The Tennessee Tennis Hall of Fame is an organization created in 1992[ 1] under the authority of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) which is the national governing body for tennis in the United States .[ 2] Tennessee is one of the nine states in the USTA's Southern Division,[ 3] functioning as the "Tennessee Tennis Patrons Foundation" established in 1988. The latter is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation governed by an eight-member volunteer board which is responsible for choosing the state's hall of fame inductees.[ 4] As of 2022, it includes 82 honorees including five-time U.S. Davis Cup member Roscoe Tanner [ 5] and Great Britain Davis Cup team member Derrick Barton who moved to Tennessee to coach.[ 6]
Tennessee Tennis Hall of Fame members
1992 — Lacy Roe Campbell
1992 — Eldon Roark
1992 — Pollard Parsons
1992 — Reese Patterson
1992 — Stanley Ford
1992 — Tommy Bartlett
1992 — Joe C. Davis Jr.
1992 — Alex Guerry
1993 — Jeanne Jenkins
1993 — Les Jenkins
1993 — Tommy Warren K. “Bopper” Clark
1993 — John P. "Jack" Murphy
1993 — Zan Guerry [ 7]
1993 — Jane Crofford
1993 — Alexander Wellford Sr.
1993 — Elizabeth Virginia "Eaddy" Dameron
1994 — Joe Garcia Jr.
1994 — Roscoe Tanner [ 5]
1994 — Nelle Molly
1996 — Tommy Buford
1996 — Frank Willett
1996 — John "Yo" Strang
1996 — Peter van Lingen [ 8]
1996 — John Patton Guerry
1997 — Bonnie Dondeville-Farley
1999 — Howard Z. Blum
1999 — Derrick Barton [ 6]
1999 — Brownlee Curry Jr.
1999 — Thay Butchee
2001 — Phil Chamberlain
2001 — Tommy Mozur
2001 — Marilyn Voges Brown
2001 — Bob Helton
2003 — Mike DePalmer Sr.
2003 — Bill Tym [ 9]
2003 — DeWayne McCamish
2005 — John Beebe Nixon
2005 — Dave Mullins
2005 — Martha Anne Ferriss Parker
2005 — George McIntosh
2005 — W. R. “Rogers” McCall
2005 — Kay McDaniel [ 10]
2005 — Louise George|[ 1]
2006 — Candy Reynolds
2007 — Stephen Lang Jr.
2007 — William A. “Billy” Pike
2007 — Anne Hutcheson Price
2007 — Wesley Cash
2007 — Peggy Winningham
2007 — G. Turner Howard III
2007 — Caroline Haynes
2008 — Sue T. Bartlett
2008 — Ben Testerman
2009 — Jenny Settle
2009 — Darrell McDonald
2009 — Allen Morgan Jr.
2010 — Susan Hill Whitson
2010 — Elizabeth Sharp Henderson
2011 — Dana Royal Forsyth
2011 — Kapner "Cappie" Clark Boles
2012 — Fran Chandler
2012 — Pat Guerry
2013 — William T. Mathes
2013 — Alice Luthy Tym
2015 — William Dunavant Jr.
2016 — Phyllis Taylor
2016 — Eric Voges
2017 — Ned Caswell
2017 — Chris Woodruff
2018 — Cindy Kemp Battle
2019 — Pem Guerry
2019 — Sue McCulloch Webb
2019 — Keith West
2019 — Mike Hurley
2020 — Carla Brangenberg
2020 — Chris Brown
2021 — John Kreis
— Charlie Willis
— Percy Green
— Clyde McCambell
— Jane Taylor
— Nathan Thorpe
References
^ a b "State Tennis Hall of Fame selects George" . The Commercial Appeal (February 3, 2005): D–2. February 3, 2005. Retrieved January 3, 2023 .
^ "United States Tennis Association" . usta.com . Retrieved January 3, 2023 .
^ "USTA Southern" . usta.com . Retrieved January 4, 2023 .
^ "Tennessee Tennis Hall of Fame" . tntennishofstg.wpengine.com . Tennessee Tennis Patrons Foundation. Retrieved January 3, 2023 .
^ a b "Tennis News/Roscoe Tanner" . The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (November 18, 1994): D–2. November 18, 1994. Retrieved January 4, 2023 .
^ a b Maum, Emmitt (November 12, 1987). "Tennis is lifetime career for Derrick Barton" . 148:451 . The Commercial Appeal. p. E–15. Retrieved January 7, 2023 .
^ Wiedmer, Mark (May 18, 2012). "Wiedmer: Guerry, Gilbert finally in" . Chattanooga Times Free Press . Retrieved 20 January 2016 .
^ "Many Standouts In Pisgah Meet" . Lexington Herald-Leader . July 25, 1971.
^ Power, Ted (July 29, 1986). "Discipline tough Tym's first lesson" . The Tennessean .
^ "Victim List Adds Pecci" . Washington Post . June 30, 1979.
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