McKee/Staten Island Tech moved to 6-0 on the season on Tuesday afternoon, downing fellow PSAL League A4 opponent Susan Wagner 3-2 to bolster its first place lead. Miriam Aziz led the way with a 10-1 win over Rebecca Izyayeva as she improved to 4-0 in first singles play this season. Danielle Kezeli won her match…
You’ve battled for 12 straight games against a formidable, evenly matched opponent and now it’s come down to one game. Your heart rate is picking up and your feet are barking. The end is inevitable, sudden and even the name, “Tiebreaker,” coined by Tennis Hall of Famer Jimmy Van Alen, says, “Everything is on the…
The New York Athletic Club (NYAC) Men’s National Team won the National Open Team Championships, which benefits the American Cancer Society, at the Darling Tennis Center in Las Vegas for the sixth time in eight tries. Representing the USTA Eastern Section, the team from NYAC was captained by Jeffrey Appel and featured Michael Redlicki, Michael…
Queens College and Adelphi will be co-hosting the 2017 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division II East Regional Championships Presented by Oracle this weekend at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. Both the men's and women's championships began on Friday afternoon. The regionals will run through the weekend and will…
The first ever Laver Cup got underway in Prague on Friday afternoon, as Team Europe won the exhibition’s first two matches thanks to Marin Cilic and Dominic Thiem. The Laver Cup consists of six European players taking on six players from the rest of the world. Played over three days, each day consists of four…
Amazon Prime Video will be the official streaming partner of the ATP World Tour, the ATP and ATP Media announced on Thursday. In the announcement ATP Media said: “Starting in 2017, Amazon will have worldwide OTT rights (excluding China), and the full exclusive rights in the U.S., to distribute the Next Gen ATP Finals,…
Defending champion and third-seed Caroline Wozniacki rallied back from a third-set deficit to beat American Shelby Rogers 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 and reach the quarterfinals at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Japan. Wozniacki trailed 0-3 in the final set, but rallied to win 30 of the last 37 points and six of the last…
The majority of our area’s top tennis coaches and program directors are tennis lifers who picked the game up at a young age and took to it right away. That isn’t exactly the case for Manhattan Tennis Academy’s Executive Director John Curtis. “I grew up as a baseball player, which wasn’t too far of a…
We all saw Roger Federer win yet another Grand Slam victory, totaling 19, undoubtedly making a strong case for being the GOAT … Greatest Of All-Time. However, that’s not the purpose of this article. Let’s leave that debate to others and bring our focus to the story behind the story. What is Roger’s driving force?…
The ATP announced that it will try full electronic line-calling during the Next Gen Finals in November, using strictly technology and no linespeople on the court. “This could be a landmark moment for officiating,” said Gayle Bradshaw, ATP Vice President of Rules and Competition. “Our athletes deserve the best and most accurate officiating we can…