Sam Stosur has announced she has found a new coach, Miles Maclagan. Born in Zambia and grew up in Zimbabwe, Maclagan is a former ATP World Tour player for Great Britain. His coaching credentials include working with Andy Murray, Marcos Baghdatis and Philipp Kohlschreiber, as well as Laura Robson on the WTA Tour. "I am really excited about the opportunity…
Rafael Nadal has clinched the year-end number one Emirates ATP Ranking for a third time after recording his second match win in Group B against Stanislas Wawrinka at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday afternoon. Nadal previously finished at the top in 2008 and 2010, and becomes the first player to hold, lose and…
The Long Island tennis community has some of the sport’s best facilities, both indoor and outdoor, and best coaches in the world. With this wealth of talent available right in our own backyard, Long Island Tennis Magazine recently took the opportunity to pick the brains of some of these top coaches. What you will find…
The USTA hasannounced that the Public Auditorium in Cleveland has been selected as the site for the 2014 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group First Round between the U.S. and reigning Fed Cup champion Italy, Feb. 8-9. Fed Cup is the world’s largest annual international team competition (96 countries have entered for 2014). The U.S. and…
The USTA and U.S. Davis Cup Captain Jim Courier have announced that San Diego’s Petco Park has been selected as the site for the 2014 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas first round match between the United States and Great Britain, Jan. 31-Feb. 2. The matches will be played on a clay court in a temporary stadium…
Two of the ATP World Tour’s rising stars were recognized in an on-court ceremony at London's O2 Arena as they received their ATP World Tour Awards, presented by Moët & Chandon. Jiri Vesely received the prize for the ATP Star of Tomorrow, presented by Emirates, while Pablo Carreno Busta's fellow players voted for him as The Most Improved…
Rafael Nadal is one match win away from becoming year-end number one in the Emirates ATP Rankings for the third time after defeating fellow Spaniard David Ferrer 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday in Group A at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. The victory avenged his loss to Ferrer in the BNP Paribas Masters semifinals on Saturday in Paris. It…
In the summer of 2008, United Sports Publications (USP) was formed and the idea of Long Island Tennis Magazine was set into motion. Spearheaded by Publisher David Sickmen, a vision of the best tennis coverage this area had ever seen began to take shape. In 2008, local tennis publications around the country were dying off…
This year, 18 girls (six singles and 12 doubles) from Nassau and Suffolk County represented Long Island at the 2013 NYSPHSAA High School Tennis Championships, held at Tri City Tennis in Latham, N.Y. Long Island has done extremely well at States the past few years, as for the past two years, Long Island's top girls high school players…
Stanislas Wawrinka defeated Tomas Berdych for the third consecutive time this year to open up action at the 2013 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, 6-3, 6-7(0), 6-3 in the Group A opener. It was Wawrinka's 50th match win of the season. Aggressive throughout the pair’s 13th FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting, Wawrinka hit 43 winners and committed 42 unforced errors…