Breakthrough New York will hold its fourth annual Gala on Tuesday, April 19, honoring three inspiring leaders: Grand Slam Winner and ESPN Analyst Chris Evert, Credit Suisse Managing Director Maria Chiodi, and Edgehill Endowment Partners Co-Founder and Managing Partner D. Ellen Shuman. The Gala will be held at 583 Park Avenue at 63rd Street in Manhattan. The…
When my longtime client and friend Ivan Lendl called me to tell me that Pete Sampras wanted to play Roger Federer back in 2007, we laughed and said it would never happen. But I said to him if it is going to happen, it should happen at Madison Square Garden. There hadn't been tennis at…
Debbie’s Dream Foundation will be holding a Tennis and Charity Luncheon on Thursday, March 10 from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at Roosevelt Island Racquet Club to raise money for stomach cancer awareness, research and education and to support patients, families and caregivers. The event is sponsored by NYJTL and Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning…
Bill de Blasio may be the official Mayor of New York City, but he isn’t the only one who wears that title in the city that never sleeps. Jeffrey Appel is commonly and appropriately referred to as the “Mayor of New York Tennis” because of the relationships and connections he makes and develops between the…
USTA Foundation, the national charitable organization of the USTA, has announced that it has been selected by sports marketing and entertainment company StarGames Inc. and MSG promoters as the official charity of the 2016 BNP Paribas Showdown. This is the third consecutive year the USTA Foundation will serve as the event’s official charity. The BNP…
New York Junior Tennis & Learning (NYJTL) recently held its 30th Annual Leadership Awards Luncheon at the Grand Hyatt New York, raising more than $450,000 to support its free community tennis programs, tournament team training, after-school programming and other tennis and education activities for children and young adults across the city. At the Luncheon, NYJTL presented Leadership Awards to three…
This week marks the opening of the indoor season at New York Junior Tennis & Learning’s (NYJTL) Cary Leeds Center, with the bubbles going up at Crotona Park for the first time. The two five-court bubbles were inflated earlier this month at NYJTL’s flagship facility and will remain on-site until after the winter season concludes…
The John McEnroe Tennis Academy (JMTA) at Sportime Randall’s Island has concluded its annual tryouts for its premier tennis facility, offering a year-long scholarship to train at and learn from some of the best tennis coaches in the area. Tryouts consisted of multiple evaluations, ranging from attitude, to tennis skill, to work ethic. Hundreds of…
On Sunday, Aug. 30 at Central Park, Lacoste celebrated the 3rd Annual City Parks Foundation Free Pro Clinic, hosted by Lacoste brand ambassador Murphy Jensen. Several of Lacoste’s star players were on hand, including Timea Bacsinszky (#14), David Goffin (#15), Yung-Jan & Hao-Ching Chan (#16 & #26 in women’s doubles), Pablo Cuevas (#23), Jeremy Chardy…
The John McEnroe Tennis Academy (JMTA) hosted a Benefit Night this past week, bringing out stars of the tennis world for exhibition matches raising money for the Academy. In front of a packed crowd at Sportime Randall’s Island, 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal took on all-time great Lleyton Hewitt in the headline match, and…