World Team Tennis, I have been banned from European tournaments, banned from playing Davis Cup and banned by my own Romanian Tennis Federation. I break my back for my team. We all fight together, and this is the kind of officiating we get. This is not tennis." WTT denied the Lobsters' protest. A five-match winning streak put the Lobsters at 12–7 before losing their final match of the first half of the season as the league took a break in its schedule for Wimbledon. Following the Wimbledon break, the Lobsters had two four-match losing streaks in July, and last eight of nine matches in that span to fall to 15–18. They won four of their next six to improve to 19–20, and the Lobsters remained in the hunt for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Division. However, the Lobsters lost their final five matches of the season to finish with 19 wins and 25 losses, second place in the Atlantic Section and 2 matches behind the final Eastern Division playoff spot. Following the 1974 season, it was reported that Ciccolo had lost about $300,000 operating the Lobsters. In early 1975, he was forced to declare bankruptcy. At the WTT owners meeting on February 1, 1975, each team was required to post a $500,000 letter of credit. Since the Lobsters failed to do so the team was contracted by WTT. A dispersal draft was conducted to distribute the players among the remaining teams in the league. Weeks later, a group of investors that included Bob Mades, Paul Slater, Herbert S. Hoffman, Robert K. Kraft and Harold Bayne emerged as a potential owner for a WTT franchise in Boston. However, the Lobsters had already been contracted. The group purchased the Philadelphia Freedoms on March 27, moved the team to Boston. In order to claim the name of the original Lobsters, the new ownership group would be required to settle some of the debts of the former team. The new owners decided to do this and renamed the team the Boston Lobsters. In promotional materials and media guides for 1975 onward, the new Lobsters management presented the team as a continuation of this 1974 team and ignored any history the franchise had in Philadelphia, since they had paid for the right to do so by settling debts of the original Lobsters. 1974 match log Reference: {| align="center" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid