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By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, Could 2, 2024
Laughter is the perfect medication—and a key ally to the Johnny Mac Tennis Undertaking.
Corridor of Famer John McEnroe and brother Patrick McEnroe joined forces with New York Metropolis’s prime comedians to lift greater than $300,000 on the Johnny Mac Tennis Undertaking’s (JMTP) sold-out sixth annual Comedy Evening fundraiser.
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On Tuesday, April sixteenth, a few of New York Metropolis’s prime comedians joined tennis famous person John McEnroe and his brother Patrick McEnroe for an evening of guffaws for a superb trigger at Sony Corridor in midtown Manhattan. Company joined JMTP board members, celebrities, and buddies for an evening of laughter in help of a fantastic trigger.
MCs Seth Herzog and Alex Moffat hosted Matt Buddy, Punkie Johnson, David Cross, Judah Friedlander, and Sal Vulcano for a sold-out evening 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 evening’s comedians shared the stage with group programming. JMTP Govt Director Ryann Cutillo acquainted the packed viewers with the pillars of JMTP packages and launched academics from the org’s group programming, participant mother and father from their excellence packages, and the mom of a scholarship participant.
Based in 2012, the Johnny Mac Tennis Undertaking (JMTP) gives 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 faculties to supply free tennis instruction and making court docket time out there to the group by way of partnerships with the Metropolis and different native nonprofits, JMTP has additionally disbursed over $8M in scholarships, permitting proficient 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 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.
In regards to the Johnny Mac Tennis Undertaking (JMTP)
The Johnny Mac Tennis Undertaking (JMTP) modifications younger lives by eradicating the financial and social limitations to success by way 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 gives a pathway to success by way of aggressive tennis, main to varsity scholarships, careers within the trade, and, for a couple of, skilled tennis careers and, maybe, Grand Slam titles.
Photograph credit score: Stephen Mayo Pictures
