For the past four years, with the help the local tennis playing community, the Eastern Athletic Club in Blue Point, N.Y. has held its very successful Kris Kringle Holiday Tennis Party with all proceeds being donated to local families who are in desperate need of help. This year, the event will be held on Saturday, Dec….
The 2nd Annual Tennis and Rockin’ Blues® Event Featuring One-on-One Doubles is slated for Saturday night, Jan. 22 from 8:00 p.m.-midnight at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center’s Indoor Complex. This unique, combined tennis and music event includes a $1,000 in prize money, sanctioned by USTA/Eastern, for the Men’s Open and Men’s 35-and-Over Divisions…
The USTA has announced the acceptance lists for the 64th Dunlop Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships, which begins Sunday, Dec. 5 at the Crandon Park Tennis Center in Key Biscayne, Fla. The qualifying draw will take place beginning Friday, Dec. 3. The Dunlop Orange Bowl features singles and doubles competition for boys and girls in…
The USTA has announced details of its “Give the Gift of Tennis” holiday campaign that will encourage fans to match young tennis players with properly-sized tennis racquets, and with proper compression balls. The campaign includes the USTA’s first-ever promotional sweepstakes on Facebook where fans can win free equipment and the chance to play tennis with…
Tennis Channel has renewed its telecast rights agreement with the ATP World Tour, the governing body in men’s tennis, which will keep the tour’s most prominent events on the network through 2015. Paramount among the 19 tournaments included in the deal are the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals and high-profile ATP World Tour Masters…
A meniscus is a cartilage structure that provides shock absorption and cushioning in the knee joint. There are two menisci. They are located in between the thigh bone (femur) and the shin bone (tibia). Meniscus tears are very common among tennis players. They are often the result of a twisting injury. When a patient has…
Agassi Opens Up in New York City On Thursday night Sept. 2 with Long Island Tennis Magazine on hand, Andre Agassi spoke about his book Open, while discussing his life in general and answered questions from the audience at Town Hall in New York City. Here are a few of Agassi’s best quotes from the…
Esther Vergeer extended her incredible winning streak by winning her 400th consecutive wheelchair tennis singles match on Saturday during the NEC Masters in Amsterdam. The 29-year-old Vergeer of the Netherlands is also undefeated at the NEC Masters since her debut in 1998 and came within two points of defeat last year when facing Korie Homan…
On Sept. 2, 2010, The City Parks Foundation hosted a clinic in Central Park for 40 of the best eight-12-year-old girls, in the east. Steffi Graf and Billie Jean King were the stars in attendance and they were wonderful, helping the players for over three hours. I had the opportunity to address the girls on…
Tennis Channel has 60 hours of live match play lined up for its annual coverage of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London next week, with more than 120 dedicated hours overall via same-day, prime-time replays. The network will again offer a complete, wall-to-wall telecast of the season-ending competition, Nov. 21-28, from first-round play…