Jack Kramer stands at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, N.Y., after defeating Tom Brown for the national championship on Sept. 8, 1946. Seventy-five years ago, Kramer won his first and only ...
In the 1940s and ‘50s, the tennis stars of the world found their gold only on trophy figurines and engraved bowls. Jack Kramer was one of those tennis stars then, and he had a plan to change that.