Junior Tennis

Last week, those who made tennis shine on Long Island in 2018 were honored at the 29 th Annual USTA Long Island Awards Dinner at Chateau Briand Caterers in Carle Place, N.Y. Fourteen-time Grand Slam champion Aranxta Sanchez-Vicario was the featured guest speaker and spoke to the awardees and guests...Read more

This past weekend, the Eastern Athletic Club in Blue Point hosted the inaugural USTA Eastern Long Island Junior Team Tennis 10U Orange Ball tournament. Players from five different Long Island clubs came out to play in this first-time event: Carefree Racquet Club, Eastern Athletic, Ross School...Read more

As the tennis season on the ATP and WTA Tours heats up in the professional ranks, the SPORTIME World Tour continued to makes its way through the top tournament destinations around the world. Click Here to see more photos from the Indian Wells installment of the SPORTIME World Tour. SPORTIME Syosset...Read more

Before my year-long hiatus from contributing to Long Island Tennis Magazine , I published the following formula on junior tennis success. It goes like this … Ten percent of junior players walk onto the tennis court for the first time with clear-cut talent. If they really push themselves to the max...Read more

Bethpage Park Tennis Center Summer Tennis Camp 99 Quaker Meeting House Road, Building #4 Farmingdale, NY (516) 777-1358 BethpageParkTennis.com Bethpage_Park_Logo.jpg To be your best, you need the best program, facilities and players Bethpage Park Tennis Center’s Summer Tennis Camp is designed for...Read more

This story first appeared in the March/April 2019 edition of Long Island Tennis Magazine. Click Here for the full digital edition. At the 2019 USTA Eastern Conference, the Section honored longtime tennis coach and USTA Long Island Executive Board Vice President Sunny Fishkind with its 2018 Woman of...Read more

The Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation (MCB) announced on Thursday that the “Road to the Little Mo Nationals” will return for its 22 nd year this summer. The circuit begins each spring with 20 different sectionals held across the country, which advance to four regionals held in the summer,...Read more

When she began playing sports as a youngster, around the age of seven, one of the first sports Thea Rabman tried was softball. Despite being good, it didn’t take because, as Rabman says, it was too slow. That’s when tennis entered the picture. “My dad wanted me to try out tennis, so I started...Read more

As I sit back and watch the interactions and listen to conversations between parents and children in the tennis world, some of the things that are said baffles me. I understand all the money invested in practices, private lessons, tournaments and traveling all too well, but adding anxiety or extra...Read more

Step inside NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, February 9 from 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. for an array of tennis programming for people of all ages and levels. Throughout the day, there will be free tennis clinics taking place on both the Stadium Court and Grandstand...Read more