THE CHARADE IS OVER USTA! By Javier Palenque

For the past decades, we have watched a great charade play out before us. The Ol’ boys have been ruling tennis over us and have succeeded at controlling the sport and failed miserably at growing the sport. So, the winners are them as they still have the sport hijacked and under their control, but the losers are the sport, the parks, the parents, the kids, the coaches, the clubs, and the country overall. This is unacceptable to me and of course to most decent tennis-loving Americans.

These boys have portrayed themselves as something they were not, decent, caring for the game, protecting the assets of tennis, funding programs, etc. Many of them said they were for the mission when they were actually wolves in sheep’s clothing, looking for nothing more than free benefits and maintaining the deception to the country of the false, not-for-profit, the USTA. Why do I say that? let me elaborate so it is clear in everyone’s mind:

• When sections use 97% of grants in administrative salaries, please understand not coaches. It is not a not-for-profit entity.
• When Player Development is categorized as a charity and they wasted in the last ten years $245M, half of which is payroll and they can’t teach a world-class forehand to anyone. It is not a not-for-profit entity.
• When all the $28M marketing budget is…