Nearly a decade after playing her last match, Belgium’s Kim Clijsters announced on Thursday that she will be making a comeback to the WTA Tour in 2020. “I don’t really feel like I want to prove something,” Clijsters told the WTA Insider Podcast. “I think for me it’s the challenge.” Clijsters last played at…
Below are the scores from Wednesday’s action in New York City, via PSAL: Hunter 5, Stuyvesant 0 Hunter won for the second straight match to remain undefeated to start the season. Eleanor Roosevelt 3, Bronx Science 2 Eleanor Roosevelt won both doubles flights, including a 11-9 win by Madison Minieri and Melissa Weinstein…
Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning 1720 Crotona Avenue Bronx, N.Y. (718) 247-7420 CaryLeedsTennis.org CaryLeedsInfo@NYJTL.org The Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning houses a two-story, 12,000-square foot clubhouse, educational spaces, and access to 20 courts (10 bubbled for winter/indoor use) and two stadium courts that seat up to 800 spectators. Seven-time Grand…
Many pros or clubs aspire to develop a robust high-performance program, with the goal of developing, attracting and retaining competitive juniors. While many attempt to do so, the reality is that few are able to deliver a product that can be truly qualified as a high-performance program. The objective of this article is to…
Later this fall, one of the fastest growing and possibly most challenging racket sports will arrive in the USTA Eastern Section, as Chestnut Ridge Racquet Club in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. will play host to two One-on-One Doubles Tournaments in early October. One-on-One Doubles is a half-court, serve-and-volley singles game played crosscourt with the alley…
Just prior to the start of the 2019 US Open, the event that has become a staple of the pre-tournament festivities, Citi Taste of Tennis, turned 20-years-old. Citi Taste of Tennis celebrated two-decades of bringing food and tennis together as Cipriani 42nd St. in midtown Manhattan hosted the party, featuring stars of the tennis…
World-class tennis has returned to the Bronx for free! Many of the top-ranked WTA players competed in mid-August at the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis and Learning. Fans and players enjoyed a luxurious experience inside Cary Leeds’ 12,000 square foot, 26.5 million dollar state of the art facility, and embraced the two intimate stadium…
The fall high school season in New York City got underway on Monday afternoon. Below are the scores from opening day, via PSAL: ►Eleanor Roosevelt 3, Stuyvesant 1 ►Hunter 3, Beacon 2 ►High School for Environmental Studies 4, A. Philip Randolph 1 ►Christopher Columbus 4, Lehman 0 ►High School for American Studies 3, Bronx…
The 2019 US Open has come to a close after a thrilling three-week run at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The event was the most popular one yet as it set an all-time attendance record. The USTA announced that 737,872 fans came out to the US Open…
At first, it looked like one of his more convincing victories. And then, it looked like it may be one of his toughest defeats. But in the end, it was, as Rafael Nadal described, one of the most emotional nights of his tennis career as the Spaniard hung on to defeat fifth-seeded Russian Daniil…