World Team Tennis

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World Team Tennis

sports organization

Also known as: WTT

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Billie Jean King
…of a group that founded World TeamTennis (WTT) in 1974. King served as the player-coach of the Philadelphia Freedoms, thus becoming one of the first women to coach professional male athletes. The WTT folded after 1978 because of financial losses, but King revived the competition in 1981. In that same…
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…of a group that founded World TeamTennis (WTT) in 1974. King served as the player-coach of the Philadelphia Freedoms, thus becoming one of the first women to coach professional male athletes. The WTT folded after 1978 because of financial losses, but King revived the competition in 1981. In that same…
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Robert Kraft
…team in Billie Jean King’s World Team Tennis (WTT) league. He bought the Lobsters with several partners in 1975, but the tennis team folded in 1978, when the original WTT disbanded. In 1985 he leased, with an option to buy, a large tract of land in suburban Foxborough, Massachusetts, that…
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…team in Billie Jean King’s World Team Tennis (WTT) league. He bought the Lobsters with several partners in 1975, but the tennis team folded in 1978, when the original WTT disbanded. In 1985 he leased, with an option to buy, a large tract of land in suburban Foxborough, Massachusetts, that…
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