Players to Watch Marcos Lee, Beacon Marcos Lee will be tasked with leading Beacon this coming season as the Blue Demons attempt to win its 12th consecutive PSAL New York City team championship. Lee, a senior, will be at the top of the Beacon lineup this spring and playing first singles, after multiple successful…
Venus Williams of the United States advanced to round two of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, after her 6-4, 0-6, 6-3 win over German Andrea Petkovic in round one action. “I haven’t played in forever, so that was challenging in itself, to get back into competition,” said Venus post-match. “It was good to…
I have been treating athletes for the last 20 years, and after all this time, I can conclude that their issues fall into one of the following two categories: They will fail either out of a fear of success or due growing self-doubt. In this article, let us explore the former issue, the so-called “Fear…
New York has become a comfortable place for Kevin Anderson in recent years. Last winter, Anderson came to Long Island to compete in the inaugural New York Open after a disappointing opening round loss at the 2018 Australian Open, a tough five-set defeat to Kyle Edmund in a match where he held a two-sets-to-one lead….
All the top tennis pros wear two pairs of socks when competing. Roger Federer is no exception. So then, why is wearing two pairs of socks important for tennis players? Wearing shoes and one pair of socks create two interfaces: The skin-sock interface and the sock-shoe interface, with each interface generating a certain amount of…
Tie Break Tens launched its Challenger USA series earlier this winter, with the first tournament of the series taking place at the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis Learning in the Bronx, N.Y. Click Here to see photos from the Challenger series event at The Cary Leeds Center. Played with no games and no sets,…
Bid Goswami, longtime Head Coach for Columbia Men’s Tennis, announced he will be retiring following the conclusion of the 2019 season. “It has been my absolute privilege and honor to serve as Columbia University’s Men’s Tennis Coach these last 37 years,” Goswami wrote in a message to the program’s alumni, fans and friends. “I…
World TeamTennis is growing to a league of eight teams for its upcoming 44th season after the league announced expansion franchises in Las Vegas and Orlando will begin play in July. WTT jointly announced its 59-match regular season – seven home matches and seven away matches for each team – in 2019 will run from…
The 2019 New York Tennis Expo was a huge success as more than 5,000 guests came out to enjoy this one-day celebration of tennis. Once again, we displayed the latest and trendiest in tennis apparel with our Tennis Fashion Show, as players from local high school teams modeled tennis outfits and gear from some…
Back and better than ever, the New York Tennis Expo returned to NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Feb. 9, with more than 5,000 people coming out for an all-day celebration of tennis as Long Island and New York Tennis Magazines joined forces with GF Sports to kick off the…