Serena Williams suffered the most lopsided match of her career on Tuesday as Johanna Konta beat the 23-time Grand Slam champion 6-1, 6-0 at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose, Calif. “It’s an absolute privilege to be on the same court as Serena. After all she’s achieved, it’s so humbling just to…
Tennis Hall of Famer John McEnroe, Patrick McEnroe, Lindsay Davenport, Mats Wilander and other tennis Legends will participate in the Johnny Mac Tennis Project’s (JMTP) Fourth Annual Pro-Am in the Hamptons on Saturday, Aug. 25. The event will include a legends exhibition, rounds of doubles play, food and drinks, and a silent auction to raise…
American Steve Johnson captured the Dell Technologies Hall of Fame Open title this weekend in Newport, Rhode Island as he held off India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 in the final. “It was a great week for me,” said Johnson. “I think I have my best all throughout the week. Steve was hitting some good…
The USTA has announced that six previous US Open champions will join world No. 1 Simona Halep to headline the women’s singles field for the 2018 US Open Tennis Championships. Joining Halep in the US Open field is defending champion and world No.3 Sloane Stephens, 2016 US Open champion and world No.4 Angelique Kerber,…
The inaugural New York Open brought professional tennis back to Long Island in exciting fashion earlier this year, and the ATP World Tour 250 tournament has announced its dates for next year. The 2019 NY Open will run from Feb. 9-17, 2019 at NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Anderson, Querrey…
The USTA today announced that the prize money for the 2018 US Open will be at a record high of $53 million, maintaining the US Open as the richest purse in tennis history. Prize money at the US Open has increased by 57% since 2013. 2018 marks the 45th Anniversary of equal prize money which…
For Novak Djokovic, it was his fourth. For Angelique Kerber, her first. The two players stood atop the tennis mountain this weekend after each hoisted the Wimbledon trophies after a long fortnight in London. Kerber was first up and faced a familiar-foe in her final on Saturday: Serena Williams. The seven-time champion and 25th…
In one of the best matches you will ever see, South Africa’s Kevin Anderson outlasted American John Isner 7-6(6), 6-7(5), 7-6(9), 6-4, 26-24 in six hours and 36 minutes to book his spot in the Wimbledon final. Heading into the semifinal, most people thought Isner and Anderson would play a competitive match as both…
–This story first appeared in the July/August 2018 issue of Long Island Tennis Magazine– I was first introduced to tennis at the age of seven at a local park on Long Island and quickly fell in love with the sport. I headed to my first U.S. Open shortly thereafter, somewhere around 1990. It became…
In a rematch of the 2016 final, and that year’s Australian Open final, Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber will square off for the Wimbledon championship on Saturday after each won their respective semifinals on Thursday. “Believe me, I know she wants to go out there and win. So do I,” Serena said of Kerber….