Indiana Loves
May 31, 2013
The Indiana Loves were a four-year member of Billie Jean King’s kooky, colorful World Team Tennis experiment during the mid-1970’s. The franchise started out as the Detroit Loves in WTT’s inaugural season of 1974,. At the end of the season, the original owners sold out to Indianapolis businessman and tennis aficionado William Bereman, who kept the Loves name and moved the club to Indianapolis’ Market Square Arena for the 1975 campaign. The Loves top star was the young Lithuanian-American tennis phenom Vitas Gerulaitis, who played for the team in 1977 and 1978. The Loves folded along with the rest of the league at the end of the 1978 season.
