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William Ewing (Slew) Hester, a past United States Tennis Assn. president and chairman of the U.S. Open, died in Jackson, Miss., after a 20-year battle with rheumatoid arthritis. He was 80. Hester is recognized as the builder of the National Tennis Center for the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadow, N.Y., in 1978.
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