March 5, 2013
By Emilie Katz
A recap of the winners and those who called it quits in 2012 ...
December 24, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
IMG Worldwide, the global sports, fashion and media company, has announced that it has signed ATP world number one-ranked Serbian Novak Djokovic for exclusive worldwide management and representation. Under the terms of the exclusive multi-year agreement, IMG will represent Djokovic in developing a brand building strategy through marketing, endorsements, appearances and licensing along with select global business initiatives.
April 26, 2012
By Emilie Katz
Court Six Gossip Column from the March & April 2012 Long Island Tennis Magazine.
February 3, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel will provide exclusive coverage of the U.S. Fed Cup team's first-round competition against Belarus in Worcester, Mass., this weekend, with live telecasts Saturday, Feb. 4, and Sunday, Feb. 5.
January 30, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, along with her partner, Romanian Horia Tecau, won the 2012 Australian Mixed-Doubles championship, defeating Russian Elena Vesnina & India's Leander Paes, 6-3, 5-7, 10-3.
January 30, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
India's Leander Paes & Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic defeated American brothers Bob & Mike Bryan in their attempt for a 12th Grand Slam doubles title in the finals of the 2012 Australian Open, 7-6, 6-2.
January 27, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Russia's Maria Sharapova will take on Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in the women’s singles final of the 2012 Australian Open at 3:00 a.m. ET Saturday morning. Azarenka, who won the Sydney International title the weekend before the season’s first major, will attempt to continue her winning ways.
January 27, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
World number one-ranked Serbian Novak Djokovic will have an opportunity to defend his Australian Open this weekend after he defeated Andy Murray of Great Britain, the number four seed, 6-3, 3-6, 6-7, 6-1, 7-5, in the semifinals at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne Park.
January 26, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Spain's Rafael Nadal has defeated Roger Federer of Switzerland to advance to the finals of the 2012 Australian Open. Nadal, who is ranked number two in the world, took the match in four close sets, 6-7, 6-2, 7-6, 6-4 to up his record to 8-2 against the number three-ranked Federer in Grand Slam head-to-head matchups.
January 25, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Russia's Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, two former Wimbledon winners, will go head to head in the 2012 Australian Open semifinals after both won their quarterfinal matches in straight sets.
January 24, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Day Nine action at the 2012 Australian Open further narrowed the field competing for the first major Grand Slam of the year. Wins by both Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal sets up a Thursday showdown between the number two and three players in the world.
January 23, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Top-ranked Serbian Novak Djokovic had a pretty solid match, and on the other hand, American Serena Williams had her head in the sky. Djokovic, took the match in four sets, only dropping the third to wild card entry and Australia's own Lleyton Hewitt who could not hold his comeback. The top five-ranked men's singles players have now advanced the quarterfinals.
January 20, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
On Day Five of the 2012 Australian Open, the last American hopeful took to the courts at Mebourne Park to keep hope alive in bringing the men's singles Aussie title back to American soil. That will have to be put on hold as the last remaining American, the 16th-ranked John Isner from North Carolina, fell to the 18th-ranked Feliciano Lopez of Spain ...
January 19, 2012
By David Drucker
Mardy Fish is now the top-ranked American in the world, surpassing Andy Roddick who held the distinction as the top-ranked American for a number of years.
January 19, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
On Day Four of the 2012 Australian Open, top-ranked Serbian and defending Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic needed only one hour and 42 min. to dispatch of his second round opponent, Colombia's Santiago Giraldo, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1.
January 19, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American Andy Roddick has withdrawn from the 2012 Australian Open. He was trailing two sets to one when he was forced to retire against Australian Lleyton Hewitt. He was trailing 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 and said, "Lleyton. That's it," and retired.
January 18, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American John Isner has moved on after a long drawn out four-hour and 41-min. second-round match, which included a 99-min. final set, in Day Three action at the 2012 Australian Open.
January 18, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has named the 10 girls and four boys who have been accepted into the main draw and the qualifying draw at the 2012 Australian Open Junior Championships. Among those selected is Julia Elbaba of Oyster Bay, N.Y. who is in the qualifying draw to compete in the Australian Junior Open which commences later in the tournament.
January 17, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Day Two of the 2012 Australian Open finished with all the seeds on both the men's and women's sides of the draw advancing with the exception of hometown favorite Samantha Stosur, the number six-ranked and 2011 U.S. Open Champion. Stosur was ousted in straight sets on Tuesday, 7-6 (2), 6-3, to the 59th-ranked Sorana Cirstea of Romania.
January 17, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel and Verizon FiOS TV have reached a new multi-year carriage agreement, it was announced by Patrick Wilson, senior vice president, distribution, Tennis Channel, and Terry Denson, vice president of global content strategy, Verizon.
January 16, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Day One of the 2012 Australian Open is in the books Down Under, with many of the top seeds advancing to the second round of the first Grand Slam of 2012. The biggest upset of the day came on the men's side of the draw from 19-year-old hometown favorite Bernard Tomic ...
January 13, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have been placed on the same half of the Australian Open draw for the first time in any Grand Slam since 2005. This means that Novak Djokovic, the current number one ranked player, won’t have to go up against either rival until he reaches the finals of the Open.
January 11, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga along with Milos Raonic lost their first opening matches at the Kooyong Classic, a tune-up match for the Australian Open. Also to note, Andy Roddick came up short in his first-round match against Gael Monfils 7-6, 7-6, in the cold weather conditions.
January 10, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American Venus Williams has announced her withdrawal from the 2012 Australian Open, due to the lingering effects of Sjogren’s Syndrome, an autoimmune disease that has caused the seven-time Grand Slam winner severe fatigue and joint pain.
December 9, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Robin Soderling of Sweden is set to miss the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of 2012, as he fights off mononucleosis. He has not played a match since mid-July after capturing the Bastad title. "My recovery has been longer than expected," said Soderling via Twitter.
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