Jack March

{{short description|American tennis player}}

{{Distinguish|Sam Match}}

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Jack March (August 4, 1919 – May 20, 1993)"Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKK2-X5X : 30 June 2021), John Lovell March, 1993. was an American tennis player and promoter best known for promoting the World Pro Championships from 1951 through 1964.American Lawn Tennis and World Tennis magazines of these years

In the fall of 1939, March was already a teaching professional at the Hollywood Beach Hotel in Florida.{{cite news |title=25 Years Ago |date=November 1964 |work=World Tennis}}

In July 1941 March and another player were arrested and charged with raping a 17-year-old girl.{{Cite news |date=1941-07-29 |title=Jail 2 Young Tennis Stars In Assault on Model, 17 |pages=354 |work=The Daily News (New York) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/432735296/}} The charges were dismissed by a jury two months later.{{Cite news |date=1941-09-18 |title=Jury Rejects Girl's Story Of Attack, Frees 2 Youths |pages=276 |work=The Daily News (New York) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/432646984/}}

March played in the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships from at least 1942 through 1950.{{cite book|last=McCauley|first=Joe|title=The History of Professional Tennis}}

In 1958, March invited Robert Ryland to play in the World Pro Tennis Tournament in Cleveland, Ohio, establishing Ryland as the first black professional tennis player.{{cite web|title=The Shreveport Journal, 2 May 1958|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/601126018|website=newspapers.com}} Ryland was inducted into the Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame in 2002.

March married Mary Rand (Remington Rand family), and together they had five children (John March, James March, Mary March Kiewel, Christine March, Susan March Cotton).

He had 12 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. He was the first cousin of amateur tennis player, Fred Krais Jr.{{Cite web |date=2007-12-23 |title=Paid Notice: Deaths KRAIS, FREDERICK V. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E6D6143AF930A15751C1A9619C8B63 |access-date=2022-04-29 |website= |publisher=The New York Times |language=en}}