Ukrainian teenager finds safety, refuge playing tennis in the Bronx – The Ukrainian Weekly

Courtesy of New York Junior Tennis and Learning Mariia Vainshtein, 17, of Odesa, Ukrai­ne, trains through the Scholar Athlete Program at the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis and Learning in the Bronx, N.Y. Vainshtein says she prefers the tennis facilities in the Bronx over where she previously trained in Brooklyn, where the clientele tended to…