They say New York is a melting pot. When you are here, you will be surrounded by various types of people and different cultures, all of which merge to create one of the most diverse cities in the world. If you head east from NYC and towards the Hamptons, you will find a tennis…
For two weeks in Queens, nobody played better tennis than Naomi Osaka. The 20-year-old who was born in New York City and lived on Long Island as a kid, capped off the greatest tournament of her career this weekend, defeating 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4 to win the 2018 U.S. Open….
2018 Team to Watch (Nassau County): Port Washington Last year, the Girls Tennis Team from Port Washington compiled one of the most dominant seasons in recent memory as it captured both the Nassau County and Long Island team championships. Now, the Vikings enter the 2018 season as the prohibitive favorites in Nassau County and…
On what promised to be an exciting night of tennis, both Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka made quick work of their respective semifinal opponents on Thursday, setting up an intriguing U.S. Open final on Saturday. Things started slowly for Serena as she took on 19th seeded Latvian Anastasija Sevastova in the night’s opening match….
In the finals of the 2018 French Open, Austria’s Dominic Thiem was handed a nearly impossible task: To go out and defeat Rafael Nadal. In Nadal’s previous 10 tries, he was 10-0. In fact, he entered the final having only lost twice in his career at Roland Garros. Nadal would improve his record to 11-0…
What to Watch for at the 2018 U.S. Open Will the youngsters turn the corner? On the men’s side, the Grand Slams have been dominated by just a handful of players for the better part of the last decade, but will that change at this year’s US Open? Players like Alexander Zverev, 21, and Dominic…
As I sit down to write a story about Serena Williams with the 2018 U.S. Open on the horizon, it’s difficult to come up with enough words and adjectives to describe the storied career of the 23-time Grand Slam champion. Serena returned to the WTA Tour earlier this year at Indian Wells and faced a…
Tickets for the 2019 New York Open will go on sale beginning Friday, as the second year of the tournament is set to hit NYCB LIVE home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum next February. The 2019 New York Open will run from February 9-17, and will once again kick off with the New…
The USTA today announced that the US Open will once again kick off with Fan Week, a series of events and activations taking place both at the grounds of the US Open, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, as well as at the US Open Experience at Brookfield Place, in Manhattan. US…
Former US Open champion Stan Wawrinka, Americans Tim Smyczek, Michael Mmoh, Noah Rubin, 2018 USTA Boys’ 18s National Champion Jenson Brooksby and US Open Wild Card Challenge winner Bradley Klahn have been awarded men’s singles main draw wild cards into the 2018 US Open. Nineteen-year old Frenchman Corentin Moutet was awarded a main draw wild card by the French Tennis Federation as part of…