Tennis Channel will provide exclusive coverage of the U.S. Fed Cup team’s first-round competition against Belgium in Antwerp, Belgium, this weekend, with comprehensive telecasts Saturday, Feb. 5, and Sunday, Feb. 6. Reigning U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters will lead Belgium into this weekend’s match after winning her fourth Grand Slam title at the Australian Open…
Kim Clijsters will lead a strong Belgian squad against an injury-depleted United States team in the Fed Cup this weekend. Belgium would have been an overwhelming favorite to reach the quarterfinals, but the sudden retirement of Justine Henin last week leaves this matchup slightly more even, as they face an U.S. team that has reached the…
Where there’s sun, music, great athletes from more than two dozen countries and you are on the beach, this could only mean one thing … beach tennis! As beach tennis continues to grow around the world, in the United States, our top players are competing on the ITF Beach Tennis tour. In November, American teams…
2010 Long Island Championship Long Island Champion–Syosset Long Island Championship Match Syosset 6—Half Hollow Hills West 1 2010 Nassau County Girls High School Standings Conference I Conference I Champion: Syosset Playoffs Semifinals Syosset 5–Jericho 2 Garden City 4–Roslyn 3 Finals Syosset…
Tennis is not just a physical sport; it is incredibly tactical as well. Having a variety of shots in your repertoire is vitally important, but without understanding when it is appropriate to employ each shot in your arsenal, a smarter player could beat you even if your technique is far superior to theirs. Though there…
The USTA has announced that it is awarding $45,000 in USTA Grassroots Wheelchair Program Grants to 21 wheelchair tennis programs across the country for the third consecutive year. Grants were awarded to local organizations that promote and develop the growth of wheelchair tennis and use the sport of tennis to build stronger, healthier communities. Since…
Henrik Wiersholm, a 13-year-old from Kirkland, Wash., captured the boys’ singles title at Les Petits As in Tarbes, France on Sunday, defeating Bogdan Borza of Romania 6-2, 5-7, 6-3, to become the first American boy to win the prestigious 14 -and-under title since Chase Buchanan in 2005, and just the seventh American boy to win…
As the 2011 League Season begins on Long Island with Mixed-Doubles, there are a few major National, Section and Local rule changes all captains and players should be aware of. These rule changes follow a hierarchy similar to our own government structure in that a rule change can be National, affecting all 18 sections if…
In the men’s doubles final of the 2011 Australian Open, American twins Bob & Mike Bryan won their fifth Australian Open title, beating Leander Paes & Mahesh Bhupathi of India, 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday. The Bryans have held the number one ranking in men’s doubles tennis for the past eight years and have won 10 Grand…
Kim Clijsters won the fourth major title of her career and her first-ever Australian Open title as she defeated Li Na in Melbourne on Saturday, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. Clijsters’s win ended Li Na’s Cinderella run at the Australian Open as she became the first Chinese player to ever reach the finals of a Grand Slam event. …