Emilio Sanchez Vicario and Feliciano Lopez join ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot to explain the creation of the 2018 Casper Tour, a series of junior tennis events being held to honour the life of Casper Fernandez, a former student of Sanchez Vicario's academy and Lopez's father.
Emilio Sanchez Vicario and Feliciano Lopez announced on Tuesday the creation of the 2018 Casper Tour, a series of junior tennis events being held to honour the life of Casper Fernandez, a student at Academia Sánchez-Casal in Florida who passed away last July after a battle against bone cancer at the age of 16. “The Casper Tour is a tour born from tragedy. Casper was a tennis player who was trying to follow his dream of becoming a champion,” Sanchez Vicario said. “He showed so much courage. In the first moments, he was angry. But then he realised he wanted to help and he wanted to give back. So he convinced his father and me and everyone to try to...
Watch highlights of Roger Federer's first trip to Zambia, which he made as part of his efforts to visit programmes supported by his Roger Federer Foundation. Photo and Video courtesy of the Roger Federer Foundation.
The Gazprom Hungarian Open, a 2018 ATP ACES For Charity grant recipient, held a successful kids' day Wednesday in Budapest, benefitting more than 400 children. The tournament also donated three junior-sized sports wheelchairs, which kids used to play tennis with the help of wheelchair tennis instructors and ATP World Tour pros. Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili, No. 2 seed Damir Dzumhur, Colombian Santiago Gonzalez, Briton Dominic Inglot, Germans Yannick Maden and Maximilian Marterer, Japan's Ben McLachlan, Aussie John Millman, Hungarian Zsombor Piros, top seed Lucas Pouille, #NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov, Croatian Franko Skugor, Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky, and Swede Elias Ymer joined the festivities to help create a memorable experience for all of the kids. The event was held in tandem with the...
The Miami Open presented by Itau and ATP World Tour stars welcomed members of the boys' and girls' tennis teams from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for Saturday's evening session, which was called 'Marjory Stoneman Douglas Night' to honour the survivors of a shooting on 14 February in which 17 students and teachers from the school lost their lives. Kevin Anderson, Tournament Director James Blake, Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan, Michael Chang, Hyeon Chung, Steve Johnson, Karen Khachanov, Nick Kyrgios, Michael Mmoh, Sam Querrey, Diego Schwartzman, Denis Shapovalov and Alexander Zverev joined members of the WTA Tour with the students on court before play began in a sign of support, and spent time off the court getting to know the teenagers as well. John Isner also...
