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American Andy Roddick has withdrawn from the 2012 Australian Open.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
On the eve of the Australian Open, American teenagers Grace Min and Jack Sock, both U.S. Open junior champions, started the year strong by winning the USTA Pro Circuit’s season-opening women’s and men’s events in Innisbrook, Fla., and Plantation, Fla., respectively.
January 12, 2012
By Steven Kaplan
Traditionally, strokes are developed and corrected by haphazardly focusing on body movements, racket movements and ball and racket interactions.This approach is confusing, ineffective and needlessly complicated because it fails to address the kinetic chain of events that led to a successful stroke.
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.
December 20, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The Atlanta Tennis Championships announced Monday 2003 U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick, 2010-11 ATC finalist John Isner and U.S. Open mixed doubles champion Jack Sock have committed to play in the tournament, which is the opening event of the Olympus U.S. Open Series.
December 8, 2011
By Emilie Katz
Our Court Six column features tennis Gossip from around the tennis community ...
December 2, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The following is a interview between U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier and U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez.
November 30, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
As Tennis Channel prepares for its annual viewer countdown of the network's best matches of the year in December, three members of its on-air talent team have weighed in with their own favorite matches of 2011.
November 11, 2011
By David Drucker
The 2011 U.S. Open was certainly one to remember for tennis fans around the world. Whether it was the intense match play, the chaotic weather, or even the 9-11 ceremony, fans will remember this Open for years to come.
November 10, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Andy Murray of Great Britain defeated American Andy Roddick in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. Murray has raised his record to 17-0 since the 2011 U.S. Open and now has won 27 out of his last 28 matches since August.
November 4, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American Andy Roddick was able to come back from a one-set deficit to defeat Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic in three sets, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors event in Basel, Switzerland.
November 4, 2011
By Roman Prokes
Players are always looking for an edge on the court. They work with teaching professionals to master their technique, coaches to solidify their tactics, trainers to ameliorate their conditioning. Why not have an expert help with your equipment? That is the goal of an on-court consultation.
October 28, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Several of the biggest names in tennis came together at the 19th annual WTT Smash Hits presented by GEICO at Cleveland Public Hall, raising more than $500,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland. Team Elton rallied to win the match over Team Billie Jean 19-18 in front of a crowd of 3,477 fans.
October 21, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Ken Meyerson, a tennis agent who represented tennis greats, including Andy Roddick, Justin Henin and Chris Evert has passed away at the age of 48. He died on Oct. 19 at home in Florida with the cause of death not immediately known.
October 14, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
David Ferrer has defeated Andy Roddick in the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters 6-7, 6-2, 7-6. Ferrer had many errors which led to him dropping the first to Roddick.
October 11, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Andy Roddick defeated Grigor Dmitrov of Bulgaria 7-6 (3), 7-5 Tuesday to advance to the third round of the Shanghai Masters.
October 4, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Andy Roddick lost to South Africa’s Kevin Anderson 4-6, 5-7 in the first round of the China Open a defeat the sixth-seeded American called “unacceptable.” Roddick struggled with his usually reliable serve and was broken at key points in each set.
September 29, 2011
By Miguel Cervantes III
As of late, the reverse forehand has gained in popularity due to players such as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick, and even Maria Sharapova using it. Although the shot has its applications, in my humble opinion if you are going out of your way to use it, then you’re not using it correctly.
September 22, 2011
By Lonnie Mitchel
While watching Wimbledon at the beginning of the summer, the announcers would talk about the bad state of American tennis. During the French Open a few weeks earlier, I heard the same comments several times during the course of the tournament.
September 21, 2011
By Emilie Katz
SportsIllustrated.com released its Twitter 100 list. Appearing on the list are three professional tennis players and strangely enough, they are all of Serbian descent: Novak Djokovic (@djokernole), Andrea Petkovic (@andreapetkovic) and Janko Tipsarevic (@tipsarevicjanko).
September 9, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American tennis lives on at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, as Andy Roddick, John Isner and Serena Williams have all taken steps closer to the 2011 U.S. Open championship. The American trio will play their upcoming matches over the course of today, leading into this weekend's semifinals and quarterfinals, and Long Island Tennis Magazine caught up with each as they moved down the path to potential U.S. Open glory.
September 9, 2011
By Eric C. Peck
American John Isner's run at the 2011 U.S. Open came to an end on Friday afternoon, falling to the number four-seed, Andy Murray from Great Britain, in a four-set match, 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 6-7.
September 9, 2011
By Eric C. Peck
American John Isner's run at the 2011 U.S. Open came to an end on Friday afternoon, falling to the number four-seed, Andy Murray from Great Britain, in a four-set match, 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 6-7.
