Sprawling Playa Del Rey community center ‘Lulu’s Place’ will honor former USC tennis champ

LOS ANGELES – On his first date with Carol “Lulu” Kimmelman, Doug Kimmelman suggested they play tennis, because he’d been taking lessons.

That was 1989, and back then, Kimmelman had no idea of what she had accomplished six years earlier at USC. So they strolled down the block to a court, only for Kimmelman to come up gasping and slick with sweat 20 minutes in and see his soon-to-be-wife completely unbothered. She hadn’t moved an inch, he remembered.

Tennis was one of Lulu’s lifelong passions...