May 23, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
For the second consecutive year, Lauren Embree was involved in the decision in the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championships final and the Gator All-American delivered in the end. Embree defeated McCall Jones, 6-4, 6-0, and Florida defeated top-seeded UCLA, 4-0, at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.
May 17, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
After coming one victory short of first place in the Eastern Conference last year, the New York Sportimes of World TeamTennis (WTT) look to rebound in 2012 as the team will play seven July home dates this season, including five at the Sportime Randall’s Island Tennis Center and two at SEFCU Arena at the University of Albany.
May 10, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Below is a transcript of a interview with Melanie Oudin and Brian Baker. Both have received wild card entries into the upcoming 2012 French Open and a open forum question and answer was held.
May 7, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Player Development announced that Melanie Oudin has earned a main draw wild card into the 2012 French Open.
May 1, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Player Development has announced that Brian Baker of Nashville, Tenn., has earned a main draw wild card into the 2012 French Open. This year, the USTA awarded one men’s singles main draw wild card into the French Open to the American player who finished with the best combined results at two USTA Pro Circuit clay-court challengers ...
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 20, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced the top American juniors who will represent the United States in 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) North/Central American and Caribbean Championships.
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.
April 10, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
There's a new tennis tournament that doubles as family time. The 2012 National Family Tennis Championships offers thousands of amateur players the opportunity to team up with their mother, father, sister, brother, husband or wife to earn the right to play for a national title.
April 3, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that co-ed intramural and sport club tennis teams representing 64 colleges and universities across the country have qualified for the 2012 USTA Tennis On Campus National Championship to be played in Cary, N.C., April 12-14.
March 29, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Belgium's Kim Clijsters has a tear in her hip muscle and now will require four weeks of rest and withdrawal from the WTA tour. Her management company stated that she has been plagued with hip pains throughout the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla. after losing to Yanina Wickmayer on Saturday in straight sets, 6-4, 7-6(5).
March 20, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American John Isner has joined the ranks of the world's top 10 players atop the ATP World Rankings after beating world number one-ranked Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the semifinals of the 2012 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. this past weekend.
March 16, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Long Island Tennis Magazine presents this summer's best tennis camp guide across Long Island ...
March 13, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The 2012 World TeamTennis Draft was held Tuesday, and the New York Sportimes welcomed back some familiar faces for another season of World TeamTennis at Sportime Stadium at Randall's Island.
March 9, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Robby Ginepri has become the first American to win a spot into the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. after defeating Paoli Lorenzi of Italy in three sets 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.
February 24, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American Venus Williams will return to action on the WTA Tour in March after receiving a wild card to compete in her first tournament since her withdrawal in August with an autoimmune disease, making her return at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Fla.
February 17, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
SUNY Oneonta Director of Athletics Tracey Ranieri has announced that Long Island native Lonnie Mitchel has been selected as the interim tennis coach effective immediately. Mitchel replaces Bill May, who resigned earlier this month to take the head coaching position for men and women's tennis at Southeastern University in Florida.
February 10, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Fernando Gonzalez of Chile is to retire after the Masters tournament being held in Florida in March. Gonzalez is 31 years old and has reached as high as fifth in ATP rankings.
January 19, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Jordie Dolberg is the new director of tennis at Sportime Massapequa. Jordie lived in Florida his entire life, attending college at The University of Florida, before recently moving to Long Island to accept his new position.
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 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
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 12, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Serves, the National Charitable Foundation of the United States Tennis Association, has announced that it has granted 41 community tennis and education organizations in the U.S. more than $400,000 in grants. Combined with scholarship awards, USTA Serves distributed more than $1.5 million in 2011.
