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Martina Hingis visits Hungarian Tennis Day

Martina Hingis visits Hungarian Tennis Day

Following in the footsteps of Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia and Tennis Europe, Special Olympics Hungary and the Hungarian Tennis Association (HTA) recently signed a cooperation agreement. One of the goals of the partnership is the organisation of joint tennis events whilst working to increase the popularity of  tennis  and Special Olympics (SO) tennis.  

Last year the former world No. 1 Monica Seles was the special guest at the first Hungarian Tennis Day, which was organised by the HTA and saw participation from Hungarian tennis stars from the last 20 years.

For this second edition, the Association again wanted to invite a player with local roots like Seles, and turned to another former world #1 with a Hungarian father, Martina Hingis. The Swiss guest of honour won her sixteenth career Grand Slam title at the Australian Open two week's previously, teaming up with India's Leander Paes.

Hingis travelled to Hungary especially to take part in the event alongside the Special Olympics tennis players who were delegated by Kata Sebestyén, technical coordinator of SO Hungary and Sports Advisor of SOEE and Agnes Szavay, the ambassadress of Hungarian SO tennis.

Two of the Special Olympics tennis players in action - Eva Begovics and Zsombor Kelemen - have qualified for the 12th SO World Summer Games later this year, and were presented with new racquets from the event's sponsor.

In cooperation with Tennis Europe and national tennis federations, Special Olympics will be organising a number of events across the continent on 10th March 2015, to mark the second SO European Tennis Day.

To find out more about Special Olympics, visit the organization’s web site at www.specialolympics.org

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