The Pensacola Futures Championships tournament, which features a $10,000 prize purse, is a USTA-sanctioned event that draws players from around the world with hopes of advancing into the higher tiers of the professional circuit. The tournament is in its third year at the Roger Scott Tennis Center. Top-ranked Florian Reynet of France, who is ranked 357th…
About 12 years ago, I covered a lesson for one of my colleagues at Long Beach Tennis Center. On the other side of the net were two curious and shy boys named Eric Rubin and Matt Barry. They were both five-years-old and lived around the block from each other. Three years later, I started teaching…
For the third straight season Cold Spring Harbor (Nassau Champion) took on Half Hollow Hills (Suffolk Champion) for the Boys Tennis High School Championship, and for the third straight year, CSH prevailed. This time, it was a 5-2 match victory for CSH which gave the Seahawks their fifth straight Long Island Championship. Cold Spring Harbor…
Day Three of the 2012 NYSPHSAA Boys Tennis Championships brought many hard-fought matches and great victories. Due to the poor weather of the weekend, the final matches were played indoors at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Defending NYSPHSAA Boys Singles Champion, Josh Levine of Cold Spring Harbor, drew fourth-seeded Taiya Hamanaka of Eastchester…
On Friday, June 1, the second and third rounds of the 2012 NYSPHSAA Boys Tennis Championships were played at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. In singles play, the top seed and defending NYSPHSAA Boys Tennis Champ Josh Levine of Cold Spring Harbor got a small scare before defeating Christian Waldron of Beacon, 1-6, 6-0, 6-1. Levine…
Long Island will be very well represented today as the second round of the 2012 NYSPHSAA Boys Tennis Championships gets underway at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows. Of the eight singles matches to played this morning, five featured Long Island players, three from Nassau and two from Suffolk. Last…
The 2012 Suffolk County Boys High School Tennis Awards Dinner took place May 29th at Villa Lombardi’s in Holbrook, N.Y. The event was organized by Joe Arias and the Suffolk County Junior Tennis League (SCJTL) management staff for the third straight year. The Awards Dinner was attended by more than 300 players and families, as…
Half Hollow Hills East earned its 59th consecutive Suffolk County victory, and will seek its first Long Island Championship against Cold Spring Harbor Monday, June 4 at Smithtown East High School at 1:00 p.m. after a 6-1 win over Ward Melville. Hills East gave number two Ward Melville their first loss in 19 matches, and in the…
This past weekend, Jeff Cherkin & Kyle Alper of Half Hollow Hills East High School won the Suffolk County Section XI individuals doubles championship at Smithtown East High School. The team of Cherkin & Alper defeated Westhampton’s Cooper Lacetera & J.D. Sipala, 6-3, 7-5. Jeremy Schnapp & Alex Ricciuti, also of Half Hollow Hills East, took…
Cold Spring Harbor defeated Hewlett High School 5-2 to win the Nassau County Boys Tennis Conference I Championship on Friday. All three singles matches were swept by Cold Spring Harbor. “I knew it would be a tough match going into it, but I prepared for it mentally,” said Jonathan Paris of the Cold Spring Harbor…