The SPORTIME World Tour continued to make its way across the globe, this time stopping in China as SPORTIME Syosset hosted a Beijing-themed event last weekend. Click Here to see more photos from the World Tour “The programs and the World Tour events are definitely continuing to grow,” said Jared El Gayeh, the…
Each year, the Commack girls’ tennis team hosts a fundraiser to raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Fund. The team did so once again this year, as each player paired up with a teacher to compete in the Tennis with the Teachers doubles tournament at Commack High School. Click Here for more photos…
The annual USTA Eastern College Showcase Day returns next Sunday as the 33rd installment of the event will be held on November 10 at the Saw Mill Club in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Click Here to read a recap of the 2018 event. The College Showcase Day provides high school sophomores, juniors and seniors with the…
As the 2019 summer came to a close, nearly 300 children came together at Hofstra University to take part in a Net Generation event that was coordinated by Sunny Fishkind and the USTA Eastern Long Island Region. The kids were part of the various programs that Hofstra runs during the summer, and it was…
The West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, N.Y. hosted the eighth annual “Little Mo” Internationals earlier this summer, as some of the top junior tennis players from around the world came to New York to compete in the second leg of the “Little Mo” Slam. The week-long event began with a free clinic…
For the fourth straight year, Long Island Tennis Magazine and the USTA Eastern Long Island Region partnered to put on multiple free events for kids throughout Long Island, as hundreds came out for the Nassau County Kids Day and Suffolk County Kids Day events. Click Here to see more photos from the 2019 Kids…
Later this fall, one of the fastest growing and possibly most challenging racket sports will arrive in the USTA Eastern Section, as Chestnut Ridge Racquet Club in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. will play host to two One-on-One Doubles Tournaments in early October. One-on-One Doubles is a half-court, serve-and-volley singles game played crosscourt with the alley…
Just prior to the start of the 2019 US Open, the event that has become a staple of the pre-tournament festivities, Citi Taste of Tennis, turned 20-years-old. Citi Taste of Tennis celebrated two-decades of bringing food and tennis together as Cipriani 42nd St. in midtown Manhattan hosted the party, featuring stars of the tennis…
The 2019 US Open has come to a close after a thrilling three-week run at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The event was the most popular one yet as it set an all-time attendance record. The USTA announced that 737,872 fans came out to the US Open…
This story first appeared in the September/October 2019 issue of Long Island Tennis Magazine Fans all around the world were able to witness one of the truly great performances in all of sports earlier this summer, when two of tennis’ all-time greats—Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer—squared off in the finals of the 2019 Wimbledon…