Jack Kramer influenced my tennis life listening to him  commentating on  BBC television in the 1960s

'The All England Club forced the BBC to drop him after 1974, perhaps wrongly holding him responsible for the 1973 players' boycott, a complex affair that began when the International Tennis Federation asked the Grand Slam tournaments to ban Nikki Pili´c for dropping out of a Davis Cup tie for Yugoslavia, and Wimbledon (alone) complied. Kramer had a hand in what happened. He had helped form the Association of Tennis Professionals in 1972 and was its first executive director - and it was the ATP that called the boycott, which the Romanian Ilie Nastase and Britain's Roger Taylor were the only ATP players to break'  ( Guardian)

 

Forward thinking  by the All England Club ,  Mr Richard Evans

 

 

Jack you made one small boy a tennis fan for life,  God Bless you.

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King Arthur USA