When Erick Mathelier, a Haitian-American, was growing up in Flatbush, Brooklyn during the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Andre Agassi was a tennis star. 

“I don’t know if you remember, but he had the long hair. I felt like tennis was exciting,” says Mathelier. “Then tennis went through a lull and I haven’t seen this level of excitement over the sport in a long time. But I hope we can keep that and attract people to the sport from different places.”