The St. John’s women’s tennis team (15-3) will conclude its regular season with a Senior Day celebration against the Fordham Rams (17-1) at the St. John’s Outdoor Courts at noon on Saturday. A pregame ceremony will honor the two seniors on the Red Storm roster, Anna Morozova and Stephanie Elgegren. They have both played key roles on several…
St. John’s Men, Women Sweep Georgetown Doubleheader The St. John’s men’s and women’s tennis team played a doubleheader against Georgetown at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Friday, and both Red Storm programs came out victorious. The men were opening up Big East play and were able to snap a four-match losing…
Wake Forest becomes the third men's team this season to hold the No. 1 ranking, while Florida continues to occupy the top spot in the women's rankings as Oracle and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced the updated Oracle/ITA Collegiate Tennis Division I National Team Rankings on Tuesday. The Demon Deacons have won five straight matches,…
St. John’s Women Shut Out Stony Brook After having its seven-match winning streak snapped against Harvard last weekend, the St. John’s women’s tennis team bounced back on Friday, knocking off Stony Brook 4-0. The Red Storm won the first two doubles flights, as Jessica Livianu and Anna Morozova won 6-1 at first doubles and Stephanie…
Oracle and the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced the updated Oracle/ITA Collegiate Tennis Division I National Team Rankings on Tuesday, and there's a new No. 1-ranked team on the men's side. The Ohio State University, buoyed by a 4-1 win at then-No. 10 Florida on Feb. 26, moved ahead of the team they narrowly fell to…
With an exciting blend of Live Rockin' Blues and Serve-and-Volley Tennis, Suntree Country Club in Melbourne, Fl. hosted their first annual $2000 One-On-One Doubles Shootout this past Saturday. One-On-One Doubles tennis is known as the Third Game of Tennis and is played in a Singles format where both players must serve-and-volley on both first and…
Photo courtesy of ITA Tennis The University of Virginia hadn’t lost a point in its first three matches at the 2017 ITA Division I National Men’s Team Indoor Championship. In Monday’s final against No. 3 Ohio State, the top-seeded Cavaliers conceded a point, and while on paper their 4-1 victory looked routine, it was anything…
The Columbia men’s tennis team won all three of its weekend matches at the East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships at Princeton University, culminating in a 4-1 victory over Cornell on Sunday to win its first ECAC Championship since 2014. The Lions entered the weekend ranked 19th in the country and played like the best…
The St. John’s women’s tennis team recorded its third victory of the spring season on Sunday, defeating Yale 5-2 in a road contest at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Connecticut. The Red Storm was led by its top two singles players. Jessica Livianu, ranked 43rd in the country, defeated Carol Finke 6-3, 6-1…
St. John’s standout freshman Jessica Livianu was born with tennis in her blood as the daughter of a former professional player, but her passion for tennis was not an overnight occurrence. “The funny part is that we always make jokes that I was literally born with a racket in my hand,” said Livianu, a Brooklyn…