Tom Okker – The 1968 U.S. Open Runner-Up Who Got The First-Prize Paycheck

The 2018 U.S. Open marks the 50th anniversary of the tournament as an “Open” professional tournament, open to pros and amateurs. Arthur Ashe famously won the first edition of this new “Open Era” but as the famous idiom goes “you never remember who finished second.” That year, the runner-up was the great but much lesser [...]

from World Tennis Magazine https://ift.tt/2wc15M5