Alastair Martin Passes Away
A.B. Martin (left) hitting “the first ball” at the reopening of the Newport Court in 1979. Also pictured are (LtoR): Clarry Pell, Richard Stockton and Lord Aberdare.
By James Zug
Alastair Bradley Martin, one of the greatest amateur court tennis players of the twentieth century and a leader in both court tennis and lawn tennis, died on 12 January 2010. He was ninety-four.
Blond-haired, shy and energetic, A.B. Martin (he preferred A.B. to Alastair) was raised on the North Shore of Long Island. He first learned court tennis in the late 1930s from the legendary Punch Fairs, the English pro and former world champion. Fairs taught Martin the game at the Clarence Mackay court in Roslyn. Read the rest of this entry »
