Abstract
This chapter addresses the years preceding and immediately following Open Tennis competition between amateurs and professionals that began in 1968. Jack Kramer had begun to step-back from leading professional tennis in the 1960s allowing for the International Professional Tennis Players’ Association to assume an increased role in scheduling professional tennis matches in the United States and around the world. A new organization called the National Tennis League soon had a number of the best professionals under contract. At the same time the national amateur associations that governed the game in the International Lawn Tennis Federation renewed on-again, off-again calls for open competition. The Lawn Tennis Association’s ties with the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club meant the British would take the lead in pushing a successful vote for Open Tennis.
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