Great Tennis Photos: Tsonga coaches kids in Soweto

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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Jeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie, singles and doubles No.1 seeds, traveled via police escort to Soweto (South Western Townships) on Wednesday to meet and coach some of the sprawling township’s kids at the Arthur Ashe Tennis Centre in White City, Jabavu.

They spent more than an hour running through basic training drills with the youngest kids, while hitting with or coaching the future generation of South African tennis players, some of whom had never picked up a racquet before.

"As a kid I never had a chance to go to clinics which were conducted by the world's top players," said Tsonga. "It's really great for them although I think many of them do not know the players here. But I would like them to go home and dream about becoming professional tennis players one day. They've got to be able to dream about it because that could be the start of great things for them. It's so important that they are able to dream."

You can read mote about Tsonga's visit to Soweto here.

(via ATP Worl Tour, photos/SA Tennis Open / Reg Caldecott thanks to Markus Reuter)