WRC Viewpoint June 22, 2024
The 9th. Donald, you go way back to the tournaments infancy. How has this thing taken off . Its amazing. Well, we started the tournament in 1969 at the public parks there at 16th and kennedy. Johnny harris and i were cochairman. We ran the tournament for three years. And it started to catch on a little, we got some traction. So we thought it would be different and we gave the tournament and the sanction of the week to the Washington Tennis Foundation which was just starting up as a foundation for tennis for kids. And our concept was very simple. We thought if we could get a lot of interested t...
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