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"Tennis DeGenerate and Writer"
Male
60 years old
AGAWAM, Massachusetts
United States
Last Login:
6/14/2008
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| General | Politics, History, Philosophy, Science. | | Music | Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Tchaikovsky. | | Movies | Borat, Goodfellas, Rocky, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Citizen Kane, Groundhog Day, Sophie's Choice, Naked Gun, Mississippi Burning, A Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall, Shawshank Redemption, All About Eve, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, On The Waterfront, Airplane, Sunset Boulevard, Bananas, Taxi Driver, Notorious, Pleasantville. | | Television | Book tv, Tennis Channel, Foreign Exchange, HBO Boxing, Meet The Press, Science Channel. | | Books | For tennis books, I've most enjoyed
"Sporting Gentlemen" (scholarly) by E. Digby Baltzell
"Short Circuit" (eye-opening) by Michael Mewshaw
"A Handful of Summers" (hilarious) by Gordon Forbes
"We HAVE Come A Long Way" (important) by Billie Jean King
"Bud Collins Total Tennis" (encyclopedic)
"Covering The Court" (insightful) by Al Laney
"Match Play and the Spin of the Ball" (brilliant) by Bill Tilden
"The Fireside Book of Tennis" (essential)
"Fifty Years of Lawn Tennis in America" (fascinating)
"100 Wimbledon Championships" (eloquent) by John Barrett
"Tennis Styles and Stylists" (educational) by Paul Metzler.
For non-tennis books, my favorites have been
"The Best of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, Poems, Addresses"
"Reconsiderations" by Arnold Toynbee
"Ideas and Opinions" by Albert Einstein
"1984" by George Orwell
"Dissent and Dogma" by Matthew Arnold
"The Terrible Secret" by Walter Laqueur
"On Violence" by Hannah Arendt
"Capital Punishment" by Charles L. Black, Jr.
"Lincoln: Speeches and Writings"
"Of Human Freedom" by Jean-Paul Sartre. | | Heroes | Abraham Lincoln
Mahatma Ghandi |
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Occupation: | Tennis Writer |
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About me:
I'm a tennis degenerate, as Bud Collins would say about someone who loves our great sport, perhaps a bit too much.
I'm a tennis writer, tournament player, USPTA teaching pro and prep school coach, and have been a TV tennis analyst, college tennis referee, New England tournament consultant, local tennis club and tennis council president, founder and director of the Springfield (Mass.) Satellite Tournament, and Cornell University player under renowned coach Eddie Moylan.
As a tennis journalist for 30 years, I've done major interviews with nearly all the great players, including four with Pete Sampras, and with many leading tennis coaches, administrators and authorities. I've covered Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the Davis and Fed Cups, and various other pro tournaments, as well as the Champions Tour, and international junior events, such as the Orange Bowl. My features, interviews, essays, book reviews, tournament previews, and historical retrospectives have been published in 25 countries around the world.
As a tournament player, I peaked at a career-high No. 7 in singles and No. 4 in doubles in the men's open divisions in New England. I've been fortunate to play doubles with former world top-10 player Tim Mayotte (when he was 17!) and his brothers Chris (then 18) and John, plus Phil Kadesch, Bob Kulig, Joe Bouquin, Jim Nichols, Ed Shein, John Hughes, Val Wilder, Bucky Adams and, currently, Andy Erwin. I'm not totally over the hill, as I've won three New England senior singles titles in the past nine months.
I've received 23 writing awards during my career, including Tennis Week's "Journalist of the Year-original submission" award for the my Arthur Ashe interview in 1991 and 1st Prize awards in the 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 United States Tennis Writers Association writing contests.
I've authored three books on tennis: "Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies (2002)," "You Can Quote Me on That: Greatest Tennis Quips, Insights and Zingers (2005)," and "Tennis Confidential II: More of Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies (2008)." I'm pleased to note that they've received excellent magazine reviews and highly favorable customer reviews at Amazon.com and BN.com.
Feel free to check out the three books at www.tennisconfidential.com and www.tennisquotes.com. You can also learn more about them at www.amazon.com/books, which recently has featured "Tennis Confidential II" on its home page. The three books are currently listed No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 among tennis books at Amazon.com.
If you would like to order autographed copies of these books directly from me, please e-mail me at lincjeff1@comcast.net.
Over the years in these diverse roles, I've tried to help tennis reach its vast potential. I've enjoyed the exciting, fascinating and unpredictable journey.
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Who I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet tennis fans and players and officials and media and people in other tennis capacities from all over the world. Let's talk about any facet of tennis.
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