College Tennis

Pratt Institute won its third straight Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (HVIAC) Women's Tennis Championship, capturing seven of nine flights at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Saturday afternoon. The 2013 HVIAC Champions also placed a league-best three members on the HVIAC All-Conference Team, with three-time player of the week freshman Agata Jakubowska, undefeated junior Gabriella Guerra, and…

The USTA Collegiate Clay Court Invitational–the largest clay court event in college tennis, featuring many of the country’s top college players–will be live-streamed online on ESPN3.com this Sunday, beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET. The event, hosted by Florida State University Thursday-Sunday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at DisneyWorld in Orlando, Fla., will…

New York City is often praised for its toughness and resiliency. The nearly nine million citizens appreciate a good redemption story. As the city is littered with the tales of sports teams overcoming adversity, people being down, but not out, and other trials and tribulations of life in the big city. Queens College has its…

The Stony Brook Women’s Tennis Invitational came to a close on Sunday, wrapping up a three-day event that displayed some highly competitive college tennis. The tournament, hosted by Stony Brook University, was the eighth annual installment of the event, and included nine different teams from the Atlantic Region competing in singles and doubles matches over the course of…

Every year, junior tennis players from Long Island graduate from high school and head off to college to take their game to the next level. College tennis takes a huge commitment and a great work ethic if success is going to be achieved. Ideally, this success can lead to more juniors following the footsteps on…

The USTA has announced that Virginia’s Julia Elbaba of Oyster Bay, N.Y., the 2013 ITA Rookie of the Year, will join two-time defending NCAA women’s singles champion Nicole Gibbs of Stanford and NCAA men’s singles finalist Jarmere Jenkins of Virginia as the crop of American men’s and women’s college tennis players invited to the 2013 USTA…

1. The game is played at a level that most people can relate For many tennis fans who watch professional tennis, the hope of one day hitting that great forehand that they watched Novak Djokovic hit in the finals of the U.S. Open is only a dream. But for aspiring young players, playing college tennis…