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	Jack Kramer (tennis Player)
		Tall and slim, he was the first world-class player to play a consistent serve-and-volley game, in which he came to the net behind all of his serves, including the second serve.
		Kramer was the son of a blue-collar railroad worker for the Union Pacific railroad.
		Kramer commuted many hours each day from his new home in Montebello to play at the LATC and the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, sometimes with such great adult players as Vines and Bill Tilden.
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	Jack Kramer (tennis player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The World No. 1 player for a number of years, he is a possible candidate for the title of the greatest tennis player of all time.
		Kramer was the son of a blue-collar railroad worker for the Union Pacific railroad.
		Kramer commuted many hours each day from his new home in Montebello to play at the LATC and the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, sometimes with such great adult players as Vines and Bill Tilden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Kramer_(tennis_player) (519 words)

	12 Tennis Legends - MSN Encarta
		Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen of France, who in the 1920s became one of the first tennis players to turn professional, was also famous for her revealing apparel, which exposed her forearms and calves.
		She is the only player to win the grand slam in doubles (1963) and singles (1970) play.
		Australian tennis player Rod Laver is the one and only athlete to win the grand slam of tennis (Wimbledon, and the French, Australian, and U.S. Open titles) twice; he won as an amateur in 1962 and as a professional in 1969.
	encarta.msn.com /list_tennis/12_Tennis_Legends.html (558 words)

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	tennis
		Players attempt to hit a tennis ball with a tennis racquet such that it bounces in the opposition's side of the court and the opposition is unable to return it.
		A tennis player usually has several types of swinging shots at his or her disposal: the forehand, backhand, volley, overhead smash, slice, drop shot, and lob.
		When a player serves the ball to the other player at the beginning of each point, he or she will use either a flat, top-spin, or slice serve.
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	History - SAP Open Tennis
		Tennis' king during that time was "Big Bill" Tilden, a player still considered one of the greatest ever.
		Jack Kramer has accomplished so much in so many areas - crusader for Open tennis, pro tour director, tournament director, club owner, Wilson Sporting Goods icon - that it's tempting to forget how effective he was as a player.
		Tennis comes so smoothly to Pete Sampras that it's hard to believe he's put in so much work to become the greatest player in tennis history.
	www.sapopentennis.com /history/index.asp (2898 words)

	Tennis - Gurupedia
		Tennis is played on a 78' x 27' (78' x 36' for doubles) court, which is divided in the middle by a net, such as that each side measures 39' in length.
		Players attempt to hit a tennis ball with a tennis racquet such that it bounces in the opposition's side of the court and the opposition is unable to return it.
		A tennis player usually has several types of swinging shots at his or her disposal: the forehand, backhand, volley, overhead smash, slice, drop shot, and lob.
	www.gurupedia.com /t/te/tennis.htm (1613 words)

	John Albert Kramer, 1968 Enshrinee: International Tennis Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Kramer, who'd had a bout with food poisoning, laughed later, "If I could've kept that ball in play I might have been a champ on a default." Hunt was killed 17 months afterwards in a military plane crash.
		Kramer knocked Riggs off the summit by winning their odyssey of one-nighters throughout the U.S., which was the test of professional supremacy of that day.
		In 1952 Kramer assumed the position of Promoter himself, the boss of pro tennis, a role he would hold for over a decade, well past his playing days Kramer's last tour as a principal was against the first man he recruited, Frank Sedgman, the Aussie who was tops among amateurs.
	www.tennisfame.org /enshrinees/jack_kramer.html (1073 words)

	Tennis Week
		I got Jack Kramer at the twilight of his career and he was certainly one of the most talented players I ever saw.
		Tennis Week: There's a photo of you in Bud Collins' Total Tennis taken in 1955, the year you produced one of the greatest seasons in history and swept the final three Grand Slams of the season.
		Players have gone more western and with the larger-faced racquet you can hit harder and with more spin because you have more racquet face and string surface to work with.
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		Tennis TENNIS [Tennis] or Tinnis, medieval city of Egypt, on an island in Lake Manzala, southwest of modern Port Said.
		Tennis, founded when Tanis was abandoned, was a port and center of commerce of some importance.
		Kramer, Jack KRAMER, JACK [Kramer, Jack] (John Albert Kramer), 1921-, American tennis player, b.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jack Kramer (tennis)
		John Albert Kramer (born August 1, 1921, in Las Vegas, Nevada), and was a champion U.S. tennis player of the 1940s.
		A World No. 1 player for a number of years, he is a possible candidate for the title of the greatest tennis player of all time.
		Kramer attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and played on the tennis team there for at least the 1941 and 1942 seasons.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Jack_Kramer_(tennis_player) (513 words)

	ESPN.com: TENNIS - Long friendship between tennis champs endures
		Jack Kramer defeated Tom Brown Jr., 9-7, 6-3, 6-0, in the final of the men's U.S. National Tennis Championships at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, N.Y., in 1946.
		Kramer, whose name appeared on 30 million Wilson tennis rackets, is arguably the most influential man in tennis history, making his impact on the game as a player, promoter, co-founder of the ATP and TV commentator.
		Kramer was the best player in the world, amateur and pro, from 1946 until he quit in 1953.
	espn.go.com /tennis/s/2002/1211/1475362.html (942 words)

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		Kramer, who'd had a bout with food poisoning, laughed later, "If I could've kept that ball in play I might have been a champ on a default." Hunt was killed 17 months afterwards in a military plane crash.
		Kramer lost the first two sets, and was in danger of losing out on a lucrative professional contract as well as his championship.
		Kramer knocked Riggs off the summit by winning their odyssey of one-nighters throughout the U.S., which was the test of professional supremacy of that day.
	www.woodtennis.com /kramer (1445 words)

	SI.com - Tennis - Notebook: Kramer, Court, McEnroe, Graf honored - Sunday September 12, 2004 6:20PM
		NEW YORK (AP) -- Jack Kramer, arguably the most influential man in tennis history, and Margaret Smith Court, winner of a record 24 Grand Slam singles titles, were inducted Sunday into the U.S. Open Court of Champions along with John McEnroe and Steffi Graf.
		Kramer, the U.S. singles champion in 1946 and 1947 and a pioneer of pro tennis, looked fit and sounded sharp-witted as ever at 83 as he assessed the state of the sport he helped develop from an era when players received no prize money and had to pay their own way to tournaments.
		Kramer, whose signature wooden racket was used by generations of players and made him wealthy, said he keeps up with the game on television and has been impressed by the depth of talent.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/tennis/specials/us_open/2004/09/12/sunday.notebook.ap/index.html (812 words)

	ESPN.com - Kramer and Schroeder made an imprint on tennis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Kramer gave his buddy another scare five months later when he busted the same leg, taking a misstep while hailing a cab after a dinner before another grandson's graduation from Texas Christian University.
		Kramer, whose name appeared on 30 million Wilson tennis rackets, is arguably the most influential man in tennis history, making his impact on the game as a player, promoter, co-founder of the ATP and TV commentator.
		Kramer was the best player in the world, amateur and pro, from 1946 until he quit in 1953.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1475362&type=story (935 words)

	Kramer Jack - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Kramer, Jack (1921- ), American tennis player and promoter, an outstanding player in the 1940s and 1950s.
		During the next decade American players such as Pancho Gonzales and Jack Kramer continued their successful play.
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	Tennis \| St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
		The word tennis is derived from the French word "tenez," meaning "to hold." Certainly the French greatly enjoyed the game, and by the sixteenth century up to 2,000 Jeu-de-Paume (the name for the ball) courts had been built in France, and it is thought that every western European country had courts at the time.
		Perhaps until the nineteenth century, tennis courts were walled, and the exact rules of the game may have differed from country to country, perhaps even court to court.
		Tennis in the twentieth century is highlighted by a litany of great players from different eras.
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	AllRefer.com - Jack Kramer (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Jack Kramer (John Albert Kramer), 1921–;, American tennis player, b.
		Kramer and Frederick (Ted) Schroeder won the U.S. national doubles championship in 1940 and again in 1941.
		While serving (1942–46) in the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II, Kramer continued to play tournament tennis, and in 1943 (with Frank Parker) he again won the national doubles title.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/E-Kramer-J.html (249 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Kramer cited as WWII hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Kramer, 82, said he had wanted to become an aviator, but it was found that the vision in his left eye was flawed.
		On tennis courts, his vision was keen enough that he claimed 10 major championships and became tennis' dominant player during the 1940s.
		When Kramer graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., in a class of about 400, he was selected to carry the flag.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20040124-9999_1s24kramer.html (226 words)

	Ed Atkinson - Don Budge Sample
		J. Donald Budge: the hero of every tennis player who ever saw him play, and a man whose backhand is considered the greatest shot in the history of the game.
		Jack Kramer is on record as saying Budge was the best tennis player he ever saw play the game.
		Budge's backhand is still considered one of the greatest shots in the history of tennis.
	www.tennisplayer.net /public/champions/Ed_Atkinson_Don_Budge_samplearticle.html (381 words)

	Jack Kramer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Tennis great Jack Kramer was born in Las Vegas.
		An outstanding player even in high school he won the U.S. National Doubles with Ted Schroeder in 1940 and 1941.
		He turned professional in 1947 and won the Professional Singles in 1948, the World Professional Singles in 1949 and the World Professional Doubles with Bobby Riggs in 1949.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/faqs/jackkramer.html (158 words)

	Jack Kramer: excerpts from The Game: QuickSports Tennis.
		Kramer missed Forest Hills in 1942 with appendicitis, and was suffering from food poisoning when he lost in the 1943 final.
		During Wimbledon in 1966, Kramer was doing radio commentary for the BBC when Wimbledon's working chairman Herman David came to the broadcast booth and talked to Kramer and BBC tennis exec Bryan Cowgill to discuss the possibility of making the tournament "open" to both amateurs and pros.
		Kramer helped the BBC organize the first open tournament, which was held at the West Hunts Club in Bournemouth, beginning on April 22, 1968.
	tennis.quickfound.net /history/jack_kramer.html (4562 words)

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		Even while Kramer was still considered King of the Court by the sportswriters and the public in 1951, the year after Gonzalez’s disastrous loss to Kramer on his maiden pro tour, Gonzalez was not only beating Kramer regularly but dominating him.
		The next "world’s greatest tennis player" who fell haplessly into the clutches of the King was Ken Rosewall, the player whom Laver would consider twice as good as Lew Hoad and convince him he would have to learn to play tennis all over again.
		Tennis great Don Budge is said to have remarked that Gonzalez is, "the greatest play-er never to have won Wimbledon." In an earlier interview with Budge, Julius Heldman says: "For decades players argued the relative merits of Tilden and Budge when discuss-ing the never-ending question of the greatest player of all time.
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	britishtennis.com - History Of Tennis
		She is the youngest player to win a singles event at the age of only 15 years and 285 days.
		The first tennis player to complete the Grand Slam of all 4 Championships in the same year was the American Don Budge.
		Players earn points depending on how far they go in tournaments and at the end of the season prize money is distributed to those who have accumulatedthe most points.
	www.britishtennis.com /newtotennis/history (1662 words)

	Robert Larimore Riggs "Bobby" - International Tennis Hall of Fame
		Though he had little of the power of Don Budge and Jack Kramer, and though his physique was hardly comparable to that of these six-footers, right-hander Bobby Riggs was one of the smartest, most calculating and resourceful court strategists tennis has seen, particularly in his defensive circumventions.
		After losing to Kramer in the final of the U.S. Pro at Forest Hills and regaining the title in 1949 against Budge, Riggs began to taper off as a player and tried his hand as a promoter when Gussy Moran and Pauline Betz made their debuts as pros in 1950.
		Years later, in 1973, after fading into virtual obscurity as a senior player who would make a bet on the drop of a hat, Riggs was back, taking on first Margaret Court and then Billie Jean King in mixed singles matches that gave tennis much publicity.
	www.tennisfame.com /famer.aspx?pgID=867&hof_id=200 (691 words)

	tournament articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
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		Aiken, S.C. The son of avid polo players, Tommy Hitchcock played in his first tournament at the age of 13.
		He was an outstanding junior player, ranking number one in 1998, the year he turned pro.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/12987.html (373 words)

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