Los Angeles, October 10-11–If you’re looking for well-heeled dates, you should have been at the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s Smash Hits events on Sunday and Monday. Someone bid $16,000 for lunch with Anna Kournikova, a couple of people purchased $20,000 tennis lessons with Andy Roddick, and three private dinners with Elton John at one of his homes went for $100,000 each. Oh yes, and these bidders had already paid $2,500 apiece for the kickoff evening, where they rubbed elbows with the tennis pros, Josh Groban, January Jones and Neve Campbell at dinner and concert by Sir Elton. Kournikova didn’t want to move around too much because her dress was held up with a safety pin, but she was ready for action at the next day’s tennis matches, where she sang and danced whenever her boyrfiend Enrique Iglesias’ songs were played.

When, during a tennis match, an onlooker shouted that his serve looked faster on television, Roddick brought the heckler down onto the court and served him a few balls, which the guy couldn’t return. After the third serve, he surrendered by waving a white hanky.

Later, Roddick embraced the referee after a favorable call, and told his opponent, Andre Agassi, that the (much older) ref was his girl. When the ref called the next serve in Agassi’s favor, he asked Roddick, “What do you think of your girlfriend now?” “We broke up”, came the reply.

Photos by Jen Lowery