College Tennis

The college tennis season is rapidly approaching and, once again, the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) women’s tennis team is the favorite to win the East Coast Conference. The Bears, winners of 31 straight regular season matches, received six of the eight first-place votes from the...Read more

Two of the pros on my staff at Pine Hollow Country Club, Jorge Alfonzo and Asel Jumamukhambetova, come from similar backgrounds. They both hail from countries that don’t have large populations on Long Island (Venezuela and Kazakhstan, respectively), they both start on the college tennis teams at D1...Read more

The USTA announced that NCAA singles champions Brienne Minor and Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, along with top prospects Christopher Eubanks and Francesca Di Lorenzo, lead the group of top American collegiate players selected to play in the fourth annual American Collegiate Invitational at the 2017 US Open...Read more

Oracle Corp., in conjunction with the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), announced it is strengthening its ongoing commitment to collegiate tennis with the creation of the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships at Indian Wells. “Oracle is committed to tennis, both at the professional and...Read more

Photo credit: Jeff Lamanna Brandeis University women’s tennis sophomore Michele Lehat of Great Neck, N.Y., has been named to the Spring 2017 University Athletic Association All-Academic Team. Lehat is one of 45 student-athletes from Brandeis and one of 639 from across the conference to earn All-...Read more

The New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) women’s tennis team advanced to the NCAA Division II Championship’s Round of 16 on Tuesday afternoon, downing Long Island foe Adelphi 5-2 at Stonehill College. The Bears moves on to the final rounds in Altamonte Springs, Florida. NYIT took the early lead...Read more

Both the men’s and women’s tennis at Stony Brook wrapped up its regular seasons on Tuesday afternoon , and each notched 5-2 victories over Long Island-foe Hofstra. The men’s team was led by its singles play, notching wins in first, third, fourth and fifth singles. Raphael Termat beat Marcus Smith 6...Read more

Adelphi Men Sweep Weekend Matches After dropping its opening match of the spring season to Queens College, the Adelphi men’s tennis team has now won four straight matches after defeating Saint Michael’s College 9-0 on Sunday. The Panthers won five of the six singles flights in straight sets to...Read more

Wake Forest becomes the third men's team this season to hold the No. 1 ranking, while Florida continues to occupy the top spot in the women's rankings as Oracle and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced the updated Oracle/ITA Collegiate Tennis Division I National Team Rankings on Tuesday...Read more

Stony Brook Women Fall to St. John’s, Harvard The Stony Brook women’s tennis team dropped both of its matches over the weekend, losing to St. John’s and Harvard on Friday and Saturday, respectively. On Friday, the Red Storm of St. John’s won the first four flights to clinch the 4-0 victory over the...Read more