but was still unable to hold off Fred Perry in the 1933 final.” But Mr. Collins shunned unvarnished sentimentality. “The towers of an inn become shabby still look good at a distance,” he wrote, “and Forest Hills Gardens remains a pleasant residential enclave. But the effect is fleeting, probably because the floodlights have been turned on for night play, and the stadium floor is now down to the gritty, and drab clay courts have replaced most of the handsome lawns. “There is really no way to recreate Forest Hills-as-it-was any more than you can recreate a first love.” Remembering Bud Collins by Jerry Johnson The Worcester Tennis Club, my home club for many years, celebrated its centennial at Tuckerman Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2007. Bud Collins was the keynote speaker. By way of introducing Bud, I was asked to write a poem about him. It took a bit of research, but I discovered that Bud won a major mixed doubles championship in 1961 on Longwood’s Covered Courts in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts on a surface of battleship linoleum. Bud and his partner, Janet Hopps, beat some terrific teams along the way to winning this tournament.

It was an honor for me to read the following poem to Bud at the centennial celebration.

BATTLESHIP LINOLEUM

The books that Bud Collins has written have revealed tennis history, and with this poem I hope to unearth something that won’t be a mystery.

It was 1961 on Longwood’s Covered Courts- The US Indoor Mixed Doubles Championships with great players, all great sports.

Bud Collins teamed with Janet Hopps, a nationally-ranked player. Together, would they form an indomitable pair?

The surface was battleship linoleum, not the grass which Bud did love; the teams they would face would assuredly rise above.

Bud trained well before the tourney, from many he sought advice. Perhaps they’d win a match or two-surely, that would suffice. Fall 2016 – 17

They breezed through rounds one and two, the semis were soon next: Virginia Connolly and Don “drill sergeant” Manchester with their muscles in full-flex.

Janet and Bud won the first set. Was there to be a feeling of glee? Yes, Bud easily served out the second -they won it at 6 - 3.

The final was now upon them. The opposition did reveal: New England Champion Mary Richards and Chauncey, the man of Steele.

Bud and Janet captured set number one-Bud served its closing game. The second set loomed before them-a championship for them to claim? They quickly reached 5-4, Bud’s time again for serves. The pressure was enormous. What would happen to his nerves?

With match point on his racquet, Bud threw up a toss -a spinner, and sent the ball a’flying-it proved to be a winner!

We welcome Bud to Worcester’s lOOth and hope he’ll play on our clay. There is an outside chance he could keep us all at bay.

But, in these uncertain times with the cost of petroleum, one thing is for sure -Bud was number one on linoleum!

Jerry Johnson www.vtpoet.com 2 – Senior Tennis 2008

The New England Senior Tennis Foundation salutes Bud Collins, a New England legend 2 – Senior Tennis 2008 Irving Levine, Founder

The New England Senior Tennis Foundation salutes Bud Collins, a New England legend Irving Levine, Founder Bud …

When Karen Hantze and I won the Ladies Doubles at Wimbledon in 1961 – my first Wimbledon title – we were unable to attend the Bud … Champions’ Ball because neither one of us could afford a dress to When Karen Hantze and I won the wear. We only had $3 in our Ladies Doubles at Wimbledon in pockets! But, the evening turned 1961 – my first Wimbledon title – into an especially memorable one we were unable to attendbecause the Bud Collins was kind enough to invite us to dinner to Champions’ Ball becausecelebrate neither our win. It was an extraordinary evening and the one of us could afford a beginningdress to of an enduring friendship. wear. We only had $3 in our pockets! But, the evening turned into an especially memorableI first one met Bud at Essex County Club. I was only a teenager because Bud Collins was kind enough to invite us tobut dinner I knew to immediately he was important to tennis. While celebrate our win. It was an extraordinary evening andmost the people know Bud for his work in journalism, it is beginning of an enduring friendship. important to recognize his accomplishments as a player, coach, and author and for everything Bud brings to each of us. I first met Bud at Essex County Club. I was only a Histeenager genuine love of the sport of tennis, especially his love of but I knew immediately he was important to tennis. the While game 's history, helps make him the exceptional, colorful, most people know Bud for his work in journalism, it is original soul that he is. important to recognize his accomplishments as a player, coach, and author and for everything Bud brings to each of us. His genuine love of the sport of tennis, especially hisBud love Collins of is one of the best things to happen to tennis, and I the game's history, helps make him the exceptional,am colorful, honored to call him my original soul that he is. friend.

Bud Collins is one of the best things to happen to tennis, and I am honored to call him my friend.

Billie Jean King October 4, 2007

Billie Jean King October 4, 2007 18 – Fall 2016 Arthur Worth “Bud” Collins, Jr. Boston Globe Columnist - NBC Commentator website: BudCollinsTennis.com Bud Collins became a sportswriter in Boston in 1955. In 1963, he stumbled onto another form of pleasant retirement called television, and so combining scribbling and babbling.

Here are some particulars: Born: Lima, Ohio Raised: Berea, Ohio Undergraduate Degree: Baldwin-Wallace College Graduate Study: Boston University Military Service: U.S. Army Corporal Married: Anita Ruthling Klausse

Commentary Experience NBC - Sports Commentator: 1964 and 1972 to present PBS- Sports Commentator: 1963-1988 ABC Australia- Sports Commentator- 1996 to present The Tennis Channel- 2004 to present Has also commentated at various times for: CBS, ESPN, USA, CBN, MSG, SKY, HBO, New Zealand TV, Eurosport

Journalism Experience Boston Globe: Sports Columnist 1963-present Boston Globe: Travel Columnist 1977 to 2001 Independent: Sports Columnist, London 1986 - present Boston Herald: Sportswriter 1955-1963 Sports Business Journal: Monthly Columnist 1998- 2002 He has also contributed to such publications as Sports Illustrated, New York Times, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Family Circle, Sunday Times of London, International Herald Tribune, Melbourne Age, Tennis Week, Tennis Magazine, Tennis Life Bud has covered events in a variety of sports on all continents including: The World Series, Olympic Games, Davis Cup competition, Wimbledon, French Open, Australian Open and US Open tennis championships. He has covered the US Open and British Open golf. He covered most of Muhammad Ali’s fights, championship playoff games in football, basketball and ice hockey. He has covered a variety of non-sport stories, ranging from the Vietnam War and national political campaigns to African Safaris and outdoor treks in Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan and New Zealand.

Books Written Coach: collection of essays - 2004 Edited by Andrew Blauner Bud Collins Total Tennis: the Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia- 2003 Bud Collins editor The Best American Sports Stories: 2001edition Bud Collins editor Bud Collins Tennis Encyclopedia- 1997 The Bud Collins Modern Encyclopedia of Tennis- 1993 Fall 2016 – 19

My Life With The Pros- autobiography- 1989 Bud Collins Tennis Encyclopedia- 1977 Evonne -with Evonne Goolagong- 1974 The Education of a Tennis Player- with Rod Laver - 1971

Special Recognition Sportscasters and Sports writers Hall of Fame- April 2002 Red Smith Award- June 1999 Selected by Howard Gottlieb to be included in Boston University’s collection of Twentieth Century Greats.... they will have Bud’s “papers” Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame - July 9, 1994 Winner of Tennis Magazine’s Best Pro-Match Interview Award- 1989 First recipient award of the US Tennis Writer’s Ron Bookman Award Named by Tennis Magazine as both Best Announcer and Best Writer- for 1987 Featured in national publications as Preeminent Tennis Announcer for 1987 in connection with Wimbledon telecasts- New York Newsday, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Sports Illustrated.

Promotional Projects Featured in Mountain Dew commercial with Andre Agassi- airing internationally- 1996-1997 Celebrity Host- MFS Championships- Longwood Cricket Club, Boston 1997 Celebrity Host- Shreve, Crump and Low’s 200th Anniversary and Davis Cup trophy event 1996 Celebrity Guest - Cigna Co. US Open 1996-2003 Celebrity Guest - Pepsi Cola - 1995, 1996, 1997 Celebrity Guest- Northwest Airlines Hall of Fame event- 1996 Celebrity Guest- Colombian Coffee- US Open- Sept. 1995, 96, 97 Host of Media Day - Thriftway A TP Tournament Cincinnati - July 1995 Guest Speaker- Merrill Lynch US Open Dinner, Sept. 1993, 1994 Host of Wellbridge Open House sponsored by Nutrasweet Company Sept 1992 Host of “Bud Collins Hackers Tournament” held annually at the Colony 20th Annivesary in 2006 Beach and Tennis Resort, Longboat Key, FL 1987-present Host of GTE Superbowl Corporate Outing - 1987-1992 Host of Easter Bowl telecast- Doral Hotel, Miami, FL 1989, 1992, 1993, 1997 Celebrity Guest Massachusetts Mutual- US Open- 1999,2003,04,05 Celebrity Guest Morgan Stanley - US Open 2003 Celebrity Guest J. P. Morgan Chase Bank 1998-2006

Athletic Highlights US indoor Mixed Doubles Champion with Janet Hopps 1961 French Open Senior Doubles Finalist with Jack Crawford (from Boston) 1975

Acting Psych- serial about psychic detective, Bud was in one episode, May 2006 USA TV /NBC TV Martin Short Show on Broadway, NYC: Fame Becomes Me- Bud was guest on the show August 2006 20 – Fall 2016 Meet the 69-Year-Old Tennis Pro Who Took on A Teenage Star by Tom Perrotta Gail Falkenberg is a pro tennis player with big dreams. She also serves underhand from time to time. And hits a lot of sidespin drop shots. She can’t hit the ball very hard, or run very fast. Her knees are shaky, at best. She doesn’t have a coach, a personal trainer, a dietician or an agent. Falkenberg is 69 years old. The gap between her and, say, Serena Williams is roughly equivalent to the distance from Earth to the Andromeda Galaxy. Perhaps farther. She’s OK with that. “I know I can keep getting better,” she said on Monday. “There’s always something to work on with tennis.” Falkenberg has a long to-do list. On Monday, she played Taylor Townsend, a 19-year-old American who was once the top-ranked junior in the world, in an entry-level pro tournament in Pelham, Ala. They met in the second round of the qualifying tournament, which gives winners a chance to play in the main draw, where Gail Falkenberg lost 6-0, 60 to Taylor budding tennis pros—most of them in their 20s and some in their Townsend teens—go to pile up ranking points. Falkenberg didn’t win a game. Not that she minds. She had fun. She said other players on the circuit have started calling her “The Legend,” which is nice. And besides, The Legend had a very good tournament. On Sunday, Falkenberg won a match, against 22-year-old Rosalyn Small, 6-0, 6-1. “She had a lot of trouble with my spin,” Falkenberg said. “She had trouble with the underhanded serve. She eased up, because she couldn’t hit it hard and keep it in the court. I got her to play my game.” Against Townsend, Falkenberg won 12 points. She had one game point, but couldn’t win it. “Taylor, she was hitting spots like crazy,” Falkenberg said. Falkenberg is self-taught. She played at UCLA as a walk-on, she said, in the 1960s (she said she played basketball there too: “I was better at basketball”). At age 38, Falkenberg decided to try pro tennis. Her most notable victory came at the 1988 Australian Open, when she won a qualifying match (alas, she didn’t qualify for one of the spots in the main tournament). She once played Jennifer Capriati and lost (Capriati, as Falkenberg remembers it, was 13 years old). Then her pro dream met reality. “I was self-funded and I ran out of money, so I had to go back to work,” she said. She coached the men’s and women’s tennis teams at the University of Central Florida in the ’90s. She coached basketball too. Before her victory in Alabama this week, Falkenberg hadn’t won a pro match since 1998. Her defeats tend to be lopsided: 19 double bagels—6-0, 6-0—since November 2011. You’re wondering: How in the name of Billie Jean King is a 69-year-old woman allowed to play in these tournaments and get clobbered over and over again by 20-somethings? Because she has earned it. Last year, Falkenberg won a match in the U.S. Tennis Association’s U.S. Open National Playoffs, where everyday players compete for a spot in the U.S. Open’s qualifying tournament. That gave her 12 ranking points, enough to make her the 329th-ranked American woman on the USTA’s open ranking system. Sure, Falkenberg could give up on these events and play in competitions for people her age. Yes, she would win more matches. She wouldn’t get aced so often, either. But she doesn’t see the fun in that. “I enjoy being around the younger generation,” she said. “And my game gives the kids more trouble than the older players, believe it or not.” So what does Falkenberg want out of all this? It’s simple. “I’d love to be playing—and win—at 70,” she said. “I’m six months away from that.” Fall 2016 – 21 Novak Djokovic and the Art of Hitting Deep The world’s No. 1 has become a master of a deadly skill: giving other players less time to react by Tom Perrotta Melbourne, Australia Novak Djokovic can do anything on a tennis court. His strokes are compact and biomechanically perfect. His serve, an occasional liability in the past, has become formidable. He can run for hours, slide on hard courts like a slalom skier and feather drop shots and lobs. The guy has even cleaned up his one awkward shot, an overhead that used to be messy but is now smooth and reliable. That’s a lot of skills for one tennis player, and a fine explanation for Djokovic’s dominance. He has reached 17 consecutive tournament finals and five straight Grand Slam finals, including Sunday’s Australian Open final. (Djokovic, who won this title last year, will face Andy Murray on Sunday evening here.) There’s something subtle, though, that gives Djokovic an even bigger edge, an often unnoticed tactic that he executes better than anyone in tennis. The sweet science of Novak Djokovic can be summed up in four words: hit the ball deep. The importance of depth is drilled into every young tennis player ad infinitum.The theory is simple. A ball that lands close to the baseline can prevent opponents from attacking and hitting sharp angles. A deep ball can make opponents rush and miss. A deep ball can cause opponents to hit a short ball, which subsequently can be crushed for a winner. All of the world’s best players aspire to depth. But none of them have mastered it quite like Djokovic, especially on the return of serve. “He’s got the best return of serve in the game,” said tennis legend Rod Laver, who has been admiring Djokovic in Melbourne this year. “If he doesn’t miss and pushes it back at the baseline all the time, when do you get a chance to penetrate?” At the request of The Wall Street Journal, Tennis Australia’s analytics team crunched data from the Hawk-Eye line calling system for 12 Djokovic matches in Melbourne, including his seven last year and his first five this year (through the quarterfinals). Of the serve returns Djokovic hit in play, 50% landed in the back two-thirds of the court between his opponent’s service line and baseline, compared with 44.5% for his opponents. Murray hit 43.5% of his returns to that depth over the same stretch of matches. Djokovic hit 21.5% of his returns to the deepest third of the backcourt, closest to the baseline, compared with 16% for his opponents and 15% for Murray. Hitting deep serve returns has an obvious risk: Djokovic could miss long. He reduces this risk, in part, by often hitting over the middle of the net, which is lower, to the middle of the court, right at his opponent’s feet. In the 12 matches analyzed by Tennis Australia, Djokovic hit 17.5% of his returns in the middle of the deepest third of the backcourt. His opponents hit that spot with 13% of their returns. Murray’s rate was 11.5%. Djokovic also gives his opponents less time to react to the deeper returns that he hits. He makes contact with his serve returns an average of 20 inches closer to the net than his opponents do. He also hits them, on average, 6 inches lower and 4 miles an hour faster than his opponents (66 mph compared 22 – Fall 2016

with 62 mph). His serve returns land more than 14 inches deeper in the court than his opponent’s and bounce off the court about 3 miles an hour faster. In sum: Djokovic hits his serve returns earlier, lower, harder and deeper, and they bounce with more speed. That means when Djokovic’s opponents serve, they have 5% less time to hit their second shot than Djokovic does after he serves a ball, according to Tennis Australia’s analytics. A perfect example came in Thursday’s semifinal match against Roger Federer. Djokovic won the first two sets 6-1, 6-2 in 54 minutes. When Federer served at 1-3, 15-40 in the second set, Djokovic belted a forehand return within inches of the baseline. Federer was still moving forward, his service motion barely complete, when the ball arrived. Federer only had time to flick at the ball with a defensive half- volley swing. The ball flew into the net. Djokovic seemed to have more time to hit his shots than Federer did, and that was no illusion. This is the essence of Djokovic’s game. By hitting the ball early and deep, he makes his opponents rush and hit less effective shots, or even miss. This gives Djokovic more time to move, set up and do another thing that he does better than his foes: paint lines. Djokovic hit 3.4% of his groundstrokes within a foot of the baseline or sidelines, according to Tennis Australia’s analysis of the same 12 matches. His opponents hit 2.4%. Over the same number of matches, Andy Murray was no better than the average Djokovic opponent at hitting the ball close to the lines (also 2.4%). Djokovic and Murray have played each other 30 times, with Djokovic winning 21 and 10 of the last 11. This will be Djokovic’s sixth Australian Open final and Murray’s fifth. Murray has never won a title here and lost to Djokovic in three of his finals. Djokovic has never lost anAustralian Open final. “He does everything so well, his consistency is incredible,” said Amélie Mauresmo, Murray’s coach. “It’s obviously right now the biggest task in tennis to beat him.” Fall 2016 – 23 A New England Senior Player Tries Out the Nationals D. Robbins Tien, M.D. of Barrington, Rhode Island, has been a top New England senior for over a decade having achieved No. 1 rankings in the 50s, 55s and Father-&-Son divisions multiple times as well as turning in memorable wins as a member of New England’s Atlantic Coast Cup teams. At last check he also holds the record for individual wins at the New England Senior Slams with nine titles and counting. He sat down with Bulletin Editor Dick Ernst to talk about a year trying his game at the national level. Editor: Robbins, how did you happen to decide to play the national events? Tien: Almost by chance. I turned 60 in 2015 and made a last minute decision to enter the National Category II Hard Court tournament at Yale that June. I had a good tournament--taking it with wins over my long-time nemesis, Wade Frame, in the semis, and another very tough player, Gary Jenkins, in the finals. It was a crazy tournament. Unseeded, I had to upset nationally ranked and third seed John Titcomb in the first round, and then a talented shotmaker, Peter Ogilvy in the quarters. The day of the semis I had to pick up my daughter from school in Philadelphia in the morning, then speedily drive four hours to Yale to play top seeded Wade. Always gracious and a great sportsman, Wade and the umpire didn’t default me though I arrived 20 minutes late. Wade didn’t play a good match by his standards, often missing his lethal forehand. When I play Wade I always feel the match is on his racquet. If he makes 23 forehand winners, he wins; 19, then I have a chance. Gary, the second seed, was a different match. We both tend to be grinders and counterpunchers, so it’s more a war of attrition. Despite starting to cramp and Gary coming back from 5-2 down in the second set, I held on to win, 6-4, 6-4. Anyhow, winning the Cat II caused me to think about trying the National Category I tournaments. Editor: The first one you played, the National 60 Grass Court, surprised me since I wouldn’t think grass would suit your game. Tien: Location and timing are important in tennis and life. The Grass Court National was in early September; my kids would be back at school, and it was being held in Pontiac, Michigan, close to the University of Michigan where I went to medical school and where I still have friends and a cousin with whom I could stay. Also, a number of Michigan State players from my era who still live nearby entered, so there was some nostalgia as well. I hadn’t seen those guys in 40 years! By the way, the club where the tournament was held is the first grass court club built in North America in 100 years—kind of a tennis “field of dreams.” I spent many years in Michigan, played college tennis there and never saw anything but a hard court. You wouldn’t think Pontiac, Michigan, would be a place for a grass court club, but there it is. The courts are modeled on the Wimbledon grass. That is, they are 100 percent rye grass and play very differently from the more traditional grass courts in the Northeast. They are much firmer with a higher bounce, though the ball does skid through the court. Editor: So how’d it go? Tien: Well, a big difference from New England tournaments besides the number of players (64 in the draw), was how many good players there were. For example, on the warm-up day I first hit withTom Smith who has been a long time top-ranked national player. He hit a topspin backhand, a slice and a flat one at me in succession. Clearly the guy knew how to hit a tennis ball. I also played a practice tiebreaker with Val Wilder who was playing in the 55s and was originally from Massachusetts. He is known for playing Stefan Edberg at Wimbledon and winning all four nationals in the 40s in one year! Another thing about national tournaments is you only play one match per day—a good thing for us seniors. My first match was against a local player and I played very well, winning easily. Up next however was third seed Toby Crabel, a former tour player also in his first year in the 60s, and who had been tearing up the rankings. I checked him out in his first match, and I noticed him watching some of my first match. 24 – Fall 2016

The day was blazing hot and humid with thunderstorms in the forecast. I started out getting to 0-40 on his serve, but he came back from that deficit and won the game. It was going to be a long day. We stayed on serve until 5-5 when I missed an easy forehand at the net to give him break point. He hit a drop volley on break point which I got to, but my lob attempt was a little short and he put it away for the break and then served out the set. The second set was a see-saw. He went up 3-1 with a chance for 4-1, but I pulled it out, and broke back in the next game. Again we reached 5-5, but this time I get the break. On the changeover, a thunderstorm hit and play was stopped with me serving at 6-5. The next four hours were spent hanging around the club house chatting with various players and watching the US Open on TV. Valiant attempts were made to dry the soaked courts. At around 6 p.m. they finally put us back out but Toby thought the courts were too slippery and refused to play. I suggested we finish the next day but Toby also didn’t like the idea of having to possibly play two matches in one day, so we were told we would have to finish indoors. By the time we drove to the indoor club and got a court, it was nearly 8:30 at night! I won the first two points and made the rookie mistake of thinking I’d win the set. He came in on my forehand on the next point and my forehand passing shot went wide by a few inches. I started playing very tight, trying not to lose rather than to win, and of course, lost the next three points and the game. In the tiebreaker the same thing happened and I lost three points in a row after leading 5-4. Game, set and match to Crabel. He went on to the semis where he lost a three-setter to the eventual champion, Chris Bennett, who had won the National Indoor two weeks earlier. More about Chris later. Editor: Next you played the National Clay Courts in New Orleans which took place in early November. Tien: Yeah. One thing I learned at the Grass Courts was that I had to get in better shape. I’ve always been prone to cramping and I did kinda run out of gas there. So a month before the Clay Courts I made myself do 70 sit-ups and push-ups every day in addition to running two miles on my wife’s Nordic Track every three days while playing tennis three time a week. I felt I was in great shape by the time the tournament came around. Unfortunately, I had to work right up until the night before the tournament, and when I arrived at the airport, I was told my flight had been cancelled! American Airlines said they would put me on a flight the next morning. I told them I had a very important appointment at 10 a.m. the next day (namely, my first round match). The agent finally managed to get me on a complicated flight that would arrive New Orleans at 2 a.m. The end result was I didn’t get to sleep until about 4:30 in the morning. My first-round opponent was 5th seed Geoff Cykman, a long-time top national player with multiple national titles and membership on the USTA World Cup teams. He had heard a little about me from Crabel and was a little nervous. After the first game, he predicted that whoever lost our match would win the consolation. Whether it was lack of sleep, nerves or simply a very tough opponent, Geoff gave me a beating, winning 12 of the next 14 games after I had won the first two. He was very fast, seemed to have his volleys trained to hit the lines, and crushed most of my lobs. Game, set and match, Cykman, 6-3, 6-1. However, true to his prediction, I did win the back draw fairly easily, taking the final over fellow New Englander, Gary Jenkins. Cykman ended up losing in the quarters to eventual finalist Tim Garcia in three sets. Clay Courts was a really fun tournament, really well run and loaded with great players like former world #1s Larry Turville, Andrew Rae and Dan Waldman. People said it was the toughest field in memory. Waldman won the 60s without the loss of a set, and Turville did the same in the 65s. Waldman beat Tim Garcia in the final, 6-1, 6-4. Garcia is another former tour player and NCAA semifinalist who lost to none other than John McEnroe in three sets in the NCAA tournament. Another notable player was local legend Mark Meyers, a former All-American at Duke. He rarely plays tournaments but when he does, they say he never loses a set. This time, however, he lost in the quarters to Waldman, 6-3, 6-2. It was the only loss for him anyone could remember. Fall 2016 – 25

There was a great group of New Englanders there. In addition to Gary, there was Paul Shaw, Mas Kimball, Kevin O’Neill, Bill Drake, George Deptula, and Francis McGuirk. It was great to get to know them better, and we enjoyed a number of fine Cajun dinners together on Bourbon Street and elsewhere. New Orleans is a fascinating city with a distinct culture. I got into a nice morning routine of taking one of the famous streetcars down St. Charles Avenue and then walking about a mile to the New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club located in the Garden District, well named because of all the beautiful historic homes in the area. I also had time to see some of the museums like the Ogden Museum of Southern Art where the daughter of an old friend is a curator, and the Museum of the Confederacy. I highly recommend playing the Clay Courts--a great excuse to visit “Naw-lins.” Editor: Back to the tennis. Now that you’re a veteran, what have you learned? Tien: Well, first I realized after playing two of the top seeds in round 1 or 2 of my first two nationals, that it’s important to be seeded to increase your chances of going deep in these tournaments. Like a lot of players, I tend to be nervous in my first- round matches and start to play better as a tournament progresses. That was certainly the case at the Clay Courts where I played better with each match. Editor: Next up was the National Hard Courts in Palm Springs. How did you prepare for that? Tien: Like I was saying, I didn’t want to get one of the top players right off, so I planned to play another Cat. II to boost my rankings so I would get seeded for the Hard Courts. I picked the Raymond James Super Category II in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the end of February of 2016. This would also give me a chance to get in shape before the Hard Courts which were going to take place at the beginning of April. You can see the strategic planning here! I had gotten some recognition for my performances at the Grass and Clay Courts, so I did get seeded 9th at the Raymond James. I also made sure I got there a day early to get used to the Har-Tru courts and climate since it was winter in Rhode Island and I had only been playing indoors. There was a group of New Englanders there as well including Laury Hammel, George Deptula, Gary Jenkins, John Mayotte and Kevin O’Neil. We often dined together, practiced together, and supported each other which was a big help. One thing I want to mention is that I witnessed two very rare shots watching Laury Hammel play: namely, a “Hammel” and a “Super Hammel.” Anyone who’s played Laury knows he likes to dropshot. He explained to me a “Hammel” is when his dropshot lands and then bounces back into the net. His “Super Hammel” is when the dropshot lands and then bounces all the way BACK over the net. I can say I witnessed both of these rare tennis events watching Laury win his second-round match. So yes, “Hammels” and “Super Hammels” really do occur in Nature. I won my first two matches pretty comfortably and reached the quarters where my opponent was the top seed and former pro player, Maxime Buyckx originally from Belgium. This was his first year in the 60s and had not lost a match thus far including winning a Super Cat II a month earlier against the legendary Fred Robinson. We had a tremendous match. He came out trying to blow me off the court, but I played very well and shocked him by taking the first set, 6-2.We were playing on the ‘show’ court and at the beginning of the second set, there was an urgent call for a doctor. After no one else responded, I ran off the court to see if I could help since there was apparently no other MD around. A lady in the stands was having a seizure. Fortunately, her husband was there and told me she had simply forgotten to take her anti-seizure medication and that she was OK. I went back out but lost my concentration and dropped the second set, 6-1. In the third set, cramps started in my legs and my right hand. I took a time-out and managed to get to 4-3, but couldn’t even stand up for awhile after that or move my hand to change my grips. Maxime then won the last three games. It was very disappointing since I could have won had the damned cramps not returned. Maxime went on to win the tournament over Fred Robinson in the final without losing another set. In the 65s John Mayotte (brother of former top 10 player Tim Mayotte from Springfield, Mass.) nearly had a career win over former world champion Andrew Rae (playing in the 65s for the first year) but tightened up when he had the match in hand. So I wasn’t the only disappointed New England player. Gary Jenkins also lost to Rae in an earlier round. Now Gary is a very steady player, but the difference in 26 – Fall 2016

his match with Rae was that Gary made perhaps 10-12 unforced errors, while Rae made possibly three. The guy is just phenomenally steady and accurate. Editor: So at the Hard Courts in April 2016 you defeated the number one player in the country, Chris Bennett. That’s a great accomplishment. How’d you do it? Tien: Well, after my Raymond James cramp fest, I realized my conditioning still was not there, so I increased my Nordic Track workouts to a higher level for the three weeks before the Hard Courts. I also hit several times with Justin Di Natale, a former tour player who was working as an assistant coach of the Brown University tennis team. He also tweaked my service motion to get me a little more pop. My biggest problem was juggling my work with the tennis. The Hard Courts started three days before the most important professional conference of the year for my surgical specialty. My office manager thought I was leaving early for the conference, and I was too embarrassed to tell her the truth—that I was going to play a tennis tournament. The tournament was in Palm Springs and my conference was in Vancouver, B.C. (Canada). The draw came out and I was seeded 9th. If I won my first two matches I would play the top seed, Chris Bennett, in the round of 16. I figured I would lose that match and then catch a flight to Vancouver Thursday evening just in time for my conference. My warm-up partner for the first two matches was Toby Crabel, a multi-millionaire who has been putting $10,000 in prize money into each of the 60s Category I tournaments. I had arranged for him to see a colleague in Los Angeles about an eye problem he had, so he was appreciative. Toby is a meticulous guy and warms up with two cans of new balls! Before the round of 16 matches, he politely told me he didn’t want to warm up with me because his opponent was 6’5”, while I’m only 5’6”. Even in warm-ups tennis is a game of inches for some people. I won my first two matches in straight sets setting up the match with Chris.As I mentioned, Chris had won the last two National Category I tournaments he played, beating Sal Castillo at the Grass Courts and Paul Wulf at the Indoors (he didn’t play the Clay). Well, it was one of those days where everything was working right for me; my passing shots were hitting the lines and his shots were missing by inches. I won rather easily, 6-2, 6-4. I had a chance to get a second break in the second set at 4-2, but just missed a shot by an inch. Chris was a real gentleman, and made no excuses. Needless to say, the win got me a lot of attention from the other “contenders.” Maxime Buyckx who likes to speak in Spanish to me, congratulated me on my “gran Victoria.” Geoff Cykman asked me to practice with him, and Fred Robinson introduced me to his wife—I got a lot of respect. In the quarters I had to play another newcomer to the 60s, Doug Ditmer, another former ATP tour player. He had beaten Crabel twice earlier in the year and had been destroying all his other opponents-- often 6-0, 6-0. I started out strong winning the first two games, but then nothing seemed to work. Ditmer is about 6’5” and in great shape. He reportedly can still serve at 115-120 mph. I thought he would serve and volley a lot and attack all the time, but he played me very smart and was content to rally with me until he had a good opportunity for a winner. Despite many chances to win other games, I kept losing the big points and lost, 2 and 1. He was just too good for me that day. That’s tennis--great win one day, bad loss the next. Crabel ended up beating Ditmer in three sets in one semi and Buyckx beat Robinson in the other. Buyckx ended up winning the tournament over Crabel in three sets. I made it to my conference, just a day late. All in all, it’s been a great tennis experience, a chance to test oneself against some very good players. All the tournaments have their idiosyncrasies. You have the Grass in a brand new club in the Midwest, the Clay in an old established club in funky New Orleans, and the Hard Courts in Palm Springs in the hot, dry desert. Each place (like each surface) is different. To do well takes planning and preparation. The experienced players know this and show up ready. Fall 2016 – 27

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The New England Senior Tennis Foundation is soliciting proposals for programs which will support and promote the goals of the Foundation which Grant Policy / Discussion are: to promote tennis among senior adults (45 and older for men and 40 and older for women) in New England and, by instruction and education through the operation of clinics, programs and competitive events, to enhance their physical and mental well-being and thereby their quality of life. The Board of Directors of the Foundation will award a grant of up to $500 to an individual Our policy, as stated in our program grant request, is to “pro- or organization that submits a proposal that is consistent with the above goals. mote tennis among seniors in New England and by instruc- The deadline for submission is February 28, 2017. The program can be run tion and education through the operation of clinics, programs any time in 2017. If you have any questions on your idea for a program and competitive events, to enhance their phsycial and mental you may call George Ulrich at 860-443-2098. Please consider submitting a well being and thereby their quality of life.” proposal using the attached form. This is a good general statement but in the review of grant requests other considerations arise. We are guided by the fol- NEW ENGLAND SENIOR TENNIS lowing: FOUNDATION, INC. Grant requests, where appropriate, are considered as seed PROGRAM GRANT REQUEST money only, and that after a short period of time, grantees should become self-supporting. Description of Program: ______We have been following a policy of partial funding, ______and require grantees to tap other sources including partici- ______pants.

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Date(s) Program will be run:______Mail to:______Geographic Location of Program:______George Ulrich Number of Seniors Expected to Participate in Program:______New England Senior Tennis Foundation, Inc. 6 Shore Rd ______Waterford, CT 06385 Goals and Objectives of Program:______Tel. 860-443-2098 Fax 860-437-3175 ______e-mail: [email protected] Contact Person for Program: Name______Address______

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2000: Nathaniel (Nat) Niles, Percy C. Rogers, Theodora Shepherd,Ferdi Taygan, Clark R. Taylor, Mary (Mollie) Yeaton 2001: Justine Butler, Walter E. Elcock, Hobart & Virginia Holly, Michael E. Leach, Nicholas B. (Chick) Sharry, Irving C. Wright 2002: Alfred H. Chapin, Jr., Bill Drake, John M. Huber, Leo F. Power, Jr., Helen Pedersen Rihbany, Sheila Weinstock 2003: Stephen S. Armstrong, Jack Lynch, Carol L. Newsom, Beth Norton-Keibler, Bud Schultz, Edward J. Serues 2004: Paul Gerken, Laury Hammel, William S. Packer , Norma P. Taylor , Wadleigh W. Woods 2005: Dick Ernst, Dorothy Bruno Hills, Phil Kadesch, John T. Moter, Sally B. Utiger, Elizabeth Freeman Young 2006: Russ Adams, Alan Chandronnait, Andrea Voikos Dorr, Robert E. Leach, Ann Rogan, Kay Ruel 2007: Jack Dunmead, Molly Hahn, Harvey Harrison, Richard Heath, Charles (Whitey) Joslin, Gordon Steele 2008: Lee Hall Delfausse, Judy Dixon, Richard Morse, Samuel V. Schoonmaker, III, Ralph E. Stuart, Jr., Gerald Slobin 2009: Peter R. Allen, Jules A. Cohen, Avis R. Murray, Jean Osachuk, Aileen Smith Eleey 2010: Pam Hobbs Atkinson, William (Bill) Hart, Al Rogan 2011: Jason Biggs, Errol Coard, Diane Hoffman, Al Rogers 2012: Dorothy (Dolly) Snow Bicknell, Neil Chase, Lynn Miller, Henery (Sonny) Paige, Paul C. Young 2013: Edward "Ned" Eames, Dorcas R. Miller, Larry Rice, Judith Alper Smith 2014: Doug Crawford, David R. Fish, Elizabeth B. Walsh 2015: Gordie Ernst, Keith Jennings, Richard Mount

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