December 23, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Brad Drewett, former player and current ATP senior executive, has been named as the new ATP executive chairman and president. He will be based in the ATP's London office.
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.
September 7, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Jennifer Capriati, one of America's most dominant tennis players in the 1990s and early 2000s; Russia's first world number one Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and Brazilian tennis superstar Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten have been nominated to receive the highest honor available in the sport of tennis, induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
July 21, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
On Friday, Sept. 9, the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum will gather hundreds of tennis enthusiasts and industry leaders at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City for The Legends Ball, an annual social event that celebrates tennis and honors some of the sport's greatest champions and contributors.
January 20, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Andre Agassi, a former world number one and one of the most revered athletes in the world, will receive the highest honor available in the sport of tennis, induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. The announcement of Agassi's induction was made at the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, the public charter school that Agassi founded in 2001 in Las Vegas' most at-risk community.
January 4, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that, effective Jan. 1, 2011, its 15 member Board of Directors officially began its two-year term that will run through Dec. 31, 2012.
September 7, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced today that it has passed new rules governing competition for 10-and-under tennis tournaments. The new rules require that 10-and-under tournaments be played using slower-moving and lower-bouncing balls, on smaller courts and utilizing shorter, lighter racquets.
September 2, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced a further expansion of its environmental initiatives, now in their third year, at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, home of the U.S. Open, which annually hosts more than 700,000 fans during the two weeks of the event.
August 19, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Former world No. 1 golfer Annika Sorenstam and Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, wife of the late Arthur Ashe, will present Martina Navratilova with the Eugene L. Scott Award from the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the 30th annual Legends Ball on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
July 20, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Martina Navratilova, an outspoken trailblazer both on and off the tennis court for more than three decades, will be recognized with the Eugene L. Scott Award by the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum, at the 30th annual Legends Ball on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
July 2, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The International Tennis Hall of Fame will present the highest honor available in tennis to seven legends of the game on Saturday, July 10 at 12:30 p.m. The Induction Ceremony will take place on the historic grass courts of Bill Talbert Center Court at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I.
May 26, 2010
By Jonathan Klee
The year is 1987. Ronald Reagan is president and country club tennis is flourishing on the South Shore of Long Island. American tennis players, such as John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert and Tracy Austin, solidify tennis as part of the American landscape. South Shore golf and tennis country clubs, Inwood, Seawane, Woodmere and Middle Bay, have bustling programs.
May 26, 2010
By Joe Arias
The Suffolk County Junior Tennis League (SCJTL) revived the Boys Varsity Tennis Awards Dinner with a resoundingly successful event on May 25. This event had not been held in three seasons, but made a strong comeback this year thanks to the effort of SCJTL staff of Joe Arias, Donna Arias, Jimmy Delevante, Josh Wolfson and Paige Lawrence with the support of John Valente, athletic director at Harborfields High School and Boys Tennis Chairman for Suffolk County.
May 10, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The Legends Ball, which benefits the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum, returns to Cipriani 42nd Street, in New York City, on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. – the last Friday of the U.S. Open. Regarded as the premier social event of the U.S. Open, this special night of celebration will honor a host of tennis luminaries including the Hall of Fame Class of 2010.
March 19, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The International Tennis Hall of Fame will present the 2009 Samuel Hardy and Tennis Educational Merit Awards on March 20 during the International Tennis Hall of Fame Annual Awards Luncheon.
March 8, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Cable industry veteran, Ken Solomon, was sworn in as a member of President Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in the U.S. Supreme Court.
March 2, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The International Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2010 was introduced on March 1st as part of Tennis Night in America in a ceremony held at the BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean King Cup at Madison Square Garden.
