The 130th edition of the Wimbledon Championships gets underway on Monday as the top tennis players in the world will battle for the sport's most prestigious trophy. While the men's tour currently consists of Novak Djokovic and then everybody else, we broke down some of the contenders, pretenders and sleepers for this year's tournament at…
The USTA has announced that U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez and USTA Player Development Head of Men’s Tennis Jay Berger, have been named, respectively, as the Women’s and Men’s Coaches of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Tennis Team. In addition, Dan James, head U.S. National Wheelchair Team Coach, has been named coach of the…
Former world number one Victoria Azarenka withdrew from Wimbledon on Thursday due to a knee injury that she suffered back in the French Open first round. Azarenka trailed Karin Knapp 0-4 in the third set of her Roland Garros opener before retiring with the knee injury and she hasn’t played since. Azarenka was scheduled to…
Ninth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis reached his fifth ATP World Tour quarterfinal of 2016 on Wednesday at the Aegon Open Nottingham, defeating American Sam Querrey 1-6, 7-6(8), 6-4 in just under two hours. Baghdatis will next face second-seeded Pablo Cuevas, who rallied to beat Daniel Evans 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 6-4. Also moving on was the top seeded Kevin…
It was a day of upsets at the Aegon International Eastbourne, as some of the WTA’s top stars failed to advance to the quarterfinals, as Caroline Wozniacki, Eugenie Bouchard and Petra Kvitova all fell Wednesday in a final tuneup before Wimbledon. It was Monica Puig who continued her stellar season with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4…
Television network EPIX will debut the EPIX Original Documentary “Serena,” a portrait of four-time Olympic Gold Medalist and International sports icon Serena Williams, Wednesday, June 22 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, 7C. The feature-length documentary provides viewers with access inside the world of the athlete-designer-businesswoman, including day-in-the-life interactions with her family and friends, plus her most…
Fourteen-Year-Old Louchheim Spearheads Bridgehampton Youth Tennis Project The things that make tennis such a unique sport are the positive effects it has beyond those white lines. “I love the sport, for a variety of reasons. I strongly believe that playing tennis my whole life has done much more for me than simply build my fitness…
“Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.”—Serena Williams I want to win the moment … this is something I often say to my players at the collegiate level. Serena Williams…
American Madison Keys won the second title of her career on Sunday, downing Barbora Strycova 6-4, 6-3 to capture the Aegon Classic championship. Despite playing a number of three-set matches throughout the week while Strycova had lost just one set in her week, Keys was the one who came out with more energy in Sunday’s…
The Suffolk County Junior Tennis League (SCJTL) hosted its annual Boys Varsity Tennis Awards Dinner at Villa Lombardi's in Holbrook, honoring and celebrating another successul and competitive season in Suffolk County. Below are the award winners and honorees from the dinner. Click Here to see a full photo album of the awards dinner.