Sophomore Brandon Stone of Whitman surprised the local tennis community with a remarkable run to earn the Suffolk County Boys High School Individual Championship. Stone capped his championship run with a hard fought three set victory over top seeded Jeremy Dubin of Southampton, 5-7, 7-6(5), 7-5. Dubin had five match points in the second set,…
The Suffolk County Boys High School Team Tennis Championships will begin on Thursday May 19th. For each match, the higher-seeded team will be the home team. The top two seeded teams are the number one seed, Half Hollow Hills East and the number two seed, The Ross School. The Section XI Champions will be crowned and…
On Saturday, May 14, the Nassau County High School Boys Tennis Individual Championships were held at Oceanside High School. The top players in the county in both singles and doubles took part. In the singles draw, there were not too many surprises, as three of the top four seeds advanced to the semifinals. Top-seeded Zach Morris of…
Local tennis action will kick-off this week on Wednesday night, May 11th as the 2011 USTA Eastern/Long Island Region Annual Awards Dinner will take place at the Crest Hollow Country Club, located at 8325 Jericho Turnpike in Woodbury, N.Y. The 2011 USTA Eastern/Long Island Region will honor many of the outstanding accomplishments by players, coaches,…
The Bayport Blue Point Community Tennis Association (BBPCTA) held a Pre-Season Tennis Invitational event, open to any varsity or junior varsity high school boy’s tennis players on Long Island. The invitational was held at Eastern Athletic Club’s Blue Point branch as the Club was generous enough to offer their facilities at a highly reduced rate for…
Josh Levine started playing tennis for Cold Spring Harbor in the eighth grade. Now a junior, he has yet to play a season that didn’t result in a Long Island Championship for the Cold Spring Harbor Seahawks. Josh has moved his way up the team’s depth chart playing second singles in eighth grade and ninth grade, and first singles…
The last three high school seasons on Long Island have been dominated by one team … Cold Spring Harbor, winners of three straight Long Island High School Boys Tennis Championships. With nearly their entire team intact again this season and seven ranked USTA junior players, Cold Spring Harbor is the favorite to take home the title again in 2011. The question…
Boys high school tennis players from Long Island had an impressive showing at the NYSPHSAA State Tennis Championships that wrapped up this past Saturday, June 5 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. In singles play, Josh Levine from Cold Spring Harbor finished second overall in the tournament. His only defeat came at the…
There were five singles players from Long Island who were invited to the Tennis State Championships at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens this week. Four out of those five will be back to play a second day after convincing wins on Thursday. Cold Spring Harbor’s first singles player, Josh Levine…
The Cold Spring Harbor Boys Varsity Tennis team won their third consecutive Long Island Championship on Wednesday, May 26, knocking off Suffolk County Boys Tennis Champions Half Hollow Hills East by a score of 6-1 at Smithtown East High School. Battling temperatures in the 90s and high humidity, the undefeated Cold Spring Harbor squad had…