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to Host Premiere of World Championship Tennis Documentary.jpg) - The world premiere of "WCT: The Road to Open Tennis" will be held at the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum on Saturday, October 11. Tickets are available now on tennisfame.com. - - Hall of Famers Cliff Drysdale, Butch Buchholz, and Mike Davies, who all played a pivotal role in the trailblazing 1960's tennis tour, will attend the premiere and take part in a post-film panel discussion moderated by tennis historian Steve Flink. - NEWPORT, R.I., September 23, 2014 - On Saturday, October 11, the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum will host the world premiere of WCT: The Road to Open Tennis, a documentary film that has been produced about the history of World Championship Tennis, the 1960's tennis tour that significantly accelerated the growth of pro tennis and laid the groundwork for today's pro tours. Video Trailer for WCT: The Road to Open Tennis - The Official Documentary about World Championship Tennis In the 1960's, pro tennis players were faced with numerous challenges in developing viable playing careers- compensation was inadequate, they were ineligible for the biggest tournaments, and it was a challenge to keep fans engaged in a sport that lacked structure. Recognizing the potential to build a dynamic platform on which tennis could thrive as a pro sport, trailblazers Lamar Hunt and Al Hill, Jr. developed World Championship Tennis (WCT), a radical new tour that gave tennis a new professionalism and strength. WCT: The Road to Open Tennis traces the tour's early years of the "The Handsome Eight" through the climactic 1972 championship in Dallas between Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall, which became known as the "greatest match of all time." The five-set battle played out before a packed stadium and a record TV audience of 23 million viewers, signaling to the world that tennis was well on its way to becoming a viable, exciting pro sport. CONTINUE READING |
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