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We recap our 2021 Talking Tennis Southern Style episodes, including our initial show from May 2020. Here are the quotes from individuals who provided their own perspective on tennis: USTA First Vice President and NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline, USTA Southern President & CEO Randy Jackson, wheelchair tennis player & advocate Kelly Flouhouse, USTA Secretary-Treasurer and openly gay player Brian Vahaly, Southern Tennis Foundation Chairman Derek White, Baseball Hall of Famer Chipper Jones, former star North Carolina State tennis player – and UGA football coach – Jim Donnan, ESPN reporter Kris Budden and Tennessee State University’s Dr. Harriet Kimbro-Hamilton.

Our two interviews feature Black History Month. Dr. Harriet Kimbro-Hamilton is currently an Associate Professor at Tennessee State University. At Fisk University, she spent 13 years as Head Coach, Associate Athletic Director and Athletic Director. She has received three national awards from the Women’s Sports Foundation, the National Association of Girls and Women in Sport when given the Dr. Nell C. Jackson Award, and inducted into the Temple University League for Entrepreneurial Women Hall of Fame. She wrote Daddy's Scrapbook, Henry Kimbro of the Negro Baseball League, A Daughter's Perspective, about her father’s life as a Negro League baseball player and a successful African-American businessman. Alan Green is the most successful coach in the nearly 100-year history of Xavier University of Louisiana. He is a three-time Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Coach of the Year, winning the men's award in 2017 and 2016 and the women's award in 2013. Highlighted are Cole Camp of the University of Alabama who won the 2020 USTA Southern Wheelchair Excellence Award and junior Davis Taylor of Brookhaven, GA.