A National Platform Tennis Center is proposed

Jack Randall, a long-time player, coach and supporter of the game had a dream: that a national platform tennis center could be developed.

His vision:

“I’m convinced people everywhere will love paddle once they have a chance to know what it is and have had a chance to play it. This cannot be done strictly through private clubs. The solution: A National Platform Tennis Center at a public facility is needed to accomplish this. A place important enough to the media to give it some exposure – especially on TV – along with an offer to come down to the center and try the game for free. We make it easy; newcomers try it ‘indoors’ and comfortably. Once they like it, they move with their friends outdoors. It seems natural to locate such a center in the heart of the area where the sport originated … a place with a large population, in a major media market and in an active area of play .. a place where players will talk about the center, tell others, and will come visit, assuring the center’s success and adding incentive to the media to cover this new sport phenomenon.”

Source: Platform Tennis News, Fall 1996 and APTA BOD May 1994 Meeting Minutes