In 2019, the Roland Garros tournament’s prize fund has risen by eight percent over last year, to reach a total of $48,420,320.32. The President of the French Tennis Federation Bernard Giudicelli and French Open Director Guy Forget wanted to continue narrowing the gap between the amounts awarded to the tournament winners (women’s and men’s singles)…
For more than a half-century, Windridge Tennis & Sports Camps in Vermont have been attracting young athletes from more than 30 U.S. states and 20 countries around the world. There has been one constant in the camp’s illustrious history: Ted Hoehn. In 1968, Hoehn and Alden Bryan founded the Windridge Tennis Camp in Jeffersonville,…
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This story first appeared in the March/April 2019 edition of Long Island Tennis Magazine. Click Here for the full digital edition. At the 2019 USTA Eastern Conference, the Section honored longtime tennis coach and USTA Long Island Executive Board Vice President Sunny Fishkind with its 2018 Woman of the Year Award. “It almost seems…
In order to be a top tennis player in today’s day and age, it’s imperative that you have a well-rounded training regimen that goes beyond simply practicing on the court. With that in mind, the John McEnroe Tennis Academy (JMTA) has begun hosting Sports Vision Workshops at its facilities, bringing in Dr. Anne Hanna…
There were two new champions of the BNP Paribas Open crowned in the desert of Indian Wells, Calif. on Sunday, as Canada’s Bianca Andreescu and Dominic Thiem captured the respective men’s and women’s singles titles. Up first was Andreescu, the teenager from Mississauga, Canada, who defeated Angelique Kerber 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in a thrilling…
There is perhaps no player on the WTA Tour playing better tennis so far in 2019 than Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic, and that continued on Thursday as she hung on to defeat fifth-seed Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 and reach the BNP Paribas Open semifinals in Indian Wells, Calif. “I’m very confident. You know, I’m…
Roger Federer continued his bid for a sixth BNP Paribas Open title by rolling past 23rd seeded Brit Kyle Edmund 6-1, 6-4 to reach the Indian Wells quarterfinals on Wednesday. “He didn’t have the best start, so that cost him the first set,” said Federer. “Second set, it was definitely better. I think he…
Most of us saw Novak Djokovic’s dominating win over Rafael Nadal in the finals of the 2019 Australian Open. Usually, coaches, parents, fans and even the athletes themselves write off this kind of big win as: “He just played great.” But this explanation is often too simplistic. In sports and in life, we tend…
The New York Empire presented by Citi and head coach Luke Jensen today announced its player roster and new venue for the upcoming 2019 World TeamTennis (WTT) season. The fourth-year WTT franchise will play its home matches at Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning, a world-class facility in the Bronx, and the flagship…