Useless Tennis Fact Day 4

Arthur Marx, son of Groucho Marx (real name...have a guess!) was a nationally ranked US tennis player, once losing in 5 sets to Bobby Riggs in the final of the Cincinatti Open (now the Cincinatti Masters).

He should have gone into films paid better back then.

He eventually became an author, screenwriter and playwright.

Interesting so break the suspense who is this individual?

You mean apart from being Groucho Marx's son?

He died earlier this year - you can get more info by googling for his obituary - in all the main newspapers online.

socal1976 wrote:He should have gone into films paid better back then.

They still do unless you're a Swiss shanker or a Majorcan grunter...

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

Ah ,the wit of Grouch Marx! It seems his son became a writer after being a nationally ranked junior tennis player and attending the University of Southern California.

JM what kind of actor would fed be, he could certainly do the crying role pretty well, and Nadal maybe opposite Johnny Depp as a muscular pirate.

Newballs he went to University of Southern California, as a UCLA man myself I find myself not liking him as much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0-oinyjsk0

Replace Clint with Federer and the black guy with Novak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXZq9cl9P4Y

Again we immerse ourselves in another potential Djokovic flick, bubble boy, as we know Novak is well acquainted with the use of such 'pods'.

Touche JM, I wish he would have spent a few days in the bubble instead of turning up for Davis Cup, in my mind that was a bad decision.

Footage of Groucho Marx & Ellesworth Vines vs Charlie Chaplin & Fred Perry can be found here :-
http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//BHC_RTV/1937/07/22/BGU407220731/?s=tennis