Seattle Cascades
Round No Overall Player chosen
1 3 3 Rod Laver
2 14 30 Karen Hantze Susman
3 3 35 Wendy Overton
4 14 62 Ilie Năstase
5 3 67 Jan Kodeš
6 14 94 Alex Metreveli
7 3 99 Maria Bueno
8 14 126 Roy Barth
9 3 131 Ann Haydon-Jones
10 14 158 Glynis Coles
Team history -- Founding and inaugural season
The Cascades were founded as WTT 's charter franchise for San Diego , California in 1973 , by orthodontist Dr. Leonard Bloom . [ 1 ] The team adopted the name San Diego Swingers . [ 2 ] The top 10 draft choices of the Swingers in the WTT inaugural draft were [ 3 ]
The Seattle Cascades were a charter franchise of World Team Tennis (WTT). The team first played as the Hawaii Leis in the league's inaugural 1974 season, before becoming the Sea-Port Cascades for the 1977 season, when it played half its home matches in Seattle, Washington and the other half in Portland, Oregon. The team left Portland in 1978, and played nearly all its home matches in Seattle. The Cascades announced the team would fold following the 1978 season.