15-11-2010, 02:24 PM
Quote:Hi folks,
It has been over 13 years now that this site has been going and now it is time to bring it to a close.
Yes, this will be the final year for stevegtennis.com. It has been a fun and memorable ride and I'd like to thank all the people from around the world who kept this site going. Even in the early years when I was typing all the results myself anyway, I still had lots of help. In the beginning there was Fredrik Norstrom, Rudy Selva, R Jayakrishnan, and our man at the ITF, John Treleven. Of course there were many more too numerous to mention. In those early years Jelle Kok developed python scripts to magically turn my simple text files to usable formats for database use, which I still use to this day. Also to Sam for setting up the search site. And of course Jacqueline Dupree for starting it all.
In more recent years, volunteers at the forums kept the site going and I'd like to give a BIG thanks to them for all their hard work. To kid and Super-Fabio and more recently to Moder, Royston63, and so many more who work tirelessly and thanklessly to keep the results coming. I was very close to drawing things to a close earlier this year but they literally saved the site. Now I can go out on my own terms and not because I didn't have a choice. Free time has become more and more scarce and I have been dropping more and more features of the site. I'll certainly miss it but I'll be glad to have a good chunk of my life back. :-)
And now at least there are many more resources for information than there was when we began.
I'll keep things running until the end of the year and I'll keep the site up for a few more years (I believe the domain doesn't expire until 2013).
-- Steve G