Southern Tennis Patrons Foundation

Southern Tennis Patrons Foundation

Zan Guerry, Tennessee, 1994

Zan Guerry, Tennessee, inducted in 1994Zan Guerry

  • Top ranked national junior player from the time of his 1960 championship in the Boy’s 11 year old division
  • Played high school tennis at Baylor School in Chattanooga and later was a 3-time All American at Rice University
  • Following college he played on the professional circuit where he reached the top 20 in the county and played in all the Grand Slam tournaments
  • Five time winner of the Southern Men’s Championships
  • Won 25 national championships in singles and doubles, at least one in each decade since his first title in 1960
  • Inducted into the Tennessee Tennis Hall of Fame, Baylor School Athletic Hall of Fame, Rice University Tennis Hall of Fame, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame and Intercollegiate Tennis Association Hall of Fame
  • Joined his father, Alex, as the only father and son to be inducted into the Southern Tennis Hall of Fame

Henry G. “Hank” Crawford, Georgia, 1993

Henry G. “Hank” Crawford, Georgia, Inducted 1993Henry Crawford006

  • After a successful career in law and real estate he concentrated his efforts on tennis and won 12 national doubles titles in the 50, 55, 60 and 70 age divisions
  • European doubles champion with Gardner Malloy
  • Played on the 1979 United States Britannia Cup team and 1983 Crawford Cup team and was captain of the Crawford Cup team from 1985 through 1990
  • Captain of the 1992 Bitsy Grant Cup team
  • Received the USTA Senior Service Award in 1978
  • Inducted into the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame in 1977 and the Georgia Tennis Hall of Fame the first year it was established in 1983

Russell Bobbitt, Georgia, 1993

Russell Bobbitt, Georgia, inducted in 1993Russell Bobbett

  • Ranked among the top 10 players in the United States as a junior player
  • Played for Georgia Tech where he won the 1938 Southeastern Conference singles and doubles titles
  • Played on the United States Junior Davis Cup team with Jack Kramer and Bill Talbert
  • Volunteer and administrator who served as Vice-President of the Georgia Tennis Association and President of the Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association
  • President of the Senior Tennis Players of Georgia
  • First tennis player inducted into the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame
  • Inducted into the Georgia Tennis Hall of Fame the first year it was established in 1983

A.W. “Buck” Archer, North Carolina, 1993

A.W. “Buck” Archer, North Carolina, inducted in 1993Buck Archer

  • Started playing tennis when he was 8 and continued through high school, prep school and while attending Davidson College
  • Following college he returned to Shelby, N. C. where he was the volunteer coach of the Shelby High School tennis team and the Cleveland County Country Club team
  • Played on two championship United States Austria Cup teams, an international team competition for 55-and-over men
  • Captain of the United States Osuna Cup team for 45-and-over men from 1987 to 1991, leading the American team to victory over Mexico four of the five years
  • Won two National Clay Court Championships
  • Won 11 national doubles titles
  • Inducted into the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame in 1977

Mildred F. Southern, North Carolina, 1991

Mildred F. Southern, North Carolina, inducted in 1991Mildred Southern

  • Attended Appalachian State University where she took up tennis as a recreational player and later worked for the City of Winston-Salem Recreation Department for 14 years supervising numerous tournaments
  • Began to play competitive tournament tennis at age 40 and started a long career as a player and volunteer
  • Organized the Winston-Salem Young Folks Tennis Program involving kids 6 to 18 years old in tennis classes and later organized the Twin City Kiwanis Junior Tournament to give young people a chance to compete
  • Served as President of the North Carolina Tennis Association where she introduced “Tennis Weekend” featuring workshops and clinics which attracted over 300 attendees and later introduced the same idea to the Southern Tennis Association when she became President
  • Organized the first Southern Senior Cup with teams from the 9 states competing and ranked #1 or #2 in the South in several different age groups in both singles and doubles
  • Received the Touchstone Award in 1982, the USTA Southern Jacobs Bowl in 1983, the Charles B. Morris Volunteer Service Award in 1998 and was inducted into the North Carolina Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983 and the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2013
  • Served on numerous USTA committees and received the USTA Senior Service Award in 1991