Tennis legend Billie Jean King, along with World Team Tennis (WTT), will donate 120 tennis racquets to the Orthotic & Prosthetic Assistance Fund Inc. (OPAF) and First VolleyTM tennis clinics. The racquets will be given to participants at future First Volley adaptive tennis clinics. King and WTT donated a total of 1,000 racquets to adaptive programs across the nation.
"This donation means a great deal to First Volley and OPAF," said OPAF Executive Director Robin Burton. "It serves as recognition from USTA of our position in the nation as a recognized top-quality adaptive tennis program. It also gives our First Volley participants the equipment to go forward with adaptive tennis and work to build the program. We are so grateful to Ms. King for generosity to First Volley."
First Volley is an adaptive tennis clinic for ambulatory players, aiming toward amputees and those with physical challenges who wish to play tennis, but choose not to sit in a wheelchair to do so. The next First Volley clinic will be held Saturday, September 29, at Frog Hollow Racquet Club in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Clinics in Tyler, Texas, and Bloomfield, Michigan, will follow.
