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5th Annual New York Tennis Tournament: Serving To Save Babies’ Lives
MatchPoint NYC, Brooklyn, New York
On Sunday, May 3, 2015, NY Tennis Chair Jason Pinsky hosted the 5th Annual New York Tennis Tournament: Serving To Saving Babies’ Lives.
Players arrived at MatchPoint NYC in Brooklyn, New York at 7:30 am for a competitive day of tennis. With a lively Calcutta Auction, the 5th Anniversary raised over $300K, bringing the five year total raised by the tournament to over $1 Million to improve the pediatric emergency care of babies and children throughout the Northeast.
Twenty doubles teams participated in this competitive tournament featuring top business leaders in the tri-state area including Bill Ackman-Pershing Square Capital Management, Rob Pohly of Samlyn Capital, Jeremy Mindich-Scopia Capital Management, Dax Vlassis-Gates Capital Management, Larry Penn-Ellington Financial, John Bader-Halcyon Asset Management and Jeff Zucker-CNN Worldwide. They were joined by additional business leaders and world-ranked players, all of whom made the event a tremendous success.
Congratulations to tournament winners Jeff Appel and Dan Cochrane who ultimately triumphed in the finals against finalists Larry Penn and Jon Pastel.
Thank you to our generous sponsors: Pershing Square Capital Management, Sidley Austin, Bloomberg, Marathon Asset Management, Majeski Foundation, Scopia Capital, Houlihan Lokey, Citco, Wexford Capital and ACA NorthPoint.
And thank you to our partners for adding the special touches to make the day special: Knot Standard, Madison Square Wellness, MatchPoint NYC, Grainful, Fiber d’Lish and Quinn Popcorn.
A special thank you to Jason Pinsky who has chaired the New York Tennis Tournament for five years and made the 5th Anniversary event the most successful and fun yet.