FUTURE OF TENNIS
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS ? DRIFT FROM AMATEURISM W. T. TILDEN’S PREDICTION (United pre«!« Assn.— Elec. Tel Copyright' (Received Feb. 18, 1i.45 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 17 Mr W. T. Tilden, former tennis ehampion, interviewed, said: “I give amateur tennis five years* life as at present constituted. Open championships between amateurs and professionals are inevitable. All the great players are gradually drifting from amateurism.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 7
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63FUTURE OF TENNIS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 7
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