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Article: Tennis loses a legendary head case.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2003
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Byline: Charles Bricker
NEW YORK _ The class clown of tennis officially retired the other day.
There was no stadium court ceremony as there was for Pete Sampras on Day 1 of the U.S. Open because, frankly, most people in this game wouldn't be interested in celebrating his career.
They'd much rather help him pack his bags and caution him not to let the swinging doors swat him on the butt on the way out.
Alan Schwartz, president of the USTA, didn't weigh in with any nostalgic remarks about Jumpy Jeff Tarango's 16 years in the game. And former chair umpire Bruno Rebeuh, the man Tarango once called "the most corrupt official in tennis," ...