This weekend’s forecast calls for beautiful weather on Long Island, and with that comes the kickoff of the 2011 Beach Tennis season in New York. The new location for tournament play and permanent Beach Tennis courts in New York this summer is in Long Beach, right next to the Allegria Hotel (on the beach at…
Evert calls in During Tennis Channel’s airing of number one-ranked women’s singles player Caroline Wozniacki’s third-round victory at the Australian Open, there was a very interesting call-in. During the prime-time match, announcer Bill Macatee fielded a viewer text question from a "Chris in Florida," who wondered if the top-ranked Danish player "Feels like the number…
Novak Djokovic won his 25th consecutive match in 2011, a 6-2, 6-3 win over Romanian Adrian Ungur in the second round of the 2011 Serbia Open. Djokovic, playing in his homeland of Serbia, has won 61 of 67 sets and four tournament titles to date in 2011, and has moved up in the ATP rankings to unseat Roger…
In a Tuesday interview with The Associated Press, Donald Young issued an apology to the USTA and its Director of Player Development Patrick McEnroe for his recent anti-USTA outbursts on the popular social networking Web site Twitter. After a recent 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 loss to 176th-ranked Tim Smyczek that would have qualified him for the French…
The weather is New York is heating up and the spring and summer season will see tons of tennis events throughout the Long Island area. This weekend, there are three events for the Long Island tennis enthusiast to enjoy and Long Island Tennis Magazine will be on hand … Ross School Tennis Center Presents "Junior…
On the eve of its fifth French Open and with telecast rights to tennis’ other three major championships, Tennis Channel is well-established as television’s "Home of the Slams." This spring, however, the network is changing its tagline to reflect the quality of coverage its viewers have come to enjoy the other 44 weeks of the…
QuickStart Tennis is the newest teaching method developed by the USTA and is progressively becoming one of their most important initiatives and for good reason. Since the days of Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, there has been one American male to win a Grand Slam event, Andy Roddick’s finals win at the 2003 U.S. Open. The American women have faired considerably better with 12 Grand Slam titles since…
You might not think a 35-page pamphlet could take a reader on a rollercoaster ride with stops that pose questions about death, the nature of time, the mysteries of the male anatomy, the limits of language and whether a truly stellar performance by a ballboy can win back the love of a ballgirl. But Cheston…
Would you like to stop feeling as if your energy is being sapped as you are playing tennis, and even eliminate the aches and pains you feel afterwards? A functional movement screening (FMS) may be the solution. The purpose of the functional movement screening is the assessment of an athlete’s general mobility and stability with…
American Donald Young took to the popular social networking Web site Twitter last week to vent when he was eliminated from contention by Tim Smyczek, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, as a USTA wild-card entry into the 2011 French Open. His profanity-laced tweet read: “(Expletive) USTA! Their full of (expletive)! They have (expletive) me for the last time!”…