The six-peat is complete! Last Thursday afternoon at Garden City High School, the Cold Spring Harbor’s (CSH) boys tennis team won an astounding sixth consecutive Nassau County Championship, defeating Syosset. They ended the season 14-0 and now await the winner of the Suffolk County Championship. CSH will square off with the Suffolk champs in the Long Island…
Serena Williams won her 51st WTA title in Rome, as she defeated Victoria Azarenka in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3 to win the 2013 Internazionali BNL d’Italia championship. Serena lost just 10 games in her four matches en route to the final, and in the finals, blasted 41 winners to just 19 unforced errors to come out on top…
Rafael Nadal captured his 24th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title and seventh Internazionali BNL d’Italia championship in Rome on Sunday, defeating the second-seed Roger Federer 6-1, 6-3. "If you told me four or five months ago that after eight tournaments I would have won six titles from eight finals, I would say you are crazy," said…
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Looking for his first Nassau County Championship, top-seeded Vihar Shah of Herricks High School was up 6-2, 4-1 against Cold Spring Harbor’s Conor Dauer, the second seed, at the 2013 Nassau County boy’s tennis finals at Oceanside High School on Saturday when his nerves took over. Dauer was able to break Shah to get within…
Tomas Berdych recorded his first win in three years over Novak Djokovic in dramatic fashion as he reached the semifinals of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome with a 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory over the world number one-ranked Djokovic. Berdych trailed 6-2, 5-2 before coming back to stun Djokovic, two-time Internazionali BNL d’Italia champion. The…
Simply put … Dick Gould is college tennis and a living legend. He was the Stanford men’s tennis head coach for 38-years before becoming the John L. Hinds Director of Tennis at Stanford for the last nine years. Coach Gould’s career credentials are legendary. His teams won 17 NCAA team championships and he was the…
The score was tied at three matches a piece between Conference B-III playoff semifinalists Wantagh High School and Glen Cove High School on Wednesday afternoon at Wantagh High School. It was all up to the third singles match between Wantagh’s Jeff Starr and Glen Cove’s Jerry Ho to decide the winner. The two boys engaged…
Novak Djokovic has reached the quarterfinals of the 2013 Internazionali BNL d’Italia after he recorded his 30th match win of the season over Alexandr Dolgopolov, 6-1, 6-4. Djokovic will next play sixth seed Tomas Berdych, who extended his perfect record to 8-0 against Kevin Anderson in a 7-5, 6-2 win. Berdych hit 25 winners and committed seven…
The USTA has announced that it has entered into a comprehensive media partnership with ESPN for the television and digital presentation of the U.S. Open and the Emirates Airline U.S. Open Series. The 11-year agreement will begin in 2015 and extend through the 2025 US Open and provide professional tennis with more than 200 hours…
What is development? A buzzword? A marketing tool? The USTA Player Development’s mission is "to develop world-class American players through a clearly-defined training structure and competitive pathway as well as through the implementation of a comprehensive coaching philosophy and structure." In my opinion, development is gradual growth where a student progresses from dependence to independence….