Long Island Tennis Magazine will be running a Summer Series of events and tournaments over the summer 2014 season. It started with the largest grassroots tennis event in the country, The Second Annual New York Tennis Expo, which had 3,374 attendees. Next up is KidsFest at Engineers Country Club in Roslyn on Sunday, June 22nd from 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m….
Second-seeded Tomas Berdych was knocked out of the Aegon Championships at The Queen’s Club in London on Friday, as tenth-seeded Feliciano Lopez pulled off the upset 6-4, 7-6(7) in a quarterfinal matchup. The Spanish Lopez used a powerful serve to dispose of Berdych, smashing 13 aces over the course of the match. With the match…
In one of the more exciting matches of the season so far, German Philipp Kohlschreiber hung on to defeat fellow German Dustin Brown 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(16) to reach the Gerry Weber Open semifinals in Halle, Germany on Friday. The unseeded Kohlschreiber saved five match points in the third set tiebreaker to capture the match. He…
Third-seeded American Sloane Stephens was sent home from the Aegon Classic on Friday, falling to China’s Zhang Shuai 3-6, 1-6 in the quarterfinals from Birmingham, England. Zhang looked poised from the onset, smashing a couple of nice returns early in the first set to put Stephens back on her heels. She broke Stephens which turned…
French Open champion and top-seed Rafael Nadal fell in his first match since Roland Garros as he was stunned by German Wild Card Dustin Brown 6-4, 6-1 in the Gerry Weber Open on Thursday. Brown broke Nadal’s serve in his fifth try late in the first set to jump ahead and capture the opening frame…
The Lawrence Yacht & Country Club, located at 101 Causeway in Lawrence, N.Y., is 30 miles from New York City on the picturesque South Shore of Long Island, and offers members tennis, golf and marina facilities. The Lawrence Tennis Club is a great summer experience for the entire family with its friendly atmosphere. It has had…
American Sloane Stephens advanced to the quarterfinals of the Aegon Classic on Thursday, defeating fellow American Alison Riske, 7-6(4) 2-6, 6-1. Riske, who is the fourth highest ranked American behind the Williams sisters and Stephens, is one of the rising American stars on the women’s side and provided a tough challenge for the third-seeded Stephens….
Andy Murray has announced the appointment of French coach and former world number one Amelie Mauresmo as his new coach, initially for the grass court season. Amelie, current captain of the French Fed Cup team, has won two Grand Slam singles titles, Wimbledon and the Australian Open along with a Silver Medal at the 2004 Olympics. She has also worked with several…
Anything that has been around for years probably has a pretty good story behind it. Well, Port Washington Tennis Academy (PWTA) has been around since 1966, and boy did I learn a thing or two recently about it. You probably know that they’ve had some great players pass through its doors in the past, including…
Top American juniors Francis Tiafoe (16) of College Park, Md.; Stefan Kozlov (16) of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; CiCi Bellis (15) of Atherton, Calif.; and Tornado Alicia Black (16) of Boca Raton, Fla. will lead the Americans accepted into the main draw of the Wimbledon Junior Championships, June 28-July 6 in London. Two local New Yorkers…