This week on Tennis Channel, we're looking back some of the sport's most important players, personalities and moments throughout its colorful history. On Thursday, from 12-3 p.m. ET, Tennis Channel ...
As the last day of 1977 began, 23-year-old Vitas Gerulaitis was eager to close out the finest tennis year of his life with an exclamation point. Twelve months earlier, Vitas Gerulaitis was ranked No.
Vitas Gerulaitis once held up Martina Navratilova as an example to express his firm opposition to women receiving equal prize money as men. During the 1984 US Open, Gerulaitis controversially claimed ...
Former tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis was killed when a broken propane heater filled the cottage where he was staying with so much carbon monoxide that investigators had to retreat for gas masks, ...
Prosecutors and defense lawyers yesterday jockeyed with a Suffolk health department official over whether faulty heating equipment or a botched installation job caused the carbon monoxide poisoning ...
Australian Open officials must have been relieved when Vitas Gerulaitis committed to their end-of-season tournament in 1977. The two best players in the world, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors, were going ...
In closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of a pool mechanic charged in the death of tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis, an attorney said the wrong man had been blamed. Bartholomew Torpey and his employer ...
A pool mechanic’s failure to install an extra $1.44 worth of plastic exhaust pipe led to the death of tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis, caused by inhaling carbon monoxide fumes from a new $8,000 pool ...
Vitas Gerulaitis has a big box of chocolates for Martina Navratilova for Valentine’s Day. And in it, there’s a sweet piece of candy. Gerulaitis Wednesday challenged Navratilova to a $500,000 mixed ...