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 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 ...
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.
January 18, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American John Isner has moved on after a long drawn out four-hour and 41-min. second-round match, which included a 99-min. final set, in Day Three action at the 2012 Australian Open.
November 18, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced the top American collegians selected to represent the United States in the Sixth Annual Master’U BNP Paribas, an international collegiate team competition held Dec. 8-11 in Rouen, France. The event features eight teams composed of college and university players from around the world.
November 10, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Each November, along with countless other student athletes, the country’s top tennis-playing high school seniors determine their collegiate futures on National Signing Day.
October 28, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA and Intercollegiate Tennis Association has announced today fields for the 2011 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, which will take place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center’s Indoor Building Nov. 3-6.
September 20, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
On Sunday, Sept. 18, the Seawolves Classic, a One-on-One Doubles Tournament, was held at Stony Brook University. Eight women's college teams participated, including host school Stony Brook, Bryant, Marist, URI, Army, Navy, Fordham and Fairleigh Dickinson.
September 11, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Grace Min, a 17-year-old from Duluth, Ga., upset top-seeded Caroline Garcia of France 7-5, 7-6(3), to win the 2011 U.S. Open Junior Girls singles title on Sunday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. Garcia is currently ranked 138th in the WTA rankings while Min is ranked 550th.
September 2, 2011
By Eric C. Peck
Behind upset after upset, the young American women have become the story of week one at the 2011 U.S. Open.
May 25, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
After almost the greatest upset on a clay surface, people around the world are still talking about how world number one-ranked Rafael Nadal escaped by the skin of his teeth in five sets against young American John Isner. This had been the first time in Nadal’s career that he was faced with a five set match at Roland Garros.
April 25, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Irina Falconi, a native of Ecuador who moved to New York City at the age of four and now resides in Atlanta, along with Tim Smyczek of Milwaukee won the 2011 USTA French Open Wild Card Playoffs on Friday at the Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton, Fla., to earn main draw wild cards into the 2011 French Open.
December 14, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced the final fields for its Australian Open Wild Card Playoffs, sponsored by VocalCloud, which will be held for the second consecutive year at the Racquet Club of the South, a USTA Certified Regional Training Center in Atlanta, Dec. 17-19.
November 5, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA/ITA Indoor Intercollegiate Championships started with a bang on Thursday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center’s Indoor Training Center in Flushing, N.Y.
August 30, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
In weekend action at the 2010 U.S. Open Qualifiers ... on Friday, Aug. 27, American Ryan Harrison qualified into his first U.S. Open main draw, and Robert Kendrick took one step closer to earning a spot in the men's singles draw after winning their matches on Day 4 of the U.S. Open Qualifying Tournament.
August 27, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American tennis player Melanie Oudin will step onto the U.S. Open court in her one-of-a-kind adidas Barricade shoes she personally designed through miadidas.com, adidas’ online shoe customization service.
August 27, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Court 11 was good to players with New York connections on day three of the 2010 U.S. Open Qualifying Tournament on Thursday. Former Georgia Tech All-American Irina Falconi, who grew up playing on the public courts at Inwood Park near Washington Heights in the Bronx, beat Germany’s Mona Barthel, 6-0, 6-2, in the first round of the U.S. Open Qualifying Tournament at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.
August 19, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that NCAA singles champion Chelsey Gullickson (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Jamie Hampton (Auburn, Ala.), local favorite Christina McHale (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.), 2010 USTA Girls’ singles champion Shelby Rogers (Daniel Island, S.C.), and Coco Vandeweghe (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) ...
June 18, 2010
By USTA Eastern Section
The USTA has announced that 25 of the nation's top men's and women's collegiate tennis players have been named to the 2010 USTA Summer Collegiate Team, administered by the USTA and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).
March 7, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
September 10, 2009
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
A look at the rising American stars on both the men's and women's fronts who will be taking part in the 2009 U.S. Open.
