insiders as well as a tennis public who became educated about the game as a result of reading them. He was a mentor on and off court to Vitas Gerulaitis. Scott ran tournaments in New York and New Jersey for many years before taking over as tournament director of the ATP Masters at Madison Square Garden. In 1990, he was asked to start up the Kremlin Cup, an ATP event in Moscow, with a remit to produce with $1 million in sponsorship in nine months. With some assistance from the Kremlin, when Boris Yeltsin became president of Russia, Scott came up with Bayer as his first title sponsor and the tournament, played inside the vast Olympic Arena, immediately drew some of the largest crowds on the ATP tour. Death and legacy Scott died of amyloidosis at the age of 68 and was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame (ITHF) in 2008 in the "contributor" category. Since 2006, the ITHF annually presents the Eugene L. Scott Award to an individual who "embodies Scott's commitment to communicating honestly and critically about the game, and who has had a significant impact on the tennis world." References External links Eugene L. Scott website 1937 births 2006 deaths American magazine publishers (people) American male tennis players American real tennis players People from St. James, New York People from Southborough, Massachusetts Sportspeople from Worcester County, Massachusetts St. Mark's School (Massachusetts) alumni International Tennis Hall of Fame inductees Tennis people from Massachusetts Tennis people from New York (state) Yale Bulldogs men's tennis players University of Virginia School of Law alumni Tennis writers Deaths from amyloidosis