SPORTIME honored 20 outgoing seniors at its annual College Signing Day hosted at SPORTIME Randall’s Island. The athletes gathered to be recognized for their hard work over the years and sign their National Letters of Intent to the colleges they will be attending later this fall. “This is really what it’s all about,” said Patrick…
For the second time, Long Island Tennis Magazine partnered with Sunrise Day Camp to host the Play It Forward Tennis event. The fundraiser, hosted at SPORTIME Roslyn, was held in the Courts & Cocktails theme and helped raise money to support Sunrise’s mission. “Sunrise Day Camp is the world’s only full-summer day camp free of…
One of the best qualities any young tennis player can have is the ability to be coached. The desire to get better and improve one’s game means sometimes listening to those trying to help you, and then taking that information and applying it to the court. And that doesn’t imply that you should follow your…
Ever since he can remember, Mike Levy has been a part of the family business. When he was two-years-old, he started hanging around the hardware store his dad founded in East New York back in 1950, a store that would ultimately become National Metal Industries (NMI). “I was always there when I was younger but…
Long Island Tennis Magazine kicked off its 2025 Event Series with a sold-out Pickleball Tournament at SPORTIME Kings Park. The Long Island Winter Pickleball Challenge brought nearly 70 players together for a great night of Pickleball competition and fun on and off the court. The tournament featured four levels of play and players competed in…
Long Island tennis players have great choices when it comes to where to play tennis. We have compiled a list of some of the top clubs and programs with descriptions of what each has to offer. Bethpage Park Tennis Center 99 Quaker Meeting House Road, Building #4 Farmingdale, N.Y. BethpageParkTennis.com (516)…
As our readers know, we’ve been running our Long Island Tennis Magazine Challenges for years, and until recently, these tennis and pickleball tournaments had been run manually using pen and paper, while not leveraging any tech tools. Throughout the year, and most recently, during our Thanksgiving Tennis Challenge at SPORTIME Syosset, featuring four divisions of…
Tennis is the sport of a lifetime, and we see that manifested throughout the lives of so many people, especially here in our local community. The lessons learned and skills developed from being a tennis player can stay with you throughout your life and have benefits no matter what field you enter into professionally. Parsa…
Like every year, the professional tennis calendar begins on the other side of the world in Australia. There are several tournaments in the early part of January which ultimately feed into the year’s first major, the Australian Open, an event that has been dominated by one man over the last 15 years. That man is…
The beginning of a New Year is always exciting. People make resolutions and commit to bettering themselves, and for the world’s top tennis players, a fresh start and a blank slate presents itself as a new season begins. And that new season begins in the land down under at the Australian Open, the first of…