Professional Tennis
Tennis Channel, the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle, will unveil a new player-biography series, Tennisography, Sunday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. ET. The half-hour program will profile different players every month, and the unique stories behind their rise to the professional tennis ranks and their tales’…
U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters will be out of action for at least a month due to an infection on her right foot. On Twitter Tuesday, Clijsters said that she: “Had a mole removed under my right foot and the wound got infected." She even included a photo of the scar. The WTA Tour confirmed…
On Feb. 28, 2011, one of the sport’s most legendary rivalries will be brought back for one night at the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, as Pete Sampras will face off against Andre Agassi at the 2011BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean King Cup. Sampras, recently named spokesperson for Tennis Night in America,…
“To know anything well is to be unhappy.” —My criminology teacher at Queens College, 1968 I guess that I have contributed enough articles to Long Island Tennis Magazine to allow me to have a little “fun.” Before retiring, I was a history teacher (I know, its “Social Studies,” but I am old school) for a…
The United States have drawn a South American opponent in the first round for the second year in a row in round one of Davis Cup play in drawing Chile. Chile is expected to play the Americans on red clay, the favorite surface of almost any team playing the United States. Chile is a tough squad…
The latest rankings have been released for for the men’s and women’s pro tours. Atop the ATP rankings, Rafael Nadal of Spain, the 2010 U.S. Open winner, with a wide margin of nearly 5,000 in ranking points. On the women’s side, the injured Serena Williams leads the WTA rankings, coming in with 6,995 ranking points,…
Mardy Fish defeated Columbian Santiago Giraldo 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 4-6, 8-6 in a four-plus-hour battle on Sunday to clinch a win for the United States against Colombia in the Davis Cup Playoff Round. Sunday’s victory keeps the United States into the Davis Cup World Group in 2011 and eligible to win the Davis Cup title. It…
Tennis Channel will provide exclusive coverage of the U.S. Davis Cup team’s competition against Colombia in Bogota, Colombia, this weekend, with live and same-day, "Instant Encore" replays Friday through Sunday. Because the Americans lost in the first round of this year’s tournament, they must defeat Colombia in order to compete for the Davis Cup in…
The following is taken from Rafael Nadal’s post-match press conference on Monday, Sept. 13th during the 2010 U.S Open. The top-seeded Nadal from Spain was victorious over Serbian Novak Djokovic in a rain-delay-filled 2010 Open Finals, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, to take home the the 2010 U.S. Open Championship. Congratulations. It’s a remarkable achievement what…
The following is taken from American Vania King & Kazakhstanian Yaroslava Shvedova’s post-match press conference on Monday, Sept. 13th after their Women’s Doubles Finals Match at the 2010 U.S Open. The sixth-seeded women’s doubles team of King & Shvedova were victorious over the second-seeded team of American Liezel Huber & Russian Nadia Petrova, 2-6, 6-4,…