Andrés A. Bella was born in Queens, N.Y. in 1977. His passion for tennis started when he picked up a racquet for the first time at the age of four, eventually becoming captain and Most Valuable Player of the Quinnipiac University Division I Men’s Tennis Team. Andrés also discovered his passion for art at an…
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova will compete on the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars, which airs for 10 weeks beginning Monday, March 19, on ABC. The network announced the 12 contestants on Feb. 28. Martina will dance with Tony Dovolani, a Kosovan-American professional ballroom dancer. Navratilova will be joined this season by The View…
Woody Schneider has been a mainstay in the New York tennis community for 30-plus years. As current owner of NYC Racquet Sports and Grand Central Racquet in Midtown Manhattan, Woody’s shops are the authority on all racquet sports in New York City. Located centrally at 157 West 35th Street, NYC Racquet Sports offers all that…
Americans typically gain three to five pounds or more during the winter holiday season. From the feasts of Thanksgiving, Chanukah and Christmas, right through to the last drop of champagne at New Year’s, healthy, sensible eating habits are forgotten. Exercise routines are often disrupted with friends and family visits and travel. Here are 10 tips…
The holiday season can often become quite stressful. Whether it’s shopping, making travel plans, finishing up projects at work before the year ends or bumper-to-bumper traffic, the holiday season can be quite an undertaking for a New Yorker. Knowing this, two local tennis clubs offered their members a few hours to forget about the holiday…
As someone who has attended tennis tournaments for years, I have rarely seen much out there that is new or interesting in the way of souvenirs and accessories for fans of the sport. Sure, there are tennis ball keychains, jumbo tennis balls and t-shirts, but what about something more subtle yet just as engaging for…
Ready for the football season Sabine Lisicki ♦ (@sabinelisicki): My favorite player is Drew Brees, so I’m going with the Saints! 🙂 But I still remember how great Packers played in the Super Bowl … John Isner ♦ (@JohnIsner): Patrick Peterson meet #89 Steve Smith. This ain’t LSU rook. Best in the league … What do they…
Author Mark "Scoop" Malinowski has written a book about former ATP world number one-ranked Marcelo Rios. The following is a brief interview he did with Chilean major daily newspaper La Cuarta’s Eduardo Rojas along with some excerpts from his new book. What on earth made you write about Chino Rios? Michael Chang asked me the…
I think many of us in the tennis world, understandably, take the Williams Sisters and their accomplishments for granted. But just because they have been mainstays on the women’s tour for more than 10 years, it is instructive to take another look because Venus and Serena are quite a story. One way to review their…
The USTA has announced a further expansion of its environmental initiatives at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, home of the U.S. Open, which annually hosts more than 700,000 fans during the two weeks of the event. Alec Baldwin and Billie Jean King will continue to serve as the U.S. Open’s Green Initiatives…