May 23, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
This year's U.S. Open will be the last for former world number one-ranked Kim Clijsters of Belgium. Clijsters has announced that she plans on retiring after the event.
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.
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.
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 23, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American Serena Williams, the number 10 seed, returned from a left ankle injury and defeated China's Zhang Shuai 6-2, 6-3 at the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open.
March 22, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American Venus Williams won in her first singles match since August, a 6-0, 6-3 win over Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan in round one action at the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.
February 15, 2012
By Emilie Katz
A look back at the 2011 tennis season and all major tournaments and year end rankings.
January 26, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The 2012 Australian Open women's singles final will see Russian Maria Sharapova go up against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. Not only are they playing for the championship; they both are in contention to gain the number one ranking.
January 25, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA and U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez have announced that 13-time Grand Slam Champion Serena Williams will be joined by her sister Venus Williams, Christina McHale, and world number one doubles player Liezel Huber in representing the United States against Belarus in the 2012 Fed Cup ...
January 24, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Day Nine action at the 2012 Australian Open further narrowed the field competing for the first major Grand Slam of the year. Wins by both Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal sets up a Thursday showdown between the number two and three players in the world.
January 24, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Belgium's Kim Clijsters continued her Australian Open title defense with a 6-3, 7-6(4) quarterfinal win over top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark. Up next for Clijsters is a semifinals meeting with the number three seed, Victoria Azarenka of Belarus ...
January 23, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Top-ranked Serbian Novak Djokovic had a pretty solid match, and on the other hand, American Serena Williams had her head in the sky. Djokovic, took the match in four sets, only dropping the third to wild card entry and Australia's own Lleyton Hewitt who could not hold his comeback. The top five-ranked men's singles players have now advanced the quarterfinals.
January 20, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The defending Australian Open champion, Kim Clijsters of Belgium, has moved on to the fourth round of the 2012 Australian Open with a commanding 6-3, 6-2 victory over Daniela Hantuchova.
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.
January 12, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The top injured players in tennis are continuing to improve their games heading into the Australian Open. Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams, Caroline Wozniacki, and the defending champ Kim Clijsters have said they have seen progress in recovery and are primed and ready for next week's first Grand Slam of 2012 in Melbourne, Australia.
January 6, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters became the second top contender for the year’s first major to suffer an injury setback when she retired on Friday from her Brisbane International semifinal match against Daniela Hantuchova.
January 5, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Kim Clijsters has advanced to the semifinals of the Brisbane International after a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Iveta Benesova. Clijsters had won the title in 2010 and missed the 2011 tournament. She is now 8-0 overall for the tournaments leading up to the Australian Open.
December 9, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Kim Clijsters of Australia has made a quick successful return to tennis after four months of non-play by defeating first-ranked Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 7-6 in an exhibition match.
December 2, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The following is a interview between U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier and U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez.
October 26, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), the governing body of women's professional tennis, have extended their programming agreement through 2016, ensuring the network's place as the year-round home of such stars as Maria Sharapova, Kim Clijsters, and sisters Venus and Serena Williams.
October 12, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Serena Williams will open her 2012 season for the first time at the Brisbane International tournament, a warmup for the Australian Open. Both U.S. Open finalists will be in the field for the event that begins Jan. 1, as Samantha Stosur, who was already confirmed for the tournament, defeated Williams 6-2, 6-3 in September at the Open to earn her first Grand Slam title.
October 5, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The 2012 Australian Open, set for Jan. 16-29, 2012 at Melbourne Park will be the richest tournament in Grand Slam tennis history, with the winners of both the men’s and women’s singles to pocket $2.2 million U.S. and a total of $25 million U.S. will be paid out at the event.
September 30, 2011
By Brent Shearer
I think many of us in the tennis world, understandably, take the Williams Sisters and their accomplishments for granted. But just because they have been mainstays on the women’s tour for more than 10 years, it is instructive to take another look because Venus and Serena are quite a story.
August 25, 2011
By Eric C. Peck
Today at the USTA BIllie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., the men's and women's draws were announced for the 2011 U.S. Open.
August 19, 2011
By David Drucker
Two-time defending U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters of Belgium will not get a chance at a three-peat at this year’s U.S. Open. Clijsters has announced that she has no other choice but to pull out of the last Grand Slam of the year citing a stomach muscle injury, more specifically, a left rectus abdominus strain.
