Also in this week's mailbag: why wasn't Rajeev Ram on the United States Davis Cup Finals squad?
Hi everybody,
We'll get to your questions shortly, but first:
One of the towering figures in tennis over the last half-century never won a tournament. He never played a pro match. He never even played for his college team. Yet Nick Bollettieri, who passed away Sunday at age 91, applied his own brand of topspin to the sport and impacted tennis as profoundly as any dozen Grand Slam champions put together.
Nick Bollettieri’s story is as colorful and incomparable as his personality.