Nassau County (Section VIII) Tennis Boys Varsity 2009 Final Records Conference 1 1. Syosset 5-8 2. Jericho 9-5 3. Roslyn 10-4 4. Hewlett 1-13 5. Great Neck South 5-8 6. Great Neck North 3-11 7. Long Beach 9-5 8. Cold Spring Harbor 13-1 Conference 2A 1. Bellmore J.F.K. 4-10 2. Wheatley 12-2 3. Plainview…
When Oceanside, N.Y. resident Nadia Johnston played beach tennis for the first time, she realized she had an opportunity that most professional athletes rarely get—a second chance. The Australian-born Johnston was a rising tennis star in the late 90s, attaining WTA rankings of 314 for singles and 245 for doubles, and competing in the 2001…
World TeamTennis (WTT) is tennis like you’ve never seen it, featuring the biggest names in the world playing together in an innovative co-ed team format that offers exciting possibilities for players, fans and communities. The 10-team league was co-founded by Billie Jean King in the early 1970s. The format of matches is that each team…
The United States Tennis Association Eastern Section, in conjunction with the USTA Long Island Regional Board and local pros and volunteers, has been promoting tennis in local schools by introducing students to the new QuickStart Tennis USTA program. This new play format utilizes “kid-sized” equipment, easier-to-understand scoring, shorter nets and smaller courts to make tennis…
United States Tennis Association (USTA) Junior Team Tennis (JTT) is a national youth tennis league in all 50 states. It’s not about the individual. It’s about the kids getting together to play singles, doubles, and mixed-doubles against other teams within a league. It promotes values you would expect from any sport fostering a spirit of…
Pros use a simple method to volley the ball. You can do the same. This is not diving or figure skating, so additional points are not gained for degree of difficulty. The mistake I most commonly see on the volley is players getting caught with the racquet head laid back. Most people have never made…
What do you get when you combine the best elements of tennis and beach volleyball with the laid-back beach lifestyle? You get the hottest new sport in America: Beach tennis. Beach tennis is essentially doubles tennis played on sand. Played on a regulation beach volleyball court using regulation tennis racquets and a slightly depressurized tennis…
Quick Start Tennis is an exciting new play format for teaching tennis skills to children. The program was developed by the United States Tennis Association to bring children into the game by utilizing specialized equipment and shorter court dimensions, all tailored to age and size. With this program, children will be taught the basic skills…
Only in America … Only in the United States of America could a poor African-American man born in New Orleans in 1901 rise to blow rhythmic sounds called jazz, entertaining stars, royalty, presidents and a Pope. Louis Armstrong’s unique style of playing earned him the nickname “Satchmo.” In the late 1970s, Satchmo moved to a…
Monica Seles’ memoir Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self, published by the Avery Books imprint at Penguin Press, tells the story of the unluckiest tennis champion. The nine-time Grand Slam winner writes about the difficult emotional journey she endured during her playing years. The appearance of the book in early 2009…
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