Professional Tennis
There exists loads of talent and promise in many of the young players on the ATP World Tour, but if the last few years have shown us anything, it’s that men’s professional tennis remains an older man’s game. When you look at the Grand Slam winners from the last two seasons, the names you see…
The New York Open returns to NYCB Live, Feb. 9-17, 2019, and we plan to be bigger and better! Though it is hard to believe that it is tournament time again, GF Sports and BSE Global are ready and raring to go to bring excitement and great entertainment value to the community. Fans can…
With the 2019 New York Open set to get underway this weekend, Long Island Tennis Magazine had a chance to sit down with Peter Lebedevs, Assistant Tournament Director of the New York Open. We discussed a variety of topics, from what’s new in 2019, to the local grassroots tennis community. LITM: What sort of new…
USTA Eastern hosted the inaugural New York Open College Wild Card Invitational at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, bringing together some of the best players from 16 colleges in the Eastern Section to compete for a spot in the 2019 New York Open main draw. The three-day tournament saw some highly…
The final puzzle piece of the New York Open Wild Card Playoff was put into place this weekend as the fourth Pre-Qualifying Tournament took place at MatchPoint NYC in Brooklyn. Adam El Mihdawy secured his spot in the Pre-Qualifying tournament semifinals by defeating Ethan Leon in the finals. El Mihdawy now joins Borna Gojo,…
Four months removed from the U.S. Open, both Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka delivered encore performances in Australia over the last two weeks. The two captured the men’s singles and women’s singles titles, respectively, in dominant fashion to leave no doubt on who currently stands atop the men’s and women’s tours. In the women’s…
A day after Rafael Nadal dropped just six games en route to the Australian Open final, Novak Djokovic was nearly equally as dominant in his semifinal match on Friday. The top-seeded Serb routed Frenchman Lucas Pouille 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 to secure his spot in the championship. “Today was a perfect match for me from…
Today, the Delray Beach Open announced the latest player commitments for their upcoming blockbuster event set to rock the tennis stadium in downtown Delray Beach next month. Joining an already star-filled line-up including former US Open and Delray Beach Open Champion Juan Martin del Potro (World No. 5), Kevin Anderson (World No. 6), Milos Raonic…
Rafael Nadal powered his way into the Australian Open final on Friday, dismantling one of the hottest players in the tournament, Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6-2, 6-4, 6-0 in clinical fashion. “I played well, of course,” said Nadal. “I have been playing well during the whole event. Every match, more or less, I think I…
In remarkable fashion, Czech Republic’s Karolina Pliskova came back to defeat Serena Williams 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 and book her spot in the Australian Open semifinals on Wednesday. Pliskova had captured the opening set, but soon after things took a dramatic turn. Serena rallied to win the second set, and then built a commanding 5-1…