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☆ ‘Even Jordan doesn’t have his face on a sneaker’: How Stan Smith became both a tennis and fashion icon
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Depending on your age, the name Stan Smith probably means one of two things. Even Jordan doesn’t have his face on a sneaker.”Stan Smith during his victorious 1972 Wimbledon run. The rise in popularity of the Stan Smith sneaker coincided with a slump towards the end of his tennis career and it began permeating a wide array of cultures in the UK and US. “It was one of my goals to win that tournament,” Smith says. Stan Smith, Ilie Năstase and Tom Okker at a meeting of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in London, 20th June 1973.

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☆ Beckham, Guardiola and the Princess of Wales: Welcome to Wimbledon’s Royal Box
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Nick Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

On the upside, you get the best view in the house for the most famous tennis tournament in the world. The Royal Box at Wimbledon is an unending source of fascination for people ostensibly tuning in to watch some top-class sport. Guardiola and Williamson acknowledged the crowd, as is traditional in the Royal Box on middle Saturday. You get drinks on arrival, served on the balcony behind Centre Court, which overlooks some of the smaller courts. The invitation reads: ‘The Chairman and Committee of Management of The Championships request the pleasure of the company of [insert name] & Guest in the Royal Box on [insert date].

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☆ Fifty Years Ago the Men Boycotted Wimbledon. That Changed Everything.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Cindy Shmerler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Stan Smith’s 1972 Wimbledon cup sits alongside his 1971 United States Open winner’s prize in a trophy case inside his Hilton Head Island, S.C., home. “Once you’ve won it you always want to win it again.”But in 1973, Smith decided not to play. Instead, he and 80 other players voted to boycott the tournament just before the first matches in support of the player Nikola Pilic. It was when its members banded together, flexed their muscles and walked out on the most prestigious tournament in tennis, with ramifications that are still being felt today. Among them: greater communication between the players and the tournaments, and wider distribution of prize money at all levels of the pro game.

Persons: Stan Smith’s, Smith, “, ”, John Newcombe, Ilie Nastase, you’ve, Nikola Pilic, Pilic, Billie Jean King Organizations: United, Wimbledon, International Lawn Tennis Federation, Davis, Women’s Tennis Association, Association of Tennis Professionals Locations: Yugoslavia

☆ Ion Ţiriac renunţă la funcţia de preşedinte al Federaţiei Române de Tenis
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-05 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: Getty ImagesIon Ţiriac renunţă la funcţia de preşedinte al Federaţiei Române de TenisFostul tenisman Ion Ţiriac a anunţat, luni, în cadrul unui eveniment organizat la complexul sportiv din Bucureşti care îi poartă numele, că renunţă la funcţia de preşedinte al Federaţiei Române de Tenis, el precizând că noul conducător trebuie să se dedice tenisului 12 ore pe zi. Întrebat cine ar trebui să fie preşedinte în locul său, Ţiriac a răspuns: "Cel mai nimerit. Am dat din viaţa mea 12 ani Federaţiei Române de Tenis şi nu regret. La federaţie ca preşedinte trebuie să te sacrifici, eşti zi de zi acolo. Ion Ţiriac a fost ales, la 19 iunie 2019, în funcţia de preşedinte al Federaţiei Române de Tenis, cu 32 de voturi obţinute la Adunarea Generală Extraordinară de Alegeri a forului naţional.

Persons: Ţiriac, Ion Ţiriac, îşi, Iohannis, Ilie Năstase, Năstase Organizations: Alegeri, MTS Locations: Bucureşti, federaţie

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