Russ Adams (tennis photographer)

Russ Adams ( born July 30, 1930 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American sports photographer.

Life and work

Russ Adams ' great achievement is the course of five decades long-lasting photographic documentation of the history of tennis. His work includes the Grand Slam tournaments, the Fed Cup, the Davis Cup and the Olympic tennis tournaments. In 1955 he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in the category Photography. Adams ' photographs graced more than 250 magazine covers. The American has more than 1.6 million sports photos and the largest private archive of tennis photographs. 2007 was his induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

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