We are pleased to share that the Southern Tennis Foundation 2023 recipient of the PTR Foundation/VDM scholarship is Kendall Moody from Columbus, Mississippi. She is an NJTL student with Golden Triangle Tennis and will be attending Northwest Mississippi Community College in the fall. Kendall will receive $1,000 for the next four years provided she maintains a qualifying GPA.
The PTR Foundation donated $5,000 to the Maui tennis community as a Humanitarian effort. Tennis pros at Royal Lahaina Tennis Ranch, Kapalua, and Lahaina Tennis Club lost homes and facilities to work at, but thankfully they were all able to evacuate and escape the flames with their families. With this donation we are committed to helping with the rebuilding of a strong community, and we wish the best to all of the affected Maui residents.
PTR International Master Professional and the Foundation’s dear friend, Jack Thompson passed away unexpectedly, by doing what he loved, playing doubles with some of his dearest friends. Thompson was a kind man with a great sense of humor. He was a phenomenal teacher, speaker, mentor, camp director, consultant, academy director and an author. Jack strongly believed that American tennis players should focus on developing a well-rounded game.
Is your high school / college team ready for the season? Are you ready to coach? It’s never too late to review our International Master Pro Tina Tharp’s guidelines for a successful season. She feels, “setting off court expectations is the hardest part. The on-court activities are the easiest part of team coaching, especially if you’ve taken care of what’s going on outside of their tennis lives.”
The foundation volunteered to teach a tennis clinic at the High School Day of the Golden Gate Open Tournament. This tournament, sponsored by Wilson and USTA Norcal and hosted by Stanford University, championed equitable opportunity in its first rendition this year. It is “the first combined 125-level event in the history of the sport to offer equal prize money to men and women competitors.”
August Tennis Trivia
What college has won the most NCAA women’s tennis team championships?
a. Georgia
b. Stanford
c. UCLA
d. USC
Tennis Trivia Answers
May – Aaron Krickstein
June – Navratilova had 43 wins; Evert had 37 wins
July – Steffi Graff (377 weeks)
August – Stanford