Each year, Long Island junior tennis players graduate from high school and head off to college to take their academics and tennis play to the next level. College tennis takes a huge commitment and a great work ethic if success is going to be achieved. Hopefully, their success can lead to more juniors following in…
On May 21, the Virginia Cavaliers took home the 2013 NCAA Men’s Tennis Championship, while the Stanford Cardinals seized the NCAA Women’s title. The Cavaliers (30-0) defeated the UCLA Bruins 4-3, finally taking the next step after falling short as the runner-up the past two years. The Cardinals (22-4) knocked off the Texas A&M Aggies,…
Simply put … Dick Gould is college tennis and a living legend. He was the Stanford men’s tennis head coach for 38-years before becoming the John L. Hinds Director of Tennis at Stanford for the last nine years. Coach Gould’s career credentials are legendary. His teams won 17 NCAA team championships and he was the…
Brown Freshman Hannah Camhi of Woodbury, N.Y. has been named unanimous First Team All-Ivy selection in doubles, along with doubles partner and senior Misia Krasowski of Deerfield, Ill., as voted by the Ivy League’s eight head women’s tennis coaches. Playing number one doubles all year, the team of Camhi & Krakowski amassed a 22-9 overall record, including a…
The Ivy League has announced the women’s tennis All-Ivy teams and Dartmouth freshman Katherine Yau was the lone member of the Big Green recognized. After an impressive first year on campus, the Manhasset, N.Y., native Yau earned second team honors. Yau was named second team All-Ivy in singles after finishing the conference slate with a record…
Late in 2012, Winthrop University Basketball Coach Pat Kelsey took advantage of the fact that his team just played the number four team in the country. He had more microphones in front of him after the game than ever before and a voice that he didn’t usually get. He seized the opportunity and gave a…
1. Location, location, location As with everything, the location of the university where you want to play college tennis is important. Playing college tennis in the south is a lot different than playing in the north where the entire winter you are playing indoor tennis. Other aspects of location are whether you want a school…
Last issue’s interviewee Jim Thomas and this month’s interviewee, Jeff Salzenstein, played professional tennis for 10-years after graduating from Stanford in 1996 and have some good insight and advice about tennis life as a pro, college and junior player to share. Jeff Salzenstein is the oldest American ever to break the top 100 in the…
Former Cold Spring Harbor (CSH) player and the 2012 New York State High School Singles Champion Josh Levine took to the courts yesterday playing his first team match as a member of the Duke Blue Devils. Levine helped Duke University’s Men’s Tennis Team win their season opener against Hawaii. Levine defeated David Schuster in a tough three-set…
Hannah Camhi credits tennis with helping her develop self-confidence, optimism, and perseverance. And it is those traits–along with her outstanding grades, leadership, and match play—that earned Camhi of Woodbury, N.Y., a 2012 USTA National Junior Scholar Athlete Award. "My longtime coach told me when I started as a competitive tennis player that ‘success is a…