$16.9M tennis center

The $16.9 million XS Tennis Village built by the nation’s largest minority tennis organization on a site at 5256 to 5338 S.

“It’s fantastic to drive by it and just look in the windows and see all of the people who are coming in to play tennis or practice tennis.

XS Tennis already provides free tennis for 2,000 Chicago Public School students through its portable, in-school Tennis XSpress program.

The center will double the number of schools and participants to 4,000 students and pave the way for XS Tennis to extend $300,000 in scholarship-based instruction to Chicago residents and CPS students.

Dowell noted that Kamau Murray, founder and president of XS Tennis, “came into the community offering scholarships.” “When you look at the Whitney Young [H.S.] tennis team that won the state title, two of the girls who were on that team Mackenzie and Madison Beckham live in this community.