Most college coaches are interested in recruiting players who compete in USTA tournaments. Tournament play really puts pressure on players, and it’s this type of pressure that allows for the feeling of both failure and success within this competitive format. If a player really wants to go on to the next level and play college…
Credit all photos to St. John's University Athletics The St. John’s men’s tennis team hopes its historic season will continue when it battles with the Bulls of South Florida on Saturday morning at Linder Stadium at the Ring Tennis Complex in Gainesville, Florida. The Red Storm is making its third-straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament…
The Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced its end of the year honors on Monday, and St. John’s men’s tennis head coach Eric Rebhuhn and Columbia women’s tennis head coach Ilene Weintraub were both named Coaches of the Year for the Northeast Region. Rebhuhn led St. John’s to an historic season. The Red Storm have 21 victories…
The Queens College women’s tennis team finished its season on Sunday afternoon, falling to Concordia 5-4 in the NCAA Division II East Region #2 final. Making its 16th straight appearance in the NCAA tournament, the Knights got off to a good start thanks to its doubles play. Cami Abdallah and Angelika Sobiecka rolled past Constanza…
The St. John’s men’s tennis team captured its third straight Big East Championship on Sunday, defeating Marquette 4-0 to earn the fifth conference title in the program’s history. The Red Storm got things going early on the doubles courts, as Michael-John Every and Dusan Vukicevic rolled past Mackenzie Sterns and Kris Trukov 6-2 at third…
The St. John’s women’s tennis team reached the Big East Tournament semifinals on Friday afternoon, moving past Seton Hall 4-0 in a quarterfinal match up at the Caye Tennis Center in Cayce, South Carolina. The Red Storm looked to be falling behind early as Seton Hall captured the win at first doubles, but the second…
For the third consecutive year, the Columbia Men’s Tennis team captured the Ivy League Championship, beating Penn 5-1 to clinch the championship and earn an automatic bid into the NCAA Championships. After beating Princeton 4-0 on Saturday afternoon, the Lions had clinched at least a share of the conference title. It followed that victory up…
The Columbia men’s tennis team improved to 5-0 in Ivy League play this season, notching victories over Yale and Brown over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, Columbia defeated Yale 5-2. After dropping the top doubles match, Shawn Hadavi and Victor Pham won at second doubles and Christopher Grant & Richard Pham clinched the doubles point…
Both the Columbia men’s and women’s tennis teams opened up Ivy League play over the weekend in grand fashion as both teams notched wins over Dartmouth and Harvard. On Saturday afternoon, the men took on 40th-ranked Dartmouth in its first Ivy League contest of the season. Dartmouth jumped out to the early 1-0 by taking…
The St. John’s men’s tennis team won its fourth straight match over the weekend, downing Yale 4-3 in New Haven, Conn. The Red Storm would drop the opening doubles flight, but responded by winning the next two doubles flights, led by Lucas Hejhal & Vaidik Munshaw at first doubles, to snag the key doubles point….