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Charity tennis tournament could come to Stamford
Posted on 06/30/2009
By JOHN NASH Times Sports Editor GREENWICH -- Robert Pollak took something he loved, combined it with a good idea and now children with cancer will be the ones who benefit from it. Pollak, a 17-year-old senior at the Brunswick School in Greenwich, was the brainchild behind the the first Greenwich Tennis Tournament to benefit the Children's Cancer Reserach Fund. More than 50 youth tennis players from throughout lower Fairfield County, including nearly a half dozen from Stamford, took part in the tournament which raised just under $10,000 for a cause Pollak is close to. "Children's cancer jumped out (as a cause to fight for) right away," said Pollak, a varsity tennis player at Brunswick. "My friend's little brother was diagnosed as a child and he's been restricted with things he can do. I ran the idea (of a tennis tournament) by the Children's Cancer Center and spent eight to 10 months organizing it." Now, after one successful tournament, he wants to branch out to other towns and locations in the tri-state area, including Stamford. "I know we had five or six kids from Stamford who participated when they found out through aunts and uncles in Greenwich," said Pollak. "We're going to be looking to do a lot more of these throughout the tri-state area and Stamford is definitely a place we're looking at." Pollak said he will be working with the Children's Cancer Research Center this summer in an effort to start building more tournaments for the future. The tournament was geared more toward participation than being all about victory, which is something Pollak said, made all the players more included. The format included four classes for boys and girls age 9-to-12 and 13-to-16. "The way I had things set up, everybody got to play a lot of tennis, so everybody was happy," said Pollak, who hopes to build on that for a good cause. For more information on Pollak's growing tournaments, or to volunteer to help get a Stamford tourney off the ground, visit his Web site at www.gtt09.com.
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