via St. John's University Athletics: After closing out the regular season with one of its most dominant wins of the year, the St. John’s men’s tennis team (10-14) aims to win its fourth-consecutive BIG EAST championship as the No. 2 seed at the conference tournament this weekend. Play kicks off on Thursday, April 27, and continues…
The Queens College men’s tennis team captured the East Coast Conference (ECC) Championship on Saturday, downing four-time defending champions New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) 5-1 for its first conference title since 2012. As a result, the Knights will enter the NCAA Division II Men’s Tennis Championships as the top-seed in East Region. It receives…
The start to 2017 has been much kinder to Serena Williams than the start of the 2016 season. She began 2016 coming off one of the most difficult losses of her career, a shocking defeat to Roberta Vinci in the 2015 U.S. Open semifinals, as she was pursuing both Steffi Graf’s Open Era record of…
Each month, USTA Eastern selects one passionate advocate who has impacted lives through tennis on a local level. It all begins with a love of the game! These individuals have inspired us with their community tennis involvement. Lawrence Kleger, of Jericho, N.Y., was chosen as USTA Eastern’s Tennis Organizer of the Month for April for…
Photo Credit: Twitter/@Shelby_Rogers_ The United States defeated top-seed and three-time defending champions Czech Republic 3-2 to reach the Fed Cup Final at Saddlebrook Resort in Florida on Sunday. After splitting the first two rubbers, the two squads entered Sunday all even at 1-1 with three matches remaining. Coco Vandeweghe stepped up and gave the Americans…
Roosevelt Island Racquet Club played host to another Metro Corporate League end-of-season party and finals on Thursday night as the two teams left standing in the Advanced and Advanced Intermediate Division Winter Finals squared off. The matchups are comprised of six different flights (Women’s Singles, Men’s Singles, Women’s Doubles, Men’s Doubles and two Mixed Doubles)…
McKee/Staten Island Tech improved to 3-0 on the season on Thursday, downing Staten Island foe Susan Wagner 4-1. In a match between two of the top singles players in New York City, Shawn Jackson of Susan Wagner beat Christopher Kolesnik 10-7 in the first singles spot, but it would turn out to be the only…
Top-seed Andy Murray and 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka were both bounced from the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters just hours apart on Thursday. Murray was up first and was taking on Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas, who had to battle back from 0-4 down in the final set to pull off the 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 upset. “Today…
The Stuyvesant Hitmen moved to 4-1 on the season, knocking off the High School of American Studies 5-0 on Wednesday afternoon. Nicholas Pustilnik notched a 10-6 win over Lucas Suhl at first singles and Derek Lung won 10-3 over Jeremy Shemesh at second singles to lead the way for Stuyvesant. Michael Kaydin chipped in a…
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