In 1975 Kraft bought his first sports franchise, the Boston Lobsters, a tennis team that featured a young Martina Navratilova.
As a member of the tennis team (0-8 in singles my senior year), I didn't want hockey to hog the athletic department's budget.
Kloss says that after a brief initiation period, the noisier environment of team tennis proves to be a non-issue for players.
It is a remarkable record for a country of approximately 10 million people and with no great tradition in tennis, rather a passion for team sports such as football (Serbia qualified for the 2010 World Cup finals) and basketball.
Your Wilson Pro H22 tennis racquet quickly became a drying rack for your underwear once you found out that the college tennis team was filled with power-hitting recruits from Estonia and the Ukraine who could knock a flash drive off the top of your head with a backhand.
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Luckily there is a fledgling organization, World Team Tennis (WTT), that's at the forefront of bringing the sport completely into the 21st century.
In the U.S., Asian-Americans dominate ping pong, having comprised the entire U.S. Olympic table-tennis team in 2008, a feat they appear poised to repeat this year.
World Team Tennis, which features a mix of young up-and-comers, former big-name pros, and a few current tour players who make time between tournaments, markets itself as a fan-friendly league that wants the crowd involved.
He said he wasn't much of a team sports fan, preferring individual athletics, such as tennis.
The team told him to use "motor" imagery like a tennis match to indicate "yes" and "spatial" imagery like thinking about roaming the streets for a "no".
Because her family isn't here, she's traveling with a team much smaller than her peers, including U.S. Tennis Association coach David Nainkin.
To make matters worse I joined the tennis team, which in my town was socially equivalent to putting on a tutu.
Elsewhere on day 15 of the Games, China's world number one Zhang Yining won back-to-back table tennis golds, after defeating team-mate Wang Nan to hand the hosts a clean sweep of the medals in the women's singles.
The no-ad system is used in King's World Team Tennis competition, and the ATP is experimenting with no lets on serves in Challenger events, a sign that they may bring it to pro events in the future.
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