Episode#:25 Shaun Boyce and Bobby Schindler

ATP: Global Tennis Influencer and Marketing Architect, Patricia Jensen

In this episode of our tennis podcast Bobby Schindler and Shaun J Boyce talk to Patricia Jensen about her son Murphy's story, GA Tech's unique ball runners, The Atlanta Open 250 ATP event, and Team Luke Hope for Minds.

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In this episode, we talked to Patricia Jensen about her son Murphy's story,

Georgia Tech's unique ball runners, and team Luke Hope for Minds.

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I'm going to ask you one question, and I'm going to hand the rest of it to Bobby,

because you guys know each other well, and I want to let you guys talk.

I know you want to talk about Murphy's testimony, but I want to,

I want to start it with saying you are Patricia Jensen, and I have not been able to find a job

description or a job title for you.

So what I am calling you is a global tennis influencer.

So I want to know that works for you.

Tell me about you are.

The tennis world used to refer to me as a marketing architect.

Oh, I like it.

With building brands for players and events, kind of things.

That's your fancy title.

I know. I've never heard of anybody else having it, so I'll keep it.

Yeah, give us a quick bit about who you are, and I know Bobby's got a bunch of questions for you.

So tell me who Patricia Jensen is really quickly.

Well, it depends upon when in the tennis world that you knew me.

There was a point where I was Pat Jensen when I was representing my sons

and my daughters, and because our family, still to this day, is the only family with four siblings

on their respective tours at the same time.

And so at each of my daughters played each of the grand slams with each of their brothers,

which is I'm sure that too is either a notable record or something interesting.

I raised my family in a small town 10,000 residents,

Ludington, Michigan, and every weekend we were either in Chicago or Detroit because there was no

absolutely, we were lucky to have two tennis courts in the whole town, let alone in indoor facility.

And the the prenup was all 11 boys were going to play football at Notre Dame.

But then when and the boys were very successful and heavily involved in the Pudpass Ford Motor Company,

Pudpass and GIC program. So the plan was working. And until I met a doctor who's

summer in Ludington whose son was not only an All-American quarterback at Notre Dame,

but he was also an All-American tennis player. So the doctors said keep their growth plates

healthy and safe. Don't let them get involved with any contact in football,

wait until their juniors are seniors in high school to put them on the field.

Well by that time, of course, Luke and Murphy were already nationally ranked in tennis and

there was no more football for the Jensen's. So

and whatever the boys did certainly the girls had to do because they were in the car every weekend.

Yesterday Murphy, I guess he was yesterday, he testified before Congress.

Oh no, I mean talking about amazing. There is a the senator, a female senator from Florida,

has offered to both sides of the aisle a bill that AIDs are to be required on all sports

field. Now the thing that that I said to Murphy, how about sports fields are fine. Let's get them,

let's get the defibrillators out there, but how about tennis clubs? And of course it's Murphy's tennis

tennis objective, our defibrillator objective for tennis is to have a defibrillator on every court.

And so there were several several congressional senators who spoke yesterday,

DeMara Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills was there. Senator Schumer was was in a Buffalo Bills

shirt, which was made a kind of cool. And then DeMara spoke, Murphy spoke, and then a gentleman who

lost his son on the soccer field because they had defibrillators, but nobody knew how to work them.

And so it was it was a lot relatively it was like about a three hour day. Of course,

Murphy's very passionate of our grateful about the fact that a defibrillator saved his life.

And so he was only supposed to speak for three minutes, but he spoke for 10. And so it's his mission,

and of course, my adopted mission as well to make certain that everybody in the tennis world

is well aware of knowing that or in knowing how to engage or administer the defibrillator. And then,

of course, have it charged. It's my understanding that like maybe about a month ago or a month and a half

ago here in Atlanta, a gentleman fell on the court with a cardiac arrest situation. They ran out

with the defibrillator to put it on him, and it hadn't been charged. So as a result, the man died.

So had it been charged, hopefully he would still be alive today. And so I think that this is a long

overdue bill that is is going to be be passed both in the Senate and the House. And Murphy was more

than privileged to be selected to speak. And quick back story Sean, I've spoken to Murphy on a

couple occasions the first time we spoke. We had never spoken before. We're on the telephone. And two

and a half hours later, I had to explain to Murphy that I had to leave. We had never spoken on a phone

before in our lives. You know, I was the wise guy announcer for the Atlanta Thunder on the court. So

he might have recognized my voice, but he didn't know who I was. Two and a half hours later, we finally

hung up the phone and said, Hey, we'll do this again. So I can see how Murphy can talk. He got

out of somebody. But what was I mean, again, not without going into much detail, the incident he was

playing in an exhibition with Luke in Colorado and had caught one in the cardiac arrest.

Yeah, he it was so amazing because he he went to execute the serve. He put his arm up for the

ball toss and then fell backwards hit his skull. Of course, on the hard court,

practiced skull in five different places. They and the good news is that there was a defibrillator

in the club. There were three emergency doctors in the audience at the time. They ran out and

then they put Murphy, of course, and they put him as it called inducing him into a coma. He was

he was in a coma for like six weeks while they, which I think is so interesting. They froze each of his

organs and one at a time they would defreeze or whatever or unfreeze and so that they could get the

blood circulating to that particular organ. And he's now, in fact, now he's working out all the time.

Luke always says to him, why didn't you work out like this when we were playing? But it's a little too

late now. But it's all good. I mean, it's just just phenomenal. So not only with his, we connect company,

but also now he's there said there was Luke and Murphy on several occasions annually would go to

this gooter foundation of make an appearance at this gooter foundation, which is a heart related

foundation. And now it's the gooter gentson foundation. But let's talk about Georgia Tech.

I'm in there. Go, go. So what do you do for Georgia Tech now?

Okay. For Kenny Thorne or coach Thorne, who is the men's tennis coach, I mean, I've known Kenny

since I hate to say this since he was probably 10 or 12. But when he took over as the role in the role

of the men's tennis coach at Georgia Tech, after a couple of years, he called knowing I lived in

Atlanta. He called me and asked what I would, would I be interested or think it was worthwhile to

create or to schedule ball kids for the men's tennis program. But he, because of the school colors,

he wanted to recall them his golden retrievers, not his, you know, his ball kids. And Georgia Tech is the

only even to this day, the only college program, college tennis program that has ball kids on the court.

So, and it's interesting even at the NCAA championships, wherever they're scheduled,

there are no ball kids. And what hour, I mean, so I think I've been directing that element or

component of his program for at least 12 or 15 years. And the transition into the professionalism

on their part into the Atlanta opener, the BB and T or whatever the title is at the time,

has always been amazing. And the officials, whenever they see me, always say, you know, why can't you

send your ball kids to DC or one time I got, when Davis Cup was in Portland, I got a phone call from

an official saying, how many ball kids can fly up these, these kids for Davis Cup? Just don't know

what to do. Send me your ball kids. I said, I've got school. So anyway, so that's been amazing. And

they, and then of course, I also went at Atlanta or Southern tennis association purchased the,

the last week of July from Indianapolis, I got a phone call from Bill Oaks and he said,

what department do you want? Because I want you involved with our, whatever it was called at time.

And there was, there was no hesitation. It was definitely, I wanted to be involved with the kids

because the, the tennis world has been so good to my entire family and taught them so many,

so many things and they've derived so many benefits from being tennis players.

That I just wanted to open those doors for the, you know, for the young junior tennis players of

Atlanta and so many of them in that day are in phenomenal positions in the tennis world today.

And what are we going to be doing in late July? Who's coming? What are we doing? It,

I always forget what it's called now. It used to be windy hell. What is, oh, it's, oh,

oh, don't even get me started. I thought we were also going to windom air.

We are going there too, but I've been the other big one.

Oh, okay. Well, it depends upon who you talk to, how big it's going to be. But, yes,

Team Luke Hope for Mines is a foundation based created by a former professional tennis player,

Tim Siegel, who lost his son or his son, his beautiful nine-year-old athletic son,

had a golf cart accident that the golf cart flipped and landed on Luke. And he was paralyzed

from the waist down because of where the golf cart landed. But I'm, to add to that tragedy,

on the way to the hospital, the EMT puts the oxygen on wrong. So he was 30 minutes without oxygen

to the brain. So as a result of many physical therapy appointments, Tim Siegel recognized that families

that didn't have his educational athletic background, his wife is a nurse. They knew what to do with

their son from a physical therapy perspective. But other families didn't. So he created the foundation

for any call to, for a legacy for his son, Team Luke Hope for Mines. And it's serving families in 46

states now. It's the only foundation that services families with brain injury children. So back to

Wendy Hill on Sunday, the day of the tennis exhibition that last year was our first, first program at

Wendy Hill because Marcelo, the tennis director, there used to be the assistant coach to Tim Siegel.

And so it was a very successful fundraising event. And we're going to schedule it again this year. In

fact, it was so successful that some of the members signed up on Monday, you know, the next day to make

sure that they had a spot in 2023 for the same program. And I know Phil Farmer, the coach of John

Isner, who is a good friend, has already committed. And Chris U-Banks, believe it or not, has also told

his father that whatever I need from any foundation, prospect scheduling that he would be there for us.

So that's another good name that will be at the at the program.

Yeah, I was lucky enough to get involved. Let's show Sean. We had a blast. The Golden Retrievers were there

being the ball kids. Tim was the coach of Texas Tech. He played at Arkansas. So a lot of his

former players that he played with from Arkansas fly in for the weekend. One of his players was

in the main draw of Atlanta last year. But another one of his players came in and helped out with the

exo Luke Jensen was there. And these guys ran around. We I was lucky because they ran around so long.

I just had to feed balls. So I was out there for three hours, but I was just feeding. They were running

around like crazy people. I left, but historically because the adults came first and pretty much we had

six courts working. Most of the six courts were the adults were I think we were down to three after

that what was considered the warm up that they were like, okay, we're good. We're good. And so,

you know, it was fun. Tim is an I we're going to have Tim on the podcast as well here shortly.

And amazing for somebody who speaks so positively, having endured such a tragedy, you know, being

a parent, I it's unfathomable. What a presentation he makes. And when he speaks just the I mean, we're

outside on a tennis court. And it was just absolutely silent. And we like to because he was a Texas

tech. He has a relationship with a certain quarterback that is now one a couple of super balls. And

we have some good close-up pictures of Patrick Holmes during the Super Bowl wearing the team

low-loop bracelets during the Super Bowl. So, you know, he's got Patrick. My home's involved drew

Breezes very involved. And we're trying to get Drew here because Drew is also a very good tennis player.

Oh, yes. He likes to remind Andy Roddick. I think the last time they played, he beat him, I think.

Is that true? Or is that he just talked about that? No, no, of course they were both 12 this time.

But but Drew never says that. Drew just says, remind Andy who got the last who has the last win.

Hey, it's not win. I beat Sven Saluma who made the semi-finals of the US open, you know, when we were 12.

I don't tell anybody. He was still a foot taller than me. So it didn't matter even then. So

That's like me saying I got to win over Robbie Geneffrey, right? Yeah, it's just it's timing.

Timing is everything. He was 12. It doesn't count. Yeah, that's it. It was still Robbie Geneffrey.

So that'll be what we got coming up in July. And that that'll be a good time for a great cause.

And hopefully we're going to get more established here in Atlanta because, you know,

obviously with Shepherd Spinal Center having such a great presence. It's a great fit

to build on it. And actually one of my clients' sons had an issue in a car accident and we weren't

sure how it was going to go. And I gave Tim or gave them their Tim's phone number. And thankfully it broke

in the right way and the assistance was not needed. But Tim was ready to go on a moment's notice.

And they really do fantastic work getting people to deal with and give them a direction, which I

think so often when you get thrown into a situation like that, you don't know where to next turn.

It certainly helps with what they're doing. So it's a wonderful cause and we will keep you posted

there. All right, Sean. Ask the question. Patricia, we have a last question and what I want to do

is actually want to make more time for that question. So I'd like to ask a favor. Can we bring you back

for a long version of this question? Well, as long as you don't ask me for my credit card number.

No, no, no, no, no, no, not yet. Not yet. We're we always ask if you were queen of king or queen of

tennis. Is anything you change or anything you do? And from what I can tell, you might as well be

queen of tennis because you are just doing all of the things that anyone would want to do.

Anyone that could do anyone that says, hey, you know what? I want to change something or add something

you seem to do that anyway. And I have we love here.

Sean with or without permission. Hey, you know what? That's why it's queen. You don't need permission,

right? Queen of tennis, you might as well be. But what I'd like to do is schedule a time where we can

just have a flat out, you know, if you wanted to do even more, let's talk about that. But at this point,

I want to say thanks and we will schedule some time and definitely talk to you again. And because I

know you and Bobby can basically just talk forever.

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