Current UCLA freshmen Jada Hart & Ena Shibahara survived two match points, capturing the U.S. Open Junior Girls Doubles Championship in dramatic fashion at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. Given a wild card entry into the tournament by the USTA, Hart & Shibahara came back to defeat the…
The New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) women’s tennis team kicked off its fall season over the weekend and picked up where it left off in the spring, posting two dominant performances to notch 9-0 victories over St. Thomas Aquinas and Wilmington. The Bears took on the Spartans of St. Thomas Aquinas in its season…
Top-seeded and University of Virginia senior Thai-Son Kwiatkowski rolled past his third opponent in three days in convincing fashion to capture the Third Annual American Collegiate Invitational at the 2016 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Kwiatkowski defeated the number four seed, University of Georgia’s Austin Smith, 6-2, 6-2, on…
The Adelphi University women’s tennis team began its fall 2016 campaign with a 9-0 drubbing of American International College in a Northeast-10 (NE-10) road contest on Wednesday. The Panthers got things started with a dominant performance on the doubles court, winning first doubles and third doubles 8-0 and second doubles by a score of 8-2…
For the second consecutive year, the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) Women's Tennis team was selected as an unanimous favorite in the East Coast Conference (ECC) Preseason Poll. NYITʹs Lena Dimmer was selected by the coaches as the Preseason Player of the Year. The Queens College Women's Tennis team placed second in the ECC Preseason Poll. NYIT, who won their…
I have been watching the campaign for delegates for the presidential nomination in both major parties with great interest. One day Donald Trump throws accusations at his opponents, and the next moment, Hilary Clinton does the same. I am not going to take political sides for the purpose of this article as this is not…
On March 16, 2016, the Tennis World lost one of its biggest supporters, Sol Schwartz. He was 46 years old. He was a husband, a father of two, a son, a brother, an uncle, a coach, a mentor, and a friend. Lisa Stone, creator of the ParentingAces website and radio show, had a short-lived but very…
Although well-intentioned, are short courts, deflated balls, round-robins and short sets pulling kids into tennis on Long Island? Through five years, the answer is: “No!” Age Group/Level 2010 Players Per Long Island Tournament (Average) 2016 Players Per Long Island Tournament (Average) Boys 10’s Level 1B 16.3 10.0 Boys 10’s Level 2 …
The benefits of playing against a stronger opponent are more obvious than those of playing against a weaker opponent. A player who “plays up” has the opportunity to experience first-hand the skills of a stronger player and hopefully learn from it. A stronger player might implement tactics against you that are unfamiliar with and produce…
The college tennis season here on Long Island is wrapping up, as a number of local schools have finished the regular season and are gearing up for their respective conference tournaments. Hofstra Men, Women Earn Season Honors Marcus Smith, who played his high school tennis at Cardozo High School in Queens, had a nice…