City Parks Foundation Hosts 16th Annual CityParks Tennis Benefit

August 28, 2013 | By New York Tennis Magazine Staff
Photo credit: Adam Wolfthal

City Parks Foundation’s Annual CityParks Tennis Benefit, co-chaired by Billie Jean King and John McEnroe, was held Tuesday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The event raised more than $200,000 for CityParks Tennis, a free youth instructional program that serves over 7,000 children in parks throughout New York City each season. Held each year at the U.S. Open, the event, hosted by Budd Mishkin, featured a cocktail party, dinner, silent and live auction, and tickets to the Open session matches in Arthur Ashe Stadium. This year, City Parks Foundation honored Eric Fromm, a native New Yorker and the former number 38 tennis player in the world with the 2013 Vitas Gerulaitis Community Service Award. Fromm currently serves as the managing director of SPORTIME, which runs144 state-of-the-art indoor and outdoor tennis courts.

The event also honored CityParks Tennis youth player, 14 year-old Daniel Corona, with the Billie Jean King Junior Award. Daniel was also presented with a full scholarship to the John McEnroe Tennis Academy, a moment that surprised him and the moved the crowd of over 250 to cheers. Daniel, of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., began playing tennis with the program at Cunningham Park, before he earned a spot in the Chase Aces year-round intermediate level program and this past summer landed himself in the City Parks Foundation Junior Academy presented by LACOSTE, an annual tournament-training program for experienced players held at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center.

Credit all photos to Adam Wolfthal

 

 

 

 

 

 


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