The United States women will be in Brindisi, Italy this weekend to battle Italy in a Fed Cup World Playoff match. The two are very familiar opponents as this will be the fifth meeting between the two counties in the last seven years. Italy has taken the last four of those matches but the U.S….
The Oceanside Sailors snapped a two match losing streak on Thursday, beating North Shore 4-3 in a Conference II-A showdown. In an extremely tight contest, the deciding matches came on the doubles court. At first doubles, Oceanside’s Michael Wohlgemuth & Nathan Cyrulnk edged out a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory, while Matt Levitz & Matt DeGroot…
The Jericho Jayhawks held home court and picked up a 4-3 victory over Great Neck North on Thursday afternoon in Conference I-B. Jericho was anchored by the play of its first and second doubles tandems that each picked up key victories. Mitchell Leighton & Drew Cohen came back from a set down to beat Great…
I have often been asked during media interviews if there are differences between male and female athletes and the answer I give is “Yes.” Beyond the obvious differences in physiology, there are also subtle but real psychological differences as well. And the answer to what these differences are can be seen in the way boys…
Gael Monfils pulled off the biggest upset of the day in Monte Carlo on Thursday, beating second-seeded Swiss Roger Federer 6-4, 7-6(5) to push his way into the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters quarterfinals. The 14th-seeded Frenchman fell behind Federer early 1-3, but rallied to capture the first set 6-4 thanks to a couple of break…
The Valley Stream South Falcons boys tennis team continued its excellent start to the 2015 season, defeating Freeport 5-2 in a Conference IV-A matchup to win its fourth consecutive match and improve to 4-0 on the season. The Falcons received solid singles play with Brendan Zimmerman and Hamza Sadhra picking up wins at first and…
Carefree Racquet Club in Merrick recently hosted a Rally for the Cure event, where a number of ladies came out for a day of round-robin doubles tennis and to support a great cause. Rally for the Cure is a grassroots program that works to educate women about breast cancer and remind them to get their…
The undefeated North Carolina Tar Heels have regained the top spot women's ranking for the first time in a month, while the Oklahoma Sooners extended their number one ranking streak to seven weeks on the men's side in the ITA Division I National Team Rankings. North Carolina is back on top this week after being…
The USTA has announced that it has partnered with four NCAA Division I athletic conferences—the American Athletic Conference, Big 12, Mountain West and SEC—to help deliver their conference championship title matches across multiple television and digital viewing platforms. The partnerships are the latest in the USTA’s efforts to spotlight college tennis through television and digital viewing…
Rafael Nadal got off to a good start in the clay season on Wednesday, defeating France’s Lucas Pouille 6-2, 6-1 to reach the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters third-round. The “King of Clay” dispatched Pouille in just 69 minutes using a dominating serve, winning 75 percent of service points, and notching four break points to move…