PRINTER'S NO. 1403
No. 93 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY FISHER, JUNE 28, 1989
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, JUNE 28, 1989
A RESOLUTION
1 Recognizing the 100th Anniversary playing of the USTA National
2 Amateur Clay Court and West Penn Tennis Championships.
3 WHEREAS, The USTA National Amateur Clay Court and West Penn
4 Tennis Championships will be held in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania,
5 July 10 through 16, 1989; and
6 WHEREAS, This is the 100th Anniversary of these
7 championships; and
8 WHEREAS, The goal of this event in 1989 is fundraising for
9 the Allegheny County Special Olympics; and
10 WHEREAS, This is the longest consecutive running tennis
11 tournament in the United States; and
12 WHEREAS, The site of the tournament, the Tressel Municipal
13 Tennis Center in Mt. Lebanon, was in 1985 named the Outstanding
14 Public Tennis Facility in America by the United States Tennis
15 Association; and
16 WHEREAS, Many previous participants have gone on to become
17 "big name" professionals, such as: Bill Tildon, Roscoe Tanner,
1 Brian Gottfried, Eddie Dibbs, Brad Gilbert, Harold Solomon,
2 Peter Fleming, Vitas Geralitis, Sandy Mayer, Jo Anne Russell,
3 Laura Dupont, Barbara Halquist, Kathy Jordan, Berta McCallum,
4 Kathy Horvath, Susan Mascarin, Gretchen Rush Magers and Carrie
5 Cunningham. Seventy-five percent of all male participants and
6 sixty percent of the female participants who have played in this
7 championship have become major tennis professionals; therefore
8 be it
9 RESOLVED, That the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
10 congratulate the Tournament Executive Committee and the 1989
11 tournament sponsor, Cellular One Mobile Phone Company, on the
12 occasion of the 100th Anniversary playing of the USTA National
13 Amateur Clay Court and West Penn Tennis Championships.
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