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.
May 21, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel will offer close to 60 hours of live matches and more than 140 match hours overall during its sixth year of French Open coverage, beginning Sunday, May 27 and running through Sunday, June 10.
May 10, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Below is a transcript of a interview with Melanie Oudin and Brian Baker. Both have received wild card entries into the upcoming 2012 French Open and a open forum question and answer was held.
April 9, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Longines, the official timekeeper and partner of the French Open, has announced the United States’ participants for the 2012 Longines Future Tennis Aces—On the Road to the French Open U.S. qualifying tournament.
April 6, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Longines, the official timekeeper and partner of the French Open, has announced that 16 junior female tennis players from the United States ages 12-and-under will compete in a one-day Longines Future Tennis Aces–On the Road to the French Open qualifying tournament ...
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 Luke Jensen
The late season surge from Roger Federer winning his last three tournaments of the year (Basel, Paris and London) show tremendous signs that the player of the last decade will be ready to make a run for the top spot again in 2012.
December 13, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced that, for the eighth time in nine years, the American doubles team of Bob & Mike Bryan were named Men’s Doubles World Champions.
November 16, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Barclays ATP World Tour Finals defending champion Roger Federer of Switzerland is grouped with Spain's Rafael Nadal in round-robin play at this year's event at The O2 Arena in London. Also grouped together in first round action at the event is world number one-ranked Serbian Novak Djokovic and Great Britain's Andy Murray in Group A.
November 14, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Roger Federer has ended his season on the high side after defeating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-1, 7-6 to win his first Paris Masters event title and the 69th title of his career.
November 11, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
At the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris, Roger Federer of Switzerland won his 800th career match, a 6-3, 7-5 win over Argentina's Juan Monaco. The win advances Federer, currently ranked fourth in the world, to the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Masters.
November 11, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Novak Djokovic, 2011 U.S. Open Champion, has withdrawn from the Paris Masters after suffering a shoulder injury prior to his quarterfinals match against France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Djokovic has said his injury intensity got worse after his comeback against Serbian Viktor Troicki.
November 10, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tomas Berdych, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Mardy Fish will complete the singles player field at the 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, to be held Nov. 20-27 at The O2 in London, featuring the world’s top eight singles players and doubles teams.
November 10, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Andy Murray of Great Britain defeated American Andy Roddick in straight sets, 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. Murray has raised his record to 17-0 since the 2011 U.S. Open and now has won 27 out of his last 28 matches since August.
November 9, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Top-seeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia defeated Ivan Dodig of Croatia, 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris on Wednesday.
November 9, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American John Isner advanced on Tuesday at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris with a 6-7(3), 7-5, 7-6(5) win over Stanislas Wawrinka from Switzerland.
November 3, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Rafael Nadal from Spain has withdrawn from the Paris Masters to focus on the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals and Davis Cup final.
October 21, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Robin Soderling has announced his withdrawal from next month's Paris Masters due to illness. The sixth-ranked Swede has suffered from mononucleosis which has resulted in absence since last July.
October 4, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel and the French Tennis Federation (FFT) have agreed to a multi-year extension of the French Open rights package that has been in place since 2007, keeping the network as the primary non-broadcast home of the world's preeminent clay-court championship for years to come.
August 11, 2011
By David Drucker
The magical run of Merrick, N.Y.’s Scott Lipsky and his mixed-doubles partner, Australian Casey Dellacqua, has finally come to a happy ending at Roland Garros, as the duo captured the 2011 French Open Mixed-Doubles Championship.
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.
May 17, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel will bring the world's most prestigious clay-court tournament to American televisions in 3-D for the first time during its coverage of the 2011 French Open.
May 12, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel is adding Mary Carillo, whose path has taken her from winning the French Open to winning a Sports Emmy Award, as the newest member of its star-laden French Open and U.S. Open telecast teams.
April 11, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
On Saturday April 9, 16 boys, ages 12 and under, took the courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center to compete in the Longines Future Tennis Aces event. They were all playing for the chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to the French Open to meet and play against tennis greats, Andre Agassi and Jim Courier at Roland Garros.
