Tennis champion Jack Kramer died at the age of 88 on Saturday, September 12, 2009. Kramer had been diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 2009.http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-kramer14-2009sep14,0,2060439.column
Kramer won the U.S. Open men's singles in 1946 and 1947. He became a Wimbledon men's singles champion in 1947 and later went on to become a tennis promoter and co-founded the Association of Tennis Professionals in 1972.http://straightsets.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/jack-kramer-is-dead/