Professional Tennis
Andre Agassi, the eight-time Grand Slam tournament champion and former world number one-ranked player, headlines the list of nominees for induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2011. Agassi is the only nominee for 2011 in the Recent Player Category, with Australian Thelma Coyne Long and British star Christine Truman Jones nominated in the…
Serena Williams is returning to the WTA Tour at next week’s Generali Ladies Linz after being sidelined since July by a cut on her right foot. Organizers of the event said the Wimbledon and Australian Open champion confirmed her entry Thursday, the same day she lost her number one WTA ranking. Williams had surgery after cutting…
The 2011 Australian Open will offer a record $25 million in prize money, up 3.8 percent on the previous year, with the men’s and women’s winners to each pocket $2.2 million. Rafael Nadal’s bid for a non-calendar grand slam will headline the first grand slam of the 2011 season. The tournament’s other major focus will…
Americans John Isner and Mardy Fish each advanced in straight sets in their first round matches at the China Open. Another American, Sam Querry was upset by Frenchman, Gilles Simon, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 also in the first round. In other men’s first-round play, German qualifier Michael Berrer upset fifth-seeded Tomas Berdych, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. On…
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,…