San Diego Buds
July 30, 2013
The San Diego Buds were a co-ed pro tennis team that existed for two seasons in World Team Tennis in the summers of 1984 and 1985. The 1984 “season”, in fact, was just a single weekend tournament held at The Forum in Los Angeles. The league devised the format to squeeze a reminder of its existence into the narrow spaces around Wimbledon, the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, and the U.S. Open. The San Diego Buds won the tournament and were named the 1984 champions of TeamTennis without ever appearing in San Diego itself. In 1985, the Buds played their first and only matches in San Diego at the Sports Arena, repeated as league champions, and then disbanded.
