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…
Tulane's Dominik Koepfer capped off a brilliantly-played 2015 fall college tennis season in style on Sunday at the 2015 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships. Competing at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and in front of a worldwide audience tuning in on ESPN3, Koepfer, the numer three seed in the tourney, tamed hard-hitting Andre Goransson of Cal in straight…
Oklahoma State's Katarina Adamovic wasn't fazed by the resume of her 2015 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships opening round opponent. Facing top-seeded Danielle Collins of Virginia, who had yet to drop a match in the 2015-2016 season and earned national titles at both the Oracle/ITA Masters and Riviera/ITA Women's All-American Championship, the 92nd-ranked Adamovic outlasted…
Virginia’s Julia Elbaba, an Oyster Bay, N.Y. native, opened up her campaign at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships Thursday morning in smooth fashion, downing University of Southern California’s Giuliana Olmos 6-0, 6-1 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center to move into the Round of 16. “I played well today. I started…
USTA Eastern hosted its 29th Annual College Showcase Day at the Saw Mill Club in Mount Kisco, N.Y. this past weekend, bringing together college coaches and high school tennis players for a day of match play, seminars and much more. “I think the people who attend this event are here because they realize they need…
The college tennis fall season draws to a close this week as the 2015 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships (NIIC) get underway Thursday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. The NIIC, which runs Nov. 12-15, is the fourth national championship on the 2015-2016 ITA National Tournament calendar. Earlier this…
The State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) has announced that East Meadow, N.Y. native Lonnie Mitchel of SUNY Oneonta, long-time columnist for Long Island Tennis Magazine, has been selected as SUNYAC Coach of the Year for women's tennis. The honor comes after Mitchel led the Red Dragons to a third place finish at the recently…
The USTA has announced that ESPN3 and WatchESPN will deliver the men’s and women’s singles semifinals and finals of the 2015 USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, Nov. 14-15, and will include mid-match, on-court interviews with players, first debuted by ESPN during the 2015 U.S. Open. The National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships, which features many of the…
New York Institute of Technology’s (NYIT) fantastic season continued on Tuesday, as junior Alessia Rossetti of Switzerland was named the East Coast Conference’s (ECC) Player of the Year, and head coach Jason Pasion was named ECC Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year. Rossetti enjoyed a dominant 2015 campaign that saw her go 14-2 in singles…