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.
Roger Federer only just left Zambia after a visiting programmes supported by his self-named foundation this week. But he's already looking forward to returning to the African nation.
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Federer visited educational programmes and talked with students and parents who benefit from foundation-funded projects. He also made time for some fun, kicking around the football and dancing with boys and girls.
“The welcome here in Zambia has been wonderful. The people have been super, super, friendly. They could have not been nicer to me and to the team of the Roger Federer Foundation,” Federer said. “So when you feel this way, of course, you want to come back as soon as possible.”
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...
