May 2, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that the U.S. Junior Fed Cup and U.S. Junior Davis Cup (16-and-under) teams and both the boys’ and girls’ World Junior Tennis teams (14-and-under) won the North/Central America & Caribbean Regional Championships this weekend to qualify for the 2012 World Finals. The Regional Championships were held in Merida, Mexico. All four teams went an undefeated 3-0 en route to winning their regional titles.
April 13, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American tennis star and former world number one Jennifer Capriati has been elected to receive the highest honor in the sport of tennis—induction to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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.
November 29, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Player Development has announced the eight men and eight women invited to participate in the 2011 Kia Motors Australian Open Wild Card Playoff, being held for the third consecutive year at the Racquet Club of the South, a USTA Certified Regional Training Center in Atlanta, Dec. 16-18.
April 6, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Kim Clijsters, currently ranked number two on the WTA Tour, will be sidelined for at least a month with shoulder and wrist injuries. It has been speculated that a busy schedule in the first part of 2011 may have led to overexhaustion as her recovery time will force her to miss next week's Fed Cup matchup for her home country of Belgium as they face off against the Czech Republic.
March 3, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel has extended its telecast rights agreements with the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to remain the exclusive U.S. broadcaster of all Davis Cup by BNP Paribas, Fed Cup by BNP Paribas and Hyundai Hopman Cup competition.
February 9, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The United States team will travel to Germany for the Fed Cup playoffs. The Americans, who lost to Belgium in the first round last weekend without the injured Williams Sisters, need to beat the Germans in order to stay in the eight-team World Group.
February 7, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Kim Clijsters defeated Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 6-7 (10), 6-2, 6-1, to give Belgium a 4-1 win over the United States in Fed Cup World Group and head into the semifinals.
February 2, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Kim Clijsters will lead a strong Belgian squad against an injury-depleted United States team in the Fed Cup this weekend.
August 9, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The United States girls’ teams continued its string of dominance at the 2010 World Junior Tennis Finals, winning its fourth consecutive title at the 14-and-under version of Fed Cup and Davis Cup, in Prostejov, Czech Republic, Aug. 2-7.
March 30, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The Associated Press reports that once retired in 2002/then returned in 2006/then banned from 2007-2009/now horse jumping and ballroom dancing former tennis champ Martina Hingis will be playing a full schedule—14 matches—of World TeamTennis this season.
