It was late Sunday, Oct. 28, most New Yorkers were just beginning to think about what Halloween costume we were going to try and put together while watching Sunday football. Newscasters everywhere were talking about a major storm coming the following day ...

Being a tennis coach necessitates a unique ability to connect with the player. Tennis is a game of skill, strength and strategy. As a coach, the challenge is to guide a player to perform their best in all of those aspects and then come back the next day reaching for more.

The 2013 Australian Open will take place at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia from Jan. 14-27, the 101st edition of the Open. ATP top-ranked Novak Djokovic from Serbia will return to defend his men's singles title for a third time, as WTA top-ranked Victoria Azarenka of Belarus will defend the women's singles title. Here is a look at this year’s contenders, pretenders and sleepers as well as an overview of what's new this year in the land Down Under.

As confirmed by the official Web site of the 2013 Australian Open, Spain's Rafael Nadal has put his comeback on hold as a stomach virus has further delayed his training and will prevent him from competing Down Under. Nadal was originally scheduled to make his return from right knee surgery at this week's 2012 Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dahbi, followed by another event in Doha.

The USTA and the Tennis Industry Association (TIA) has announced that tennis participation in 2012 grew four percent over 2011 to top 28 million players for the first time since 2009. The total number of players is the second highest total recorded since the annual survey, conducted by Taylor Research and Consulting, began in 1988.

In the past several articles, I have written that there is an underlying theme that resonates. There is so much more to tennis than just hitting a ball back and forth over the net.

I am supposed to review books about tennis in this space, but every so often, a book comes along that weaves the tennis content with so much other profound content that the tennis parts seem secondary.

Hannah Camhi credits tennis with helping her develop self-confidence, optimism, and perseverance. And it is those traits–along with her outstanding grades, leadership, and match play—that earned Camhi of Woodbury, N.Y., a 2012 USTA National Junior Scholar Athlete Award.

Professional coaches are receptive students and as eager to receive information, critique and criticism as they are to give it. They think independently, solve problems creatively, and assimilate and integrate information into a message that works best for each student. Great coaches are constantly learning and growing by questioning teachings of the past and uncovering the most progressive methods.

The USTA announced that University of Virginia senior Jarmere Jenkins (College Park, Ga.) and University of Florida senior Lauren Embree (Marco Island, Fla.) are among the top American collegians selected to represent the United States in the seventh annual Master’U BNP Paribas ...

The USTA has announced donations of goods and money to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts totaling more than $400,000. Clothing, bottled water and other beverages, and needed supplies such as shampoos and soap, were collected from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center ...