More than 20 members of the We Lead Sports Inc. non-profit group from Trenton and Ewing visited the U.S. Open grounds on Monday.
, 10-year-old Melanie Hill got to hit tennis balls on the same courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center where Gauff is making her run.
“I think she’s a really strong player,” Hill told NJ Advance Media of Gauff, who beat Caroline Wozniacki in three sets on Sunday to set up a quarterfinal with No. 20 Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia on Tuesday. “She always has a positive attitude. she’s really inspiring to me.” “We are a non-profit organization,” Gbelama said. “Our goal is to equip young people to rise above adversity and soar high in all areas of their lives. Our main goal is to provide opportunities for young people to experience the sport of tennis because in our community we don’t have a whole lot of tennis opportunities available to our young people so the goal is to expose them to the opportunity and see where they go from there.
Now she wants to impart everything she’s learned about recruiting and tennis to a younger generation that does not have the financial wherewithal to learn and play tennis. The USTA and Net Generation help provide the group with smaller racquets, tennis balls and a tennis curriculum
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