Former world number four James Blake will be part of the coaching team of Jack Sock in 2015. Blake helped out his fellow American at times this past season after retiring in 2013, and says he will help out more in 2015, but in a limited capacity. “I’m mainly focusing on my family, being at…
What are the first things we do when things are not going the way they should be? Let’s say in tennis tournaments you are not getting the results you would like. In fact, you just played in the quarterfinals of a tournament and lost in three hard-fought sets. However in the second set, you held…
An excellent 2014 for Czech Republic tennis got even better on Tuesday as the WTA announced that Petra Kvitova was named the 2014 Karen Krantzcke Sportsmanship Award winner and Lucie Safarova the Peachy Kellmeyer Player Service Award winner. Just last month Kvitova and Safarova helped the Czech Republic win its third Fed Cup title in…
As a result of the barrage of heat complaints by players at last year’s Australian Open, the tournament’s organizers have made slight adjustments to its extreme heat policy ahead of the 2015 edition of the Grand Slam. The policy will now go in effect when the temperature exceeds 104 degrees and the Wet Bulb Global…
Juan Martin del Potro plans to make a comeback in 2015, and he will start by participating in the seventh annual Brisbane International presented by Suncorp. The tournament begins on Jan. 4, and will mark the first time the Argentine has played since Dubai back in late February. The last time del Potro participated in…
Long Island has a number of colleges that play tennis in the NCAA: Division I (Stony Brook and Hofstra), Division II (Adelphi, Molloy, Dowling and CW Post), and Division III (Farmingdale State College). We spoke to some of these coaches about what they look for in prospective recruits, Long Island as a college tennis destination…
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As is customary in the tennis offseason, a couple of coach-player relationships came to a close on Wednesday as both Andy Murray and Eugenie Bouchard announced splits with their current coaches. Murray announced on his Web site that he and long-time friend Dani Vallverdu, as well as trainer Jez Green, would not be working together…
The USTA has a whopping $30 million annual player development budget, according to The New York Times. Given their goal to "Create the Next Generation of Champions," things are not going too well. While the women's side seems brighter than the men's side, the outlook for the next great American, capable of winning multiple Grand…
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