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.
May 22, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tenth-ranked Mardy Fish and women's 16th-ranked Andrea Petkovic are among several players who pulled out of the upcoming French Open. Fish, the top-seeded American, has not played a match for more than a month due to an injury. He will be replaced by Canada's Frank Dancevic.
May 21, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel will offer close to 60 hours of live matches and more than 140 match hours overall during its sixth year of French Open coverage, beginning Sunday, May 27 and running through Sunday, June 10.
May 11, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova easily to advance at the Madrid Open semifinals in straight sets 6-1, 6-3. This is her seventh win in a row against Sharapova and it came on the new blue-clay court surfaces.
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 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 17, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Belgium's Kim Clijsters will skip the French Open and clay-court season to focus on adapting to grass ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and Wimbledon.
April 17, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
World number two-ranked Rafael Nadal of Spain heads into this week's Monte Carlo Masters nursing a left knee injury and is looking to capture his first championship title in over 10 months, dating back to last year's French Open.
April 16, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Novak Djokovic's strive to win the French Open championship begins with the Monte Carlo Masters, beginning this week in Monte-Carlo, Monaco.
April 6, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Longines, the official timekeeper and partner of the French Open, has announced that 16 junior female tennis players from the United States ages 12-and-under will compete in a one-day Longines Future Tennis Aces–On the Road to the French Open qualifying tournament ...
March 9, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
In March, Tennis Channel will offer more than 120 live hours from two of the largest events in tennis, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., and the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.
February 16, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Eastern returns to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Thursday, Feb. 23 to host a 10 & Under Tennis clinic with French Open Doubles Champion and ESPN Commentator Patrick McEnroe.
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 13, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have been placed on the same half of the Australian Open draw for the first time in any Grand Slam since 2005. This means that Novak Djokovic, the current number one ranked player, won’t have to go up against either rival until he reaches the finals of the Open.
October 28, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Several of the biggest names in tennis came together at the 19th annual WTT Smash Hits presented by GEICO at Cleveland Public Hall, raising more than $500,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland. Team Elton rallied to win the match over Team Billie Jean 19-18 in front of a crowd of 3,477 fans.
October 4, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel and the French Tennis Federation (FFT) have agreed to a multi-year extension of the French Open rights package that has been in place since 2007, keeping the network as the primary non-broadcast home of the world's preeminent clay-court championship for years to come.
September 6, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
On the eve of the 2011 U.S. Open Women's Final, a who's who of the tennis industry will gather at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City to pay tribute to the International Tennis Hall of Fame's Class of 2011 Inductees Andre Agassi and Peachy Kellmeyer, to honor additional contributors to the sport, and to celebrate the great game of tennis.
August 23, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
In its third year of U.S. Open coverage, Tennis Channel will add Mary Carillo to its on-air lineup, marking the Queens, N.Y., native's first stint in the network's broadcast booth at the Flushing Meadow-based largest event in tennis.
August 16, 2011
By David Drucker
The USTA originally announced that 2011 French Open champion Na Li of China would be appearing at the USTA’s Mobile SmashZone, when SmashZone stopped at Sara D. Roosevelt Park in the Chinatown District of Manhattan on Monday, Aug. 22 from 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Unfortunately, the event has been cancelled. The USTA apologizes for any inconvenience this has caused.
August 11, 2011
By David Drucker
The magical run of Merrick, N.Y.’s Scott Lipsky and his mixed-doubles partner, Australian Casey Dellacqua, has finally come to a happy ending at Roland Garros, as the duo captured the 2011 French Open Mixed-Doubles Championship.
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.
July 21, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that world number one-ranked and reigning Australian Open and Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic, reigning U.S. Open and French Open champion Rafael Nadal, and five-time U.S. Open champion Roger Federer lead the men’s singles field for the 2011 U.S. Open Tennis Championships.
June 15, 2011
By David Drucker
Another year has gone by and we are back on the courts of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for Wimbledon 2011. Since last year’s Wimbledon we’ve seen the continuous dominance of world number one Rafael Nadal, the emergence of Novak Djokovic, and a changing of the guard for Roger Federer.
June 14, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel will introduce analyst Lindsay Davenport as the newest member of its on-air team during the network's upcoming Wimbledon coverage, June 20-29, 2011.
June 6, 2011
By David Drucker
Stop me when you’ve heard this before: French Open finals, Federer vs. Nadal. In their storied rivalry, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have met 24 times with Nadal coming out the victor 16 times, six of which have come in a Grand Slam final.
