Serena Williams and doubles teams Liezel Huber & Lisa Raymond and Andrea Hlavackova & Lucie Hradecka have qualified for the season-ending TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships in Istanbul, which will feature the world’s top eight singles players and top four doubles teams and will be held at the Sinan Erdem Arena in Istanbul from Oct….
Tennis Channel will provide exclusive coverage of the United States semifinal competition against defending champion Spain in Gijon, Spain, this weekend in Davis Cup action, with live telecasts of each match and same-day, "Instant Encore" replays. Highlighting the competition, American John Isner will face U.S. Open semifinalist and world number five David Ferrer for the…
Rob Delman, Gil Koppel and Peter Simel, Masters Tennis Co-Chairmen of the 19th Maccabiah USA Organizing Committee, and Head Coach Roy Kozupsky are actively seeking the best Jewish tennis players from across the country to try out for the Maccabiah team. The Masters Tennis team will be part of the 1000+ USA Maccabiah Team competing…
Former world number one-ranked Juan Carlos Ferrero has announced that he will play his final tournament at the Valencia Open 500, which celebrates its 10th anniversary. The 32-year-old Ferrero has been hampered by a number injuries the past two seasons. “The Valencia Open 500 will be my last tournament, it’s the best possible stage for me…
The USTA has announced that the 2012 U.S. Open, driven by two of the most compelling singles finals in the tournament’s 131 years, was one of the most successful years in the tournament’s history. Total attendance topped 700,000 for the fifth time, finishing at 710,803. Television viewership of the three-set women’s singles final featuring Serena…
BOLT Sports LLC, NY has introduced two new tennis racquet models, a 12-pack racquet bag and related apparel into its product line to coincide with the U.S. Open. The new racquet models, the B98.light and the B100.light, feature ZipStrip, BOLT’s spring-suspension design. According to BOLT, the head-light balance of the new racquets makes them easy…
Roger Federer has announced that he will play for his home nation of Switzerland in its Davis Cup playoff tie away at the Netherlands this weekend. The top-ranked Federer joins teammates Stanislas Wawrinka, Marco Chiudinelli and Henri Laaksonen as the Swiss team tries to keep its place in the World Group. Federer has made sporadic Davis…
Do you want to work on your singles game, without affecting your USTA rating? Does your schedule make it difficult to play on a USTA League team? USTA’s Flex League may be for you. Flex Leagues allow you to play when it’s convenient for you. You arrange a mutually agreeable match day, time and location…
The tennis player is a person first and a performer second. This idea may seem obvious, since we are all born without a racket in our hands, and when we first walked onto the court to play, we didn’t miraculously change identities—we were the same person. Rafael Nadal, in his book Rafa, says, “Tennis is…
Identical twins and world champion tennis players Mike & Bob Bryan are recent gold medalists and have racked up 11 Men’s Doubles career Grand Slam Titles and 61 overall titles. In late August, they went head-to-head with a team of unlikely, but worthy, opponents … firefighters from FDNY’s esteemed units in all five boroughs. Unlike…