TAG: Boston
From Paul O’Malley… “A tennis friend of mine told me the story of a tennis couple from Quincy, MA was at Longwood and watched Bjorn Borg play. The wife was from Sweden and she approached Borg after the match, which you could easily do in those days. She convinced him to come back to the […] Continue to read full article...
ATP · Bjorn Borg · Boston · Donnay · Fia · Longwood · Quincy MA
Feb/24
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When Billie Jean King Snapped At A Ballboy
11 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Articles, Scoop
We all know tennis can be excruciatingly stressful and tense and even the coolest, most admired legends of the game can have a bad moment of judgement they would later regret. Even Billie Jean King, the pioneer hero and sort of godmother of tennis, was not always an angel on the court in the heat […] Continue to read full article...
Billie Jean King · Boston · International Tennis Hall of Fame · USTA · Virginia Slims · Wimbledon · WTA