KAILUA-KONA — The stage is set for the Fed Cup best-of-five match series between the United States and Poland at Holua Tennis Center, with a towering grandstand set to host nearly 2,000 spectators and multiple cameras surrounding the court.
But it wasn’t Venus Williams or any of the Fed Cup players taking the spotlight at Holua on Wednesday. That was reserved for the hundreds of Big Island keiki who showed up to hit some balls with some of the world’s best.
Williams, along with U.S. teammates Sloane Stephens, CoCo Vandeweghe, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and captain Mary Joe Fernandez played with the young tennis players, which ranged from smaller than a tennis racket to high school standouts.