April 24, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Taylor Townsend, a 16-year-old from Stockbridge, Ga., who trains full-time at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., became the top-ranked junior in the ITF World Junior Rankings ...
April 16, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Taylor Townsend of Stockbridge, Ga., captured the Girls 18s singles title at the 2012 Easter Bowl ITF Tennis Championships on Saturday, and Mackenzie McDonald of Piedmont, Calif., won the Boys 18s title on Sunday.
April 12, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
At the 2012 Easter Bowl at the Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Rancho Mirage, Calif., 14-year-old Stefan Kozlov of Pembroke Pines, Fla., defeated local player Dennis Uspensky of Atlantic Beach, N.Y, 6-4, 6-3, to move into the third round of the event.
April 11, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The Boys 18 Division began play on Tuesday at the 2012 Easter Bowl, as both the number one and two seeds, Mitchell Krueger of Aledo, Texas and Noah Rubin of Rockville Centre, N.Y., respectively, scored straight-set wins at the Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The second seeded Rubin was a 6-4, 6-3 winner over Nick Wood of Knoxville, Tenn.
December 9, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American boys have had a rough time adapting to the clay courts at the 2011 Orange Bowl, taking place at the Frank Veltri Tennis Center in Plantation, Fla. Only two Americans reached the round of 16 in the Boys 18s draw, and Americans were shut out entirely from the Boys 16s quarterfinals.
November 21, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced the acceptance lists for the 65th Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships, which begins Monday, Dec. 5 at the Frank Veltri Tennis Center in Plantation, Fla. The event will be contested on clay for the first time since 1998.
September 28, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Player Development has announced the hirings of Stanford Boster as a USTA National Coach for Men’s Tennis and Jayadeva Devashetty as a USTA National Coach. Boster and Devashetty have already begun their responsibilities and will facilitate coaching and training for players in the USTA Player Development program.
August 22, 2011
By Steve Pratt
The youngest and the oldest of the 16 women’s and men’s players selected to play in this weekend’s U.S. Open Wild Card Playoffs punched their tickets to New York with convincing wins on a stormy and thundering Sunday near Washington, D.C
August 4, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that defending champion Jack Sock of Lincoln, Neb., and reigning Orange Bowl champion Lauren Davis of Gates Mills, Ohio, will be the top seeds at the 2011 USTA Boys’ and Girls’ 18s National Championships.
July 27, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA announced the top American juniors who will represent the United States in the World Junior Tennis Competition Finals. The event features 32 teams (16 boys teams and 16 girls teams) composed of players 14-and-under from 25 nations across the world.
July 25, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Alexios Halebian of Glendale, Calif. and Luca Corinteli of Alexandria, Va. have captured the Boys 18s and 16s singles titles, respectively, on Sunday at the 2011 USTA National Clay Court Championships at the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Fla.
April 25, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Irina Falconi, a native of Ecuador who moved to New York City at the age of four and now resides in Atlanta, along with Tim Smyczek of Milwaukee won the 2011 USTA French Open Wild Card Playoffs on Friday at the Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton, Fla., to earn main draw wild cards into the 2011 French Open.
January 21, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Player Development has announced that eight junior development programs in six states have been named USTA Certified Regional Training Centers as part of its continuing effort to develop the next generation of world-class American players. The eight programs will create networks serving the Northeast portion of the country and the USTA’s Missouri Valley section.
January 7, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced eight top American juniors selected to represent the United States in two elite 14-and-Under events in Europe: The AEGON Junior International, held in Bolton, England, Jan. 17-23; and Les Petits As, held in Tarbes, France, Jan. 24-30.
November 17, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced three new coaching hires–Jorge Todero as a USTA Lead National Coach, Frederico Rodriguez as a USTA National Coach and Marc Lucero as a USTA Coach. All three hires will facilitate coaching and training programs while working with players in the USTA Player Development program.
August 23, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that Tim Smyczek of Milwaukee, Wis. and Beatrice Capra of Ellicott City, Md. has won the U.S. Open Wild Card Playoff and will receive a men’s and women’s main draw singles wild card into the 2010 U.S. Open.
August 19, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that NCAA singles champion Chelsey Gullickson (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Jamie Hampton (Auburn, Ala.), local favorite Christina McHale (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.), 2010 USTA Girls’ singles champion Shelby Rogers (Daniel Island, S.C.), and Coco Vandeweghe (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) ...
August 18, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that two-time U.S. Open quarterfinalist James Blake (Tampa, Fla.) and a talented group of Americans, consisting of Bradley Klahn (Poway, Calif.), Jack Sock (Lincoln, Neb.), Ryan Sweeting (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)and Donald Young (Atlanta), along with two international players—Australian Carsten Ball and Guillaume Rufin of France ...
August 17, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that it will host a new U.S. Open Wild Card Playoff to award a men’s and women’s main draw singles wild card into the 2010 U.S. Open. Eight men and eight women will be invited to compete for the wild cards, Wednesday-Friday, Aug. 18-20 at the USTA Training Center Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla.
June 22, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that Diego Moyano has been hired as a Clay-Court Specialist for USTA Player Development. In this role, Moyano will facilitate coaching and training programs designed specifically for clay-court play, while working with players in the USTA Player Development program.
June 18, 2010
By USTA Eastern Section
The USTA has announced that 25 of the nation's top men's and women's collegiate tennis players have been named to the 2010 USTA Summer Collegiate Team, administered by the USTA and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).
May 7, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Top American juniors represented the United States in the qualifying events for the Junior Davis Cup (16-and-Under) and Junior Fed Cup (16-and-Under) by BNP Paribas and the World Junior Tennis Competition (14-and-Under).
April 30, 2010
By USTA Eastern Section
The USTA announced the top American juniors who will represent the United States in the qualifying events for the Junior Davis Cup (16-and-under) and Junior Fed Cup (16-and-under) by BNP Paribas and the World Junior Tennis Competition (14-and-under).
April 30, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA hosted a playoff this week to award a men’s and a women’s singles main-draw wild card to the 2010 French Open. The men’s and women’s wild-card tournaments took place on the clay courts of the Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton, Fla., April 27-29.
April 28, 2010
By USTA Eastern Section
The USTA is hosting a playoff this week to award a men’s and a women’s singles main-draw wild card to the 2010 French Open. The men’s and women’s wild-card tournaments are taking place this week on the clay courts of the Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton, Fla., April 27-29.
