The 2013 Nassau County Boys Individual Championships were scheduled to begin on Saturday, May 11, but Mother Nature changed those plans as rain caused the postponement of Day One of the tournament. On Sunday morning as Coordinator Barry Kubit squeegeed the courts of Oceanside High School and the sun finally shone through as play was…
Claude Okin, founder and CEO of SPORTIME, will serve as the coach of the NY Sportimes for the 2013 season. Okin, who has been an active force in the Sportimes’ success as the owner of the Mylan World TeamTennis squad since the 2003 WTT season, will take on the coaching duties for the first time….
The first thing that strikes the viewer about the documentary Venus and Serena is how its totally front-loaded with sound bites and archival footage. While this isn’t dissimilar to most sports documentaries, the film is somewhat pedestrian in its opening minutes. Emphasizing their training regimen, the combination of multiple elements and disciplines really sheds some…
Brown Freshman Hannah Camhi of Woodbury, N.Y. has been named unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection in doubles, along with doubles partner and senior Misia Krasowski of Deerfield, Ill., as voted by the Ivy League’s eight head women’s tennis coaches. Playing number one doubles all year, the team of Camhi & Krakowski amassed a 22-9 overall record, including a…
Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova have both advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2013 Mutua Madrid Open. Sharapova was a 6-2, 7-5 winner over Sabine Lisicki, while the top-seeded Serena was a 6-3, 6-1 winner over Maria Kirilenko. Serena is now 25-1 on clay since the start of last year’s clay court season. "She’s the kind of opponent…
Kei Nishikori scored perhaps the biggest win of his career in Madrid on Thursday, a upset over defending champion Roger Federer 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 in the third round of the 2013 Mutua Madrid Open. It was Nishikori’s eighth Top 10 win and first since beating number six Tomas Berdych in the 2012 Tokyo quarterfinals. Two years…
The Ivy League has announced the women’s tennis All-Ivy teams and Dartmouth freshman Katherine Yau was the lone member of the Big Green recognized. After an impressive first year on campus, the Manhasset, N.Y., native Yau earned second team honors. Yau was named second team All-Ivy in singles after finishing the conference slate with a record…
Yesterday afternoon, the Boys Suffolk League I Individual Championships top seeded Zain Ali of Half Hollow Hills East was crowned the Suffolk League I Individual Champion as he defeated second-seeded Brandon Stone of Walt Whitman in the finals in three tough sets 6-3, 3-6, 6-0. After splitting the first two sets, Ali took control in…
Singapore will host the WTA Championships, the most prestigious event on the WTA calendar, from 2014 to 2018. Under terms of the five-year agreement, the top eight singles players and, for the first time, the top eight doubles teams, will compete for a share of a record prize money purse of $6.5 million. The announcement…
Rafael Nadal, seeking his fifth title in seven tournaments to date in 2013, defeated Benoit Paire of France 6-3, 6-4 on in the second round of the 2013 Mutua Madrid Open. "That’s an important victory today," said Nadal. "Each match in this kind of tournament is very demanding from the first round. He was a very…