Ready for the football season Sabine Lisicki ♦ (@sabinelisicki): My favorite player is Drew Brees, so I’m going with the Saints! 🙂 But I still remember how great Packers played in the Super Bowl … John Isner ♦ (@JohnIsner): Patrick Peterson meet #89 Steve Smith. This ain’t LSU rook. Best in the league … What do they…
Novak Djokovic of Serbia has earned himself a record $12.6 million in prize money for the season. He won 10 titles in 2011 which included three Grand Slams beating the previous record of $10.1 million held by Nadal in 2010 and Federer in 2007. Djokovic has moved ahead of Andre Agassi to the fourth position…
Roger Federer has committed to play for Switzerland against the United States in the first round of the Davis Cup in 2012. The Swiss federation of tennis states that Federer has confirmed he will play in the Feb. 10-12 series. This will be the first time Federer plays a first round match since 2004. He…
If you love playing tennis, you’ll love it even more as part of a team. Similar to the World TeamTennis (WTT) format, the Junior TeamTennis (JTT) format consist of co-ed teams where individual matches incorporate an overall team score. It creates a fun-filled team atmosphere for what is thought of as an individual sport. The…
USTA Eastern will honor 28 volunteers, tennis pros, players and organizations at its Annual Awards Dinner on Jan. 21, 2012 at the Renaissance Westchester Hotel in White Plains. The award recipients will be recognized for the range of ways they helped grow tennis in the section, from providing free tennis lessons to organizing programs for…
Maria Sharapova had a good, but not spectacular, year in 2011 as she failed to win a major. However, the search engine Bing.com says the Russian tennis star, who is currently ranked number four in the world, has been the search engine’s "Most-Searched-For Athlete of 2011." Two other women on the tennis circuit, 12th-ranked American Serena…
For the past 13 years, the world’s best junior tennis players have annually gathered at the hard courts of the Crandon Park Tennis Center in Key Biscayne, Fla., to compete in the Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships. But this year, the USTA opted to shift the event back to its roots, moving the event to…
The New York City tennis community is blessed to have some of the best indoor facilities and best coaches in the world right here in our backyard. Recently, New York Tennis Magazine spoke with some of these top coaches to get some insight into their coaching/training strategies, what they look for in a great player,…
Rafael Nadal of Spain defeated Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-6 to take Spain’s third Davis Cup title in the past four years. This is his first title since winning the French Open and raised him up from a series of underperforming matches played on his part. This win gives Spain…
WTA number one-ranked Caroline Wozniacki has hired Ricardo Sanchez as her new coach. Sanchez will replace her father, Piotr Wozniacki, who supposedly "wanted to get a little bit of time off the court." Sanchez’s first goal with Wozniacki will be to have her win the Australian Open in January. Wozniacki is yet to win a…