MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation
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The MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation is a United States foundation created in 1994 by former professional tennis
player MaliVai Washington
to model achievement and life skills to children through playing tennis. Centered in Jacksonville, Florida
, the organization also provides tutoring and mentoring to its youth audience.
In the mid-2000s, the foundation broke ground on a 9700 square feet (901.2 m²) Youth Tennis and Education Complex in Durkeeville that was expected to double the number of youth participants, previously about 1,000 per year.
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
player MaliVai Washington
MaliVai Washington
MaliVai "Mal" Washington is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He is best remembered for reaching the men's singles final at Wimbledon in 1996.-Family:...
to model achievement and life skills to children through playing tennis. Centered in Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
, the organization also provides tutoring and mentoring to its youth audience.
In the mid-2000s, the foundation broke ground on a 9700 square feet (901.2 m²) Youth Tennis and Education Complex in Durkeeville that was expected to double the number of youth participants, previously about 1,000 per year.