Feeling like she needed some more match play as the 2018 season nears its conclusion, Michelle Sorokko showed up to the ITF Grade 4 tournament in Atlanta as an on-site alternate. The Douglaston, N.Y. native needed to come through three rounds of qualifying just to enter the main draw. She did just that and…
USTA Eastern, in partnership with the New York Open, will host the first-ever New York Open College Wild Card Invitational on November 16-18 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York. The best college tennis players from across the region will go head-to-head over the three-day event, with the champion receiving…
For the 32nd consecutive year, high school tennis players and college coaches came together for the USTA Eastern College Showcase Day which was held this past Sunday at the Saw Mill Club in Mount Kisco. The event has become a fall staple for USTA Eastern and a key one for bridging the gap between high…
Congratulations and a job well done to my friend Tony Bresky for bringing a National Title to Wake Forest. It is an incredible achievement for a coach to bring a team of players together to win a National Title. His team consisted of both American and foreign tennis players, but no American was in the…
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) has announced an exciting new way for former college tennis players to reconnect with their old teammates and opponents with the College Alumni Tennis Classic. This event is scheduled for Friday, December 14 through Sunday, December 16 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. More information: ►The…
The annual USTA Eastern College Showcase Day returns this year, and is slated for Sunday, November 4 at the Saw Mill Club in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. The 32nd installment of the event will once again provide high school sophomores, juniors and seniors the opportunity to meet experts and learn more about the collegiate process,…
St. John’s junior Jessica Livianu captured the singles title at the Columbia Invitational for the second straight year this past weekend. Livianu won all three of her matches in the Brooklyn Singles Draw, never dropping a set in her three wins over Hofstra’s Michal Kaplan in the quarterfinals, Columbia’s Melissa Sakar in the semifinals…
St. John’s University announced on Tuesday that former four-time All-American, ITA National Player of the Year, and 2012 NCAA Singles Champion Dillon Pottish has been named as the newest head coach for the men’s tennis program. “I am extremely excited to be at St. John’s, and the potential for the program is very high,” said Pottish….
More than one hundred tennis players entering their sophomore, junior or senior years of high school descended onto Sportime Randall’s Island to be a part of the third annual John McEnroe Tennis Academy (JMTA) College Recruiting Combine. The event gives prospects the opportunity to be in front of some of the country’s top college…
For the second straight year, St. John’s sophomore Jessica Livianu will compete at the NCAA Division I Women’s Singles Championships, which is set to begin Wednesday, May 23. “I’m so excited and proud to be representing St. John’s for the second year in a row,” Livianu told RedStormSports.com. “I am so lucky and blessed…