One of my favorite lessons is with Leslie. She is about 50-years-old, though she looks like she is 40, and she acts like she is 30 … a bubbly, fun personality and a great spirit to spend an hour on the tennis court with. We play once a week, indoors, early in the morning. Leslie…
Action began Monday at the Fayez Sarofim & Company U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship in Houston, as 20-year-old American Jack Sock recorded the biggest upset of the day, defeating 2007 Houston champion and number eight seed, Ivo Karlovic, 6-1 6-4. Karlovic was broken four times in the 55-minute match. Sock awaits the winner of the…
This weekend saw two make-up matches take place in Nassau County's Conference II. In a make-up from Friday's rain-out, Oceanside defeated Lynbrook 5-1 on Saturday. Bright sun and a strong wind resulted in some unusual shot making as Oceanside's Flo LeGoupil-Maier outlasted Lynbrook's Jake Sandler 6-4, 6-4 in first singles. Several point were long rallies complicated by the gusting…
Andrea Petkovic, ranked ninth in the world, won the 2014 Family Circle Cup title this weekend, 7-5, 6-2 over the unseeded Jana Cepelova to capture the third WTA title of her career. Cepelova was looking to claim the title in Charleston, advancing to the finals, upset after upset, over the likes of world number one…
It’s a new-look ASICS Easter Bowl in 2014, as the annual junior tennis tournament has plenty of changes in store once play begins this week. The location, format and draw sizes have all changed this year for the 47th annual event. The host site this year is the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, where the nation’s…
Defending champion John Isner has been named the top seed in the main draw of the Fayez Sarofim & Company U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas. Isner currently holds his career-best ATP ranking of ninth in the world and shares the top half of the draw with two former…
Senior Yanita Arnaudova tallied her third-consecutive victory at the number three singles slot to clinch the St. John’s women’s tennis team’s 5-2 win over inter-city rival Fordham on Wednesday afternoon. The Red Storm improve to 8-6 overall and have now won three in a row dating back to its 6-1 victory over Big East rival Providence on March 29. Arnaudova,…
The sun was finally out on Long Island Thursday as the 2014 Boys High School tennis season heated up. In Conference 1-A action, it was Luke Johnston & Max Mastbaum who led the way for Port Washington in their win over Great Neck South's Landon Phillips & Harrison Dvoor. Johnston & Mastbaum came back from being down 0-5 in…
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The sixth-seeded Eugenie Bouchard defeated the 11th-seeded Venus Williams Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2014 Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C., 7-6(6), 2-6, 6-4, in a match lasting over two hours. Bouchard reached her first Premier-level quarterfinal in Charleston in 2013. Venus and Bouchard had met only once before, with Venus taking…