Friday, April 25, 1980 1 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Young Champion Cites Tennis Center As Reason for Success 5 lbs. of MATZO If I can't Beat Your Best Deal was no one left to play!" Tennis and the rigors of Features from Jerusalem RAMAT HASHARON — his commitment to the sport Not many kids can claim have changed the youth's 6 Mile, 1 Blk. W. of Schaefer the first world tennis title life: "I used to come home for their country, but 12- from school and play soccer year-old Gilad Bloom did in the street or hang around just that recently when he the basketball court. Not ARNOLD MARGOLIS won the World Cham- anymore. Now I have a sys- INTERIOR tem. I know where I'll be pionship Tournament for DECORATOR each day, what I'll be doing Youth in Venezuela in the SERVICE and what my next goal is. In 12-and-under category. fact, I pretty much know nlike most of his con- poraries, Bloom rushes what my next eight years to his daily workouts at the will be like." •SCHOOLFIELD •SELIG •SIMMONS •SEALY •SERTA •SPRING AIR •LA-Z- "I want to keep playing, Israel Tennis Center from a BOY •STIFFEL LAMPS • KROEHLER •AMERICAN •BURLINGTON •BASSETT Israel's first world ten- Bar Mitzva lesson. He ad- and hopefully keep win- nis champion; 12-year- •BARCALOUNGER •LANE •UNIQUE mits that once on the court, ning. It feels great: in a day old Gilad Bloom. you are famous. Everyone 13703 W. McNichols 342-5351 Hrs. Mon thru Sat. 9:30 til 5:30 he glides through his warm-ups tennis rituals writes about you and you somewhat more gracefully see how the whole country than through the religious rallies around you like you're everyone's kid .. . ones he dutifully studies. Bloom appears at ease on but first, I think I'll get the court. He wields a tennis finished with my Bar racket at least four hours a Mitzva." Bloom is not the. reci- day and started doing so even before he was able to pient of singular atten- see over the tennis net. He is tion. Indeed his attain- in fact small for his age, but ments are representative it doesn't disturb his game of a unique youth pro- gram spearheaded by the in the least. If Bloom has footsteps Israel Tennis Center, a to follow, they are those newcomer to the Israel of Shlomo Glickstein, 22, sports scene initiated who recently won the chiefly by American bac- prestigious Australian kers. The center is different in Hardcourt Cham- pionship, Israel's second that it exists primarily to serve the country's young. win on the world scene. Like his young admirer, Adults can only play on its Glickstein rose meteori- myriad of deluxe courts in cally, winning Israel's 10- early morning hours or late and-under crown mere into the evening. The bulk months after swinging his of the day is reserved for the first forehand shot. Tennis thousands of young boys buffs around the globe have and girls who take part in avidly followed his career as an accelerated get-ac- he climbed from 280th to quainted-with-tennis pro- 70th in the Association of gram. Every day hundreds of Tennis Professionals world singles rankings in less youths are brought to the than three months, a record center from all over the seldom equalled in the country. They are provided with a free four-lesson in- ATP's 10-year history. Glickstein and Bloom are troduction to the sport and living proof that tennis ta- are then encouraged to stay lent in Israel is a rich vein involved through satellite waiting to be mined. In Is- programs in their own rael's case, the fast-growing communities. Over 27,000 tennis center is working youngsters today partici- non-stop, with snowballing pate on a continuing basis, popular support, to give and the center's weekly bill every young person in the for 5,000 tennis balls is tes- country the chance to dis- timony to the tenacity of its cover his or her potential. young enthusiasts. Dr. Bill Lippy, an Ohio Bloom is doing his best to encourage the trend, volun- physician who is one of the teering his services each center's most fervent sup- summer as a coach for new porters, explains, "These participants in the pro- kids are the heroes of Israel. They are the ones out sign- gram. "I had never heard much ing autographs on the _ about tennis or even held a streets. We have given them %cket 31/2 years ago," re- the tools to do the job, but regular and -Walls Bloom, "but I liked they themselves have sports and when the tennis raised tennis' previously menthol center opened close to my low profile in Israel." Lippy is quick to em- ome, I dropped in to see phasize that the program hat it was all about." Bloom demonstrated teaches more than tennis: such promise that he was "We teach poise. We teach tapped for intensive manners — how to shake training and advanced hands correctly, how to eat rapidly. He was flattered in a courteous way, how to to be selected one of Is- dress. We give each of these rael's few contenders for kids, not just the shining the Caracas Invitational stars, a wonderful game last December, which they can stick with the rest drew 64 participants of their lives plus a more from 20 countries, but he polished self image that will help them in all other as- hardly expected to win. Warning The Surgeon General Has Determined "I just wanted to give it pects of life." my best shot. I kept playing That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous toYour Health. When a man seeks your better and better kids, and 2 mg. 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