Left Tennis player Vera Zvonareva.

When tennis met food

Sporting and culinary celebrities got together in New York last Thursday for a bash benefiting NYC’s Food Bank
photographed by Stephen Lovekin and Donald Bowers/Getty Images

 

THE LATE 2000s seem to be the era of the celebrity chef, more so than Julia Child and Johnny and Fanny Cradock had ever envisaged. So when there’s a celebrity bash involving food to benefit the Food Bank of New York City, celebrity chefs themselves can encourage the press to visit. Add some of the world’s top tennis players, and the sponsorship of BNP Paribas and Rums of Puerto Rico, and it’s bound to get attention. Held at W New York on August 27, Andy Roddick, celebrity chef Bethenney Frankel and the Top Chef all-stars headlined the event, the 10th annual Taste of Tennis. Joining Roddick and Frankel were Tommy Haas, Billie Jean King, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and others, cooking alongside celebrity chef Bethenny Frankel, Carla Hall and Ariane Duarte from Bravo’s Top Chef, and Gotham Bar and Grill’s Alfred Portale. Hannah Storm of ESPN MCed the evening. The event was produced by AYS Sports Marketing. •   The players Andy Roddick (USA) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) Fernando Gonzalez (Chile) Tommy Haas (Germany) Nicolas Kiefer (Germany) Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) Billie Jean King (USA) Vera Zvonareva (Russia) Anabel Medina-Garrigues (Spain) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) Aleksandra Wozniak (Canada) Jarmila Groth (Slovakia/Australia) Yen-Hsun Lu (China) Sam Groth (Australia) The chefs and restaurants Bethenny Frankel, Celebrity Chef and Author Mario Pagán, Chayote Alfred Portale, Gotham Bar and Grill Todd Mark Miller, STK Kevin Harry, Heartbeat Chris Santos, the Stanton Social Pete Daversa, Hill Country BBQ Wendy Israel & Angel Elon, Baking by Design Sue Torres, Sueños Michael White, Marea Carla Hall, Alchemy Caterers (Top Chef) Ariane Duarte, Culin Ariane (Top Chef) Roberto Treviño, Aguavia Sebastiaan Zijp, Bar Blanc Brad Farmerie, Public Tim Love, the Lonesome Dove Western Bistro Chris Rendell, Double Crown Kerry Heffernan, South Gate Michelle Park, Kyotofu Martin Maginely, Restaurant at Round Hill Chai Trivedi, Pranna Joel Dennis, Adour at the St Regis New York Adrian Richardson, La Luna (Australia)

Clockwise from top Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Aleksandra Wozniak. Betzaida Garcia, with her husband, baseball player Carlos Delgado. Fernando Gonzalez. Below Chef Bethenny Frankel and tennis player Andy Roddick. Bottom Chef Ariane Duarte, tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, newscaster Hannah Storm and chef Carla Hall.

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