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 22, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Spain's Rafael Nadal has won his record sixth Italian Open, defeating Novak Djokovic 7-5, 6-3 in a rain-delayed final, regaining the world's number two ranking in the process. It was a re-match of the 2011 Italian Open finals, where Djokovic was hoping to defend his title.
May 21, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Maria Sharapova successfully defended her Italian Open title Sunday, beating Li Na 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) in a three-hour rain-drenched match.
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.
May 7, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Player Development announced that Melanie Oudin has earned a main draw wild card into the 2012 French Open.
May 1, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
USTA Player Development has announced that Brian Baker of Nashville, Tenn., has earned a main draw wild card into the 2012 French Open. This year, the USTA awarded one men’s singles main draw wild card into the French Open to the American player who finished with the best combined results at two USTA Pro Circuit clay-court challengers ...
April 27, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Canada's Milos Raonic has recorded his first top four victory after he defeated Great Britain's Andy Murray,6-4, 7-6 to advance to the semifinals at the 2012 Barcelona Open Sabadell. Raonic will now face either the third seed David Ferrer or the seventh-seeded Feliciano Lopez, depending on the outcome of their quarterfinal match.
April 23, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
World number two-ranked Rafael Nadal of Spain has defeated world number one Novak Djokovic in the finals of the 2012 Monte Carlo Masters in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1. The win by Nadal ended Djokovic's streak of seven consecutive wins over the Spaniard in title matches.
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 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 ...
January 11, 2012
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The USTA announced that the 33rd season of the USTA Pro Circuit began with two clay-court events in Florida—the $10,000 men’s Futures in Plantation, Fla., and the $25,000 women’s event in Innisbrook, Fla.
December 5, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Rafael Nadal of Spain defeated Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-6 to take Spain's third Davis Cup title in the past four years.
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 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.
October 19, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
U.S. Open officials are exploring the possibility of amending its schedule to switch its final day to a Monday. The three other Grand Slam events, the French Open, Australian Open and Wimbledon all wrap up their action on Sundays.
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.
September 22, 2011
By Lonnie Mitchel
While watching Wimbledon at the beginning of the summer, the announcers would talk about the bad state of American tennis. During the French Open a few weeks earlier, I heard the same comments several times during the course of the tournament.
September 12, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
The 2011 U.S. Open saw Samantha Stosur take the title as the women's singles champion. The 9th-seeded Stosur defeated the 28th-seeded and former number one Serena Williams in straight sets. The Australian native was the first Aussie to win a major tournament in 31-years. Here's what she had to say in a post-match interview.
September 11, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Australian Samantha Stosur, the number nine-seed at the 2011 U.S. Open, saved her best for last as she upset 28th-seeded American Serena Williams, 6-2, 6-3 Sunday in a surprisingly lopsided win to earn the 2011 U.S. Open Championship. The title is Stosur's first-ever Grand Slam title.
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.
September 2, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Tennis Channel has announced that tennis icon John McEnroe will lend his analysis and commentary to the network's U.S. Open prime-time broadcast Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3-4.
August 31, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Local product Christina McHale has ousted the number eight seed, France's Marion Bartoli, today at the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. McHale, from nearby Englewood Cliffs, N.J., defeated the French Open semifinalist Bartoli in straight sets, 7-6(2), 6-2, in front of a raucous and supportive crowd at the Grandstand.
August 24, 2011
By Long Island Tennis Magazine Staff
Robert Kendrick was banned from tennis for one year after testing postiive for methylhexaneamine at the French Open on May 22. He said it was taken to combat jet lag, however, it was among the sport's list of banned substances.
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