New Chapter Media and tennis industry veteran Randy Walker has provided a strong cavalcade of business and mainstream media placements on behalf of the recently-concluded 2015 PowerShares Series tennis circuit for champion tennis players featuring John McEnroe, Andy Roddick, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier and others.
The 2015 PowerShares Series marked the first time in tennis history that no linespeople were used at events, with Hawk-Eye Challenges being used to settle disputed calls, with unlimited challenges. CNN.com spoke to Jim Courier and Mark Philippoussis about the ground-breaking event prior to its debut at the PowerShares Series event in Salt Lake City here: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/24/tennis/hawk-eye-tennis-powershares-mcenroe-courier/ and Reuters profiled it in advance of McEnroe’s 2015 PowerShares Series debut here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/31/us-tennis-mcenroe-linesmen-idUSKBN0MR2GV20150331
McEnroe and Andy Roddick discussed the initiative on Fox Business Channel on “After The Closing Bell” with Liz Claman and David Asman as seen here: http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2015/04/02/mcenroe-roddick-play-high-tech-tennis/ McEnroe also discussed the new line-calling format – and his long storied history of dealing with linespeople with Dan Patrick here http://www.danpatrick.com/2015/03/31/john-mcenroe-says-tennis-needs-to-shed-country-club-image/ and also with Rich Eisen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfI0-HVEgEk He also appeared on the season premiere of the Jim Rome Show on Showtime, that can be seen here: http://www.sidereel.com/jim_rome_on_showtime
Also in advance of the PowerShares Series, Andy Roddick talked about his investment strategies with CNN Money here: http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/12/investing/andy-roddick-tennis-investing/
Courier, the co-founder of the PowerShares Series, was also featured in Investor’s Business Daily during the Series here: http://news.investors.com/management-leaders-and-success/042415-749492-tennis-champion-jim-courier-cofounded-powershares-series.htm?src=3MC749492
Pre and post-event in individual event markets can be seen here: Andre Agassi Salt Lake City Tribune Preview: http://www.sltrib.com/sports/2323063-155/tennis-former-great-andre-agassi-headlines
Andre Agassi Deseret News Preview: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865624874/Andre-Agassi-Jim-Courier-to-meet-at-Huntsman-Center-Tuesday-night.html?pg=all
Mark Philippoussis Wins Salt Lake City Event: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865624949/Philippoussis-beats-Agassi-in-fun-tennis-event-at-Huntsman-Center.html?pg=all
KSL Reviews PowerShares Series in Salt Lake City: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=294&sid=33972598
KSL Radio Interview with Andre Agassi in Salt Lake City: http://t.co/NtxvQMXTwq
Andy Roddick Wins Title In Los Angeles From TennisView Magazine: http://www.tennisviewmag.com/tennis-view-magazine/article/andy-roddick-wins-powershares-title-los-angeles
Andy Roddick Keeping Busy Outside of Tennis, from Lincoln Journal-Star: http://journalstar.com/sports/local/other-sports/roddick-keeping-busy-away-from-tennis/article_63e7bda7-a727-58b0-94c9-989ef00ad21e.html
No Joking! John McEnroe To Call His Own Lines, from Lincoln Journal Star: http://journalstar.com/sports/local/other-sports/no-jokin-mcenroe-will-call-his-own-lines-at-pba/article_8106595f-71dc-5194-95eb-0e186f9cf805.html
PowerShares Series Officials Impressed With Lincoln, from Lincoln Journal Star: http://journalstar.com/sports/local/other-sports/tennis-notebook-powershares-series-officials-impressed-with-lincoln/article_5e995149-8ccb-50e5-a950-c531668be471.html
Question and Answer with Andy Roddick, from Omaha World-Herald: http://www.omaha.com/sports/q-a-with-andy-roddick/article_9c040524-78ea-55f0-802a-637d6509968c.html
Andy Roddick Rolls on Nebraska Turf, from Lincoln Journal-Star: http://journalstar.com/sports/local/other-sports/champions-cup-roddick-rolls-on-nebraska-turf/article_ba8f7167-a97a-5827-9458-e8d9dc3a08c4.html
Big Names Hit Tennis Courts in Lincoln, Nebraska, from KNTV: http://www.klkntv.com/story/28696255/big-tennis-names-hit-the-court-in-lincoln
Andy Roddick Talks To “The Ticket” In Advance of Nebraska Appearance: http://www.theticketfm.com/morning-take/andy-roddick-2003-u-s-open-tennis-winner-and-former-world-1-ranked-tennis-playerhang-up-on-holstein/
John McEnroe and Andy Roddick Hit Austin, from Austin-American Statesman: http://www.statesman.com/news/sports/mcenroe-roddick-hit-town-for-exhibition-matches/nkt64/
McEnroe and Roddick Among Tennis Stars At Cedar Park, from KXAN: http://kxan.com/2015/04/16/roddick-and-mcenroe-among-tennis-star-in-cedar-park/
John McEnroe Preview on Arkansas Online: http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/apr/16/mcenroe-mens-tennis-falling-behind-us/?f=sports-prosports
Andy Roddick Wins Little Rock PowerShares Series, from Arkansas Online: http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/apr/18/nice-job-whippersnapper-20150418/?f=sports
Tennis Icons Coming To Little Rock, from KATV: http://www.katv.com/story/28616346/tennis-icons-coming-to-little-rock
John McEnroe Talks Tennis With 103.7 The Buzz in Little Rock, Arkansas http://www.1037thebuzz.com/media-gallery/detail.asp?GalleryID=8226
PowerShares Tennis Series leaves line calling to players, from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/other-sports/article18232955.html
Roddick thriving at next level of career, from the Fort Worth Star Telegram: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/other-sports/article18727038.html
Roddick notches record sixth win in Dallas, from the Fort Worth Star Telegram: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/article18906768.html
Moody Coliseum Holds Special Memories For John McEnroe, from The Dallas Morning News http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/more-sports/headlines/20150417-smu-s-moody-coliseum-holds-good-memories-for-john-mcenroe-who-s-back-in-town-with-powershares-series-champions-tennis-circuit.ece
John McEnroe To Call His Own Lines In Richmond, story from the Richmond Times-Dispatch here: http://www.richmond.com/sports/professional/tennis/article_c2d178df-3efe-549e-ae96-ecd3a5d4b8c3.html
NBC12 coverage of PowerShares Series in Richmond here: http://www.nbc12.com/clip/11423074/roddick-claims-powershares-series-title-in-richmond?clienttype=generic
Former tennis champs battle it out at Champions Challenge in Richmond, from the Richmond Times Dispatch: http://www.richmond.com/sports/professional/tennis/article_40226a5e-7f8b-5d9b-8277-8e9928af768a.html
John McEnroe Speaks with Mo Egger in Cincinnati on ESPN1530: Cincinnati here: http://www.espn1530.com/onair/mo-egger-9170/my-interview-with-john-mcenroe-13448764/
Tennis Legends Return To Town, from the Cincinnati Enquirer here: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/tennis/2015/04/27/tennis-legends-return-to-town-thursday-night/26477557/
John McEnroe Talks to Justin Gaard at KFAN in Minneapolis here: http://www.kfan.com/media/podcast-the-cake-show-KFAN_JustinGaard/310-
In Advance of Vancouver Visit, Pete Sampras Says Milos Raonic Knocking On The Door of a Major: http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Pete+Sampras+Milos+knocking+door+major/10794651/story.html
John McEnroe Still Raising A Racquet, from The Vancouver Sun: http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/John+MacEnroe+still+raising+racket+without+anger/10944329/story.html
Is Electronic Line Calling The Future of Tennis, from TennisNow.com http://www.tennisnow.com/News/2015/April/Is-Electronic-Line-Calling-the-Future-of-Tennis-A.aspx
New Chapter Media is a full-service, boutique marketing agency with a specialty in sports. The company was founded in 1987 as a book publishing company – New Chapter Press – and morphed into a sales, marketing and publishing company in 2006, when former U.S. Tennis Association executive Randy Walker became Managing Partner of the firm. New Chapter Media offers marketing, publicity, sales and event services in addition to being a well-established publishing house.
Walker is a sports marketing, communications and media specialist – and the Managing Partner of New Chapter Media – based in New York City. Walker is most noted for his work in the tennis industry, highlighted by a 12-year stint in the Marketing and Communications division of the United States Tennis Association that featured work on 13 U.S. Open championships, 22 U.S. Davis Cup ties and three Olympic Games. Sportsillustrated.com went as far to label Walker “the Roger Federer of tennis publicity.”
Walker’s client work include spearheading national and international publicity as well as new business development support for Jim Courier and the PowerShares Series tennis circuit. Other recent clients include Harvard vs. Yale “Rivalry on Ice” at Madison Square Garden, Playsight, the Tennis Resort at ESPN Wide World of Sports, SAP, Casa de Campo resort in the Dominican Republic, the National Lacrosse League, the New York Titans National Lacrosse League franchise, Spira Footwear, Leverage Agency, City of Delray Beach, Fla., the International Fight League, BOX-NYC, Radilla Advertising among others. Walker has also contributed in sponsorship and advertising sales for the U.S. Davis Cup Team, the U.S. Fed Cup Team, Tennis Week magazine among others.
Walker’s publicity efforts with the New York Titans in 2007 were called by the National Lacrosse League as “the best week of national U.S. press coverage the league has ever had.” CNBC labeled his efforts on behalf of Spira Footwear at the Boston Marathon as “marketing genius.”
Since 2006, Walker has served as the managing partner the New Chapter Press, a boutique book publishing company, now publishing arm for New Chapter Media, founded in 1987. Since becoming partner with the firm, Walker has overseen the publishing, promotion and international distribution for book titles generating approximately $1 million in gross international sales. Walker’s most notable titles include “Roger Federer, Quest for Perfection,” the first U.S.-published biography of the Swiss tennis great, “The Bud Collins History of Tennis,” written by the Hall of Fame tennis journalist and TV personality, “The Education of a Tennis Player” by Rod Laver and “Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games” written by Tom and Jerry Caraccioli with a foreword by Vice President Walter Mondale. Walker authored and published the book “On This Day In Tennis History” in 2008 and “The Days of Roger Federer” in 2014.
Walker spent 12 years in the Marketing and Communications Division of the U.S. Tennis Association from 1993 to 2005, concluding his tenure at the USTA in the position of Sr. Publicity Manager for Professional Tennis. During his tenure at the USTA, Walker was an integral part of the USTA’s publicity and media operations team for the U.S. Open, coordinating post-event media tours for champions Patrick Rafter, Lindsay Davenport and Lleyton Hewitt, managing Heineken’s U.S. Open Player Party in from 1997 to 1999 and working with U.S. Open sponsors such as IBM, Continental, American Express, Evian, Lincoln, JP Morgan Chase and Olympus. He worked as the press officer for the U.S. Olympic Tennis Team at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, the 2000 Games in Sydney and the 2004 Games in Athens, managing gold medal media tours for gold medalists Andre Agassi, Lindsay Davenport, Venus Williams and Serena Williams. Walker was also the press officer for the U.S. Davis Cup team from 1997 to 2005 where he worked closely with Davis Cup sponsors NEC and BNP Paribas and U.S. team sponsor AIG. Walker was responsible for numerous media successes including hits on The Tonight Show, Late Show with David Letterman, Today, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, ESPN, CNN, USA Today, New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, among others.
Prior to working at the USTA, Walker worked at the Connecticut Radio Network for its nationally syndicated “Ski Watch” program and as a sports reporter for The Daily News, a New York Times company daily newspaper in suburban Atlanta. Walker graduated from the Univ. of Georgia in 1991 with a degree in Communications and a minor in History and English. He was a walk-on member of the Georgia men’s tennis team that won the SEC Championship in 1988 and 1989 and were NCAA Finalists in 1989. He is the great, great, great nephew of James K. Polk, the 11th President of the United States.
