May 22, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The 2012 French Open, the year’s second Grand Slam event, will take place May 27-June 10 at the famed clay courts of Roland Garros. The event was first played in 1891 as a French national tournament on grass. The surface would be changed to red clay in 1912.
March 13, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Italy's Francesca Schiavone, 2012 French Open winner, has withdrawn from the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. due to a virus that has plagued the event. Schiavone was forced to withdraw from her match with Czech Lucie Safarova, trailing 2-6.
February 22, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Ana Ivanovic of Serbia has defeated Francesca Schiavone of Italy to advance to the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships, winning in straight sets, 6-1, 7-5, after breezing through the first set of the match.
February 15, 2012
By Emilie Katz
A look back at the 2011 tennis season and all major tournaments and year end rankings.
January 9, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Australia's Sam Stosur, the 2011 U.S. Open champion, lost to Italy's Francesca Schiavone, 6-2, 6-4, in the first round of the Sydney International Tournament. Schiavone has also defeated Stosur at the 2010 French Open final and had little to no trouble once again defeating her early on in this tournament.
September 5, 2011
By Eric C. Peck
The Round of 16 has taken shape, and the second week of action at the 2011 U.S. Open gets underway Monday, Sept. 5 with a full slate of top-seeded stars still in contention. On the women's side of the draw, a marquee matchup in the afternoon at Arthur Ashe Stadium will see the 28-seed, American Serena Williams, take on the number 16 seed, Serbian Ana Ivanovic.
August 19, 2011
By David Drucker
This week at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, we’ve seen what happened to the men in Montreal last week. Top players losing early and other top players withdrawing due to injury during and before the tournament had even started.
August 12, 2011
By David Drucker
You know when you think sometimes the script is just written in sports and the players just follow along? That’s the feeling I have now after watching for a third straight day a top male and female upset in their respective tournaments.
August 2, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The world’s top tennis players and chefs will serve-up a kickoff to the U.S. Open on Thursday, Aug. 25 from 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. at the W New York in midtown Manhattan at the 12th Annual BNP Paribas Taste of Tennis event, to benefit the New York Junior Tennis League.
June 16, 2011
By David Drucker
Yesterday, the seeding ceremony took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, where the top 32 seeds were announced for this year's Wimbledon. For the most part, the men’s seeding generally followed their actual ATP ranking.
June 2, 2011
By David Drucker
Coming into today’s action at the 2011 French Open, there were only four women remaining in the singles draw ... and now we have two, with Li Na of China and Francesca Schiavone of Italy advancing to the championship match.
May 31, 2011
By David Drucker
The anticipation was high at the 2011 French Open for the third round clash between the number two seed Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro, 2009 U.S. champion. With little daylight left, the match was suspended until Saturday with the score tied at a set apiece.
May 4, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
WTA number one ranked Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark has advanced to the third round of the Madrid Open with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Serbian Bojana Jovanovski.
April 29, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The ATP and WTA have released their latest world rankings. Spaniard Rafael Nadal stands atop the men's rankings, while Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki leads the women's rankings. Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Robin Soderling round out the top five on the ATP side, while the women's top five behind Wozniacki includes Kim Clijsters, Vera Zvonareva, Francesca Schiavone and Victoria Azarenka.
February 24, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki defeated 2006 champion Nadia Petrova of Russia, 6-3, 6-2, Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Qatar Ladies Open.
February 8, 2011
By Emilie Katz
Emilie Katz reviews 2010 on both the ATP and WTA tours ... the winners, ranking and who hung up their racquets for the final time through retirement from the sport ...
January 21, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Venus Williams lasted just seven points in her third-round match at the 2011 Australian Open in Melbourne, forced to withdraw due to injury. After losing the first game to Andrea Petkovic of Germany and trailing 30-0 in the second, Williams stretched to her right to return a serve ...
January 5, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Bethanie Mattek-Sands' upset over Italian Francesca Schiavone, 6-4, 6-4, gave the United States a 2-0 lead over Italy at the Hyundai Hopman Cup, held at the Burswood Dome in Australia.
December 16, 2010
By Daniel Kresh
Since 2000, when I became a ballperson for The Hamlet Cup, I have longed to try out for the U.S. Open, the most elite group of ballpeople in the world. Ten years later, I finally had that opportunity.
November 1, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
In a ceremony filled with tears, Elena Dementieva retired from tennis after a loss at the WTA Championships that ended her 13-year career.
October 29, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Caroline Wozniacki wrapped up the year-end number one ranking Thursday after rallying to beat Francesca Schiavone 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 at the WTA Championships.
October 13, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Serena Williams and John Isner will team up for the United States in the Hyundai Hopman Cup Jan.1-8. The team tennis-style event and tune-up for the Australian Open will take place in January and features mixed teams from eight nations.
September 8, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Five-set encounters and marathon matches ruled the courts on Day Nine at the 2010 U.S. Open. The first of the five-setters saw the end to any hope of an American winning the men's singles title this year, as Stanislav Wawrinka defeated Sam Querrey, 7-6, 6-7, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 in a match that took 4 hours and 28 minutes.
September 8, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The following is taken from Venus Williams's post-match press conference on Tuesday, Sept. 7 during the 2010 U.S Open. The third-seeded Williams discusses her victory over Italian Francesca Schiavone, the sixth seed at this year's Open, under the lights are Arthur Ashe Stadium, 7-6(5), 6-4.
August 24, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that Caroline Wozniacki and Kim Clijsters—who met in the women’s singles final at the 2009 U.S. Open—have been named the top seeds in women’s singles at the 2010 U.S. Open.
