February 2, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Former number one ranked Caroline Wozniacki has fired her coach, Ricardo Sanchez of Spain, just two months into his tenure. According to her father, Piotr Wozniacki, she did not get any "new impulses" from working alongside Sanchez.
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.
January 9, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Great Britain's Andy Murray has won his first title under new coach Ivan Lendl leading up to the Australian Open. Murray defeated Alexandr Dolgopolov in the Brisbane International final with a commanding 6-1, 6-3 win.
January 3, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Great Britain's Andy Murray has hired a new coach in hopes of finally winning a major title, eight-time Grand Slam winner Ivan Lendl. Murray will now start work with Lendl in preparation for the Australian Open, which commences on Jan. 16.
December 15, 2011
By Arlene Griggs
The Carefree 2.5 USTA team [SHIMON] has advanced all the way to the finals at the Sectionals held in Syracuse, N.Y. This was my first experience playing on a winning USTA team, so my immersion was quick, intense and passionate.
December 13, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Charles Nanton of West Hempstead, N.Y., affectionately known as “Coach” throughout the Malverne schools community, was named a “Hero on Our Island” by FIOS-1 News, the Long Island-focused news channel seen on Verizon FIOS cable systems.
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.
December 5, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
WTA number one-ranked Caroline Wozniacki has hired Ricardo Sanchez as her new coach. Sanchez will replace her father, Piotr Wozniacki, who supposedly "wanted to get a little bit of time off the court."
November 21, 2011
By Gary Simeone
The 4th Annual Awards Banquet, hosted by the Suffolk County Girls Tennis Coaches Association, took place recently at Villa Lombardi Restaurant in Holbrook, N.Y. More than 500 players and coaches representing 52 Suffolk County schools showed up for the event, as awards were given out to winners in various categories, including All-League players, All-Division and League Coaches of the Year.
November 18, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced the top American collegians selected to represent the United States in the Sixth Annual Master’U BNP Paribas, an international collegiate team competition held Dec. 8-11 in Rouen, France. The event features eight teams composed of college and university players from around the world.
November 4, 2011
By Roman Prokes
Players are always looking for an edge on the court. They work with teaching professionals to master their technique, coaches to solidify their tactics, trainers to ameliorate their conditioning. Why not have an expert help with your equipment? That is the goal of an on-court consultation.
November 3, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
On Tuesday, 2011 Nassau County Champion Syosset High School and 2011 Suffolk County Champion Half Hollow Hills East (HHHE) High School were supposed to play to determine the winner of the 2011 Long Island Championship.
November 2, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Yesterday's Long Island High School Girls Tennis Championship match between the Nassau County Champion Syosset and Suffolk County Champion Half Hollow Hills East was supposed to be a battle between the two best teams on the Island.
October 28, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Claire Handa is a seventh grader from Rockville Centre, N.Y. who attends Friends Academy. Currently, Claire is ranked fourth in the Eastern Section in Girls 12s Division and is ranked 61st Nationally in Girls 12s Division, the highest ranked Long Island player in the Girls 12s Division
October 17, 2011
By Gary Simeone
Syosset High School Senior Hannah Camhi was all business on Sunday winning in impressive fashion over Garden City's Morgan Herrmann 6-0, 6-0 in the Nassau County Girls Singles Championship at Eisenhower Park.
September 30, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA has announced the three men and two women nominated to represent the United States at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, held Oct. 17-22.
September 28, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Player Development has announced the hirings of Stanford Boster as a USTA National Coach for Men’s Tennis and Jayadeva Devashetty as a USTA National Coach. Boster and Devashetty have already begun their responsibilities and will facilitate coaching and training for players in the USTA Player Development program.
September 26, 2011
By Daniel Kresh
Though tennis may have more private lessons then most other sports, in the heat of a match players are often left to their own devices.
September 7, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Jennifer Capriati, one of America's most dominant tennis players in the 1990s and early 2000s; Russia's first world number one Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and Brazilian tennis superstar Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten have been nominated to receive the highest honor available in the sport of tennis, induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
August 1, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The Malverne School District’s second and third graders took to the courts recently during two field day events sponsored by the USTA/Eastern-Long Island Region.
July 29, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Junior tennis players from across USTA Eastern got a chance to improve their games and learn about careers in professional tennis this week, as they received coaching from four former professional tennis players–Katrina Adams, Leslie Allen, Rodney Harmon and Ann Koger–at the section’s 13th Annual Camp A.C.E.
July 14, 2011
By Ricky Becker
Former Brown Coach and current manager of Sportime Syosset/Bethpage Jay Harris has been a great source of information for me. Although we constantly debate how much kids actually improve in college, he is generally “spot on” with his take on things.
June 23, 2011
By Marc Rosett
When a young actor, who happened to be a perfect Roger Federer look-alike, wanted to learn to play tennis in order to complete the similarities to his counterpart, he needed only two things. One was a master teacher who, in a short period of time could give him those skills couched in classic form and secondly a quiet place to train.
June 16, 2011
By Brent Shearer
In the novel The Tennis Handsome, Barry Hannah launches his main character, French Edward, the tennis handsome of the title, onto the tennis circuit. French has a powerful game and his exploits on the tour include matches with tennis greats like Rod Laver and Arthur Ashe, but he has one small problem, he’s brain dead.