The Tennessee Tennis Hall of Fame is an organization created in 1992[1] under the authority of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) which is the national governing body for tennis in the United States.
[2] Tennessee is one of the nine states in the USTA's Southern Division,[3] functioning as the "Tennessee Tennis Patrons Foundation" established in 1988.
The latter is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation governed by an eight-member volunteer board which is responsible for choosing the state's hall of fame inductees.
[4] As of 2022, it includes 82 honorees including five-time U.S. Davis Cup member Roscoe Tanner[5] and Great Britain Davis Cup team member Derrick Barton who moved to Tennessee to coach.
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