Passport Scotch ups the ante – The Passport Scotch Grand Prix of Platform Tennis Tour culminating in the Men’s and Women’s Nationals. The purse for the Men’s and Women’s tournaments was $169,000; the Nationals $25,200 each

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[click to enlarge] Source: Paddle Talk Vol. 4 No. 1 (November)

Calvert Distillers, a division of Joseph E. Seagram & Son. Inc., renewed its sponsorship of professional men’s and women’s platform tennis for the season.

The 1978-79 Passport Scotch Grand Prix of Platform Tennis featured the highest prize money in the sport’s 50 year history, a total of $169,400 for both men’s and women’s circuits.

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