Yohann Prinsen, the director of tennis at Vero Club Tennis, will replace Chase Perez Blanco as the “King of Hill” wild card doubles team that will compete at the $15,000 Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation Tennis April 21-27 at the Vero Beach Tennis & Fitness Club. Prinsen will pair with Sam Sippel, the teaching pro at the Orchid Island Club, in place of Perez Blanco, who cannot compete due to a scheduling conflict.
Prinsen and Sippel will play their first round match – where they will vie for an ATP ranking point – on Tuesday, April 22 at 5 pm
The Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation annually awards the winner and runner-up in the “King of the Hill” tennis competition among standout Vero Beach area local standout players a main draw doubles wild card. Sippel won the event in February and was followed by Perez Blanco in second place, Prinsen in third and Andrew Butz in fourth.
The Prinsen – Sippel pairing with be comprised of two players who played college tennis in the state of Idaho, Prinsen playing at Idaho State and Sippel at Boise State. This will mark Prinsen’s first ever experience in pro tennis on the ITF World Tennis Tour while Sippel played an event was he was 15 years old in Germany. Prinsen, however, did partner with Robert Kowalczyk in the 2020 edition of the Mardy Fish Children’s Foundation Tennis Championships which was a UTR sanctioned event, where they lost in the first round to Jack Anthrop and Benjamin Kittay.
To order tickes for the Prinsen – Sippel doubles match and other sessions, go to www.MardyFishChildrensFoundation.org
