By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, Might 2, 2024
Laughter is the perfect medication—and a key ally to the Johnny Mac Tennis Challenge.
Corridor of Famer John McEnroe and brother Patrick McEnroe joined forces with New York Metropolis’s high comedians to boost greater than $300,000 on the Johnny Mac Tennis Challenge’s (JMTP) sold-out sixth annual Comedy Evening fundraiser.
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On Tuesday, April sixteenth, a few of New York Metropolis’s high comedians joined tennis famous person John McEnroe and his brother Patrick McEnroe for an evening of guffaws for trigger at Sony Corridor in midtown Manhattan. Friends joined JMTP board members, celebrities, and associates for an evening of laughter in help of a terrific trigger.
MCs Seth Herzog and Alex Moffat hosted Matt Buddy, Punkie Johnson, David Cross, Judah Friedlander, and Sal Vulcano for a sold-out night time of guffaws at Sony Corridor in midtown Manhattan whereas elevating greater than $300,000 to help JMTP’s youth tennis programming in New York Metropolis.
The night time’s comedians shared the stage with neighborhood programming. JMTP Government Director Ryann Cutillo acquainted the packed viewers with the pillars of JMTP applications and launched academics from the org’s neighborhood programming, participant dad and mom from their excellence applications, and the mom of a scholarship participant.
Based in 2012, the Johnny Mac Tennis Challenge (JMTP) offers entry to the game of tennis for hundreds of youngsters and households, primarily from the Harlem and Bronx neighborhoods adjoining to the Sportime Randall’s Island Tennis Middle. Along with partnering with native public colleges to offer free tennis instruction and making courtroom time out there to the neighborhood by way of partnerships with the Metropolis and different native nonprofits, JMTP has additionally disbursed over $8M in scholarships, permitting gifted gamers to compete and obtain high-level coaching by way of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy.
The Occasion included a silent public sale that includes native present playing cards to eating places, lodge stays, and exercise lessons, and an thrilling stay public sale program that includes tickets to Laver Cup, Indian Wells Finals, French Open, US Open and the distinctive alternative to golf with John McEnroe.
Concerning the Johnny Mac Tennis Challenge (JMTP)
The Johnny Mac Tennis Challenge (JMTP) adjustments younger lives by eradicating the financial and social obstacles to success by way of tennis. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, JMTP introduces tennis to hundreds of New York Metropolis youngsters from under-resourced areas, notably these residing in East Harlem and the South Bronx, two communities instantly adjoining to our base at Sportime Randall’s Island. JMTP gamers are first launched to tennis as a life-long well being, health and social exercise. For our most devoted younger athletes, ages six to eighteen years previous, JMTP funds scholarships to the John McEnroe Tennis Academy (JMTA), which offers a pathway to success by way of aggressive tennis, main to varsity scholarships, careers within the trade, and, for a number of, skilled tennis careers and, maybe, Grand Slam titles.
Photograph credit score: Stephen Mayo Pictures
