May 2, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Serves, the National Charitable Foundation of the United States Tennis Association, has announced that it will complement its donor-supported Avenue of Aces by adding new “neighborhoods” honoring U.S. Open singles champions Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Stefanie Graf and the late wheelchair tennis pioneer, Randy Snow.
March 15, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that registration for all 13 U.S. Open National Playoffs Sectional Qualifying Tournaments has opened Thursday, March 15. Players age 14 and older can register for singles competition and/or mixed-doubles. Registration deadlines for the 13 sectional qualifying events vary by tournament.
March 9, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
In March, Tennis Channel will offer more than 120 live hours from two of the largest events in tennis, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., and the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.
March 5, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
MSG Sports and StarGames has announced a strong field of marketing partners for the Monday, March 5th BNP Paribas Showdown at Madison Square Garden. An impressive array of marketing partners has signed on to showcase their brands at the fifth annual one-night only tennis event, which will feature four of today’s greatest tennis players.
August 29, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The U.S. Open is new underway at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The threat of Hurricane Irene swept through the area and has left many without power and water damage, but the Open is scheduled to get underway with no delays in sight.
August 24, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced the 14 teams that will compete in the first-ever U.S. Open National Playoffs–Mixed-Doubles Championship, Aug. 24-27, at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale in New Haven, Conn. Representing the USTA Eastern Region will be 30-year-old Bea Bielik from Valley Stream, N.Y. and her teammate, 27-year-old Darrin Cohen from Smithtown, N.Y.
August 24, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that world number one-ranked Novak Djokovic of Serbia, the reigning Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, has been named the top seed in men’s singles at the 2011 U.S. Open, set for Aug. 29-Sept. 11 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y.
August 24, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Serena Williams has clinched the 2011 Olympus U.S. Open Series women’s title on Tuesday. This is the first career Olympus U.S. Open Series title for Serena, who earned 170 points by winning titles at Series events in Stanford and Toronto.
August 23, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
In its third year of U.S. Open coverage, Tennis Channel will add Mary Carillo to its on-air lineup, marking the Queens, N.Y., native's first stint in the network's broadcast booth at the Flushing Meadow-based largest event in tennis.
August 18, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that 2001 U.S. Open champion Lleyton Hewitt of Australia and a group of Americans consisting of former U.S. Open semifinalist Robby Ginepri, teenager Ryan Harrison, reigning NCAA champion Steve Johnson, Jack Sock, who won his second consecutive USTA Boys’ 18s title on Sunday, and current world number 89th ranked player Donald Young, along with France’s Julien Benneteau, have been awarded men’s singles main draw wild card entries into the 2011 U.S. Open.
August 10, 2011
By David Drucker
Just like the men in Montreal, the women have just gotten underway with the Rogers Cup which is taking place in Toronto, Canada.
April 1, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that registration will close next week for the first two 2011 U.S. Open National Playoffs Sectional Qualifying Tournaments held in the USTA Southwest and USTA Eastern sections.
January 28, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
December 17, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
A network holiday tradition, Tennis Channel is letting fans relive the best moments of the tennis season this month when it replays 10 of the year's singles championship matches as part of its annual You Make the Call year-end series.
September 13, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The following is taken from Bob and Mike Bryan's post-match press conference on Friday, Sept. 10th during the 2010 U.S Open. The top-seeded men's doubles team of Bob & Mike Bryan were victorious over the 16th-seeded team of Rohan Bopanna from India & Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan, 7-6(5), 7-6(4) to capture the 2010 U.S. Open Men's Doubles Championship.
August 19, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced that NCAA singles champion Chelsey Gullickson (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Jamie Hampton (Auburn, Ala.), local favorite Christina McHale (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.), 2010 USTA Girls’ singles champion Shelby Rogers (Daniel Island, S.C.), and Coco Vandeweghe (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) ...
July 27, 2010
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
June 4, 2010
By USTA Eastern Section
The U.S. Open will take over Times Square in New York City on Monday, June 7, to launch the first day of the 2010 U.S. Open Ticket On-Sale and celebrate the U.S. Open, which will be played in Flushing, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 30 through Sunday, Sept. 12. “US Open Takes Times Square” will run from 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., on June 7.
July 1, 2009
By Bruce Forrest
It was 1978, and the U.S. Open was coming to Flushing Meadows. My friend was a ball boy the previous year at Forest Hills and said, “Why don't you try out this year.” I said, “Sign me up!”
