Longines, the official timekeeper off the French Open, is committed to developing and finding future tennis champions. As part of that commitment, they invited 16 12-and-Under players from 15 different countries to take part in the Longines Future Tennis Aces tournament. The boys’ winner was Jaime Delgado of Spain and the girls’ winner was Aleksandra…
One of my first tennis instructors when I first began taking lessons in the late 1960s-1970s taught me something I will never forget. I preach this message to this day to many of my students, as well as my own two boys who compete in college and the USTA Junior Circuit: “Just let your racquet…
Introducing the hottest sport on sand: Beach Tennis! Take the fun and fast-paced sport of tennis … combine it with the sun, sea and sand of the beach … and you have beach tennis, the most electrifying new sport to hit the U.S. The 2010 Long Island Tennis Magazine Challenge will take place Saturday, June 12…
Many relationship magazines like to run columns with the format “What a member of one gender says and what the member of the other gender really hears.” This column delves into the topic of speaking with a college coach. What a prospective student-athlete says and what the coach really hears. 1. Prospective student/athlete says: I…
Congratulations to the following players from the USTA Eastern/Long Island Region who took home honors at the National Opens that took place throughout the month of May: Naples, Fla. â–º Girls 18s Finalist: Jennifer Kellner of Smithtown, N.Y. Owings Mills, Md. â–º Boys 12s Consolation Champ: Brenden Volk of Dix Hills, N.Y. â–º Girls 12s Fourth Place: Madison Battaglia of Cold…
Every once in awhile, life throws you a curveball that results in a few surprises. That’s exactly how a group of tennis players from Oceanside’s Point Set Indoor Racquet Club felt the first time they played tennis. But these players are unique because they play tennis and have Multiple Sclerosis (MS). They beat the odds…
The number 17-seed, Francesca Schiavone of Italy, defeated seventh-seeded Samantha Stosur of Australia, 6-4, 7-6 (2), in the women’s finals of the 2010 French Open. Schiavone came into the match with only one win in five attempts against Stosur, and with her victory, became the second woman seeded lower than 10th, and the first since 1933,…
Boys high school tennis players from Long Island had an impressive showing at the NYSPHSAA State Tennis Championships that wrapped up this past Saturday, June 5 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. In singles play, Josh Levine from Cold Spring Harbor finished second overall in the tournament. His only defeat came at the…
Tennis tweets of late The following are just a few of the things that the sport’s top stars have been “tweeting” about through the social networking tool that is changing the way we have come to communicate with, Twitter. In addition to Facebook and MySpace, Twitter’s 140-word short blasts of info keep the fans of…
The U.S. Open will take over Times Square in New York City on Monday, June 7, to launch the first day of the 2010 U.S. Open Ticket On-Sale and celebrate the U.S. Open, which will be played in Flushing, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 30 through Sunday, Sept. 12. “US Open Takes Times Square” will run from 8:00…