Erick mathelier biography
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The first time Erick Mathelier visited Greenwich, Connecticut, was an eye-opening experience.
Jessica Iredale, The New York Times
Published :22 Jul 2021, 05:23 PM
Updated : 22 Jul 2021, 05:23 PM
“The houses were humongous,” he recalled, sitting outside a Lower East Side cafe one morning in June.
Erick Mathelier and Michell Spiro are the co-founders of FURI Sport.
“I was like, ‘Wow, people live like this?’ ” To the eyes of a teenager from the East Flatbush neighbourhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, Greenwich was a window to a different world, one where the houses weren’t just bigger, the dreams were.
His first glimpse of this rarefied enclave on the Long Island Sound came through tennis, in a van on the way to an Ivan Lendl tennis club for a match.
Tennis was a gateway for Mathelier.
He recalled his first time on an airplane at age 14 for a trip to a tournament in Bermuda. “It’s funny, I was teased because I was so scared to fly, and by 14 most of my friends had flown,” he said. The sport was his
