The Long Island Tennis Magazine Pickleball Challenge Event Series rolled on as Men’s and Women’s Doubles teams descended onto Sportime Kings Park on Saturday morning. The teams battled through multiple rounds of Group Play to determine who would advance to the knockout rounds. Click Here to see more photos from the Long Island Tennis Magazine…
Back in 2018, Nyla Gershfeld made her varsity girls’ tennis debut and helped lead her Hewlett Bulldogs to a runner-up finish in the Nassau County Championships. Fast-forward five years, and Gershfeld now prepares for her final season competing in high school varsity tennis, as the senior hopes to take the next step and lead her…
Heading into her junior season, Smithtown East’s Anya Konopka is ready to have the best season of her high school tennis career. Over the last several years, Konopka has been a mainstay in the end-of-season Suffolk Divisional and County Championships, and has goals of building on that success this fall. “I decided to come back…
USTA Eastern Long Island teamed up with Long Island Tennis Magazine to host three separate Kids’ Day events this summer, bringing free days of tennis to hundreds of kids on Long Island. With each event consisting of multiple diverse, underprivileged and special needs organizations, these events allowed for 600 kids to experience special days this…
For Ben Marks, tennis has always been a family affair. Growing up in England, tennis was a part of his life ever since he can remember. Both of his parents were tennis players, and many days were spent with them either at their local tennis club, or at home hitting balls against the side of…
The second Long Island Tennis Magazine Challenge of 2023 brought Men’s Doubles and Women’s Doubles teams together on a steamy Saturday afternoon on the courts of Cold Spring Country Club in Huntington. “This was a great opportunity for our club to host this special event, and our members had very positive things to say about…
With seven-time champion Novak Djokovic taking on 20-year-old phenom Carlos Alcaraz in Sunday’s Wimbledon final, we all expected a classic. And the two players absolutely delivered. Over the course of five sets and nearly five hours, Alcaraz and Djokovic put on a tennis masterclass, and in the end, it was the young Spaniard Alcaraz who…
Marketa Vondrousova is a Wimbledon champion. The 24-year-old from the Czech Republic completed her remarkable two-week run in London by defeating Tunisian sixth-seed Ons Jabeur in Saturday’s Ladies’ Singles Championship. The unseeded Vondrousova won her first career major with a 6-4, 6-4 victory on the Centre Court at the All-England Club. “This seems impossible,” she…
When he was just three-years-old, Rocco Roti was given the gift of his first tennis racquet. The ecstatic youngster can remember immediately being drawn to the sport, and it quickly became his first love. “I remember getting my first racquet and dragging it on the floor as it was too heavy for me,” recalls Roti….
Culture is a word that’s thrown around a lot when talking about the success of sports teams. For years, we have heard about the winning culture of the New England Patriots in the National Football League, or the gritty, hustle culture of the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association. And while it is a…