Hi, my name is Jonathan McDonough, I am fundraising for my friend Jonathan McCowen #fightforjohnnysgirls. Along with our members in the club, we will be holding a 24-hour Tennis-a-thon in Portarlington from 10am Sat August 27th.

A keen and talented tennis player, Johnny (Micko) would love to join us all on the day but, due to ill health, cannot attend. We will, however, keep him updated on the festivities via social channels :)

Johnny had tremendous success in his local club and further a field, representing the club at a local and national level. His late father, John, was a prominent player and official in the club for many years. In addition, his late mother, Marie, almost single-handedly raised the finance to enable the club to have installed four state-of-the-art all-weather tennis courts. Testament to this is that one of the courts is named "The Marie McCowan " Court.

Jonathan is our club's highest-ever ranked player, having reached the top ten rated players in the country as a juvenile.

As part of the tennis-a-thon, we are inviting other tennis clubs to get involved in matches or to sign up to play for an hour as part of the 24hr tennis-a-thon.

On the day, there will be food and music and plenty of activities for the kids. So come along and help us reach our goal of fundraising and fun for all on the day!

For more information, please call me on [phone redacted]279