Verdasco Preps for Clay Court Season at Riverside Park
May 23, 2013 | By New York Tennis Magazine Staff
Where do top Spanish players train before the European spring clay court season that culminates with the French Open at Roland Garros? New York City public parks, of course! Fernando Verdasco stopped by the 96th Street public red clay courts in Riverside Park on April 1 for a two-hour work out.
"He came by a couple of times last year," said Mark McIntyre, executive director of the Riverside Clay Tennis Association, a non-profit group that maintains the courts for the NYC Parks Department. "It’s a real tribute to our grounds keeping staff that Fernando deems our courts worth using to train on. It’s taken years of hard work for our guys to get these courts up to this standard. We are very proud."
