The USTA today announced the entry lists for the men’s and women’s singles draws for the upcoming 2020 U.S. Open, with the top-ranked man Novak Djokovic and the second-ranked woman Simona Halep headling the participants. Joining Djokovic, a three-time US Open champion, among the Top-10 players on the entry list are No. 3 Dominic Thiem,…
USTA Eastern announced this week the unveiling of the USTA Eastern Collegiate Series featuring four weekends of tournaments open to current and incoming college players and juniors. The entry fee for each tournament is $85 and will feature a $250 prize for the winners. See below for more information on each event: August 14-16…
The USTA today announced that the U.S. Open will offer $53.4 million in total player compensation in 2020 – nearly 95 percent of its total from 2019 – with $7.6 million dedicated toward player relief from the COVID-19 pandemic. The USTA, WTA and ATP Tour worked collaboratively to build a payment structure for the…
Missing that friendly competition that is at the heart of the Long Island tennis community, players came out to Sportime Quogue on a beautiful Saturday afternoon to participate in the 2020 Long Island Tennis Challenge. For the seventh straight year, the tournament featured a sold-out, full draw of doubles teams across four different divisions….
Tennis stars John McEnroe and Patrick McEnroe will be joined by other greats of the sport at the 6th Annual Johnny Mac Tennis Project’s Pro-Am in the Hamptons on Saturday, August 29, 2020. Participants will compete in a round-robin tournament alongside former WTA and ATP World Tour professionals, current and former Division I College…
One of the concerns around the 2020 US Open would be the potential lack of star power that would travel to New York, but those doubts have been eased a bit this week. During the US Open’s official press conference on Tuesday, Serena Williams joined in with a video message to announce her excitement…
On Tuesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave permission for the USTA to host this year’s US Open, with the tournament scheduled to begin on time on August 31. “The US Open will be held in Queens, NY, without fans from August 31 to September 13,” Cuomo said in a tweet from his official…
In encouraging news for junior tennis in the United States, the USTA announced on Monday that the 2020 USTA 18s and 16s National Championships will be held as scheduled, from August 7-16. The 18s National Championships will be held at their normal locations, with the boys being played in Kalamazoo, Mich., while the girls…
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) announced major organizational changes on Monday, including the elimination of 100 jobs as part of a “transformational plan” to restructure the governing body of tennis in the United States. “We have an opportunity to reimagine the structure of the organization o better serve the tennis community in the…
In response to the tension filling our country at the moment, USTA Eastern reached out to its members on Friday to let them know that it will be taking several steps to examine its support for diversity in the section. These measures include: Developing methods to capture data on diversity benchmarks as well as…