New York Players Get Opportunity to Shine with Home Court Advantage
NEW YORK, (August 10, 2022) – New York Junior Tennis & Learning (NYJTL) is excited to announce 2022 NYJTL Bronx Open wildcards with local talent within the USTA Eastern section. The $60K professional women’s tournament promises a week of fierce competition, with wildcards given to Louisa Chirico in the main draw and Jamie Loeb, Christina McHale and Elysia Bolton in the qualifying singles draw. All four of these local, NYC area players have trained at NYJTL’s flagship home, the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning at some point in their careers and have graciously given back their time and talent to work with the organization’s rising juniors.
- Louisa Chirico is from Westchester, NY and has a career-high ranking of 58. Chirico’s favorite tournament is the French Open on red clay but enjoys hard courts as well making it through the Washington DC’s qualifying event last week.
- Jamie Loeb, raised in Bronxville, NY, was introduced to tennis at the age of 3. Loeb has a career-high ranking of 132 and has a game perfectly suited for the hard courts at the Cary Leeds Center, her favorite surface.
- Christina McHale began playing tennis in Hong Kong and later moved to NJ, and was heavily inspired by the Williams sisters growing up. McHale has a career-high ranking of 24 and has qualified into every Grand Slam tournament multiple times.
- Elysia Bolton grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, NY and has a career-high ranking of 517. This rising player is no stranger to the Cary Leeds Center and hopes to bring some home court advantage to this tournament.
More American players will be announced in the tournament over the next few days. The most up-to-date information will be found by visiting the NYJTL Bronx Open tournament website. The NYJTL Bronx Open is scheduled August 15-21, 2022 during the very height of tennis interest in New York City. The event continues NYJTL’s long history of hosting professional tennis tournaments and will feature a main draw with 32 singles players plus a 16-team doubles’ event and a 32-player qualifying event. The rankings of the entry players guarantee many of these women will go directly into the US Open main draw directly afterwards.
NYJTL welcomes the community to watch world-class tennis free of charge. The tournament provides the opportunity for NYC youth to experience professional tennis first-hand in a way that otherwise may not have been accessible to them. The NYJTL Bronx Open will bring many ways for the community to get involved in this special week, from youth tennis clinics to volunteer opportunities that provide a closer look into the professional tournament.
Get Involved
This year the NYJTL Bronx Open will take place at the Cary Leeds Center. With access to 20 tennis courts and two additional stadium courts with permanent seating for more than 800 spectators, the Victor Kiam Stadium and the Pershing Square Stadium offer a courtside view of the world to the community, creating an unmatched up-close and intimate tennis viewing experience. In addition, the Cary Leeds Center will serve as a practice court facility for the US Open and will host the US Open Junior Qualifying tournament. Matches begin Monday, August 15 at 10 am.
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About NYJTL:
The mission of New York Junior Tennis & Learning is to develop the character of young people through tennis and education for a lifetime of success on and off the court. Since 1971, NYJTL has changed lives through tennis, education, healthy living, and character development programs. Today, it is the largest youth tennis and education non-profit in the nation, reaching more than 85,000 K-12 New York City youth.
NYJTL provides after school programming in approximately 30 schools and community tennis programming at approximately 40 sites throughout New York City in the summer months and at additional sites that operate during the school year. In addition, NYJTL designed, funded (with NYC), built and operates the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning, at which it provides free and commercial tennis programming year-round as well as life skills, character development and healthy living lessons. All NYJTL community tennis and after school programs are offered at no cost to its participants.
Contact: Joe Ceriello
Chief Marketing & Development Officer
jceriello@nyjtl.org
(917) 693-6672