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Finding Cures. Saving Children.
Tournament week begins for top tennis players
Andy Roddick will make his sixth straight appearance
in Memphis this week to compete in the Regions
Morgan Keegan Championships.
Andy Roddick, the world's No. 3 ranked tennis player and former tournament champion, will make his sixth consecutive appearance in Memphis as he seeks his second tournament title in the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships.
Roddick will be facing stiff competition against former champions Tommy Haas, Joachim Johansson and defending Regions Morgan Keegan Champ Kenneth Carlsen. The tournament kicked off on February 17 and will run through February 26 at The Racquet Club of Memphis. James Blake and Robby Ginepri will also be competing in the tournament. Blake, Ginepri and Roddick are also U.S. Davis Cup teammates.
On the women's side, two-time Cellular South Cup champion Lisa Raymond will be in Memphis, continuing her return to the WTA tour after recovering from a muscle tear. But to win a third Cellular South Cup Championship, Raymond will have to compete against some of the world's top female players, including Nicole Vaidisova, one of the world's hottest young stars, Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Amy Frazier.
On February 20, Cellular South hosted the Cellular South Charity Challenge. The Challenge featured Bob and Mike Bryan, the No. 1 doubles team in the world and two-time defending champions in Memphis, as well as Anna Kournikova who made her first appearance in Memphis as a player. Kournikova was a guest of the tournament for 2002 and 2003, where she donated a total of $55,000 to St. Jude over the two-year period.
Previously known as the Kroger St. Jude Tennis Championships, this event has brought the sport's brightest stars and best fans to the Bluff City for the past 27 years. In 1993, the tournament announced that it would establish a medical research chair at the Memphis hospital in memory of one of the game's greats. The Arthur Ashe Chair for Pediatric AIDS Research – a $1.25 million commitment – was fully endowed in five years. The final installment was presented during the 1998 finals by tournament owner Mac Winker and Dick Tillman, president of Kroger's Delta Marketing Region.
As the 1999 tournament season opened, the tennis championship event committed to endow a $2 million fund for the hospital in memory of another star of the game, Tim Gullikson, and was joined in that announcement by his widow, Rosemary, and daughter Megan.
February 2006
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