Tracy Austin

Verizon TV serves up Tennis Channel (again)

2012-01-17 16:33:28

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Bryan brothers have big charity weekend

2011-10-21 16:33:14

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PASSINGS: Jeanne Austin, Gerald Roush

2010-05-29 00:00:00

Jeanne Austin Mother of tennis champion Tracy Austin Jeanne Austin, 84, the matriarch of a tennis playing family that produced four professional players, including two-time U.S. Open champion Tracy Austin, died Tuesday of heart failure at Torrance...

Jack Kramer dies at 88; champion ushered in era of pro tennis

2009-09-14 00:00:00

Tennis legend Jack Kramer, considered by many the most influential person in the game in the last 60 years, died late Saturday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88. He had been diagnosed in mid-July with soft tissue sarcoma, a cancer of the...

Old-time events help shape all-time greats

2006-03-30 00:00:00

Before they became among the best their sports had ever seen, Pete Sampras and Tiger Woods were Southern California teenagers performing in old, venerable tournaments that had been around since the turn of the 20th century. Before the first Rose Bowl was...

Boys' Tennis: CdM shows it is King

2013-03-06 21:34:00

PALOS VERDES ESTATES — As members of the Corona del Mar High boys' tennis team finished off their nonleague match at Palos Verdes on Wednesday, they naturally were hungry. Palos Verdes parents were grilling burgers near the tennis court. Some of...

Breakers have high hopes

2012-07-09 23:19:00

IRVINE — Lindsay Davenport got to Southern California less than five hours before Monday's Orange County Breakers season opener. The Breakers' marquee player was playing at Wimbledon the day before. She won the ladies' invitational doubles title...

Child stardom, fade to adult

2012-02-21 00:00:00

Tatyana Ali appeared on "Sesame Street" when she was 6 and "Star Search" when she was 7, but nothing prepared her for the day when a school bus pulled up as she was walking down the street. She was 12, a newly minted star of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"...

Scoreboard

2012-01-25 01:05:29

TV SPORTS Men's College Basketball-Penn State at Ohio State, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Villanova at Louisville, 6 p.m. (ESPN); West Virginia at St. John's, 6 p.m. (ESPNU); Missouri at Oklahoma State, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN2); Minnesota at Michigan State, 7:...

2012 Australian Open TV schedule on ESPN2 and Tennis Channel

2012-01-12 16:32:29

Exception made for exceptional

2011-10-05 20:46:58

That 12-day lag time notwithstanding, Mike Whan acknowledges it wasn't a tough call to welcome Lexi Thompson as the LPGA's youngest member in 44 years. The commissioner's pivotal decision actually had come in June, when Thompson was given the green light...

Blagojevich's rambling testimony could help him, experts say

2011-05-26 19:19:00

Won U.S. (tennis) Open in Palos Verdes pigtails but scored her most important victories in charity work.

2011-02-04 17:36:31

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Won U.S. (tennis) Open in Palos Verdes pigtails but scored her most important victories in charity work.

2011-02-04 17:36:31

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The Ingenue: Tracy Austin, at 14 years 28 days old, became the youngest tennis player to win a pro event, in 1977.

2006-03-29 00:30:00