Boston Lobsters
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The Boston Lobsters were a World TeamTennis team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Lobsters played home matches at the Walter Brown Arena, Boston University, in Boston, MA.
The most recent Boston Lobsters were a reincarnation of two previous WTT teams. The original Lobsters were a charter member of the league in 1974, and folded after just one season. The second Lobsters team were also a charter member of WTT in 1974, founded as the Philadelphia Freedoms. After the original Lobsters folded, businessman Robert Kraft purchased the Freedoms and moved them to Boston, renaming them the Lobsters. The second Lobsters team played in Boston for four seasons (1975–1978) before folding at the end of the 1978 season. WTT suspended operations shortly thereafter.
In 2005, local Boston businessman Bahar Uttam relaunched the team. The Lobsters made the Mylan WTT league's playoffs four times. In 2015, Uttam retired from the ownership position and the league took over operations of the Lobsters while seeking new local ownership.[1] On February 17, 2016, WTT announced that the Lobsters would cease operations and were subsequently replaced with a new franchise called the New York Empire.[2]
In 2025, the Australian tennis team "LobStars" flying under the Boston Lobsters logo, won Tennis Australia's 2025 Country Week tennis tournament held in Swan Hill, Victoria. The section 12 team successfully defeated Leongatha 2-1 to take the trophy.[3] The Country Week tournament is regarded as the largest annual grass court competition in the world with 1200 competitors and 222 teams.[4]
2015 squad
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- Template:Flagicon Jan-Michael Gambill, Head Coach
- Template:Flagicon Eugenie Bouchard
- Template:Flagicon Chase Buchanan
- Template:Flagicon Irina Falconi
- Template:Flagicon Scott Lipsky
- Template:Flagicon Arantxa Parra Santonja
See also
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References
External links
- Official Team Website
- Tennisopolis Profile Page
- Boston Lobsters on facebook
- Boston Lobsters on Twitter
- Boston Lobsters Youtube Channel
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- 2016 disestablishments in Massachusetts
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- Tennis in Massachusetts