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Rewrite #1 (at Talk:Vic_Braden/Temp, trying to be more encyclopedic, but it will take me a bit.Mjquin_id (talk) 04:09, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. As it addresses copyright concerns, I have moved it to article space where it can be further developed. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:45, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
My Heartfelt gratitude.Mjquin_id (talk) 01:48, 14 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More Bio

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Vic Braden is an important figure in the history of tennis. There should be more to this article. Maybe more of a biography would be good. Hey, and can anyone confirm that he's from Monroe, Michigan? 22:26, 6 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gingermint (talk • contribs)

I'd like to ad that it would be totally cool if he's from Monroe! Also, something should be said about how he changed the game of tennis into the game we're familiar with now. Gingermint (talk) 22:29, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Added Jack Kramer quotation attesting to such. There are many, many more sourced key quotations available by Kramer and others about Braden's influence on coaching, teaching, motivation, and scientific analysis of some aspects of sports. I will add more eventually.Kibbitzer 08:34, 28 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kibbitzer (talk • contribs)

Vic Braden was never a "tennis champion" or Top 10 ranked player

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The first paragraph is nonsense, inserted by a vandal. I have just checked the USTA Official Encyclopedia of Tennis and Vic Braden was NEVER a Top 10 ranked player in the 1950s. I doubt, in fact, if he ever had any national ranking at all. Hayford Peirce (talk) 18:08, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch. I have removed the statement in question, which read:
"Victor K. Braden, Jr. is a former champion tennis player of the 1950s, at one time being ranked number two behind Tony Trabert."
Not sure if this was vandalism, it could also have been a garbled quotation from his home page, which currently includes the following statements:
"Vic was a team captain at Kalamazoo College where he was a winner of the league singles championships." (which presumbly means he could be called a college tennis champion)
"In the Midwest college circles, he was ranked number two behind Tony Trabert." (italics by me)
"In his short professional career, Vic was invited three times to play in the World Tennis Championships."
The linked TIME article about him sheds some more light on this [1]:
"...while coaching tennis at the University of Toledo, he played in professional tournaments with a group of six stars (Jack Kramer and Pancho Gonzalez, among others) and, in Braden's words, six 'donkeys,' including himself and Chris Evert's father Jimmy. 'The donkeys made a lot of people famous,' Braden recalls. 'The stars would beat us fast and then go out and see the city.'"
Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:10, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Reported fact: "Vic Braden won consecutive state [high school] singles championships in tennis in 1945, 1946, and 1947, achieving a 68-3 record over the span. As a student at Kalamazoo College, he was the Mid-American Conference singles champion" [2].Kibbitzer 17:06, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
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