Shelter Rock Tennis Club has announced "Play for Pink" a charity tennis event where all of the proceeds will go towards breast cancer research. The round-robin tournament will take place on Sunday, Aug. 25 at 1:00 p.m. The tournament will feature men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed-doubles with A and B levels of play. There…
Roger Federer has announced that he has withdrawn from next week’s Rogers Cup presented by National Bank in Montreal. He has recently talked about his back trouble, but did not give a specific reason as to why he is pulling out of the tournament. “I am disappointed not to be playing in Montreal next week….
Imagine the scenario: You are watching your child play, and it feels like you’re the one playing. Your palms are sweaty and your feet are tapping with the immediacy of how Rafael Nadal awaits the coin toss. You look across the way and see your opponent’s parents pacing up and down, burning a hole in…
Russian Olga Puchkova was defaulted by the WTA supervisor after she hit a line judge with a ball between points, forcing her to forfeit, although she claimed it was an accident. Puchkova was trailing 3-6, 6-3, 4-1 in her second-round match against Paula Ormaechea of Argentina at the 2013 Citi Open in Washington, D.C. She claimed that…
Juan Martin del Potro advanced to the 2013 Citi Open quarterfinals in Washington, D.C. on Thursday after winning twice over the course of seven-and-a-half-hours. He first defeated 107th-ranked Ryan Harrison 6-1, 7-5, and then beat 14th-seeded Bernard Tomic 6-3, 6-3. They played for about 70 minutes in each match. Harrison was trailing 4-0 after only…
Former highly-ranked Eastern junior Stephanie Loutsenko logged a daily journal from the inside of Emory’s NCAA Division III run while they were at the year-end championships in Kalamazoo, Mich. Saturday, May 18, 2013 We arrived in Kalamazoo, Mich. after a pretty long day of traveling. We got to our hotel, which is an adorable…
American John Isner, who had a tournament win last weekend at the BB&T Open in Atlanta, beat Alex Kuznetsov in two tie-breaker sets 7-6(2), 7-6(4) at the 2013 Citi Open in Washington, D.C. Isner had an excellent record with tie-breakers, winning 16 of his last 17 tiebreakers, with six of those coming in Atlanta. ”I don’t…
Martina Hingis, former number one in the world and newest inductee to the International Tennis Hall of Fame, returned to the WTA Tour in doubles with partner Daniela Hantuchova in successful fashion, as the duo won their first match on Wednesday in the Southern California Open against Julia Goerges & Darija Jurak 6-1, 6-1. The…
The Queens College Tennis Outing & Social event will be held Saturday, Aug. 17 from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. at the Queens College Tennis Courts. There is an early registration fee of $60 on and before Aug. 12th and $75 after Aug. 12. All proceeds will benefit the Queens College Men’s & Women’s Tennis programs. Tennis participants can come…
The USTA has announced the round-by-round prize money distribution for its record $34.3 million purse at the 2013 U.S. Open. Prize money for each round of the singles competitions will increase by at least 37 percent. Both the men’s and women’s singles champions will earn $2.6 million, the largest payout in tennis history….