David Berens "Break Point"

Marshall Jon Fischer "A Terrible Splendor"

Becky Gunn Holmes "Totally Tennis For Me"

Bill Patton "The Art of Coaching High School Tennis"

Ed Charles moved from his home country India to Culver City, California, at age 15. Started playing tennis a year later and played for Culver City High School at 17. After high school he played for Pierce College and for Cal State Northridge.

Ed has been a United States Professional Tennis Association Elite Professional for over 30 years. He has taught all levels of players from 3-year-old beginners to touring professionals.

Competing throughout his teaching career, Ed ranked nationally in the Top 20 in the 45's and 50's and was a Two-time All America at Cal State Northridge in NCAA Division 2.

Before joining Bobby Riggs Tennis Club, Ed taught at busy Calabasas Tennis & Swim Center (California), Louisville Tennis Club (Kentuck) and most recently at iTennis Arroyo Seco in South Pasadena (California).

His coaching successes include:

• #268 WTA Themis Zambrzycki
• Two years coaching both men's and women's teams at NCAA Division 2 Cal State Northridge. The Northridge women's team finished as the National #2 in NCAA D2
• Two years coaching at Cal State Los Angeles (men)
• Six All America candidates at Cal State Northridge and Cal State Los Angeles
• Three CIF Championships in Los Angeles: Calabasas High School (1) and Viewpoint High School (2)
• Many National and Sectional (CA/KY) ranked Jr players

The Bobby Riggs Tennis Club is a seven hard courts facility located in beautiful Encinitas, California, just East of I-5 at 875 Santa Fe Drive, dedicated to Bobby Riggs, a former World #1 ranked player, renowned gambler and "male chauvinist" in the famous 1973 tennis match "Battle of the Sexes" with Billie Jean King.

Ed Charles says there is a huge buzz about the club right now. "We have about a hundred members and growing steadily." Renovations at the parking lot, the museum and the rest rooms were completed recently. Next month all tennis courts are re-surfaced (with an added 1/2" slab to fortify courts against earth movements) and next year the club will switch to LED court lights. Pickleball is big at the Bobby Riggs Tennis Club, as well.

In 1988 Bobby Riggs founded the "Bobby Riggs Tennis Museum Foundation" for medical research into prostate cancer. The museum is located at the Bobby Riggs Tennis Club in Encinitas California and recounts his career and more generally the history of tennis and includes 3 of Bobby Riggs' US Open trophies as well as his Wimbledon Championship Trophy.

In addition to Bobby Riggs, the museum houses exhibits of Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Margaret Court, Jack Kramer, Pancho Gonzalez, and Pancho Segura.