Roscoe Tanner, the man from Lookout Mountain, what a serve, got in trouble with the police I believe? I met him at Ilkley one year when he played an exhibition!
Albert Costa won the French Championships in 2002 beating Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final. As with some clay court specialists he never reached the quarter final of any other Grand Slam singles apart from the French.
Guillermo Coria was the runner up to Gaston Gaudio in an all Argentinian mens singles French final in 2004. Coria might be a slightly painful name from a British point of view because he beat Tim Henman in the semi final.
Frenchman Arnaud Clement was runner up to Andre Agassi in the 2001 Australian Championship and won the mens doubles at Wimbledon in 2007 with Michael Lodra.
Roscoe Tanner, the man from Lookout Mountain, what a serve, got in trouble with the police I believe? I met him at Ilkley one year when he played an exhibition!
He was a great guy who might have been a con artist, said Anand Amritraj, a retired tennis player who said that Tanner once failed to pay him an agreed-upon fee for a senior tennis tournament. Everybody loved him, but he was always shaky with money and women. But if he called me today and asked if I wanted to have a drink, Id still love to see him.
