Rich prizes fin tennis
A share in an oil well, a gambling holiday in Monte Carlo, gold, silver and diamonds, a thoroughbred racehorse and an antique car are some of the prizes beckoning the world’s leading tennis players as they jostle for qualifying places in the World Championship Tennis series this year. A& a result of sponsorship from Canon, the camera manufacturing ’ company, WCT is able to dangle a bonus list of 15 titillating prizes before the eyes' of the contestants. The eight players who qualify for the finals in Dallas Will choose their prize from the list, according to the series points they accumulate, and the top
will also gain an alkgold tennis ball trophv, valued at §lO,OOO. _• - • ‘ All prizes on the list will have an initial value of at' least §20,000. However, they range from highly conservative investment opportunities to less conventional, highrisk choices. The prizes will include shares in a real estate investment trust, tax. free municipal bonds, a fully-paid life insurance policy with a face value of $200,000, and Irish Sweepstake lottery tickets* The WCT tournaments will • &be held £ in
Richmond, Brussels, Rotterdam. Milan. Frankfurt and Houston. The first contest has already been decided in Monterey, and the winner was John Kriek. from. — let it be whispered quietly — South Africa. In the final, he beat the accomplished Vitas Gerulaitis by taking tie-breakers in the first and third.sets. It was the South African’s first major tournament victory. In the quarter-finals. Kriek eliminated Pascal Portes, the young French player who contested the Winfield Classic in Christchurch earlier this summer. Portes earned 25 Canon points for getting that far in the tournament;. Kriek leads the field with 110
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