WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: The Women of Black Tennis Hall of Fame

INAUGURAL CLASS OF 2008

• Althea Gibson, Pioneer/Player
  

• Lucy Diggs Slowe, Pioneer/Player
  

CLASS OF 2009 

• Ora Washington, Pioneer/Player
  

• Bonnie Logan, Player
  

• Zina Lynn Garrison, Player
  

CLASS OF 2010

• Ann Koger, Player
  

• Leslie Allen, Player
  

CLASS OF 2011

• Isadore Channels (Izzy), Pioneer/Player
  

• Flora Lomax Bray, Pioneer/Player
  

• Lulu Ballard, Pioneer/Player
  

• Lori McNeil, Player
  

CLASS 2012

• Katrina Adams, Player
  

• Margaret "Pete" Peters and   

     Matilda Roumania "Repeat" Peters,

     Player/Pioneers

Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Is Proud To Present Black Tennis Hall of Fame President Robert "Bob" C. Davis As A PTR ACE Hero!

PTR is proud to present Bob Davis as a PTR ACE Hero!

Some of Bob's Achievements:

President & 2014 inductee in the Black Tennis Hall of Fame

National Program Director of the Ashe-Bollettieri Program

 Hosted PTR ACE workshops

Supported several inner-city tennis initiatives including the Panda Foundation. 

 

THE PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE: West Philadelphia Native Frank Adams To Be Inducted Into The Black Tennis Hall Of Fame

 Writer/Credits:  Mr. Donald Hunt / dhunt@phillytrib.com

 

Frank Adams, who grew up playing tennis in West Philadelphia, will be inducted into the Black Tennis Hall of Fame. Adams will be enshrined as a regional legend at the annual induction ceremony for the Classes of 2020 and 2021 July 2-3. The ceremony will take place at the Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center in Dorchester, Mass. 

 

Adams, who was the first African American President of the Colorado Tennis Association, and Intermountain Tennis Association USTA Section, paving the way for Colorado and section leaders. As chair of the Colorado and ITA Minority Participation Committee, he recruited and mentored African Americans to volunteer for the USTA Committees. 

 

Adams knows the value of getting volunteers involved in the game as well as playing tennis on the grassroots level. That’s here his career took off as a player.

 

“I look at it as part of a journey that helped me along,” said Adams, a St. Joseph’s Prep alumnus. “I couldn’t have arrived at this point without all the mentors that helped me out from the times I first started playing tennis.