PRINTER'S NO. 2000
No. 139 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY McVERRY, JUNE 7, 1989
ADOPTED, JUNE 7, 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 8 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 House of Representatives of the
10 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania congratulate the Tournament
11 Executive Committee and the 1989 tournament sponsor, Cellular
12 One Mobile Phone Company, on the occasion of the 100th
13 Anniversary playing of the USTA National Amateur Clay Court and
14 West Penn Tennis Championships.
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