Twenty years ago I directed activities for a tennis club. We thought it a great idea to hold an exhibition match in the Sacramento California King Dome. We selected two of the World’s best: Ivan Lendl and John McEnroe. Our one day cost for the match; McEnroe $75,000 and Lendl $50,000. I kid you not the cost twenty years ago back in the day when minimum wage was $3.25 an hour our club paid out $125,000 to two players for an exhibition tennis match that the public could pay $40 a ticket to watch from the nose bleed section!
Brian and Dann Battistone are two of the best players in the World who have won multiple money tournaments. In an effort to promote and build our new Maple Mountain High School Tennis Team and our tennis community these ATP Tennis Professionals are volunteering to play this match for FREE. They are even paying their own way to fly out here between tournament play!
WE hope to see you there with all of your friends to sign up for MMHS Tennis Camp #3. After the match a Press Conference will be held and photo signing and autographs will be made available to all Camp Student’s past, present and future this summer. Feel free to bring your rackets, hats, balls or any item you want signed!
See you tomorrow—rain or shine—we will move into the basketball gym if it rains!
Coach Paul Whiting
Friday, June 26, 2009
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