Nassau, Bahamas - Mark Knowles will hold his 10th annual Mark Knowles Celebrity Tennis Invitational from December 2nd - 5th 2010 at the Atlantis Resort & Casino and other locations.

This event was started by Mark in 2001 to raise money specifically for local children’s charities and just 4 tennis professionals competed in this first event.  Since then it has grown by leaps and bounds and the donations to these children’s charities has now reached the very notable milestone figure of $500,000.

Since that first year many more famous players have been attracted and have come to enjoy visiting The Bahamas and compete in the event.  These include: Andre Agassi, James Blake, Bob & Mike Bryan, Jim Courier, Jennifer Capriati, Robbie Ginepri,  Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Fred Stolle and Nicole Vaidisova.  On this the 10^th Anniversary, the response from the touring tennis professionals has once again been stupendous and details of the names of these and other special guests will be released shortly.

2010 brings Xavier Malisse, Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Olga Savchuk, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Sabine Lisicki, Robert 'Bobby' Reynolds, Amer Delic, Alex Kuznetsov, Jesse Levine, Filip Krajinokov, Ryan Sweeting, Brent Haygarth, Oliver Marach, Don Johnson, nd of course Mark Knowles.

The format for the tournament includes a Pro/Am doubles tournament for Platinum sponsors, a Pro Exhibition match and there will also be an exciting opportunity for our top Bahamian juniors to interact on court with the visiting professionals.  The Exhibition will be held on Saturday, December 4th at the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre, National Tennis Centre at 3pm.