The six-peat is complete! Last Thursday afternoon at Garden City High School, the Cold Spring Harbor's (CSH) boys tennis team won an astounding sixth consecutive Nassau County Championship, defeating Syosset.

The 2013 Nassau County Boys Individual Championships were scheduled to begin on Saturday, May 11, but Mother Nature changed those plans as rain caused the postponement of Day One of the tournament. On Sunday morning as Coordinator Barry Kubit squeegeed the courts of Oceanside High School and the sun finally shone through as play was able to get underway.

The USTA Eastern Long Island Region has announced that Susan Alvy, recently retired manager at Rockville Racquet Club, will receive the Hy Zausner Lifetime Achievement Award at the Region’s 23rd Annual Awards Dinner on Wednesday, May 1 at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, N.Y. honoring local tennis champions.

First and foremost, I hope everyone is recovering from Superstorm Sandy. I know we had many players affected by the storm and my heart goes out to all of you. I am hoping that you are all starting to get some normalcy back in your lives!

On Sunday evening March 10, high school tennis coaches and players are invited to the Annual Long Island Scholastic Coaches Conference and Clinic at Bethpage Park Tennis Center. This free clinic will be run by Bethpage Park Tennis Directors Steve Kaplan and Keith Kambourian.

Long Island Tennis Magazine has two sets of floor seats (two seats per set) for the Harlem Globetrotters at Nassau Coliseum on Sunday, Feb. 17 and we are giving them away to magazine supporters. Please go to our Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/longislandtennis) and "Like" Long Island Tennis Magazine for your chance to win.

Ian Shapiro's Syosset Sportime team won the Long Island Region for Men’s 3.5, 4.0. & 4.5 Tri-Level this weekend 2-1 over the Klee/Nassau Indoor team. The team went undefeated for the season, winning the LI championship for the second time in three years. They will now be headed to Schenectady Jan. 19-20 for the Eastern Championships.

For the fourth time in as many years, the Syosset High School Girls Tennis team has knocked off the Suffolk county champion, Half Hollow Hills East, to take the title of Long Island Champions. After finishing the regular season undefeated and taking out the Port Washington girls for the Nassau Championships almost a month earlier, it was a long time since the Syosset girls took the court as a team.

Syosset senior Vivian Cheng and Great Neck South senior Nicholle Torres will battle for the Girls High School State Championship today. This is the second straight season that two players from Nassau County will meet in the state singles title match as last year Hannah Camhi (Syosset) defeated Morgan Hermann (Garden City).

Garden City High School's Alexa Graham showed that age is not always a factor, as the freshman won the 2012 Nassau County Girls Individual Tennis Championships at Eisenhower Park on Sunday. In the finals, the 14-year-old took on the top-seeded Vivian Cheng of Syosset and Graham fought throughout to earn the straight-set victory.

The Syosset High School Girls Tennis team won their fourth straight Nassau County Championship on Wednesday, defeating the Port Washington Lady Vikings 5-2 at Wheatley High School. The win capped off an undefeated Nassau County season for Syosset.

Only five girls high school tennis matches were played Monday, Oct. 8, four in Suffolk County and one in Nassau County. In Suffolk, Eastport-South Manor remained undefeated in League VIII play with a win over Riverhead, while Bellport remained winless in League VI, losing to Comsewoque.