Chairman of the Board of USTA you got some explaining to do… By Javier Palenque

This month is the 40th month ( 3 + years) in which I have been writing trying to get the USTA to listen to a different point of view on how to grow the game, since then I have been part of podcasts, articles, opinion letters, interviews etc. all over the world. My network in the tennis world went from a few friends to presidents of federations, famous journalists and famous world class coaches, top 100 players not to mention thousands of tennis lovers overall. I guess they all found some common sense of the need of accountability and can relate to the need for change of the unproductive “status quo”. My mission is really simple, to grow the sport of tennis and to shed some bright lights to the incompetent USTA executives and board and provide solutions before the game is a footnote everywhere. In this three year journey, my social media accounts have been blocked by USTA, my email has been blocked by USTA ( forbidding me to engage their employees or their employees engaging me), I have applied to be a board member and was denied under the absurd response that “they simply had too many applicants” so much for diversity, do they realize that intelligence is not a color of skin?
I requested a formal meeting with the board, I was told by then CEO Katrina Adams that: they don’t need help and that the growth of tennis is assured by the…