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.
