Casa de Campo has announced that tennis greats John McEnroe and Jim Courier will play a special exhibition match on Friday, 7 November 2014 at the La Romana resort. The players will showcase the resort’s 16 tennis court facility, La Terraza Tennis Center.
La Terraza has been called “Wimbledon of the Caribbean” by Travel + Leisure and “best tennis facility” by the United States Professional Tennis Registry (USPTR). The facility has 16 fast-dry, Har-True courts, 10 of which are lighted for night play. Personal ball boys are assigned to each player.
McEnroe won seven major singles titles during his career, including four at the US Open (1979-1981, 1984) in his hometown of New York, in addition to winning 10 other major titles in doubles and mixed doubles. He won Wimbledon three times (1981, 1983 and 1984), and played in what was perhaps the greatest Wimbledon final of all time, losing to Bjorn Borg in 1980, featuring the famous 18-16 fourth-set tie-breaker. McEnroe helped the United States win the Davis Cup five times and he captured 77 career singles titles and 78 career doubles titles, his last being in San Jose, California in 2006 at the age of 47. McEnroe recently won the points title on the 2014 PowerShares Series champions tennis circuit, prompting Courier to label him as the “greatest 55-year-old tennis player to ever grace the earth.”
Courier is regarded as one of the most tenacious tennis players of all time – and with one of the biggest forehands – that led him to a pair of French Open titles in 1991 and 1992 and two Australian Open titles in 1992 and 1993. In 1992, he became the first American to reach the No. 1 ranking on the ATP World Tour since McEnroe in 1985. In 1993, Courier was the youngest player to reach all four major singles finals in a career when he reached the Wimbledon final in 1993 at age 22. He also guided the US to Davis Cup titles in 1992, where he was teammates with McEnroe, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi on the described US “Dream Team,” and again in 1995. He currently serves as the captain of the US Davis Cup team and competes on the PowerShares Series tennis circuit.
Casa de Campo is known internationally for its four top-notch golf facilities (including Teeth of the Dog that is ranked No. 1 in Latin America), polo and equestrian center, marina and yacht club, and skeet/trap shooting center.
Event packages for the clinics, party and exhibition match are for sale and can purchased by emailing res1@ccampo.com.do