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    John Albert Kramer (August 1, 1921 – September 12, 2009) was an American tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s, and a pioneer promoter who helped drive the sport towards professionalism at the elite level.

  2. Jack Kramer was an American champion tennis player who became a successful promoter of professional tennis. Kramer was selected to represent the United States in the 1939 Davis Cup doubles against Australia.

  3. Jun 27, 2022 · 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.

  4. Sep 24, 2009 · Jack Kramer, considered by many the finest tennis player ever and the most influential person in the history of the sport, died Saturday night, September 12 at his home in Los Angeles.

  5. Sep 17, 2014 · 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.

  6. 15-year-old Kramer won the National Boys Championship. American tennis great Jack Kramer was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1968.

  7. Sep 14, 2009 · Jack Kramer, the Wimbledon and two-time United States singles champion whose promotion of the professional tennis tour in the 1950s led the way toward the sport’s Open era, died Saturday in Los...

  8. Sep 27, 2009 · In ’73, Kramer courageously spat into the prevailing wind and led the most important strike in tennis history. (And thus the tale of being approached that tumultuous summer at London’s snazzy Savoy Hotel by a kindly old English lady who deferentially asked, “Excuse me, sir, are you Jack Kramer?”

  9. Kramer won the US National Singles Championship in 1946 and 1947 and took the singles title at Wimbledon in 1947.

  10. Sep 30, 2010 · John Albert Kramer, better known as Jack Kramer, did more than play a mean game of tennis. He initiated a style of play more reminiscent of the serve and volley of John McEnroe than of Pete ...

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