Metro Events

It was late Sunday, Oct. 28th, most New Yorkers were just beginning to think about what the Halloween costume we were going to try and rig together, on the way home from watching the game. The announcer on the radio said something about a major storm coming the following day, and most folks figured...Read more

There's a new tennis tournament that doubles as family time. The 2013 National Family Tennis Championships offers thousands of amateur players all across America the opportunity to team up with a family member to earn the right to play for a national title in New York City from August 22-26, 2013...Read more

On Saturday, Jan. 12 for $60 per team, join us at Roosevelt Island Racquet Club’s 2nd Annual Advantage Tennis Clubs & USPTA Parent/Child Doubles Tournament from 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.! Last year, there were seven teams competing for a spot in a semifinal showdown that resulted in Advantage’s own...Read more

More than 150 kids got a chance to enjoy tennis and a good workout at Howard Bennett Playground in Harlem, as P.S. 197M and Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program (HJTEP) hosted a USTA Free Tennis Play Day in celebration of Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play. The event was one of thousands of...Read more

On Tuesday, Oct. 9, the Riverside Park Fund Board of Directors along with Event Chair Dale Caldwell will celebrate the sport of tennis in Riverside Park at the New York Yacht Club, located at 37 West 44th Street from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. The evening will celebrate four local fixtures in the sport of...Read more

The USTA Eastern Metro Region will award up to $10,000 in grants to local members and organizations this year to promote and develop the growth of tennis. Applicants must be a current USTA Member Organization, or USTA Member, within the Metro Region that has not received a cumulative total of over...Read more

Identical twins and world champion tennis players Mike & Bob Bryan are recent gold medalists and have racked up 11 Men’s Doubles career Grand Slam Titles and 61 overall titles. In late August, they went head-to-head with a team of unlikely, but worthy, opponents … firefighters from FDNY’s...Read more

While the pros are preparing for the 2012 U.S. Open, more than 75 beginner level tennis players, ages eight to 16, competed in the final rounds of City Parks Foundation’s Novice Tennis Tournament. The youngsters, who learned to play tennis this summer in parks across the five boroughs through free...Read more

Things Are Looking Green at Riverside Park Mark McIntyre answers a few questions about GreenOutlook, quite possibly the best thing to hit Riverside Park since, well, the red clay courts he brought back to life over the last 20 years. How did you first get into tennis/RCTA? About 20 years or so ago...Read more

The second leg of the 2012 Metro Regional Playoffs took place Saturday, May 19 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center and a few regional teams are now moving on to the Sectional Championships in Schenectady, N.Y. On a beautiful spring Saturday, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn mixed-...Read more