The USTA has announced that it has partnered with four NCAA Division I athletic conferences—the American Athletic Conference, Big 12, Mountain West and SEC—to help deliver their conference championship title matches across multiple television and digital viewing platforms. The partnerships are the latest in the USTA’s efforts to spotlight college tennis through television and digital viewing…
Stony Brook sophomore Nadia Smergut was named the America East Player of the Week on Wednesday afternoon. Smergut, a New York City native, put together a dominant week for the Seawolves. She won all four of the matches she played to lead Stony Brook to wins over Binghamton and Fordham. Smergut and partner Louise Badoche…
I’m going to take off my college consultant baseball cap and put on my ski cap for this issue. The ski cap says “Tournament Parent” on one side and “Tournament Director” on the other. With experience playing tournaments (30-plus years), coaching juniors who play tournaments (15-plus years) and being a parent of a child who…
The women’s tennis team at Stony Brook continued its winning ways on Monday afternoon, knocking off the Fordham Rams 7-0 to win its fourth consecutive match and move to 10-1 on the season. The win came a day after the Seawolves knocked off Binghamton 5-2 on Sunday afternoon. On Monday, Stony Brook was led by…
The Stony Brook men’s tennis team won its home opener on Tuesday, defeating Wagner 7-0 to move to 4-5 on the season. Led by its strong singles play, the Seawolves were able to win eight of the nine matches on the day. It captured the doubles point behind the international sophomore duo of Raphael Termat…
The Stony Brook women’s tennis team continued its winning ways over the weekend, going on the road to defeat the New Jersey Institute of Technology 7-0 to win its fourth straight match. Stony Brook did not lose a single match in the nine contests, winning all the singles contests in straight sets and losing just six…
St. John’s 6, Binghamton 1 & St. John’s 7, Niagra 0 The St. John’s Red Storm snapped a five-match losing streak over the weekend, defeating Binghamton and Niagra at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Friday. St. John’s played Binghamton first and took care of the Bearcats with a 6-1 victory. The match…
The North Carolina women and Oklahoma men, both champions of the 2015 ITA Division I National Team Indoor Championships, maintained their number one spots in the ITA Division I National Team Rankings this week. On the women's side, North Carolina kept the top ranking for the sixth straight edition dating back to Feb. 10. The…
The NYIT men’s tennis team knocked off 41st-ranked Southeastern Oklahoma State 7-2 on Monday, handing the Savage Storm its first loss of the season and moving the Bears to 5-2 on the season. Despite losing the first singles match, 14th-ranked NYIT took control of the match in doubles play. Tiago Ferreira & Alberto Blesa knocked…
The Stony Brook Women’s Tennis team defeated St. John’s 5-2 at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Thursday, as the Seawolves received straight-set victories from some New York locals, with sophomore Nadia Smergut of New York City and freshman Elizabeth Tsvetkov of Brooklyn, each winning their respective singles matches. Smergut rolled past Zofia…