Elmer's Site

I was born in the U.S. but my parents are from Tubigon,Bohol - Philippines. I am the Founder and Organizer of The Goodwill Tennis Tours - U.S.A. Since 2000, my associate USPTA P1 Ted Sayrahder and I have traveled throughout the breadth of the Philippines with our program, The Goodwill Tennis Tours, six times and have been to many wonderful places and have met many new friends.Throughout, we along with the other tennis professionals who have accompanied us, have and will continue to volunteer our time and expertise to the people of the Philippines because to quote Theodore Roosevelt, " Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. " We will continue our work and the why can be best described by the story of an old man [in ancient Israel] who was planting a fig tree, when a Roman general happened to pass by. The general says to the man, "Don't you realize it will take twenty years before that tree will grow enough to give fruit, and you will be long dead by then?" The old man responded, "When I was a small child, I could eat fruit because those who came before me had planted trees. Am I not obliged to do the same for the next generation?" Ted and I do not consider ourselves old men yet and hopefully we have a few years left in us, but you get the point. Throughout my life I have been embraced by the loving arms of the Filipino culture. The Goodwill Tennis Tours is my way of celebrating the lives of my parents and their generation upon whose shoulders I stand and to give back to the country and people I have great affection and respect.

The Goodwill Tennis Tours

I want to meet people in the Philippines who are tennis enthusiasts, those who want learn to play, those who want to learn HOW to teach the great game of tennis and those who want to be certified as tennis professionals by the United States... more