The following is taken from the blog of Gerard Ashley of Sportime at Roslyn, tennis director and USTA tournament director, documenting his coaching trip to the USTA Boys and Girls 14 North Zone Team Championships, held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich., July 28-Aug. 1. Tuesday, July 27 The alarm goes off at 3:00…
Mia Vecchio of Manhasset Hills, N.Y. was featured on the MSG television show MSG Varsity, on Wednesday night Sept. 22. The show featured an interview with Mia and clips were shown of her time spent on the practice court. Mia’s appearance on MSG Varsity was inspired by the fact that she played first singles at…
More than 40 of the best girls in the east, ages 8 to 12, came to Central Park in early September to hear tennis legends Steffi Graf and Billie Jean King talk to them about their involvement in junior tennis. After their speeches, Graf stuck around for nearly three hours to work on the court…
Recently, Long Island Tennis Magazine had the chance to sit down with 2009 New York State High School Girls Tennis Champion Blair Seiderman of Jericho N.Y. to discuss her past accomplishments, present and future in the tennis game. At what age did you start playing tennis and please take us through your tennis development process?…
The following is taken from Jack Sock’s post-match press conference on Saturday, Sept. 11th during the 2010 U.S Open. The top-seeded men’s junior Sock defeated the number two seed Marton Fucsovics of Hungary, 6-3, 6-4 to capture the 2010 U.S. Open Men’s Junior Championship. Talk about the week and winning the whole thing. What does it mean…
The 2010 USTA Eastern summer junior team tennis season culminated with the Eastern Summer Sectional Championship. The event was held at Central Park in Schenectady on Aug. 21-22. The round-robin tournament followed the JTT format of boys and girl’s singles, and doubles and mixed-doubles. Sportsmanship and team work demonstrated by the players, and the coaches…
Oyster Bay, N.Y. native Julia Elbaba made Long Island proud yesterday at the 2010 U.S. Open Juniors. Elbaba, along with her partner Krista Hardeback, defeated Danka Kovinik & Sasha Gavrilovska in the first round of the Girls Junior U.S. Open Doubles Tournament. Playing on Court 6, Elbaba & Hardebeck won the first set 6-1, before…
The USTA has announced today that it has passed new rules governing competition for 10-and-under tennis tournaments. The new rules require that 10-and-under tournaments be played using slower-moving and lower-bouncing balls, on smaller courts and utilizing shorter, lighter racquets. The rule change follows the International Tennis Federation’s recent rule change and will take effect on…
Recently, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) held a QuickStart training for tennis professionals at Sportime Lynbrook. QuickStart Tennis is the USTA’s new play format for juniors ages 10 and under. It has been designed to make tennis learning and playing more fun, and to help juniors have more success and learn to love the sport…
Two Long Islanders, Julia Elbaba and Shaun Bersnstein, will play their first round matches in the Junior U.S. Open on Friday, Sept. 3. Elbaba will face number two-seeded Lin Zhu of China in her first round match. Bernstein will face Augusto Laranjo of Brazil, the 10th seed, in his first round match. In the main…