The Brooklyn Tech Engineers continued its excellent start to the 2015 campaign, beating Midwood 5-0 to improve its 5-0 on the season. The Engineers were led by its first singles player, William Trang, who got things started with an 8-0 win to open up the contest. At second doubles, Daniel Maseyev teamed up with Matthew…
The Maspeth boys tennis team moved to 3-0 on the season with a 3-2 victory over Grover Cleveland on Tuesday afternoon. Maspeth was anchored by its singles play, winning all three singles matches but dropping both doubles contests. Horia Negru, Nikodem Citak and Beniamin Citak all picked up singles victories to keep Maspeth atop League…
The undefeated North Carolina Tar Heels have regained the top spot women's ranking for the first time in a month, while the Oklahoma Sooners extended their number one ranking streak to seven weeks on the men's side in the ITA Division I National Team Rankings. North Carolina is back on top this week after being…
The USTA has announced that it has partnered with four NCAA Division I athletic conferences—the American Athletic Conference, Big 12, Mountain West and SEC—to help deliver their conference championship title matches across multiple television and digital viewing platforms. The partnerships are the latest in the USTA’s efforts to spotlight college tennis through television and digital viewing…
Rafael Nadal got off to a good start in the clay season on Wednesday, defeating France’s Lucas Pouille 6-2, 6-1 to reach the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters third-round. The “King of Clay” dispatched Pouille in just 69 minutes using a dominating serve, winning 75 percent of service points, and notching four break points to move…
Long Island Tennis Magazine will continue it's local grassroots push by running a series of events and tournaments during the summer of 2015. The 2015 LITM Summer Series will kick-off on Saturday, May 16 at Engineers Country Club in Roslyn, N.Y., as we host The Long Island Tennis Challenge. This event will consist of four…
World number one Novak Djokovic began his run at the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas on Tuesday in a second-round contest. Djokovic fired 24 winners past the Spaniard in his first match on clay this season. Although his unforced errors began to pile up in the second…
The Bayside Commodores notched a big win over league opponent Cardozo on Monday afternoon, knocking off the Judges 4-1 in League 1A. Cardozo’s Marcus Smith opened the match up by defeating Bayside’s Michael Lopez 10-1. From there, though, Bayside won the final four matches, with the clinching one coming from Byeong Jun So and Kyle…
Venus Williams has announced her withdrawal from the United States Fed Cup playoff against Italy this weekend due to a personal matter. The USTA has named 21-year-old Lauren Davis as Venus’ replacement this weekend. Davis is currently ranked 57th in the world and recently defeated world number seven Eugenie Bouchard on her way to the…
The USTA has announced the tournaments for the Har-Tru Wild Card Challenge, which utilizes the USTA Pro Circuit to award wild cards into the French Open. The three women’s events will be hosted in Dothan, Ala.; Charlottesville, Va.; and Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., and the three men’s events will take place in Sarasota, Fla.; Savannah,…