The tournament site is the Bonita Bay Club Tennis Center, which has 18 Har-Tru courts and is located in Bonita Bay, at the corner of West Terry Street and U.S. Part of Lee Memorial Health System, the facility is the only one of its kind between Tampa and Miami. A capital campaign is under way for a new 128-bed facility at HealthPark. Proceeds will help underwrite a pediatric pharmacy for the new Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida. This is the seventh year Bonita Bay Club members have worked to bring some of the biggest names in tennis to Southwest Florida.

The FineMark Tour Players Tennis Classic will feature a half-dozen additional tennis greats participating in four events Saturday, March 1. Davis Cup team and is a member of the World Tennis Team Champion Philadelphia Freedoms. His wins include the Wimbledon Championship with partner Jared Palmer and the Wimbledon Mixed Championship. 1 doubles team and logged 23 titles on the ATP tour. Fernandez was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2010. Her 17 Grand Slam titles encompass all four of the annual tournaments. 1 doubles player for several years and reached a career-high singles ranking of No. Tickets are $85 per person and can be obtained by calling 23 or by visiting Fernandez won 71 career tournament titles and two Olympic gold medals while representing the United States she also played on the Fed Cup Team for Puerto Rico. Tickets for Friday evening's Champions Team Match include a courtside dinner, two drinks, a silent auction and the Access Book with discounted golf, tennis and dining privileges at Southwest Florida private clubs. The sets will offer several combinations of men and women, and the team winning the highest number of games will win the match and earn a cash purse.

The Friday evening event will use the World Team Tennis format with coaches determining the players to compete in five sets of tennis. Dirt' Wilkinson, holder of six singles and nine doubles titles and David MacPherson, five-time Australian juniors doubles champion and holder of 16 ATP Tour doubles titles. 1 in the world Thomas Blake, a member of the U.S. Open and French Open mixed-doubles champion Dick Stockton and Owen Davidson, winner of 13 Grand Slam championships and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.Ĭaptain Johnson will be joined by Women's Tennis Association champion Brenda Schultz-McCarthy JoAnne Russell, Wimbledon doubles champion and former No. The match is the kickoff event of the two day FineMark Tour Players Tennis Classic held to raise funds for Barbara's Friends, The Golisano Children's Hospital cancer fund.įernandez, winner of 17 Grand Slam championships, will headline a team that includes fellow Grand Slam champions Scott Davis and David Pate Women's Tennis Association champion and Grand Slam player Jessica Steck U.S. 28 Champions Team Match at Bonita Bay Club. Grand Slam titleholder Gigi Fernandez and Wimbledon champion Don Johnson will captain the two five member teams competing in the Feb.

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