Today, itUSA Tennis is kicking off our giveaways with an autographed tennis ball by the great Billie Jean King & Ilie Nastase. The signatures are on an official ROLAND GARROS ball. Enter the contest by visiting http://bit.ly/mlMp8 and register today. Be sure you enter your information as you will also be included in our Grand Prize giveaway of a weekend getaway at the Scottsdale Hyatt Regency with a private tennis lesson from Coach Rafael Font de Mora.

Billy Jean King Autograph

Billie Jean King (née Moffitt) (born November 22, 1943, in Long Beach, California) is a tennis player from the United States. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. King has been an advocate against sexism in sports and society. She is known for the “The Battle of the Sexes” in 1973, in which she defeated Bobby Riggs, a former Wimbledon men’s champion.^[2]

King is the founder of the Women’s Tennis Association, the Women’s Sports Foundation, and World Team Tennis, which she founded with her former husband, Lawrence King.

Ilie Nastase Autograph

Ilie Năstase (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈli.e nəsˈtase]; born July 19, 1946, in Bucharest, Romania) is a former Romanian professional tennis player, one of the world’s top players of the 1970s. Năstase was the World No. 1 in 1973 according to the Association of Tennis Professionals ranking system, which placed him first from August 23, 1973 to June 2, 1974. He is one of the five players in the world to win more than 100 pro titles in singles (57) and doubles (51). ^[1] He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991. Năstase won seven Grand Slam titles: two in singles, three in men’s doubles, and two in mixed doubles. He also won four ATP World Tour Finals championships. In 2005, Tennis magazine ranked him as the 28th-best player of the preceding forty years.

Rafael Font de Mora of Valencia, Spain is a former Spanish professional tennis player and today director and conductor of a tennis academy in Scottsdale, Arizona in the United States. Font de Mora played from 1985 to 1988. In 1990, he created a tennis academy named ITUSA “International Tennis U.S.A.“. He has been the tennis coach of Anna-Lena Grönefeld, and is still coaching Meghann Shaughnessy. Rafael is the creator of the adidas player development program where players like Safina, Ivanovic, Wozniacki, Verdasco, etc have come out from this program.