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The 9th. Donald, you go way back to the tournaments infancy. How has this thing taken off . Its amazing. Well, we started the tournament in 1969 at the public parks there at 16th and kennedy. Johnny harris and i were cochairman. We ran the tournament for three years. And it started to catch on a little, we got some traction. So we thought it would be different and we gave the tournament and the sanction of the week to the Washington Tennis Foundation which was just starting up as a foundation for tennis for kids. And our concept was very simple. We thought if we could get a lot of interested tennis fans washington is a very good tennis town. Historically. And the profits from the tournament and all of the surrounding benefits to go back to junior tennis in the community and we have done that. And i think the wtf and alanny have done a terrific job. Like the tournament its grown and grown. I have been lucky enough to ....

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