https://www.invescoseries.com/event-page...ons-cup-2/

Anyone know about this?

(10-03-2018 11:49 AM)cr11owl Wrote:  https://www.invescoseries.com/event-page...ons-cup-2/

Anyone know about this?

I saw the info when it was first announced, but I didn't make specific plans because of the Astros playoff schedule. But now the the Astros game time has been announced, it looks like I could make both.

Are you planning to go?

(10-03-2018 12:22 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 11:49 AM)cr11owl Wrote:  https://www.invescoseries.com/event-page...ons-cup-2/

Anyone know about this?

I saw the info when it was first announced, but I didn't make specific plans because of the Astros playoff schedule. But now the the Astros game time has been announced, it looks like I could make both.

Are you planning to go?

Don’t think so. Just hadn’t seen anything about it before today.

At Tudor??

(10-03-2018 01:05 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  At Tudor??

Exhibitions like this are almost always played indoors so that they are invulnerable to weather.

(10-03-2018 02:28 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 01:05 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  At Tudor??

Exhibitions like this are almost always played indoors so that they are invulnerable to weather.

Ok, but usually on indoor tennis courts, not basketball courts.

Interesting that Autry can be converted to a tennis court.

I Think Chris Everett played a match at what ever we called the gym back in the 70s. It was pretty cool, and typical, did not jazzed about it until she hit big time.

(10-03-2018 03:39 PM)ETx Owl Wrote:  I Think Chris Everett played a match at what ever we called the gym back in the 70s. It was pretty cool, and typical, did not jazzed about it until she hit big time.

True! I watched it. It would have been in 1972 or earlier. I also remember seeing Chris Evert's younger sister, Jeanne, at that event as well. My searches, however, have not been able to find any report of the event, however. I'd originally thought that it was an exhibition of sorts ... but I'm also wondering if it might have been a rain-caused, moved-indoors match of the River Oaks clay courts tournament.

I think the match was Chris Everett and Cliff Richey vs. Harold Solomon and Nancy Richey. It was an exhibition.

(10-03-2018 04:27 PM)Houston Owl Wrote:  I think the match was Chris Everett and Cliff Richey vs. Harold Solomon and Nancy Richey. It was an exhibition.

Dec. 11, 1971
Article from Fort Lauderdale News attached

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(10-03-2018 02:49 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 02:28 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 01:05 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  At Tudor??

Exhibitions like this are almost always played indoors so that they are invulnerable to weather.

Ok, but usually on indoor tennis courts, not basketball courts.

Interesting that Autry can be converted to a tennis court.

When you see an indoor tennis match (e.g. Davis Cup) on TV, do you think it’s a tennis-only facility?

(10-03-2018 07:27 PM)InterestedX Wrote:  Dec. 11, 1971
Article from Fort Lauderdale News attached

Well done, InterestedX!! Great find.

I see that the article also mentions Chris Evert's uncle, Jerry, who was the pro at the Houston Racquet Club at that time. An article in a 1977 edition of a Little Rock, Ark., area paper (that I'd found in my unsuccessful search for reports on the exhibition) said that Jerry is the father of Jay Evert ... who, after he transferred from Southern Illinois, was a three-year tennis letterman at Rice (1978-80) and two-time Giammalva Award winner (mens tennis team MVP), 1979 & 1980. Jay and Chris Evert are first cousins.

(10-03-2018 07:39 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 02:49 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 02:28 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 01:05 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  At Tudor??

Exhibitions like this are almost always played indoors so that they are invulnerable to weather.

Ok, but usually on indoor tennis courts, not basketball courts.

Interesting that Autry can be converted to a tennis court.

When you see an indoor tennis match (e.g. Davis Cup) on TV, do you think it’s a tennis-only facility?

I don't know if it is or not. All I said was that it was surprising and interesting that Autry could be converted to a tennis court. If that makes me an ignorant fool, than so be it.

(10-04-2018 07:02 AM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 07:39 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 02:49 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 02:28 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(10-03-2018 01:05 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  At Tudor??

Exhibitions like this are almost always played indoors so that they are invulnerable to weather.

Ok, but usually on indoor tennis courts, not basketball courts.

Interesting that Autry can be converted to a tennis court.

When you see an indoor tennis match (e.g. Davis Cup) on TV, do you think it’s a tennis-only facility?

I don't know if it is or not. All I said was that it was surprising and interesting that Autry could be converted to a tennis court.

It can be converted as readily as the Toyota Center, which is where similar exhibitions in Houston have been held (like Serving for Tsunami Relief back in 2005).

The court looks good, though it seems a bit tight behind the baseline.

Beyond the facility rental fee, does any of the spectator/event-package revenue for this match benefit Rice and/or Rice athletics?