He talked of a young female graduate of his program who recently finished college without any debt, thanks to a tennis scholarship. And for the foundation’s head tennis pro, he hired Marc Atkinson, who began playing at Washington’s facility in sixth grade and walked onto the Florida A&M tennis team. “He’s married with three kids, and at some point, I imagine he’s going to introduce the sport to his kids,” Washington said. “So with the thousands of kids that we’re helping, that tennis champion may be part of that next generation, or the one after that. His two meetings with Ashe produced “no deep conversations,” he said, and he did not heed Ashe’s advice on staying in school, though he eventually earned a degree in finance from the University of North Florida.

Source: New York Times September 08, 2018 00:00 UTC