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Dec/16

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Ex Basketball pro Wilbert Jones loves tennis

Photo of Wil Jones While watching Christian Harrison and Peter Polansky train at IMG Academy during the Eddie Herr tournament a couple of weeks ago, a rather tall black man stood next to me also observing the two pros work on training drills with coach Pat Harrison. After a few minutes of tennis chat, I discovered it was Wilbert (Wil) Jones, who was in town playing a Super Senior tournament on Longboat Key. Jones was a professional basketball player in the ABA and NBA from 1969-1978. Today at 69 he's an accomplished senior tennis player, good enough to win rounds in both singles and doubles against the best 65 and over tennis players in the nation. Continue to read full article...

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