Eastern Metro Region supports Delete Blood Cancer Credit all photos to Eric Vitale The USTA Eastern Metro Region was happy to support the Delete Blood Cancer Second Annual “Game, Set, Match for Life” tennis event at Sportime Randall's Island in February. Attendees helped raise enough funds to register more than 300 new potential bone…
USTA Metro partners with Friends of South Oxford Park on community tennis festival Credit photos to Pablo Sierra The USTA Eastern Metro Region Board recently partnered with the Friends of South Oxford Park Inc. to organize a community tennis festival for kids. Metro Board member Mel Swanson took the lead to organize this event,…
New York Junior Tennis & Learning (NYJTL) launched its flagship facility, the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning, in Crotona Park in the South Bronx with a ribbon-cutting and celebration. The event drew hundreds of names from the worlds of tennis, fashion, government and civic engagement. “It would be very difficult to find any…
In 1953, Maureen Connolly was the first woman to win the Grand Slam in tennis history. More often known by her nickname “Little Mo,” she is still the only American woman to have accomplished this magnificent feat and the youngest at the age of 18. To honor her memory, the Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation…
Congratulations to the following 10 players who are on their way to winning the "Little Mo" Slam and taking home the tallest trophy ever given in junior tennis at six-feet tall. Local nine-year-old Samuel Zeitlin from Brooklyn, N.Y. was the winner of the Boy’s 9 Division. The second leg will be coming to The West Side…
New York Junior Tennis & Learning (NYJTL) will hold its Annual Summer Gala with the Stars—a celebration featuring music, dancing, dining, gondola rides and magicians—at The Boathouse in Central Park on Wednesday, Aug. 12. The Summer Gala begins at 6:30 p.m. with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, followed by a buffet dinner at 7:00 p.m. The…
The inaugural New York Open professional tennis championships were held at the historic West Side Tennis Club (where the U..S Open was founded) in 2013. To increase access to the general public and provide free tickets to fans, Tennis in New York Inc., the non-profit running the tournament, moved the event to the legendary Central Park…
The Lacoste Junior Tennis Academy returns for its 30th season this summer, and will hold tryouts for the Academy on May 16 from 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. Run by the City Parks Foundation, the Academy has helped develop youngsters into tournament-caliber players who…
Long Island Tennis Magazine will continue it's local grassroots push by running a series of events and tournaments during the summer of 2015. The 2015 LITM Summer Series will kick-off on Saturday, May 16 at Engineers Country Club in Roslyn, N.Y., as we host The Long Island Tennis Challenge. This event will consist of four…
StarGames Inc. and MSG, promoters of the eighth annual BNP Paribas Showdown and World Tennis Day, have announced that the USTA Foundation, the national charitable organization of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), has been selected as the official charity of the BNP Paribas Showdown for the second consecutive year. The Showdown at Madison Square Garden…