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…
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…
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…
The USTA has announced the acceptance lists for the 65th Orange Bowl International Tennis Championships, which begins Monday, Dec. 5 at the Frank Veltri Tennis Center in Plantation, Fla. The event will be contested on clay for the first time since 1998. The qualifying draw will take place beginning Friday, Dec. 2. The Orange Bowl…
Perhaps the most important quality for success in tennis is steadiness and the avoidance of errors. It might come as a surprise then, that in practice "Blue Chips" miss more shots than “Five Stars,” while "Five Stars” miss more shots than “Four Stars,” etc. If you are thinking that superior players miss more balls because…
On the day after New York saw its biggest snow storm in October since 1979, more than 110 high school juniors and seniors, their parents, and more than 40 college coaches braved the treacherous roads to attend the 25th Annual College Showcase Day held at the Saw Mill Club in Mt. Kisco, N.Y. For 25…
High school students will get a chance this month to show off their powerful strokes and strong footwork, and learn about often overlooked opportunities to play college tennis from coaches at USTA Eastern’s 25th Annual College Showcase Day, set for Sunday, Oct. 30 at the Saw Mill Club in Mount Kisco, N.Y. The event is designed…
Division I Benjamin N. Cardozo High School 11-1 Forest Hills 10-2 Francis Lewis 6-6 Bayside High School 3-9 Townsend Harris 0-12 Division II Brooklyn Technical 10-0 Leon M. Goldstein High School for Science 8-2 Midwood 6-4 Abraham Lincoln High School 4-6 James Madison 2-8 Fort Hamilton 0-10 Division III Beacon High School 10-0 Stuyvesant High School 8-4 Bronx…