By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Saturday, October 14, 2024
Arthur Ashe, Rosie Casals, Pancho Gonzalez and Billie Jean King are champions dedicated to a typical trigger: serving to youngsters pursue schooling and tennis desires.
Now, you possibly can personal treasured items of tennis historical past from the long-lasting champions—and profit the Latin American Tennis Basis’s youth packages within the course of.
Go to the LATF’s on-line public sale this weekend to bid or peruse some priceless items of memorabilia donated by Corridor of Famers King and Casals and the households of the late Corridor of Famers Ashe and Gonzalez.
Proceeds from the public sale profit the LATF and its founders Love & Tennis Basis and The Richard Pancho Gonzalez Youth Basis which give tennis and education schemes to kids in California.
The public sale ends on Monday, October sixteenth at 10 p.m. MST.
Organizers purpose to lift $100,000 from the public sale to assist fund the Latin American Tennis Basis’s tennis and education schemes.
Among the many notable public sale objects accessible this weekend:
*An Arthur Ashe Journal bundle that includes the tennis trailblazer on the covers of Sports activities Illustrated and Tennis Journal.
*A doubles lesson taught by two-time Corridor of Famer Rosie Casals. This gives the profitable bidder the possibility to hit balls with Corridor of Famer Rosie Casals and in addition take pleasure in a 90-minute doubles clinic with three of your pals at Indian Ridge Nation Membership in Palm Desert.
*A 3-day, two-night ticket bundle to the 2024 Argentina Open. Go to the long-lasting Buenos Aires Garden Tennis Membership for the match, February Twelfth-18th, 2024. The profitable bidder earns field seat tickets for February 14th, fifteenth, and sixteenth and the bundle consists of two nights keep on the match’s official lodge the place the gamers keep.
*Artist LeRoy Neimen’s blended doubles art work autographed by Billie Jean King, Chrissie Evert and Stan Smith.
*Billie Jean King has donated her autographed autobiography, 2023 US Open program and art work for the public sale.
*A bronze three-and-a-half foot Bobby Riggs sculpture of the champion by artist John Petek of Montana. One in every of solely two of Petek-created Riggs’ sculptures in existence. The opposite offered within the Nineties for $30,000, based on the public sale home. Petek additionally sculpted Arthur Ashe, Charlie Pasarell, Muhammad Ali, and Pete Rose. John Petek was a Billings, MT native, a gifted painter and sculptor, and a nationally famend artist.
Proceeds from the public sale objects profit the LATF and its ongoing youth packages.
Based by former Latin tennis champion, Rosie Casals and relations of the legendary Pancho Gonzalez, the one champion ever inducted into the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame whereas nonetheless an lively participant, LATF gives alternatives to Latin People of all ages
LATF present excessive efficiency coaching and scholarships to junior opponents who qualify by means of an software course of. The LATF mission assertion is to “supply instructional and mentor packages, tennis clinics, aggressive tournaments, and group occasions in partnership with different Latino-focused group organizations to develop consciousness of the game among the many Latin American group.”
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“The Basis has helped present teaching to loads of youngsters and in addition aggressive gamers needing monetary help to journey and compete,” Greg Gonzales, nephew of Pancho Gonzalez, and Co-Founder and Vice President of the Richard Gonzalez Youth Basis instructed Tennis Now. “We ask tennis followers: please assist our Youth Growth Fund to present these youngsters good actions.
“You possibly can donate instantly or go to the public sale and place a bid figuring out your donation or bid goes to assist our children. Thanks for serving to.”
The Wisconsin ladies’ highschool tennis workforce, a squad comprised primarily of kids of Mexican farm employees pictured above, are among the many gamers who the LATF have labored with and mentored by means of its packages.
Photograph credit: LATF
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