In action on Thursday at the 46th Annual ASICS Easter Bowl at the Sunrise Country Club, top-seeded in the Boys 18s Division Noah Rubin of Rockville Centre, N.Y. advanced to the quarterfinals of the event after a 7-5, 7-5 win over Logan Smith of Carlsbad, Calif.

Brooke Austin just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to draws in Southern California tournaments. Faced with a very tough draw in the Girls 18s Division in four consecutive important ITF events in Southern California over the past two years, the 17-year-old Indianapolis resident survived three match points to upset top-seeded Jamie Loeb of Ossining, N.Y., 5-7, 7-6(7), 6-3, in the second round of the 46th annual ASICS Easter Bowl.

Some of the world’s top junior tennis players–including five boys ranked within the International Tennis Federation’s Top 50–will converge on Carson, Calif. as the ninth annual USTA International Spring Championships will take place at the Home Depot Center. Long Island's Noah Rubin, 17, is expected to be the top-seeded boys’ 18s player.

Robert Kendrick is director of tennis at Sportime Syosset and co-director of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy Annex at Bethpage. Robert joined the Sportime team in the fall of 2012 after a decade as a successful singles and doubles player on the ATP Tour.

The USTA announced that the U.S. Junior Fed Cup team of Taylor Townsend (Stockbridge, Ga.), Louisa Chirico (Harrison, N.Y.) and Gabrielle Andrews (Pomona, Calif.) captured the championship at the Junior Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Final on Sunday in Barcelona, Spain, defeating Russia, 3-0.

Since I was 21, tennis has been central part of my life. This year, I have turned 65. A lot has happened in the intervening years: Marriages, divorces, children, wooden racquets, metal racquets, short shorts, long shorts, white balls, yellow balls, watching, learning, coaching, and finally, appreciating all of these things.

Unfortunately the magical run of Long Island's Noah Rubin came to an end today in the quarterfinals of the 2012 French Open Juniors, as Noah was defeated 4-6, 1-6 by the number five seed, Filip Peliwo of Canada.

Noah Rubin continued his impressive play in Paris with a straight set 6-2, 6-3 upset win against the 15th seed from Italy, Stefano Napolitano, in the second round of the French Open Juniors.

The USTA has announced the eight girls and seven boys who have been accepted into the main draw and the qualifying draw at the 2012 Roland Garros Junior French Championships. The main draw will be played June 3-10 at Roland Garros in Paris; qualifying will be played May 31-June 1. Among the group is Rockville Centre, N.Y.'s Noah Rubin. Rubin is ranked a career-high 17th and reached the semifinals at both the USTA International Spring Championships and the Easter Bowl.

The Boys 18 Division began play on Tuesday at the 2012 Easter Bowl, as both the number one and two seeds, Mitchell Krueger of Aledo, Texas and Noah Rubin of Rockville Centre, N.Y., respectively, scored straight-set wins at the Rancho Las Palmas Resort in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The second seeded Rubin was a 6-4, 6-3 winner over Nick Wood of Knoxville, Tenn.

Copa Del Cafe is a Junior ITF World Tour Tournament played in Costa Rica taking place this week. The tournament is a Grade 1 event played on hard courts. Long Island's Noah Rubin is participating in the event and has made Long Island proud once again as he has advanced to the semifinals where he will face the number four seed, Greece's Markos Kalovelonis.

A Long Islander came through with one of the biggest upsets of Day One at the 65th Annual Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships at the Frank Veltri Tennis Center in Plantation, Fla. Fifteen-year-old Noah Rubin, one of the youngest competitors in the Boys 18s draw who got in as a wild card, stunned the number nine seed, Karim Hossam of Egypt, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.