The USTA has announced that the U.S. Open Qualifying Tournament will be held Aug. 24-27 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the site of the 2010 U.S. Open. The tournament, which offers $1 million in prize money, is free and open to the public with play beginning daily at 11:00 a.m. It…
Women’s top-ranked Serena Williams has withdrawn from the 2010 U.S. Open, set for just weeks away, Aug. 30-Sept. 12 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, as she continues to recover from an injury to her right foot. Serena’s foot was cut on a piece of broken glass in July, which required surgery, and…
The USTA has announced that television coverage of the 2010 Olympus U.S. Open Series on ESPN2 has reached more people through four weeks than ever before at this point in the Series’ seven-year history. Additionally, Sunday’s singles final at the Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s Open between Kim Clijsters and Maria Sharapova was the…
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The United States Tennis Association (USTA) and Levy Restaurants, the official restaurateurs of the U.S. Open, have announced a number of new additions to the culinary offerings at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center for the 2010 U.S. Open, which runs from Aug. 30-Sept. 12. Already recognized as having among the best food…
The USTA has announced that NCAA singles champion Chelsey Gullickson (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Jamie Hampton (Auburn, Ala.), local favorite Christina McHale (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.), 2010 USTA Girls’ singles champion Shelby Rogers (Daniel Island, S.C.), and Coco Vandeweghe (Rancho Mirage, Calif.), along with two international players—Australian Sophie Ferguson and Virginie Razzano of France—have been awarded…
Donnay, the 100-year-old tennis brand, will be the racquet sponsor for the Alan King Pro-Am Tennis Tournament to benefit the Wheelchair Sports Federation. The event will take place at Shelter Rock Tennis and Country Club on Sunday, Aug. 29 beginning at 10:00 a.m. and is open to the public. “We are excited to have Donnay…
Former world No. 1 golfer Annika Sorenstam and Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, wife of the late Arthur Ashe, will present Martina Navratilova with the Eugene L. Scott Award from the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the 30th annual Legends Ball on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. Polly Scott will…
Will you know it when you see it? In fact, we have all seen it when watching tennis. To most, it is the pink elephant in the room that we do not know what to name. Last year, Karen Crouse of The New York Times began naming it when she wrote an article called “Toss…
One of the greatest misunderstandings in tennis is the topic of control. All tennis players desire to have more control, more control of their emotions, more control on their shots, more control over their opponents; the truth is though that the things we think gives us more control often do not. The three things we…