Status: Former ATP pro from 1988-1998. Winner of one ATP singles title (Sydney in 1995) and 16 doubles titles. Winner of the 1989 French Open in doubles. Achieved a career-high rank of number three in doubles (1993) and 28th in singles (1995). Former captain of U.S. Davis Cup team 2000-2010, including the 2007 U.S. team’s win in Portland,…
Day Three of the 2012 NYSPHSAA Boys Tennis Championships brought many hard-fought matches and great victories. Due to the poor weather of the weekend, the final matches were played indoors at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Defending NYSPHSAA Boys Singles Champion, Josh Levine of Cold Spring Harbor, drew fourth-seeded Taiya Hamanaka of Eastchester…
World number nine-ranked Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina set up a 2012 French Open quarterfinals match against third-ranked Roger Federer of Switzerland by finishing off a 7-6(6), 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 over Tomas Berdych on Monday in a match stopped the night before due to darkness after three sets. The seventh-seeded Berdych lost to del Potro at…
The number eight-seeded Leon M. Goldstein High School Dolphins upset the top-seeded St. Francis Prep Terriers to capture the Girls High School Tennis 2012 Mayor’s Cup in a close 3-2 finish. Goldstein win ended a 203-match winning streak by St. Francis Prep and marked the first time in 12 years that St. Francis did not win…
The Beacon High School Boys Tennis team has won its second consecutive 2012 Mayor’s Cup Annual Tennis Tournament. Beacon was the first seeded team who defeated Horace Mann High School, 4-1 in the finals. In the quarterfinals, Riverdale Country Day School fell to Beacon 0-5, and in the semifinals, Trinity High School also fell to…
Long Island’s Noah Rubin defeated Jorge Brian Panta Herreros of Peru, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 in the first round of the 2012 French Open Juniors on Sunday. He will now face Stefano Napolitano of Italy, the 15th seed, in the second round. Noah traveled to Roland Garros with his coach, Lawrence Kleger of Sportime, and his father/coach…
Rachel Lim, the United States representative for the Longines Future Tennis Aces–On the Road to the French Open tournament at Roland Garros, is currently training near her home in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. in preparation for her first international tournament. Lim qualified for the all-expense-paid trip to Paris following a victory at last month’s Future Tennis…
World number three-ranked Roger Federer defeated Frenchman Nicolas Mahut, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 to move into the Round of 16 of the 2012 French Open. Federer, the 2009 French Open champ, advances to the Roland Garros fourth round for the 10th time in 14 appearances, winning his 235th Grand Slam match in the process. Federer will…
New York City was well-represented on Friday as the second round of the 2012 NYSPHSAA Boys Tennis Championships began at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows. All three PSAL doubles teams made it through to the second round, as well as the top two seeds in singles. Beacon teammates Justin…
In Friday action at the 2012 French Open, American teen Sloane Stephens reached the fourth round with a 6-3, 6-2 win against Mathilde Johansson of France. The 19-year-old Stephens was the only one to reach the third round out of the eight teenagers in the draw. Next up for the unseeded Stephens is 2011 U.S. Open champion and…