Professional tennis is all about the Grand Slam tournaments, we all know that. Except when it wasn't. For years before the Open Era began in 1968, the best player in the world often wasn't allowed to ...

A year ago, Ellsworth Vines, whose father owns a chain of Pacific coast meat stores, reached the finals of the Sea Bright (N. J.) Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club’s invitation tournament after a series of ...

THERE was a time, not very long ago, when only gentlemen played tennis. The Seabright Invitation, the oldest club tournament in the country, is a memorial to that time. Anyone who saw the pros in ...

There was a gentle sea breeze off the ocean, the sun was warm, and 6,834 open-shirted fans had paid to see the first round of the $10,000 Los Angeles Open. Shortly after noon, Ellsworth Vines shambled ...

This week's Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship will be the 80th big league tournament contested at River Oaks, going back to the teenage Ellsworth Vines' championship in the 1931 ...