Courtesy of Tim Boggan After immigrating to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1977, Khoa Nguyen, who’d been coached by his father John since taking up the game at age 9, won, at 14, his first U.S. Closed title—the 1980 U-15 Doubles with Brandon Olson. The following September, after he’d finished 1st at the AAU Under-15…

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Courtesy of Tim Boggan When Leah Thall Neuberger died at her home in Manhattan around Christmas of 1992, it was quite a shock to many a New York player in particular. To Tony Gegelys, for example, Leah, over the years…day-in, day-out…was a familiar figure at Lawrence’s Broadway Courts…or Reisman’s…or Gusikoff’s, ever ready with her all-consuming…

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Courtesy of Tim Boggan With the death of USATT Hall of Famer Garrett Nash in the summer of ‘97, who, as a heavy smoker, had been suffering from emphysema for quite some time, we lost one of the great hard-bat stars of the 1930’s and ‘40’s. Topics readers first became aware of 13-year-old Garrett and two…

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