With the Nassau County Championship all even at three matches a piece, Port Washington’s second doubles team of Luke Zohouri and Allon Pevzner raced out to a 5-1 lead against Miles Capell and Josh Elenowitz in the deciding third set. Capell and Elenowitz hung tough, saving an array of match points, but the deficit…
When Syosset junior Kabir Rajpal decided to return to high school tennis this season, he had goals to help lead his team to a county championship and, on a personal level, capture the county singles title. He accomplished one of those on Saturday at Eisenhower Park as he defeated Wheatley’s Karan Amin 6-1,…
Making the adjustment from singles to doubles is never an easy one, but the Roslyn duo of Mikey Weitz and Adrian Tsui made it look that way this past weekend at the Nassau County doubles championships. The sophomore-senior pair captured the county’s doubles title with a 6-3, 6-2 triumph over Hewlett’s Logan Fliegel…
The semifinal matchups on Long Island are set after action in both Nassau and Suffolk County on Thursday afternoon. In Nassau, top-seeded Roslyn will host fourth-seed Port Washington. The Bulldogs swept all seven courts against Manhasset in its quarterfinal match, while Port Washington received wins from Alexander Karman, Gabriele Brancatelli and Candrin Chris at…
High Country Ski & Tennis 465 West Mount Pleasant Avenue Livingston, N.J. (973) 994-3630 HighCountrySkiAndTennis.com High Country Ski & Tennis is one of New Jersey’s premier tennis specialty shops. In existence for more than 30 years, High Country has New Jersey’s largest tennis showroom from March through September, and it is shrunk down…
Long Island Tennis Magazine (LITM) continues its local grassroots push by running a series of events and tournaments throughout the 2019 summer known as the the 2019 LITM Summer Series. The 2019 Summer Series will begin on Saturday, June 8 at The Hamlet Golf & Country Club in Commack, N.Y., as we host the…
The Suffolk County team playoffs get underway this week, with first-round matches taking place on Tuesday, May 14, and the top eight seeds receiving byes. Below is a look at the bracket and the coming matchups:
The South Side Boys Varsity Tennis team put on its second annual “Ace for Autism” clinic on Saturday, May 4. Team captains Justin Seplowe and Phil Frank, along with their South Side teammates, organized the event, and ran a tennis clinic for students and children with special needs in the community. Despite the…
Last week, those who made tennis shine on Long Island in 2018 were honored at the 29th Annual USTA Long Island Awards Dinner at Chateau Briand Caterers in Carle Place, N.Y. Fourteen-time Grand Slam champion Aranxta Sanchez-Vicario was the featured guest speaker and spoke to the awardees and guests about her…
This story first appeared in the May/June 2019 issue of Long Island Tennis Magazine. Click Here to read the full digital edition. In mid-March, Petra Kvitova made her way to the podium inside Hard Rock Stadium, the new home of the Miami Open. She sat in front of the press following a hard-fought, three-set…