The Australian Open will now feature tiebreaks in the final sets of matches, tournament organizers have announced. It’s a move that mirrors that of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open earlier this year, where final sets tied at 6-6 will go into a first-to-10 point tiebreak with a two-point advantage. “We asked the players, both past…
At the end of each year, the International Tennis Federation unveils its World Champions, and this year it named Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep the 2018 World Champions. Both players enjoyed excellent 2019 seasons, as Djokovic won both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, while Halep captured the first Grand Slam title of her career…
Have you ever wanted to play on the same courts as professional tennis players? Do you want to experience playing on the beach in the middle of winter? What about meet and get an autograph from a professional player? The 2019 New York Tennis Expo will have all of that and more, and is…
Larry Ellison, the co-founder, executive chairman and chief technology officer of software giant Oracle, has been named “Person of the Year” for 2018 by Tennis Industry magazine in the publication’s January 2019 issue. Ellison led off the magazine’s 18th annual “Champions of Tennis Awards,” which honors people, businesses and organizations dedicated to improving the sport and business…
The men’s and women’s tennis programs at USC and South Carolina will travel to Australia to play in exhibition and regular-season matches during the 2019 Australian Open, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) and Tennis Australia announced on Tuesday. Programs from the two schools will play singles and doubles exhibition matches against players from the…
Tournament week begins on February 9, with the 2019 New York Tennis Expo followed by Opening Night, featuring International Tennis Hall of Fame members and former world No. 1-ranked players, Andy Roddick and Jim Courier, and the Taste of New York Open starring celebrity chef David Burke. In less than two months, the eyes of the…
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has announced the winners of the annual year-end tournament and player awards, as voted for by the players themselves. In addition, members of the WTA Coach Program voted for the first ever WTA Coach of the Year. The WTA Tournament of the Year Award winners have received recognition from WTA…
Every athlete understands the great importance hydration plays in their performance—possibly as a result of experiencing the negative impact that dehydration imparts on the body. But what about the significance of re-hydrating post-race or after a competition? As a rule of thumb: Athletes should work with a functional health practitioner to calculate their sweat-rate…
This story first appeared in the November/December 2018 issue of New York Tennis Magazine. Click Here to see the full issue. The local tennis community has some of the sport’s finest facilities and some of the top coaches in the world. With this wealth of talent available, New York Tennis Magazine took the opportunity to pick the…
Feeling like she needed some more match play as the 2018 season nears its conclusion, Michelle Sorokko showed up to the ITF Grade 4 tournament in Atlanta as an on-site alternate. The Douglaston, N.Y. native needed to come through three rounds of qualifying just to enter the main draw. She did just that and…