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Too Complicated for USTA’s Chairmen of the Board?
By Javier Palenque
Earlier in the week I received finally a reply from the President and Chairman of the board of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, he replied to me that the board will not meet with me as they are too busy and it would be impossible to meet with all the people who want to meet the board ( why would people want to meet the board unless they though something was wrong with the system that the only way to address it would be to speak to the board?). This of course is not surprising to me because coming from an insurance lawyer that reply was borderline absurd, disrespectful, antagonistic and not well thought out as expected. It has been four years of me trying to enlighten the board by requesting a meeting and getting past the well read and brilliant executives who are systematically bringing the sport down ( this is why they do not publish participation rates by gender, zip and age groups) and cover their brilliance between themselves. Imagine the board refuses to show the numbers that their mission states. This way of acting is genial. But what follows is even better, I am now blocked from communicating with the USTA and their employees are blocked from answering me. This is called the tyranny of the inept. Somehow the Chairmen must think if we block him we deal with him down the line. I speak for honesty, integrity and…
