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WILL CLARSON'S APPOINTMENT MEAN BETTER DAYS AHEAD FOR WTA?

          The WTA Tour's "expected appointment" of PGA Tour
     VP/Business Affairs Ric Clarson as its new CEO "has finally
     generated off-court optimism for the game's future,"
     according to Andrea Leand of TENNIS WEEK.  Leand adds that
     "time will tell" if the integrated WTA Board structure, which
     consists of four player reps, four tournament reps and two
     ITF reps, "will allow him the authority to lead the game." 
     But with a new CEO, "pivotal matters" such as combined
     events, pooled marketing rights and TV rights, can be
     resolved.  IMG's search for title sponsor to replace Corel is
     also "in full swing."  But the idea to combine more ATP and
     WTA events drew the following reaction from two players.  One
     male pro: "We don't want to have to give up facilities and
     practice courts or anything for the women.  We are doing just
     fine on our own.  If [ATP Tour CEO] Mark Miles keeps pursuing
     this, Mark Miles won't have a job."  The WTA Tour's Lindsay
     Davenport: "We don't need the men" (TENNIS WEEK, 12/18).    
          ONE VIEW: TENNIS WEEK's Eugene Scott writes that while
     Clarson has little experience in tennis, "at least he has no
     ties to the normal suspects of tennis power brokers.  This is
     a good start.  Whether it makes for good follow through will
     have to await the industry's reflex" (TENNIS WEEK, 12/18).

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