For more than three decades, Ralph Foster was a fixture of Buckhead’s Bitsy Grant Tennis Center.

Now, 11 years after his death, the center’s 12 new hard tennis courts will be named for the former desk manager. The new courts, replacing the previous 10 that were demolished in July, are part of a project to renovate the adjacent Bobby Jones Golf Course.

“Ralph was the face and spirit of Bitsy Grant for decades, and we can think of no better way to pay tribute to our dear friend than by making him the namesake for our new courts,” said Dart Meadows, president of the Friends of Bitsy Grant Tennis.

Foster worked at the center from the early 1950s until he retired in the mid-1980s. He died of complications from cancer in 2007 at the age of 75.

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