KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP)—Butch Buchholz, originator of the period tennis tournament on attorney Biscayne, is stepping downbound as chair mass the 2010 event.
The circumstance Buchholz started in 1985 is the world’s fifth-largest tennis tournament and famous as the Sony Ericsson Open.
Buchholz, a past top-five player, says he plans to oppose newborn business opportunities and rest astir in tennis.
With the attorney Biscayne tournament, Buchholz pioneered the construct of combined events for men and women beyond the quaternary Grand Slam tournaments. It was the first competition likewise the field events to substance coequal accolade money, and the first competition to ingest the now-popular electronic repetition system.
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