UPDATE: Women’s basketball head coach Matthew Mitchell will be the fourth UK celebrity featured in the doubles match.
Three Kentucky men’s basketball figures, current and past, are turning in their basketball sneakers for a pair of tennis shoes.
On Tuesday at the 2011 Fifth Third Bank Tennis Championship, UK assistant Orlando Antigua, former player Josh Harrellson, former All-American Kyle Macy and a player to be named later will square off in a celebrity doubles match at 7 p.m. at the Hilary J. Boone Tennis Complex.
The celebrity match is part of a the weeklong Lexington Challenger being held at the Boone Complex and will be held on one of the center courts.
As for the real tennis going on this weeked in the tournament, UK men’s tennis seniors Eric Quigley and Alex Musialek, along with 2011 senior and team captain Brad Cox, are participating in this week’s singles and double main draw as wild-card invitations.
For more details on the tournament, check out Evan Crane’s release here.