2019 Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship Commemorative Program

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Left to Right - Front Row: Thurmon Andress, Joe Cleary, Mike McSpadden,
Bronwyn Greer, Johnny Braniff, Kelly Hackett, Barry Young, Joe Bendy
Back Row: Jeff Bartlett, Justin Loweth, Gregg Falgout, Mike Chadwick, Cynthia Adkins,
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Keeping things in perspective

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“ThSe UNNafYterSthIeDstoErm” “
by Taylor CROSBY
R ecovery from the damage left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey took
a variety of forms in our area. So many different aspects of our lives
were affected, and even today, the scars from the disaster are still
evident in our neighborhoods.
Even as the storm was still pouring down rain on Houston, several players
who regularly return to River Oaks to participate in the tournament were
contacting the staff to learn if there was anything at all they could do to help.
With the event team already in discussions with the Houston Tennis
Association (HTA) about making the organization’s National Junior Tennis
and Learning (NJTL) program the tournament beneficiary, an idea was
hatched to help ensure those programs would see minimal disruption due
to storm damage.
“We were able to work with the HTA to identify an opportunity to help get
the public courts they use for their programming rehabilitated,” said U.S. Clay
Court Tournament Director Bronwyn Greer.

“ WE APPRECIATE
the value these after
school programs
provide in keeping
kids active and
TEACHING THEM
LIFE SKILLS.

“When the ATP Tour pros were asking what they could do to help our
community, it was a pretty easy conversation to ask for help making sure
there would be suitable courts for these NJTL programs.”
ATP players stepped up to make personal donations to resurface local
courts. Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan, John Isner, Steve Johnson, Sam Querrey, Jack
Sock and Frances Tiafoe contributed, and the HTA identified Sunnyside Park
as a facility in desperate need of refurbishing.

BEFORE

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The players then took matters one step further. Beyond the AFTER REMODEL “
donations to the cause, they took time while in Houston last
year for the tournament to visit the facility and meet the “ The words of
children who would eventually benefit from the project. ENCOURAGEMENT
they received from the
“I know our HTA NJTL kids loved the opportunity to come out players were
and hit on the courts with the pros before they were WORD OF HOPE.
refurbished,” said Ellen Miller, HTA Director of Coaching
Education and Player Development. “They still talk about it! 
The words of encouragement they received from the players
were words of hope.”

The court resurfacing happened over the summer, and by
the start of this school year, the brand new courts were
open for business. “It’s remarkable to see the transformation
of the courts,” said Miller. “I remember last year when the
Bryan Brothers came out to see the courts and hit with the
kids, Bob Bryan commented that the courts actually looked
like (green) clay courts. They were so tired and dingy. One year later, the
courts are a brilliant blue and green, and are so inviting to the children and
their families.”

Sunnyside is just one of the 44 Houston parks that host the HTA’s NJTL
programs that serve more than 6,000 youth annually.

As the official beneficiary of the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court
Championship, Houston’s pro tennis event will continue to directly impact
the grass roots of the sport in our own community.

Greer said the players were so inspired by their visit and to see the success
of this resurfacing project that this initiative is now going to become an
annual event, with pros in this year’s tournament having already pledged
money to help refurbish more courts for the HTA NJTL programs.

“Each of these players has genuinely showed great concern for our
community, and it’s very rewarding to be able to partner with them for this
ongoing project that is so meaningful,” Greer said.

The impact this project has made is now visible every day at Sunnyside Park,
and soon will be seen at other tennis facilities in Houston.

“To have the courts now, it helps make their future a reality,” Miller said.
“The generosity of the players, both emotionally and financially,
means so much to these kids. We thank them from the bottom of our heart!”

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The River Oaks Country Club Men's Clay Courts
has made a life-long impression on each

of us and we feel fortunate to have shared
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WADE, AMY AND BRADY

ROY EMERSON - 5OTH TOURNEY BOB STRAUS - 1981
HARRY PARTEN - 1984
AMY | MARK DIXON | ELAINE

DONNA FARGO HARRY PARTON WADE AND PAUL MCNAMEE DALE ROBERTSON
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that drives Wayne Bryanby Pete Holtermann

W hen he was a child, Wayne There was law school, but tennis won With youth, Bryan sees an opportunity to
Bryan’s father would take out, and he soon was working at a club. use tennis as a tool to teach life skills that
him to play tennis on Sunday Ever since, Bryan and tennis have been will be far more valuable than backhands
mornings. If the tennis went long, church inseparable, a connection that has been and volleys.
would be missed. magnified as his twin sons, Bob and Mike,
have embarked on a legendary, record- “They can, by focusing, having passion,
“Long after I could start beating my setting career. working at it, being diligent, they can
Dad pretty easy, I still took him to three improve and get better,” he explains.
sets because we were able to then “I love playing the game,” Wayne said. “And the better you get, the better it
play through church,” Bryan said. “So it “I also have this big coaching gene, gets. That’s a great life lesson.”
started off that I used tennis as religious parenting gene, mentoring gene. I love
avoidance. Now tennis my religion.” helping people with their tennis. And I The big hook for Bryan is getting youth
see what tennis can do for people. I think the chance to watch and be around better
Bryan, who insists he is still 21-years- is the greatest sport you can play.” players. He vividly recalls as a teenager
old, has turned a love for the game into watching Alex Olmedo warming up at
a career of preaching and teaching, Bryan hails tennis as a sport for a lifetime, the Los Angles Tennis Club and the spark
spreading his passion for tennis to and quickly cites its many attributes, it lit within him.
anyone he can possibly reach. from the fact that size doesn’t matter
for players to a research study that With his own kids, that meant going to
From Sunday mornings with his father, credits tennis with warding off dementia. five Davis Cup ties before Mike and Bob
Bryan’s playing career blossomed had turned 12, and countless college
through high school into a hall of fame It is, however, children who capture matches over the years.
worthy tenure at the University of Bryan’s attention the most. In a crowded
California Santa Barbara followed by a stadium, he seems to always be able to “I’m a big believer in kids getting inspired
self-described “cup of coffee” as a pro. deliver a ball off his racket to kids, even from watching great champions,”
those in the top row. he explained. “You must see it before
you can dream it. You must be passionate
about it before you can achieve it.”

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His boys have become the great champions who, thanks to a two-decade career, have “HstroEutweoeensHn’kfeaceSavteeshdwhliodlnwrieOkanonitaqincnognwsUutomdpeieetunRdiheo’.rcrlHnetfetko.toBaemvsHutetpsdpIaehiilGilwdsaadalcteytprinGret.elma’dhraWtacEmoyatrtkoeieehdSiennradeewtgTdlm.algieyHttboaromFfepeemtduAh’auisjavneuigsynat.Nhssih.tdHctoiueaoeulsns“
inspired generations of kids. Wayne can easily list off all the twins have won, and does - Mike Bryan “
so with a father’s pride. But he will very quickly pivot and talk twice as long about who
Mike and Bob are as people.

“They have done more clinics than any two players that have ever lived. They’ve played
with enthusiasm. They’ve played with class. They sign. They do pictures. Win or lose.
They run out to position every time. They give every match their full effort.
A champion is somebody who not only plays well but but conducts themselves with
class and is humble and is the same person coming and the same person going. Mike
and Bob are just like they were when they were 12, and I’m sure they’ll be just like this
when they are 62.”

The Bryan twins have won a lot, more than any other team in tennis history.
But in a 20-plus year career, they have played enough matches that
the losses have piled up. And that’s perfectly ok for Wayne
because dealing with losing is vital.

“That, to me, is freaking essential. You have to be
able to get next to losing,” he insists. “All you
have to do in winning is practice being
gracious. Try to be as humble as humanly
possible. That’s pretty easy to work on.
The thing you gotta work on is how
you deal with losing. You gotta lose
and get knocked down, and you
gotta get back up.”

This is where Wayne’s character
comes into a bit of a contradiction.
His twin sons - having won more
than a thousand matches, and lost
a few hundred - are gracious in
victory and sporting in defeat.
That is exactly as you’d expect from
children raised by Wayne. However,
somewhat curiously, he cannot
bring himself to actually watch his
sons play a match. “I can’t do it!
In Houston, I get out on that golf
course far enough away so I cannot
even tell (what’s happening). I cannot
listen to it or watch it or anything. Even
today, we will record the matches on TV.
If they win, will watch it, but if they don’t,
I won’t watch it.”

There’s one match Wayne was forced to
watch, although he had gone to great lengths
to get out of it. In 2007, the United States hosted
the Davis Cup final against Russia in Portland.
Wayne traveled to the site, and intended to be there for
the singles rubbers on Friday and Sunday. Saturday, when
his sons would be playing doubles, he had booked himself a gig,
running a clinic in Chicago.

After the U.S. swept the singles matches on Friday, Wayne’s friends would “ yHoII’ftfuvsoohEenmurign’eri1Slvkk,irm0neaihdD0grcoeFs.k0st’OTseeihOvkethpaaiNsnedRnutardstitEnenhsaKo’gd.sanSlHtoIaneoDOtecvoyna’oesooeSnrfuMtnyc.rrhneoaukegUcubnis-dokretaBtnCetleettlocwryHseal.biirvgintneaBhuicstryyan
not let him leave town for Chicago, so he stayed and was able to see Mike
and Bob clinch the Davis Cup title for the United States. That moment stands
out for Wayne. Despite the oftentimes singular nature of tennis, he is a massive
proponent of its social nature and when it is played as a team.

“My greatest thrills for watching the boys through the years is when they won
the NCAAs at Stanford twice and when the won the Davis Cup,” he said.
“I didn’t bawl when they won Wimbledon or won the U.S. Open or won the
Australian Open or whatever they’ve done in tennis. But when they win the
team events, somehow it turns on the waterworks and gets me down deep
in my soul.”

While his sons continue with their 20-plus year pro career, Wayne expresses no
desire to stop his own touring as an emcee and coach. However, he is reducing
his workload, trimming his dates from around 180 a year to closer to 100.
He insists that is absolutely not indicative of any less passion for his work.
“Look, I hate traveling. Anybody who travels as much as I do, hates it. No doubt
about it. But I love the work. I hate to tell you this, but I would do what I do for
free, because I love doing it.”

Wayne will be back at River Oaks in 2019, preaching the gospel of the sport of
tennis, hoping that his passion is contagious and will help better the lives of those
in his congregation.

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