The Cash funds will benefit Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Peter Jones’ charity The former Wimbledon champion was happy to chat about the public sale, which
gives the winning bidder the chance to play alongside him in a doubles event. A few of the sport’s other greats, Mats Wilander and Henri Laconte, have also signed up to provide opposition in the tournament in Roehampton, west London. Attempting to find out which games the fans were bidding for by clicking on the “match” button next to the biggest figure, I refreshed the page and was thanked for ‘matching’ the top offer. Now I’m a keen tennis fan, even an occasional weekend player, but a bid of 8,876 to play a couple hours of tennis with a few of the game’s greats is about 8,500 too much for me.
That’s despite Pat’s assurance that it’s all in a good cause, with all funds raised going to the children’s foundation founded by the Dragon’s Den fire-breather Peter Jones.