Tennis News
Tennis News is a news source for the sport of tennis.
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[edit] History
It has been owned and operated for nearly 20 years by Bob Larson and reports daily and hourly on the state of the game, the pro players and the industry. It features no editorial only hard news. Larson spends all day on the phone with tennis industry insiders and packaged up tennis. He also goes to the US Open and Indian Wells Masters where he has a second home every year. At the US Open, Larson has a bench that he sits at all day long bumping into people and getting scoops.
[edit] Other Properties
Daily Tennis is the daily emailed tipsheet that goes out to the tennis industry insiders. Juniortennisnews.com is the main source of tennis news for junior tennis players in the US. College News is an emailed daily newsletter to college coaches and players and tennis celebs is a weekly emailed newsletter highlighting celebrity oriented tennis news.
[edit] Tennis Person of the Year Award
Tennis News awards the tennis industries annual "Person of the Year" Award. The award was started in 2005 and is named The Bellamy after its first recipient Steve Bellamy the founder of The Tennis Channel.
Winners include:
- 2005 - Steve Bellamy - founder of The Tennis Channel
- 2006 - Peter Burwash - founder of PBI International
- 2007 - Arlen Kantarian - former CEO of the USTA
- 2008 - Nick Bolletieri - founder of Bolletieri Academy
After receiving the award, Bellamy promptly left The Tennis Channel to start The Ski Channel.
