Talk:U.S. Pro Tennis Championships

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If you have the "History of Professional Tennis" by Joe McCauley you could fill your interrogations (exact scores) : if you haven't it you can order it at http://www.thetennisgallery.co.uk/default.asp and in Ray Bowers Web site you can have some (but not all) answers : http://www.tennisserver.com/lines/lines-archive.html then you choose all the pages with the title beginning as "FORGOTTEN VICTORIES: A History Pro Tennis 1926-1945" or as "History of the Pro Tennis Wars"

Sometimes McCauley and Bowers have contradicting data (Bowers categorically affirms that there were no Wembley tournaments in '36 and '38 while McCauley lists final results)

The 1939 edition was played on CEMENT (Hard) (at the Los Angeles Tennis Club) : I have still in memory the photo (of Vines) and the comment in the article "25 years ago" in a 1964 World Tennis Magazine accounting the 1939 U.S. Pro and detailing what almost all the players earned at this tournament (Vines : $340 in singles + $113 in doubles)

the West Side Tennis Club editions were played at Forest Hills on grass and the first Longwood CC (64 to 68) also on grass and from 69 to 73 played on a hard surface (Uni-turf ? I'm not sure, I've seen it in a Bud Collins article) and the 1950 edition was played on clay according to Kramer who lost to Segura in the semis

the 1942 edition was played at Forest Hills

Carlo Colussi 14:31, 14 December 2006 (UTC)