HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

OREGON TENNIS HISTORICAL COMMITTEE

Our Committee:
* Steve Hall - chair
* Sam Lee
* Jim Flynn
* Barbara Farmer
* Jack Neer
* Brian Parrott

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February 7, 2010

We know that the game of tennis came to Oregon over one hundred years ago. As early as the 1880's, there were local courts and even several small tennis clubs.

Since then, following its surge in popularity throughout the country, tennis has seen extraordinary growth in Portland and throughout the state, especially in the past thirty-five years.

In 1990, the Irvington Club undertook a program to become the repository of Oregon tennis history by creating the Oregon Tennis Historical Committee. As our oldest tennis club, it is fitting that this responsibility rests with the Irvington Club, which has played a very important role in local tennis.

This web site is an attempt to provide visibility to much of the material that we have developed and collected and to serve as a media for keeping the information current.

We hope you envoy navigating through this wealth of tennis information. If information on this site is incomplete or in error, please Contact Us.