Ray Benton

JTCC Partners with the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington

Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC) is pleased to announce a long-term partnership with the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington. As a part of the agreement, JTCC will take over all tennis instruction at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Silver Spring YMCA locations. Junior...

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Out from the shadow

The focus of two New York Times feature stories. Heaps of praise have been bestowed upon him from tennis scholars including Brad Gilbert. "That kid's got the talent to be a real player," Gilbert noted in a recent Grantland article. Last December, he captured the...

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JTCC Featured in the New York Times

  A Frozen, Fertile Ground for Developing Tennis Players By BEN ROTHENBERG JAN. 5, 2014 COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Following tennis usually means chasing summer, with players training on sunbaked courts in Florida and California and traveling the globe in search of...

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Review of annual Parent Meeting

Last Tuesday, August 10, the Junior Tennis Champions Center held its annual Parent Meeting.  Speakers included CEO Ray Benton, Tennis Center at College Park General Manager Ajay Pant, Community Outreach Manager Melanie Wright and Tennis Director Vesa Ponkka.  Below...

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Strong JTCC contingent to compete in Citi Open

Four players who trained at the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), the area’s world-class tennis training facility in College Park, Md., will be competing in the upcoming Citi Open tennis tournament at the William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center.  The tournament...

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US Open Mid-Atlantic National Playoffs this weekend at JTCC

College Park, Md., May 29, 2013 - The US Open National Playoffs return to the Tennis Center at College Park this weekend, with four days of qualifying tournaments for tennis hopefuls in the Mid-Atlantic region. The tournament in College Park, held June 1 - June 4, is...

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Junior Tennis Champions Center Announces Senior Coaching Moves

College Park, MD — The Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), the first high performance Regional Training Center certified by the United States Tennis Association (USTA), has announced that former WTA top 30 player Patricia Hy-Boulais and her husband Yves Boulais,...

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