February 15, 2012
By Emilie Katz
A look back at the 2011 tennis season and all major tournaments and year end rankings.
January 30, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Victoria Azarenka from Belarus defeated Russia' Maria Sharapova in the 2012 Australian Open Women's singles finals in just one-hour, 22-min. Azarenka swept the three-time Grand Slam winner, 6-3, 6-0, and won 12 out of 13 games in a row to quickly capture her first Grand Slam win ...
January 30, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
World number one-ranked Novak Djokovic of Serbia defeated Spain's Rafael Nadal in the longest Grand Slam singles final in the history of professional tennis, winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after 5-hours and 53-min. to claim his third Australian Open title.
January 27, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
World number one-ranked Serbian Novak Djokovic will have an opportunity to defend his Australian Open this weekend after he defeated Andy Murray of Great Britain, the number four seed, 6-3, 3-6, 6-7, 6-1, 7-5, in the semifinals at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne Park.
January 25, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Defending Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia defeated Spain's David Ferrer, 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-1, in action on Wednesday to advance to the semifinals. His semifinals opponent will be the fourth-seeded Andy Murray of Great Britain, a 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 winner over Japan's Kei Nishikori.
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 19, 2012
By David Drucker
Mardy Fish is now the top-ranked American in the world, surpassing Andy Roddick who held the distinction as the top-ranked American for a number of years.
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 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 11, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel is adding another Hall of Famer to its Australian Open booth this year, bringing two-time U.S. Open winner Tracy Austin to Melbourne for its coverage of the season's first major, Grand Slam competition.
December 19, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Boca Raton, Fla., residents Madison Keys and Jesse Levine both won coveted trips to Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday with convincing victories at the 2011 Kia Motors USTA Australian Open Wild Card Playoff played at the Racquet Club of the South.
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.
June 1, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel and ESPN have extended the French Open and Australian Open multimedia programming alliance they began in Roland Garros in 2007. Both networks will continue to offer matches virtually round the clock from both events, two of the sport's four major "Grand Slam" tournaments ...
May 25, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The popular television game show Wheel of Fortune has teamed up with the Tennis Channel to present viewers with the show's first-ever "Tennis Week," airing on May 30 to June 3, 2011.
March 2, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Rafael Nadal says he has fully recovered from his thigh injury and is ready to represent Spain in their upcoming 2011 Davis Cup match against Belgium.
February 2, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Kim Clijsters will lead a strong Belgian squad against an injury-depleted United States team in the Fed Cup this weekend.
January 31, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Kim Clijsters won the fourth major title of her career and her first-ever Australian Open title as she defeated Li Na in Melbourne on Saturday, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. Clijsters's win ended Li Na's Cinderella run at the Australian Open as she became the first Chinese player to ever reach the finals of a Grand Slam event.
January 27, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Li Na broke new ground for China at the Australian Open on Thursday, fighting back to topple world number one Caroline Wozniacki and become her country’s first singles grand slam finalist.
January 25, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Caroline Woznacki advanced to the semifinals of the 2011 Australian Open with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 over 2010 French Open Champion Francesca Schiavione at Melbourne Park.
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 20, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
If Rafael Nadal is getting nervous as he eases closer to winning his fourth consecutive Grand Slam, he sure isn’t showing it. After his 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 win Thursday over American qualifier Ryan Sweeting at the 2011 Australian Open in Melbourne, the Spanish star will now take on local favorite, 18-year-old Australian Bernard Tomic.
January 14, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel will pre-empt its regularly scheduled programming on Saturday Jan. 15 at 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT, to air Rally for Relief—a special exhibition being held in Melbourne to raise money for victims of Australia's flood disaster.
January 13, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
For the 2011 Australian Open, Rafael Nadal and Caroline Wozniacki have been named top seeds on the men's and women's sides respectively, as the event begins next week, Jan. 17-30 at Melbourne Park.
January 11, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel has extended its on-air relationships with two stars who both got the most out of their time on the court: Hall of Famer Martina Navratilova and multi-Slam champion and Olympic gold medalist Lindsay Davenport.
December 20, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Everyone remembers the last couple points of Ryan Harrison’s last Grand Slam appearance, his grueling five-set loss to Sergey Stakhovsky in the second round of the U.S. Open.
