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Vegas Rollers World TeamTennis

Vegas Rollers

November 21, 2021

The Vegas Rollers marked World TeamTennis’ second attempt to establish a team in Las Vegas.  In 2014 the league’s plans for a team known as the Las Vegas Neon were scuttled when team owner Deepal Wannakuwatte was revealed to be the mastermind of a $150 million ponzi scheme. The Neon never played a match. In the World TeamTennis record books, the Rollers show up as a two-year entry in the league. But in reality, the Vegas Rollers were merely tourists, whose entire residency at the Orleans Arena consisted of 7 matches crammed into an 11-day stretch between July 20-July 30, 2019.

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Seattle Cascades World Team Tennis

Sea-Port Cascades / Seattle Cascades

May 28, 2019

The Cascades were a co-ed tennis promotion that arrived in the Pacific Northwest in the spring of 1977 after relocating from Honolulu. Known at first as the “Sea-Port” Cascades, the team split their 1977 home dates between the NBA arenas in Seattle and Portland. Though the team had relatively few stars of its own, opposing World Team Tennis clubs brought major stars of the day such as Chris Evert, Billie Jean King and Bjorn Borg to town for league competition. The Cascades committed more fully to Seattle for their second and final season in 1978, dropping the “Port” from their name. The team disbanded along with the rest of World Team Tennis in late 1978.

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Pittsburgh Triangles Tennis

Pittsburgh Triangles

November 22, 2017

The Steelers and the Pirates were not the Steel City’s only championship team during the 1970’s. Pittsburgh also had the Triangles – a co-ed, six-player World Team Tennis promotion that played at the Civic Arena and brought home a title in 1975 with the help of Grand Slam champions Evonne Goolagong and Vitas Gerulaitis.

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1974 Baltimore Banners Ticket Brochure from World Team Tennis

Baltimore Banners

February 1, 2013

The Baltimore Banners were a One-Year Wonder that played during the inaugural season of World Team Tennis during the summer of 1974.  The Banners were notable primarily for signing American tennis bad boy Jimmy Connors to a $100,000 contract to appear in 22 of Baltimore’s 44 scheduled matches.

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Houston E-Z Riders World Team Tennis

Houston E-Z Riders

February 18, 2012

The Houston E-Z Riders were a co-ed tennis promotion that competed in the first season of World Team Tennis in 1974.  The Riders’ top attraction was Aussie star John Newcombe, a 7-time Grand Slam champion. The team’s logo was an endearingly goofy ripoff of Yosemite Sam. The mustachioed outlaw toted a pair of smoking tennis racquets in his hip holsters.

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