By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, Might 2, 2024
Laughter is the very best drugs—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 lift 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 snickers for a very good trigger at Sony Corridor in midtown Manhattan. Visitors joined JMTP board members, celebrities, and pals for an evening of laughter in assist of an amazing trigger.
MCs Seth Herzog and Alex Moffat hosted Matt Pal, Punkie Johnson, David Cross, Judah Friedlander, and Sal Vulcano for a sold-out night time of snickers at Sony Corridor in midtown Manhattan whereas elevating greater than $300,000 to assist JMTP’s youth tennis programming in New York Metropolis.
The night time’s comedians shared the stage with group programming. JMTP Government Director Ryann Cutillo acquainted the packed viewers with the pillars of JMTP applications and launched academics from the org’s group programming, participant mother and father 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 Heart. Along with partnering with native public colleges to supply free tennis instruction and making courtroom time accessible to the group by means 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 means of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy.
The Occasion included a silent public sale that includes native present playing cards to eating places, resort stays, and exercise courses, and an thrilling reside 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 limitations to success by means of tennis. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, JMTP introduces tennis to hundreds of New York Metropolis kids from under-resourced areas, notably these dwelling 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 means of aggressive tennis, main to school scholarships, careers within the trade, and, for a couple of, skilled tennis careers and, maybe, Grand Slam titles.
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