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GRAND SLAM CHAMPION
Andy Roddick
Takes on Pickleball
R
ecently the Andy Roddick
Foundation (ARF) held a
fundraiser and the activity everyone
was focused on was pickleball. Andy
Roddick, a retired world champion
tennis professional, was there himself
and played pickleball for the first
time.
Roddick was ranked #1 in the
world in 2003 when he won the U.S.
Open Grand Slam championship
title. Playing professional tennis for
13 seasons, he was ranked in the
Top 10 of the Association of Tennis
Professionals (ATP) for nine years in a
row. Retiring in 2012, he spends time
supporting his philanthropic efforts
based out of Austin, Texas. This
particular event, supported by the
ASK Charitable Foundation, raised
funds to meet the goal of ARF: aiming
to enrich the lives of children outside
the classroom.
Amer Delić, a friend of Roddick
and a tennis pro as well, joined top
pickleball players from around the
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country such as Scott Moore, Kyle
Yates, and Christine Barksdale to
support the event wholeheartedly.
The USAPA showed support for
the Austin community and was
represented by Christine Barksdale.
For more information about the
Andy Roddick Foundation, go to
www.arfoundation.org.
For more information about the
ASK Charitable Foundation, go to
www.ask.team/#intro.
Special thanks to the USAPA for
coordinating with Pickleball Channel
to bring this news update to you. For
more information about the USAPA
and pickleball go to www.usapa.org. •
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Members of the St. Jude staff enjoy learning
pickleball as part of a partnership with the
USAPA. St. Jude is leading the way the world
understands, treats and defeats childhood
cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Treatments invented there have helped
push the overall survival rate for childhood
cancer from 20% when the hospital opened
in 1962 to more than 80% today. In addition,
it has achieved a 94% survival rate for ALL,
up from 4% in 1962, and the survival rate
for medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor,
increased from 10% to 85%. St. Jude was the
first institution to develop a cure for sickle
cell disease with a bone marrow transplant
and has one of the largest pediatric sickle
cell programs in the country. And it freely
shares its breakthroughs so that doctors and
scientists in communities everywhere can use
that knowledge to save more children. •
The demo players were, from left to right: Alex
Fountain (SJ); Nohemi Reynoso; Jenny Webster;
Sandra Cummings; Marvin Sterling; Lee Hendrix
(Ambassador) and Mike Morgan.