I’ve been involved with tennis for more than 40 years now, and have seen the game evolve to what it is now. There is no doubt in my mind that the racket size should have remained their original size when invented. That decision, which was ultimately a commercial decision, would change the game forever. The…
The Justin Gimelstob Children’s Fund will be holding The 2017 Tennis Exhibition on Saturday, December 9, as Madison Keys, Coco Vandeweghe and the Bryan Brothers will be on hand for the day at Centercourt Athletic Club in Chatham, New Jersey. The exhibition gets underway around 3:00 p.m. and will feature a few of the…
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One of the first members of MatchPoint NYC’s QuickStart program was a five-year old named Katerina Shabashkevich, and in the years since joining the club, Shabashkevich has become a top junior player. Now nine-years old, Shabashkevich is a USTA member and has competed in many tournaments where she has found success. She has earned…
HarTru has announced that Kimberly Schoeffel has joined the HarTru sales team. Kimberly will be transitioning into the sales representative for the Southeast territory. She is taking over for Harriet Lambert, who has 44 years of service with Har-Tru, as she plans to retire in the summer of 2018. Kimberly is a native of…
The Bloodhounds of John Jay won the first City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) title in program history over the weekend, beating Brooklyn College 5-4 in the championship match. “It’s amazing to win a championship,” head coach Juan Andrade told JohnJayAthletics.com. “Going into the tournament, we were trying to figure out how…
Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki defeated Venus Williams for the first time in her career to win her first WTA Finals trophy, beating the American 6-4, 6-4 in Singapore on Sunday. Wozniacki had to hold off a surge from Venus, who rallied from 0-5 down in the second set, but managed to hang on to beat…
For the second straight year, Lab Museum captured the PSAL “B” Division title, defeating Maspeth 3-2 on the courts of Cunningham Indoor Tennis Center. As had been the case all season long, the Gators were led by Arielle Klein at first singles. The senior defeated Angelina Perez of Maspeth 6-1, 6-1 to give Lab…
With no chance of advancing and only the role of spoiler left to play for, Ukrainian Elina Svitolina did just that on Friday, defeating world number one Simona Halep 6-3, 6-4 to eliminate the Romanian from the WTA Finals in Singapore and thus send France’s Caroline Garcia into the final four. Svitolina was eliminated…
Queens College women’s tennis head coach Alan Nagel was named the East Coast Conference (ECC) Coach of the Year for the second season in a row. Nagel has now won the award 12 times, including four times in the last five years. He led the Knights to a 9-0 record overall and 7-0 in…
The Brooklyn Tech Engineers remained undefeated on the 2017 season and powered its way into the PSAL “A” Division finals on Tuesday afternoon, beating Francis Lewis 5-0 in a semifinal showdown. Top-seed Brooklyn Tech put together a sweep of all five courts to oust the fourth-seed Patriots of Francis Lewis. Chelsea Williams defeated Kelly…