May 16, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Wimbledon's all-white dress code won't be in effect for the Olympics. The usual green backdrop surrounding the courts will also be gone.
April 24, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Wimbledon officials have agreed to a substantial increase to the prize money for the 2012 Championships following talks with the world's leading players. A majority of the prize monies will be directed to helping lower-ranked players.
April 17, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Belgium's Kim Clijsters will skip the French Open and clay-court season to focus on adapting to grass ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and Wimbledon.
April 17, 2012
By Brent Shearer
For tennis fans too young to remember the glory days of the 1970s and the early 1980s, High Strung: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe and the Untold Story of Tennis' Fiercest Rivalry is a thoroughly researched guide to an era when the game was on the front pages of the world's sports consciousness in a way it hasn't been since those days.
April 3, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American Andy Roddick will target a record fifth AEGON Championships title at The Queen's Club, June 11-17. Roddick, who won the title in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007, and reached finals at The Championships, Wimbledon in 2004, 2005 and 2009, is now fully fit after a difficult year.
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 9, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
An award-winning tennis writer, a master teaching pro and two former professional tennis players will become part of USTA Eastern history on April 27, 2012, as the Junior Tennis Foundation hosts its 25th Annual Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame Dinner at the Grand Hyatt in New York City.
February 27, 2012
By Lonnie Mitchel
Teaching tennis and teaching more tennis “helping others to improve their tennis game” has been my mission. I will brag for a moment, a very brief moment ...
February 15, 2012
By Emilie Katz
A look back at the 2011 tennis season and all major tournaments and year end rankings.
January 31, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Bob & Mike Bryan, the world's top-ranked doubles team, have committed to compete in the Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, set for July 9-15, 2012 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I.
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.
January 25, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Russia's Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, two former Wimbledon winners, will go head to head in the 2012 Australian Open semifinals after both won their quarterfinal matches in straight sets.
January 23, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Novak Djokovic has advanced onto the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the fifth consecutive year. He defeated Lleyton Hewitt of Australia in four sets 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Djokovic is hopeful of becoming only the fifth ever to win three consecutive majors.
January 17, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel and Verizon FiOS TV have reached a new multi-year carriage agreement, it was announced by Patrick Wilson, senior vice president, distribution, Tennis Channel, and Terry Denson, vice president of global content strategy, Verizon.
January 13, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have been placed on the same half of the Australian Open draw for the first time in any Grand Slam since 2005. This means that Novak Djokovic, the current number one ranked player, won’t have to go up against either rival until he reaches the finals of the Open.
January 11, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel is adding another Hall of Famer to its Australian Open booth this year, bringing two-time U.S. Open winner Tracy Austin to Melbourne for its coverage of the season's first major, Grand Slam competition.
December 22, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Petra Kvitova has been chosen as the Czech Athlete of the Year in a poll conducted by sports journalists. The 21-year-old Wimbledon champion has been honored as the WTA's player of the year for 2011 and won six singles title. She has risen 32 positions from 34th in the rankings to second in the past year.
December 20, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The Atlanta Tennis Championships announced Monday 2003 U.S. Open champion Andy Roddick, 2010-11 ATC finalist John Isner and U.S. Open mixed doubles champion Jack Sock have committed to play in the tournament, which is the opening event of the Olympus U.S. Open Series.
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.
December 12, 2011
By Scoop Malinowski
Status: 2011 French Open Mixed-Doubles Champion. Winner of six career ATP doubles titles.
December 9, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
American boys have had a rough time adapting to the clay courts at the 2011 Orange Bowl, taking place at the Frank Veltri Tennis Center in Plantation, Fla. Only two Americans reached the round of 16 in the Boys 18s draw, and Americans were shut out entirely from the Boys 16s quarterfinals.
December 6, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The Long Island tennis community is blessed to have some of the best indoor facilities and best coaches in the world right here in our backyard. Recently, Long Island Tennis Magazine spoke with some of these top coaches to get insight into their coaching/training strategies, what they look for in a great player, views on important local tennis topics, and a background in how they got into coaching.
November 30, 2011
By Brent Shearer
Players will want to read this book for its many interesting anecdotes and because it may arm them to win drinks at tennis gatherings by betting on either of the following obscure tennis history questions: Who was the youngest Wimbledon winner for over 50 years until Boris Becker's first title in 1985? And, who is the only tennis player in history to win Wimbledon by default?
November 30, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
As Tennis Channel prepares for its annual viewer countdown of the network's best matches of the year in December, three members of its on-air talent team have weighed in with their own favorite matches of 2011.
November 21, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced the acceptance lists for the 65th Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships, which begins Monday, Dec. 5 at the Frank Veltri Tennis Center in Plantation, Fla. The event will be contested on clay for the first time since 1998.
