At the end of last year, Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas, opened the John McEnroe Tennis Center. The facility marked the former pro’s first tennis center in the Caribbean and serves as a counterpart to the one McEnroe operates in his hometown of New York City.

The John McEnroe Tennis Center at Baha Mar comprises eight courts, including six professional-grade hard courts and two Har-Tru clay courts, along with six pickleball courts, paddel courts and a pro shop. Through the resort, guests can book lessons, clinics, tennis packages and private lessons—from beginners to advanced players.

While attending ILTM North America at Baha Mar, media were treated to an on-court tennis clinic with McEnroe himself in attendance. In a wide-ranging Q&A with McEnroe following the lessons—covering everything from his playing days and the film Borg vs McEnroe to being a father and an athlete and beyond—he mentioned that his goal for the tennis center is to change the lives of a few kids in the Bahamas.

“Hopefully, this partnership and this awareness can help kids here,” he said.

At his tennis center in New York—located on Randalls Island in a private-public partnership—McEnroe gives out about 50 scholarships a year to get kids into his program. “The goal is to change as many people’s lives as possible,” he explained. “We’re trying to do that in New York. I know we’re going to try to do this here.”

The ultimate goal, obviously, would be to help a kid go pro. But McEnroe admits that the odds of that is very low, so he would be happy to simply help kids build character and learn life skills through his clinics. “Ninety-nine percent of them are not going to make it [to the pro tour], so we have to set them up for success in the future,” he said.

In addition to bringing kids into the respective clinics, McEnroe said an exchange program—where kids from New York visit the Bahamas and vice versa—giving kids a new atmosphere to play in could be in the cards.

LATTE U.S. asked McEnroe how often he planned to be on site at the tennis center at Baha Mar. His response? “The more often the better.” Due to his scheduling, that may equate to a handful of times a year.

“As far as Baha Mar, I love the beach,” he said. On a future visit you may even see him jet skiing—something he never did during his playing career after another player injured their shoulder while doing it. Referring to the casino in the Grand Hyatt, he joked that he’s also a fan of craps but hates losing too much to gamble too often anymore.

“I look forward to coming more often, absolutely,” he said.