Tag Archives: West Side Tennis Club
Bill Johnston
Bill Johnston (Tennis. Born, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 21, 1894; died, San Francisco, CA, May 1, 1946.) When the U.S. national tennis championship moved to New York in 1915, William M. Johnston was the first to win the men’s singles title at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. Johnston was later to become […]
Slew Hester
Slew Hester (Tennis. Born, Hazlehurst, Mass, May 8, 1912; died, Jackson, Miss., Feb. 8, 1993.) By the time he assumed the U.S. Tennis Association presidency in 1977, William Ewing Hester, Jr., had already set in motion events that were to have a profound effect on tennis around the world, but especially in New York. Hester, […]
Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford (Tennis. Born, Albury, N.S.W., Australia, Mar. 22, 1908; died, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, Sept. 10, 1991.) Australia’s John Herbert Crawford nearly became the first man to score the tennis “grand slam” but lost on the grass of the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills in 1933. Crawford won the Australian, French, and Wimbledon […]
Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors (Tennis. Born, Belleville, IL, Sept. 2, 1952.) Perhaps the player most emblematic of tennis’ transition in the late 1960s and early 1970s from genteel country-club amateurism to noisy professionalism, James Scott Connors won the U.S. Open five times on three surfaces in two venues, but may today be best remembered for an Open […]
