If you are reading this article, you are breathing. Interestingly, the majority of us take this subtle automatic action for granted. Why not? Breathing is regulated by our autonomic nervous system. This means it happens without our conscious awareness. This is probably fortunate because in competition, many of us would be too busy to remember…
The USTA Eastern Long Island Region’s Junior Tennis Team Tournament will be played Saturday, Aug. 4 at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, N.Y. (rain date is Sunday, Aug. 5). This tournament is a round robin team tournament and a fundraiser event for the preservation of marine mammals and sea turtles as each team will adopt an animal through the…
Lleyton Hewitt and David Goffin both have been given wild cards into Wimbledon 2012. Hewitt was the 2000 U.S. Open Men’s Doubles Champion, and captured the men’s singles titles at the 2001 U.S. Open and 2002 Wimbledon. Goffin, from Belgium, lost to Roger Federer but took a set off the number three-ranked Federer at the 2012…
A great source of information for prospective college tennis-playing freshmen are the people who have gone through their college tennis years. We took four Long Island raised student/athletes who just finished their first year of college and asked them to give us some insight on college tennis and what, if anything, was different than they…
The Spanish Tennis Federation has announced that the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Semifinal between the U.S. and Spain will be held on an outdoor red clay court at the Parque Hermanos Castro in Gijon, Spain. The semifinal tie will be held Sept. 14-16. The U.S. and Spain have met 10 times in…
The top-seeded doubles team of Max Mirnyi of Belarus & Daniel Nestor of Canada defeated Bob & Mike Bryan, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to win their second consecutive French Open doubles title together. If the Bryans had won, they would have set a record for most in the Open era. They were looking to win…
Tickets to the 2012 U.S. Open to the general public are now available, as the event is set to be played at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 27-Sunday, Sept. 9. Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day, presented by Hess, a full-day tennis and music festival for children and families, will…
Rafael Nadal once again prevailed on the clay courts of Roland Garros, defeating world number one-ranked Novak Djokovic in four sets, 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, in a two-day, rain-filled 2012 French Open Finals match. The match began Sunday in Paris, spanned over the course of two days with several weather-related stoppages before Nadal won the…
On Saturday, Russian Maria Sharapova completed her career Grand Slam with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Italy’s Sara Errani. Sharapova won in Wimbledon in 2004, the U.S. Open in 2006 and the Australian Open in 2008, and four years later, the 2012 French Open women’s singles title. She is only the 10th woman to attain…
John Isner relishes the notion of serving for an Olympic Gold Medal against a woman, and it could happen at the 2012 London Games. Mixed-doubles is back and the 6-foot 9-inch Isner is ready to play. His only previous mixed-doubles experience came in the Hopman Cup where he remembers facing Justine Henin in the final, a…