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The tennis world is mourning the death of former top administrator Brian Tobin, who served as president of the International Tennis Federation and Tennis Australia.
Tobin, who laid the foundations for the great success of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park, died on Monday aged 93, according to the ITF.
He became the first full-time president of the ITF in 1991 and guided the governing body into a new era that followed the establishment of the ATP and WTA tours and the reintroduction of tennis into the Olympics in 1988.
The Perth-born businessman headed Tennis Australia from 1977 to 1989, overseeing the move of the Australian Open from the grass courts of Kooyong to its current home at Melbourne Park, and the construction of
