Former top-ranked Thomas Muster is making his return to the ATP Tour at the Bank Austria Trophy, 26 years after he first played at the event. Muster will play fellow Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer on Tuesday in his first match on the tour since losing in the first round of 1999 French Open. The 43-year-old Muster was…
USTA Eastern’s 24th Annual College Showcase Day on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010 will feature a new interactive Web site that promotes community service and character development among young athletes: ESMZone.com. The site, which is run by Education Sports Mentoring LLC, is an affinity-based community where student athletes compete for points and prizes by sharing the challenges…
As the Syosset and Garden City Girls’ High School Varsity Tennis teams took to the courts on Friday in Cold Spring Harbor with the Nassau County title on the line, the opponent was far from the forefront of the players’ minds. All of the girls knew that the real challenge today would be to triumph…
Roger Federer beat Germany’s Florian Mayer 6-4, 6-3 to win the Stockholm Open on Sunday and match Pete Sampras’ career total of 64 career titles. Since 1968, only Jimmy Connors (109), Ivan Lendl (94) and John McEnroe (77) have won more singles tournaments than Federer and Sampras. In beating the 47th-ranked Mayer at Royal Tennis Hall,…
Tennis Channel’s comprehensive coverage of women’s tennis’ WTA Championships will begin Tuesday, Oct. 26, live from Doha, Qatar. The network will carry all singles and doubles matches during the season-ending six-day competition, more than 30 live hours of play overall, followed by same-day encore replays each evening in prime time. In all, Tennis Channel will…
Sasha Vujacic of Slovenia and the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers is engaged to marry tennis star Maria Sharapova. Vujacic said he proposed on the one-year anniversary of their first meeting at a friend’s barbecue. Vujacic said a wedding date hasn’t been set. Sharapova won her first major title at Wimbledon in 2004 when she was…
Qualifier Zarina Diyas has upset top-seeded Jelena Jankovic, 6-1, 6-2 Thursday in the second round action at the Kremlin Cup. The 268th-ranked Diyas, who celebrated her 17th birthday on Monday, led 5-0 in the first set when Jankovic called for a doctor and had her blood pressure checked. Jankovic said she had a hard time breathing,…
With just one win away from consecutive Nassau County Girls High School Tennis Finals appearances, Syosset High School’s Varsity Tennis team wasn’t feeling the pressure to win. “There’s no extra pressure,” Syosset’s coach Larry Levane said as the match got underway. “The girls are experienced. They’re confident and I’m confident in them. If we’re going…
Suffolk County hosted its Girls High School Individual Championships on Tuesday, Oct. 19 at East Islip High school for Division I and at Shoreham-Wading River High School for Division IV. In Division I, Hills East’s Samantha Elgort was victorious over Smithtown East’s Sara Finger, 6-0, 6-2. Division IV action featured two teammates from Ross squaring…
Led by their top two singles players Hannah Camhi and Ashley Sandler, the Syosset Girls High School Tennis team improved their record to 10-1 on the 2010 season and are now a half-game ahead of Garden City High School in their battle for the Nassau County Conference I regular season championship. Camhi, who finished second…