Edwardsville High tennis coach Dave Lipe started the Edwardsville Futures pro tennis tournament in 2011. The opportunities opening from that decision have transcended the tennis courts.

During that first year, a friendship formed between Lipe and Donato Campagnoli, an Italian tennis coach who entered a player in that inaugural Futures tournament. Since then, Lipe and Campagnoli have kept in correspondence, with Campagnoli sending his son Gustavo to visit Edwardsville the last two summers. This summer Lipe sent his son Seth the other way for a visit.

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