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Article: Jimmy Connors Seeks to Answer, Can Senior Tennis Match Senior Golf?(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
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- July 21, 1996
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TENNIS CLUB AT PEBBLE BEACH RESORTS, Calif.--Jul. 21--Jimmy Connors is hamming it up again. He won't stop cracking jokes. He won't sit still for a photographer. He won't stop teasing other tennis greats of yesteryear.
But ask Connors about his 50 percent stake in Net Assets Inc., which owns the Nuveen Tour for older tennis stars, and the former bad boy of tennis suddenly turns into the ambassador of tennis.
The newly renamed tour, now in its third year, is tennis' attempt to copy golf's wildly successful PGA Seniors Tour. Connors, 43, is alternately cordial and intense while making the case that the Nuveen Tour will flourish and stimulate sagging interest in ...