Students of mine love to ask me what the rules are on the most random hypothetical tennis questions. “Am I allowed to run to the baseline to serve?” (No.) “Can I stand in the box to return?” (Well yes, but you can’t volley it so you probably don’t want to.) I have been asked questions…
Sixteen of the top Division I men's tennis teams will meet up in Charlottesville, Va., to compete for the 2016 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Men's Team Indoor Championship. Defending NCAA National Champion, the University of Virginia, will serve as the event host, with all competition over the four-day event (Feb. 12-15) scheduled to take…
The No. 6 nationally-ranked California women's tennis team made school history on Monday afternoon at the Nielsen Tennis Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, as they captured the program's first-ever ITA Division I National Women's Team Indoors Championship title with a thrilling 4-3 victory over No. 5 North Carolina. Cal, the lone Pac-12 team at the tournament,…
The Columbia women’s tennis team captured the 2016 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I Women’s Indoor Tennis Championship on Sunday, knocking off Harvard 4-2 in the final. The Lions had to pull double-duty on Sunday after a power-outage on Saturday night postponed its semifinal match against Dartmouth until Sunday morning. The match resumed with…
The New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) men’s tennis team earned the top spot in the East Coast Conference (ECC) preseason poll. The three-time defending conference champions were named the favorite by the poll of the conference’s coaches. The Bears earned all six first place votes in the polling, and carry a 14-match winning streak…
The St. John’s women’s tennis team won its second straight match to open up 2016, beating Fairfield 7-0 at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Friday afternoon. Playing in its first home match under new head coach Lauren Leo, the Red Storm made quick work of Fairfield. It started by winning all three…
Following its kickoff weekend that saw a number of schools from across the country qualify for the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in February, the Oracle/ITA collegiate rankings have been updated. The Columbia men, having advanced to the nationals, moved up one spot in the rankings from 16th to 15th. Virginia, Oklahoma and TCU continue…
Some of the area’s top players finished off 2015 competing at the USTA National Men’s Open, Women’s Open and Mixed Open Indoor Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The tournament’s finals were played on New Year’s Eve, as players and spectators closed out 2015 with some high-quality…
Only 80 percent of you need to read this article if your child is thinking about taking up tennis. Ten percent of your children have won the genetic lottery. Congratulations! You can do less than the rest of us to achieve the goals I outline below. Your child stepped onto the soccer field at five-years-old…
More than a decade ago, a kid from Syosset made a decision that would change the course of two men’s lives forever. Mike Kossoff was a standout tennis player at Syosset High School and a highly-touted recruit in his senior season on Long Island. As a 24-year-old first-year head coach at Bowling Green State…