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1946 Irvington Club clay courts resurfaced with blacktop.

1947 Portland Indoor Tennis Club established at the Portland Armory

1948 Portland Indoor Tennis Club first professional exhibition, featuring Kramer, Riggs, Segura and Pails

1948 Multnomah Athletic Club’s first annual invitational doubles tournament, won by Claude Hockley and Sam Lee.

1949  USTA/PNW started ranking senior players (35 & 45 categories).

1951 Oregon Indoor Tennis Club established in one indoor court built at the Catlin Gabel School.

1953 Tennis exhibition at Oregon State University in Corvallis featuring Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura, Frank Sedgeman and Ken McGregor.

1956 Multnomah Club Stadium courts are moved to make room for Portland Beaver baseball.

1956 June Lee and Patty Miller win the Canadian National Womens Doubles Championship.

1957 Irvington Club’s first reconstruction phase, constructing new swimming pool to replace one tennis court.

1958 Umpqua Valley Tennis Tournament started.

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Bill Babson Joan Campf
Jim Brink Florabel Clough
Leonard Clark Virginia Cook
Bill Davis Gertrude Easton
Harry Doyle Joan Egbers
Spencer Ehrman Reona Flynn
Hugh Findlay Patsy Heard
Art Fish Lorraine Holiday
Jim Flynn June Lee
Claude Hockley Barbara Lum
Jim Hodgkins Clara Meyers
Ross Hughes Patty Miller
Jim Jackson Betty Parker
Robert Johnson Doris Popple
Ned Jungck Lavelle Ransom
Sam Lee Lorraine Rhodes
Darrell Kelly Mirja Rose
Clint Knox Rose Schleifer
Clyde Knox Wili Tanner
Don Lewis Mary Taylor
Bob Lloyd Ann Thatcher
Tom MacDonald Esther Vetterlein
Hugh McGinnis
Monte Meyers
Emery Neale
Jack Neer
Chuck O’Neill
Walter Palaske
Irving Parker
Jack Rhine
Vic Ramis
Bill Rose
MacNeil Smith
Dudley Starr
Don Tisdel
Ed Wofford