As a freshman, Rachel Arbitman came up just short in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) Championship match a year ago, dropping a straight-set match to Our Lady of Mercy’s Julia Andreach. So when the Hewlett sophomore captured the Nassau County singles title for the second straight year to qualify…
Recent Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion Novak Djokovic will return to the No. 1 spot in the ATP World Tour Rankings next week, after current No. 1 Rafael Nadal withdrew from the Rolex Paris Masters on Wednesday. The Serb returns to the top of the rankings for the first time in almost two years,…
Each year in early September, two phenomena begin. First, tennis players will rise from their living room couches, pick up rackets and return to the courts after a two-week hiatus. Second, their tennis skills may have improved—if they were watching closely. This time of the year marks the end of the U.S. Open, a…
Up or Down is a new tennis apparel company. The company originated with one vision in mind: To Unite the Tennis Order. The idea for the company stems from the spinning the racket before each match and saying, “Up or Down.” Regardless of what brand of racket you play with, Up or Down applies…
Elina Svitolina secured the biggest title of her career on Sunday, fighting back to defeat American Sloane Stephens 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 to win the 2018 BNP Paribas WTA Finals in Singapore. “For me it was a very tough match, but in the end, I found way here and there, one, two points that made…
Congratulations and a job well done to my friend Tony Bresky for bringing a National Title to Wake Forest. It is an incredible achievement for a coach to bring a team of players together to win a National Title. His team consisted of both American and foreign tennis players, but no American was in…
For the second day in a row, a Westhampton Beach match came down to the second doubles pairing of Rose Peruso and Juliet Tomaro. With the Long Island Championship between the Hurricanes and the Syosset Braves knotted at three-all, the duo once again delivered in the clutch, defeating Alex Flicker and Olivia Tiegerman 7-5, 7-6(6)…
Having to play the full three sets in a match is nothing new for Westhampton Beach’s Rose Peruso and Juliet Tomaro. So when the second doubles pairing lost the opening set tiebreaker to Commack’s Christine Kong and Valerie Slackman in Wednesday’s Suffolk County Championship at William Floyd High School, the pair was in familiar…
inPhorm is a U.S.-based brand of distinctive collections of tennis, golf and active lifestyle wear that has now expanded into the global marketplace with distributors found in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Singapore and Switzerland. Creating environmentally-friendly international designer active and leisure wear has been inPhorm’s mission since the company launched in 2008. inPhorm has…
The Nassau County Championship began with seven flights of tennis but would eventually boil down to just one. With the Syosset Braves and Hewlett Bulldogs splitting the first six matches at Eisenhower Park on Monday, the county champion would be determined by the only match left to finish: third singles. Syosset’s Sarah Wong had…