The 67th Annual Metropolia Orange Bowl Junior Tennis Championships has been a fixture of the year-end junior tennis calendar since 1947 and this year’s event promises to add to its illustrious history. On the boy's side of the draw, top-seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany got his title campaign off to the ideal start when he overcame a…
As the year 2013 winds down and the pros on the WTA begin to prep for the 2014 season, 2009 U.S. Open quarterfinalist and Georgia native Melanie Oudin is putting in just one hour of running per day. Her peers, on the other hand, are averaging at least six hours a day of court time and fitness work….
The USTA has announced that Victoria Duval, the 18-year old breakout star of the 2013 U.S. Open, and top 21-year old Denis Kudla, will headline the up-and-coming Americans playing for a singles wild card entry into January’s Australian Open at the 2013 USTA Australian Open Wild Card Playoffs, Dec. 20-22 at Life Time Athletic at Peachtree Corners in Norcross,…
For the sixth time, New Jersey native and former tennis phenom Justin Gimelstob hosted a tennis exhibition to raise money for a variety of children's charities, including The Valerie Fund, a non-profit organization supporting healthcare services for children with cancer and blood disorders. This year's event, held at Centercourt Athletic Club in Chatham, N.J., raised more than $300,000…
A world class field will assemble at the Frank Veltri Tennis Centre in Coral Gables, Fla. from Dec. 14-23 for the 67th edition of the Orange Bowl. Many of the game’s current stars are past Orange Bowl champions, including Roger Federer, Andy Roddick and Caroline Wozniacki, and some of the best junior players in the world will be hoping…
John McEnroe captured the Statoil Masters Tennis Legends title for the third consecutive year as he defeated Mats Wilander 6-2, 6-4 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. McEnroe, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, got off to a quick start to the final, racing into a 3-0 lead over Wilander, whom he played 13 times on the ATP…
School is back in full swing, so I’m sure everyone is in the mindset for the second half of the Mythbusters Quiz. Last issue, we took a factoid from the last five articles. The second half of the quiz will focus on the five previously published articles. This quiz should help give you some insight…
LI Region Teaches at Local Street Fairs; Offers T-Shirts to Long Island Tennis Magazine Readers Members of the USTA Eastern Long Island Region offered tennis lessons to hundreds of youngsters at the Merrick Street Fair and Bellmore Family Festival, as part of the Region’s initiative to grow the game, especially among children. USTA volunteers, including…
The positive growth of tennis in America requires the community to engage in mentorship at every level of the game. Whether as a coach, a meet up group, a player or parent, mentorship can make a huge difference not just in the rate of growth of our sport, but more importantly, the positive growth of…
In my last article, I spoke about the necessity to redefine “pressure” so that you can begin to experience it as something normal and to even welcome it. It’s been said that the best players, under pressure, rise to the occasion and begin to play even better, whereas players with lesser mental toughness, fall apart…