Every August the best tennis players in the world descend upon New York for the United States Open. But the city is full of tennis players the rest of the year, too. Young ones.
The photographer Annie Tritt went in search of some of New York’s younger players in August by visiting network sites of National Junior Tennis & Learning, a community-based tennis and education program with chapters across the country that reach 225,000 youngsters. The organization now known as National Junior Tennis & Learning was founded in 1969 by the tennis stars Arthur Ashe and Charlie Pasarell, as well as the entrepreneur and philanthropist Sheridan Snyder.