New York Junior Tennis & Learning (NYJTL) will launch its flagship facility, the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning, in Crotona Park in the South Bronx with a ribbon-cutting and celebration on Monday, June 15, 2015. The event is expected to draw hundreds of boldfaced names from tennis, fashion, government and civic engagement. The $26.5…
Eighteen-year old Tommy Paul of Lumberton, N.J., won the French Open boys’ singles title Saturday morning in Paris, capping a successful week for American juniors at Roland Garros. Paul, coached by USTA National Coach Diego Moyano, defeated 17-year old Taylor Fritz, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-2, in the first-ever all-American boys’ singles final at the French Open,…
Seventeen-year-old Taylor Fritz of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. and 18-year-old Tommy Paul of Lumberton, N.J. will play each other Saturday for the French Open Boys Singles title in Paris, the first-ever all-American boys singles final at Roland Garros, dating back to 1947. Fritz, seeded second in the French Open boys draw and ranked third in the world among juniors, will also be the number…
Young hopefuls from across Long Island will be on hand at SPORTIME Syosset, the Long Island home of JMTA, located at 75 Haskett Drive in Syosset, N.Y. on Saturday, June 27, to try out for a full scholarship to attend JMTA at SPORTIME Syosset for the 2015-2016 season. The day begins with registration at 9:00…
Serve and Return, a new, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing tennis opportunities to underserved area tennis players, will begin making applications available for full and partial junior development scholarships for the 2015-2016 season on June 1, 2015. Programs will run from September 2015-June 2016. A new application will be offered for Summer 2016. Selection will be based on…
The USTA has announced that CiCi Bellis and Claire Liu will headline the eight top junior girls selected for the 2015 Team USA National Junior Team, a training program designed to give a collection of America’s best young players opportunities to train together during the summer and travel to play against top junior competition from around the…
The USTA has announced that reigning ITF World Junior Champion CiCi Bellis leads the 12 top juniors nominated to represent the U.S. in the qualifying rounds of Junior Davis and Fed Cup by BNP Paribas (16-and-under) and World Junior Tennis (14-and-under), the world’s premier junior team competitions. The events will be played April 30-May 2 at the USTA Training…
The New York Junior Tennis and Learning’s (NYJTL) Hartman Cup came to an end this weekend at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The annual three-week tournament for boys and girls ages seven through 18 brings the NYJTL’s Winter Early Morning Program to a close with the finals and an award presentation. There…
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Two talented junior players will once again be featured as part of the annual BNP Paribas Showdown at Madison Square Garden. The match, presented by HEAD Penn Racquet Sports, will feature Cori “Coco” Gauff and Gabriella Price as part of World Tennis Day on Tuesday, March 10. The promising young girls will take to the court prior to tennis…