MatchPoint NYC hosted a Junior TeamTennis tournament at its facility over the weekend as some of New York City’s top youngsters came together for this team competition in the Green Dot Advanced Division. The team match’s are broken into six different flights, four singles and two doubles, with the sets played to four games, and…
The third annual Finance Cup brought the esteemed event back to the United States as Team USA took on Team Europe at Fisher Island, Florida. Team USA, led by captain Jeffrey Appel and co-captain Bill Ackman, were victorious, beating Team Europe 9-2. Team USA won the third annual Finance Cup with a 9-2 victory over…
The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center hosted a free conference on Sunday: “Making the Admissions Process Work For You” and “How to Create a Great College Tennis Resume”, presented by the National Tennis Center, the City Parks Foundation and Serve and Return, Inc. “We’re always aiming to provide our dedicated juniors with tools…
When Billie Jean King hits the first ball on the Victor Kiam Court and kids rally on the Pershing Square Court at the NYJTL Cary Leeds Center for Learning on Sunday, April 9, the vision of committed supporters of New York Junior Tennis & Learning will be fulfilled and in full swing. "For…
The Benjamin Cardozo Judges improved to 3-0 on the spring season, handing Townsend Harris its first defeat with a 4-1 victory on Monday. Cardozo was led by its singles play as it notched wins in all three singles flights, anchored by Kay Yuminga’s 10-4 win over Maxin Prohorov in the top spot. Maxwell Kachkarov defeated…
The 2017 Australian Open was one for the ages in a number of ways, and turned back the clock to a decade prior with four 30-plus year-olds competing for the men’s and women’s singles titles. No Melbourne storyline was bigger than the men’s singles final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, two long-time rivals whose…
Roger Federer continued his resurgent year Sunday at the Miami Open, capturing the title in Miami with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Rafael Nadal in just over 90 minutes. With the win, Federer moves into fourth in the ATP Men’s Singles Rankings. Federer is now 19-1 on the year, his best start of a year…
The Metro Corporate League’s Fall Season came to a close as it hosted its end-of-season party and the Advanced Intermediate and Advanced Division Finals at Roosevelt Island Racquet Club. Team matches were comprised of six different flights: Women’s Singles, Men’s Singles, Women’s Doubles, Men’s Doubles and two Mixed-Doubles, and the final score is the total…
Rafael Nadal advanced to the fifth Miami Open final of his career on Friday afternoon, moving past Italy’s Fabio Fognini 6-1, 7-5 in the first semifinal in Key Biscayne. Nadal was sharp from the onset. He was dominant on serve, losing just four points on his own serve in the opening set, racing to the…
Three weeks into my freshman year at Boston University, amidst the backdrop of the city’s idyllic Back Bay, I traipsed back to my dorm humbled and dazed after retrieving my first round of exam results. Two months earlier, I declared myself “premed” (with an heir of confidence, mind you) at incoming orientation held over summer…