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Mark McIntyre was recently sworn in as theUSTA Eastern president, following a two-year stint as the organization’s vice presi-dent. McIntyre has been a staple of the NewYork tennis community for years now, andwas integral in helping United Sports Publi-cations Ltd. launch New York Tennis Maga-zine. Four years later, New York TennisMagazine has met and exceeded the goalsset forth by McIntyre when the publicationwas first launched.

“Maybe I’m just old-fashioned or, per-haps, just old. But I still feel print media isimportant,” said McIntyre. “People get moreof a kick out of seeing their name in printthan online. I thought all of us in the localtennis community would feel more a part ofit. We would have a stronger sense of howwe are all connected … if the tennis com-munity was bound—literally bound—be-tween the covers of a magazine.”

That has been the goal of McIntyre in hisyears serving the local tennis community, tobring people together in order to make itbeneficial for everyone.

In pushing to start a magazine that servesthe New York tennis folks, he thought it wouldhelp junior players find tournaments andevents in the area much easier.

“I think it drives more juniors to tourna-ments. The thing about online tournamentschedules is that you have to want to gothere in the first place,” McIntyre said. “Youhave to know they are there. My hope is thatmore junior players thumbing through themagazine will discover that tournaments arethere so they can then go online to register.”

He has served on the executive board ofboth USTA Eastern and USTA Metro, andsays his proudest accomplishment in thattime was the creation of the Youth TennisLeagues (YTL).

“I worked for years trying to convincepeople that this was the way to go,” saidMcIntyre. “Inexpensive, easy online registra-tion, coaching and matches, consistent timeslots and locations—every Saturday night.The YTL mimics soccer and baseball little

leagues and I think it’s going to be as popularas those someday if we have the vision tostay with it.”

McIntyre says that we need to give these pro-grams and leagues time to work and developbefore they can be deemed unsuccessful.

“Too often in the tennis world, we abandonpilots if they don’t pay off right away,” ex-plained McIntyre. “Gratification is rarely in-stant. There is no quick fix.”

Expanding the YTL and continuing itsgrowth is one of McIntyre’s main initiatives asthe new USTA Eastern president.

He also wants to bridge the gap that sepa-rates people within the tennis community andeliminate what he sees as a “cut-throat” type

of attitude.“Years ago, when we started to improve

the courts (Riverside Clay) and they becamemore popular, more used, some folks com-plained loudly that we were ruining thecourts, as though more people using a pub-lic facility was a bad thing,” McIntyre re-called. “Basically, they didn’t want to share.They wanted the courts to be empty so theycould walk on whenever they wanted andstay as long as they pleased. Entitled, selfish… call it what you will. It’s small-minded andit’s bad for our sport.”

As McIntyre continues his work with theRiverside Clay Tennis Association (RCTA) andsteps into his new role as USTA Eastern pres-ident, he will bring with him his same goals.

“We need to stop seeing each other ascompetition,” he noted. “We have to see thepossibilities of limitless participation—agrowing pie, as it were—instead of a finitegroup of players, and we each are trying toprotect our share of the pie. It’s not a zerosum game, and if we work together more togrow tennis, we will all benefit.”

Brian Coleman is senior editor of New YorkTennis Magazine. He may be reached by e-mail at [email protected].

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Table Of ContentsMAR/APR 2015 • Vol 5, No 2

On the Rise: Dimitrov Knocks on the Door of The Big FourBy Brian ColemanDocumenting the rise of Grigor Dimitrov, as he enters 2015 andlooks to seriously contend with the Big Four on the ATP Tour.See page 4

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Grigor Dimitrovbrings his tal-ents to NewYork City inearly March forthe BNP Pari-bas Showdown,when he takes

on Roger Federer in an exhibitionmatch. The 23-year-old Bulgar-ian has made quite a name forhimself in his short years on theATP Tour and 2015 could be abreakout season for the risingstar.

Dimitrov has shown signs ofimprovement every year he hasbeen on the Tour. His first ATPlevel match was at the OrdinaOpen where he lost to IgorAndreev in straight sets. In 2011,he cracked the top 100 andfinished the season at number 75in the world. At the end of 2012 he was inthe top 50, and by the end of 2013 hefound himself inside the top 25.

For six consecutive seasons, Dimitrovhas improved on his ranking from the yearbefore, and he enters March as the 10thranked player in the world. The next stepfor the player referred to as “Baby Fed” isto win that maiden Grand Slam, something

he hopes to accomplish in 2015.In his visit to New York last summer,

Dimitrov reached the fourth round of theU.S. Open. He makes the trip back to theBig Apple on March 10 when he takes onarguably the greatest player of all-time inFederer.

There is no question that Dimitrov is al-ready an established talent on the ATP Tour

and is on the brink of becoming astar in his own right, and it helpedthat he was able to shrug off the“Baby Fed” nickname.

“When I started to establishmyself on the Tour, the Federerthing was starting to get a bit outof hand,” Dimitrov said in an in-terview with the BBC. “But I thinknow it is starting to fade away.I’ve proved over and over againthat I’m a different person, a dif-ferent player.”

Still just 24-years-old, Dimitrovhas plenty of time to construct anidentity of his own. Since beingable to get past the “Baby Fed”mantra, the Bulgarian is nowmore commonly known to folksas the significant other of theWTA’s second-ranked MariaSharapova.

Sharapova says each hashelped the other improve since the two gottogether.

“It’s just obviously nice to have eachother, and even though we have our re-spective careers and we train, to kind ofhave the other’s support is always nice,”Sharapova told The Age newspaper at the

On theRise

Grigor Dimitrov knocks on the door of The Big Four

By Brian Coleman

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on the rise continued from page 5

Australian Open in January. “I think thathe’s grown so much in the few years thatI’ve even been with him in terms of hisfocus and commitment to the sport. Obvi-ously, I’ve always kind of watched his ca-reer grow from the junior days, and to beable to see him stride in the top directionreally puts a smile on my face.”

Sharapova has established herself on theWTA Tour and is one of the most recogniza-ble female athletes in the world. While Dim-itrov is one of the most promising youngtalents out there, he needs to continue tomake strides to reach the next level.

For years, the Big Four (Federer, NovakDjokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray)have dominated the men’s circuit, butDimitrov is the kind of talent that could helpknock down that wall.

In 2014, two players—Stan Wawrinkaand Marin Cilic—each won their first GrandSlam trophies. The next step in Dimitrov’sdevelopment is to win that elusive first major

title. He has shown steady strides of im-provement in each year of his career, butneeds to validate his status by capturing amajor.

It is never easy to live up to expectationsand hype at such a young age, especiallywhen your compared to a great like Federer.

“Learning to win—day in, day out, ondays sunny as well as cloudy, cool as wellas warm, and when the backhand isclicking as well as on those days when it’son the fritz—is an important mission for anyyoung player,” wrote ESPN TennisColumnist Peter Bodo. “It’s doubly so forDimitrov, a mercurial talent whose ball-striking prowess is matched by his flair andstar quality.”

And that is the next step for the Bulgar-ian star; to be consistent on an everydaybasis. Once he develops that, there is nodoubt that Dimitrov can become one of thegreats in the sport.

Brian Coleman is editorial coordinator forNew York Tennis Magazine. He may bereached by phone at (516) 409-4444, ext.314 or e-mail [email protected].

“When I started to establishmyself on the Tour, the Federer thing was starting to get a bit out of hand.”


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Across Metro NThe St. John’s Men’stennis team reachedthe quarterfinals ofthe ECAC IndoorChampionships inCambridge, Mass.The Red Storm won

its first-round match against Monmouth 4-

0, but fell to number five Dartmouth 4-3 inthe quarterfinals.

After earning the doubles point againstMonmouth, the St. John’s Red Storm earnedthree consecutive singles victories to clinchthe match. Junior MJ Every clinched the vic-tory in the sixth singles slot 6-4, 6-3.

Following the sweep of Monmouth, St.

St. John’s reaches ECAC Indoor Championships Quarterfinals

Across Metro NJohn’s faced Dartmouth in the quarterfinalround of the tournament. Entering singlesplay, the Red Storm were down 1-0. Theteam rallied to tie the match up 3-3 afterwins from Elio Livi, Robert Livi and VaidikMunshaw. However, the strong singles playfrom Dartmouth prevented St. John’s fromadvancing to the semifinals

Columbia defeats highest-ranked opponent in program history

The Columbia Men’s Tennis team went 1-2 at the ITA Men’s Team National Indoor Championship. TheLions faced some of the country’s best competition during the tournament, falling just short to numberfour Georgia before beating number 12 California 4-3. The win over California marked the highest rankedopponent ever defeated in the history of Columbia men’s tennis.

The previous highest-ranked opponent Columbia defeated was number 14 Notre Dame earlier thisseason.

JTF to honor Bob Ingersole of West Side Tennis Club

The Junior Tennis Foundation (JTF) willrecognize integral members of the ten-nis community on April 24 at 7:00 p.m.during the 28th Annual Eastern TennisHall of Fame celebration at the Beach

Point Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y. Two ofthe individuals who will be inductedinto the Hall of Fame are: Metro resi-dents Katrina Adams, USTA presidentand a former WTA professional player

who ranked as high as 67th in singlesand eighth in doubles; Bob Ingersole,tennis director at West Side Tennis Clubin Forest Hills, N.Y. and president ofJTF.

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Gotham Tennis Academy recently hosted a High Performance Invita-tional Training Camp. Led by High Performance Director Carl Thorsen,the players were challenged in an intensive setting, which includedtechnical and tactical training, a fitness session and ended with alunch and coaches talk.

John McEnroe Tennis Academy (JMTA) Coach Phillip Simmonds accompanied WTA player Madison Brengle toa very successful trip abroad during the Australian Open. The team that paired up during the U.S. Open trainedtogether previously at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. Brengle had some great results, reaching her first WTAfinal in Hobart as well as a fourth round appearance in the Australian Open.

Madison looks to continue her good form with the help of Phillip moving forward into the early spring and theEuropean swing of events coming up which will include the French Open and Wimbledon.

JMTA Coach Simmonds helps Brengle Down Under

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West Side Tennis Club has seen a lot in its100-plus years in Queens and continues tochange and grow every year.

On April 22, 1892, 13 initial members or-ganized the West Side Tennis Club with themodest goal of renting ground on CentralPark West, between 88th and 89th Streets,for three clay courts. The courts openedJune 11, 1892, and Club membership re-quired a $10 initiation cost, a $10 annualfee, and the ability to play a good game oftennis. By the end of the first season, theClub expanded to 43 members and fivecourts. The “clubhouse” consisted of ashed with two dressing rooms and coldshowers.

After 10 years, the Central Park Westproperty became too commercially valu-able for tennis, so the Club moved to117th Street near Columbia University,which had room for eight courts. Throughthe largesse of the land’s owner, Mrs.John Drexel of the prominent bankingfamily, the Club paid a mere $20 per courtannually. The Club built a new clubhousewith hot showers through its great sav-ings. Membership expanded to 110 mem-bers at that point.

With the Drexel lease up six years later,West Side Tennis rented a location at238th Street and Broadway, covering twocity blocks with room for a dozen grasscourts and 15 clay courts. The Clubhosted Davis Cup matches with GreatBritain in 1911, featuring the greatMaurice McLaughlin, the “CaliforniaComet,” and crowds attending the eventnumbered in the thousands.

With the successes, however, came therealization that the West Side’s locationwas inadequate to accommodate thecrowds. A committee was formed in 1912to find a permanent location for purchase.The committee scouted more than 30 lo-cations and then narrowed the field downto properties in the Bronx, Kew Gardensand Forest Hills. On Dec. 3, 1912, the Clubvoted on the Forest Hills location. Theypurchased the land, a few blocks from the

Long Island Railroad Station, for a $2,000downpayment and $75,000 mortgage. TheTudor-style clubhouse, built the followingyear, cost approximately $25,000. NewYork City featured a world-class tennis cen-ter by the spring of 1914.

The 1915 transfer of the United StatesLawn Tennis Association National Cham-pionship (later the U.S. Open) to the WestSide Tennis Club from the NewportCasino was a watershed event in the his-tory of tennis. For the next six decades,

the Championship would be held at WestSide.

Along with tennis events, West Sidehosted concerts in its stadium for decades.Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix,The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Who,Diana Ross and The Boston Pops were justsome of the musicians that performed atWest Side over the years.

By the late 1970s, the popularity of theU.S. Open had boomed and the 15,000-seat Forest Hills Stadium had become toosmall to handle the crowds. The USTAmoved the U.S. Open to the broader ex-panses of Flushing Meadows in 1978.

In 2013, West Side held its first concertat the then newly-renovated Forest HillsStadium as Mumford and Sons played.

Bob Ingersole, tennis director at WestSide, says the Club plans to get back intothe business of hosting concerts going for-ward. The first one on tap for 2015 will beThe Who on Saturday, May 30.

In the future, they hope to host anotherDavis Cup or Fed Cup tie.

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New York City BoysHigh School PreviewThe Beacon Blue Demons have dominatedthe boys landscape in New York City’s “A”Division the last couple of years, and willlook to repeat as city champions again thisseason. Last season, the Blue Demons up-ended Cardozo in the NYC Championship5-0.

The highlight of that match was the firstsingles battle between Beacon’s OliverSec and Cardozo’s Marcus Smith, both ofwhom were juniors. Sec and Smith’smatch went the distance and requiredthree sets, before Sec was able to comeout victorious. Both players will be re-turning to their teams for their seniorcampaigns and should have a major im-pact this spring.

In the “B” Division, New Utrecht outlastedGrover Cleveland 3-2 to win the title. Thecontest came down to the final match atsecond doubles, where Gavin Zhou & KevinCheng edged the team of Konrad Skomial& Reynaldo Cabrera in a tight three-setmatch.

At the end of season Mayor’s Cup Indi-vidual tournament, top-seeded Ethan Nittoloof Townsend Harris knocked off second-seeded William Trang 6-3, 6-0, while sec-

ond-seeded duo Douglas Nover & AnthonySantino of St. Francis Prep defeated Alexan-der Irikura & Genji Noguchi of Stuyvesant.

Player to Watch: Ethan Nittolo,Townsend Harris

One of the biggest accomplishments a highschool athlete in New York City can have iscoming out on top at the end-of-the-yearMayor’s Cup. No matter the sport, theMayor’s Cup is one of those things that allathletes in the city relish to play in.

Townsend Harris’ junior Ethan Nittolo en-tered the boys singles draw last season asthe number one seed. He lived up to thatseeding, going through the whole tourna-ment without dropping a set on his way tothe Mayor’s Cup title.

“Going into the tournament I felt pretty

confident,” said Nittolo, who is getting readyfor his senior campaign for the TownsendHarris Hawks. “I knew most of the kids so Ifelt pretty confident and sort of knew whatto expect.”

Nittolo met second-seeded William Trangof Brooklyn Tech in the final and won hand-ily 6-3, 6-0 to take home the trophy.

“It was pretty hot the last day we playedand I felt like my fitness was just ten timesbetter,” added Nittolo. “I knew if I could keephim out there long, keep him moving andmake the points long he wouldn’t really ableto come back.”

His fitness and stamina are aspects thatNittolo considers to be his biggest strengths.He has continued to work on that this off-season and feels confident heading into thisseason.

“I’ve been training all-year round, so fitnessis a huge part of my game right now,” he said.“Going into this upcoming season I’m prettyconfident that the first couple of matches I’llbe able to work and figure out my opponentsin my division, so when I meet up with themlater in the season I’ll have a pretty good ideaof what will work against them and how I canbreak down their game.”

Nittolo will lead the charge for TownsendHarris this season as the Hawks will look tobuild on an 8-4 regular season and a third-

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round appearance in the city playoffs. Thesenior believes his team is capable of mak-ing some noise this spring.

“I just want to do my part for the team, winmy matches and keep the team motivatedduring practices and during matches,” saidNittolo. “I think if we stay consistent through-out the entire match and throughout eachposition, it’ll be a good thing for us. I don’tsee any reason why we shouldn’t win our di-vision and I think we can definitely make arun in the playoffs.”

Following this season, Nittolo will take histalents up to the University at Buffalo to con-tinue his tennis career.

“I just got a great feel from the team andthe school is beautiful,” said Nittolo. “I reallylike what the coaches have been doing upthere. I feel confident that my game and fit-ness will really improve up there.”

But before he moves on to his college ca-reer, Nittolo will look to lead the Hawks to adivision title. His fitness has only gotten bet-ter in the offseason and he has fine tunedsome other facets of his game as well.

“The biggest thing I wanted to improve onwas my mental game,” he said. “You know,staying tougher in the point. Just knowingmy game better and knowing what I can andcan’t do well.”

Townsend Harris opens up its season athome against Forest Hills on March 17th.

2015 Teams to WatchBronx: Bronx ScienceThe Bronx Science Wolverines had a bit of adown year in 2014, going just 6-6 on the sea-son and falling to Brooklyn Tech in the cityquarterfinals. Despite losing a couple of sen-iors from the team a year ago, the Wolver-ines have reloaded and bring to the table ayoung and talented cast of players that willmake them a threat in the Bronx this spring.

It returns its second doubles tandem ofPeter Coulombe & Remi Kumar, who areboth now seniors. The duo won the onlymatch of Bronx Science’s quarterfinal losslast year, and will be integral in the team’ssuccess.

The Wolverines hope that an infusion ofyounger talent at singles can help make upfor the departed seniors from last year.Neeraj Sakhrani, who played second singlesa year ago as a freshman, will step into thefirst singles role and hopes to have a break-out sophomore campaign.

Brooklyn: Brooklyn TechBrooklyn Tech hopes to build on a fantastic2014 season that saw it reach the city semi-finals. The Engineers came up one pointshort against Cardozo in the semis, losing allthree singles matches, for their only defeatof the season. But Brooklyn Tech was ayoung team last season including two soph-

omores and a junior playing singles, makingthem a serious contender in the city this sea-son.

The Engineers will have to make up for theloss of its second doubles tandem which in-cludes last year’s Captain Robert Godkin.Those young and talented singles playerswill need to help fill the leadership void. Ledby William Trang & Philip Raytburg on thesingles card, Brooklyn Tech will look to onceagain be the team to beat in Brooklyn.

Manhattan: High School of Environmental StudiesThe High School of Environmental Studiesenters 2015 following disappointing finishesin each of the last two seasons. The Eagleshave soared through the last two regularseasons without a loss, but have been elim-inated early in the playoffs each time. With afew new fresh faces, it hopes to get over thathump and go deeper in the city playoffs.

The Eagles graduated seniors at both firstand second singles, but head coach DanielMauck is confident in the players he has toreplace them. Senior Kevin Lei, who playedthird singles a year ago, will have some bigshoes to fill as he moves to the top of thelineup card, as will senior Jesse Chan, whohad a fantastic junior campaign a year ago.

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of experienced seniors who will need tomake up for the losses at the top.

Queens: Townsend HarrisThe Hawks of Townsend Harris come intothe 2015 season with not much turn overfrom last year. There was only one senior onthat roster which means the Hawks bringback the majority of its contributing playersfrom last year’s squad.

Townsend Harris will be led by EthanNittolo. The senior won the Mayor’s Cupsingles title last season as a junior and willlook to build on that success again thisyear. He will have some help at the othersingles positions as well, with MaximProhorov and Mitchell Mu. Bothcontributed significantly as freshman lastseason, and should be even better thisseason with another year of experience.The Hawks will look to give powerhouseCardozo a fight in League A1.

Staten Island: TottenvilleThe Tottenville Pirates were one of the bestteams in all of New York City last season,going 12-0 in the regular season beforefalling to Stuyvesant in the third-round of the“A” Division playoffs. The Pirates will haveto make up for the loss of two of its singlesplayers from a year ago, but should be right

there in the thick of things in Staten Islandthis spring.

Daniel Rozhkov will most likely step in andbe a factor on singles. Last year as a junior,Rozhkov won 11 of his 12 matches, with hisonly loss coming in Tottenville’s playoff de-feat. On the doubles side, Joseph Namtalovenjoyed a fabulous sophomore campaign,winning 12 of his 13 doubles contests withvarious partners.

With more than capable underclassmenjoining experienced seniors, the Pirates willlook to build on its 8-4 record last seasonand go deeper into the city playoffs.

Key datesl Individual Singles and Doubles Qualifier

Tournament: Saturday, April 18l Singles and Doubles First and Second

Rounds: Monday, April 20l Singles and Doubles Quarterfinals: Tues-

day, April 21l Singles and Doubles Semifinals:

Wednesday, April 22l Singles and Doubles Finals: Thursday,

April 23l Team Quarterfinals: Monday, May 18l “A” Division Team Semifinals: Tuesday,

May 19l “B” Division Team Semifinals: Wednes-

day, May 20l “A” Division Team Finals: Thursday, May

21l “B” Division Team Finals: Tuesday, May 26l New York State Singles and Doubles

Championships: Thursday-Sunday, May28-31

l Team Mayors Cup: Saturday-Sunday,May 30-31

l Singles and Doubles Mayor’s Cup: Sat-urday-Sunday, May 30-June 7

New York City GirlsHigh School PreviewBeacon has dominated the girls tennis land-scape in New York City in recent years. Theyare the two-time defending city champions inthe “A” Division, beating Cardozo in the finalfor the second consecutive season last year.

Led by a cast of excellent juniors, Beaconwas able to get past Cardozo 4-1 and willseek to repeat again this season. The teamwas also well-represented at the Mayor’sCup as the doubles tandem of Alexus Gill &Isis Gill beat their Beacon teammatesMichelle Khaimov & Victoria Sec 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 in the final.

Bronx Science sophomore BriannaWilliams knocked off fourth-seeded BrittnyFerreria of Poly Prep 6-3, 7-5 to win her sec-ond consecutive singles final.

In the “B” Division, Springfield Gardenswas able to win its second consecutivechampionship, defeating Lab Museum HighSchool 4-1 in the title match. The Golden Ea-gles were able to overcome a first singlesloss by sophomore Annastasia McKinneyand win three of the final four matches tocome out victorious.

Player to Watch: Bronx ScienceSophomore Sarah RahmanLast season, Bronx Science freshman SarahRahman restarted her tennis career afternearly three years away from the game whilefocusing on academics. After shaking off therust one would expect her to have, Rahmanwon all 14 of the singles matches she played



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and quickly regained her form.“The first time I played I felt awkward and

uncoordinated. It was like I was playing ten-nis for the first time in my life,” said Rahman.“However, as I began to play on a dailybasis, little by little it all started to comeback. It mainly caused me to lose my foot-work, my timing, and my ability to read thespeed and the spin of the ball. It took thewhole season and the entire summer of lastyear to get back to the level at which I wasbefore I stopped playing.”

Rahman certainly got back to the levelthat saw her reach number one in the USTAEastern rankings a few years ago. Aftergoing through the regular season and play-offs undefeated, she reached the semifinalsof the Mayor’s Cup, falling just short to herBronx Science teammate Brianna Williams.

“Playing the Mayor’s Cup last year wasvery exciting and a great confidencebooster,” said Rahman. “Brianna and I arenot only on the same high school team, butwe are also great friends and have knowneach other since we started playing juniorUSTA tournaments around the age of eight.Losing to her in the semifinals in three longsets after not having played for three years,and having just picked up my racket about amonth before the season, gave me so muchjoy and confidence.”

Now a sophomore, Rahman will look touse the confidence she has gained over thelast year to build on her standout freshmancampaign. Along with Williams, the duogives Bronx Science a strong 1-2 punch atthe top of the lineup card.

Rahman said the key to shaking off thatrust last season was just trying to work ongetting her timing and explosiveness back.Missing all that time can take away some ofyour tennis timing and instincts, somethingshe regained as the season progressed.

“After not competing and not playingmatches for such a long time, I lost thatconfidence and match experience,” saidRahman. “At the beginning of the seasonlast year, I felt a lot of pressure and nerves.However, as I played more matches, I beganto feel more confident and less nervous.”

With that match experience back and her

confidence only growing, Rahman could beheaded for an even better sophomore cam-paign this season. She spent a lot of time thisoffseason trying to work on the little things inher game and feels ready with the springseason approaching.

“My offseason has been pretty busy,”she said. “I’ve been mainly working on myserve, which is the weakest part of mygame. I’ve also been trying to improve myforehand, by adding more spin to my shots.I’m happy to be back playing tennis again,playing the sport I love, and I’m workingharder than ever.”

2015 Teams to WatchBronx: Bronx ScienceThe Bronx Science Wolverines enjoyed anumber of program firsts last season, includ-ing its first ever berth in the Team Mayor’s Cupas well as notching its first win overStuyvesant in more than 10 years. Despitethose firsts, the Wolverines finished at 6-6,falling short of the expectations it set for itself.

With just one consistent starter lost tograduation from last year, Bronx Sciencecould be an extremely dangerous team in2015. It returns Williams, now a junior, who isseeking her third consecutive Mayor’s Cupsingles title. At second singles, the Wolverinesfeature sophomore Sarah Raman, whose onlysingles loss last season was to Williams in theMayor Cup semifinals.

The talented underclassmen at the top ofthe lineup card will allow some of the experi-enced veteran players to shift down to dou-bles, creating a lot of depth. The Wolverineswill add talented freshman Sofie Levine to thesingles card as well.

Brooklyn: James MadisonLast season, James Madison put out a lineupthat featured just two seniors, and the rest ofthe roster was made up of freshman andsophomores. One of those seniors was four-year varsity player Erika Tinalli, who playedfirst singles and helped Madison reach the “A”Division quarterfinals.

The Lady Knights leaned on a number offreshman and sophomores last year, and an-

other year of experience should make themready to contend in Brooklyn this year. One ofthose underclassmen was freshman RosaAksanov, who finished tied for the second-most wins last year. She won 11 matchesoverall, including going 1-1 in the playoffs, atthird singles and really burst onto the scene.Sophomore Tamila Alatifzade was right be-hind her teammate with 10 wins on the year,forming a 1-2 singles punch that should helpMadison go deeper in this year’s playoffs.

Manhattan: BeaconBeacon won its second consecutive city titlelast season, knocking off a very good Car-dozo team 4-1 in the city championship. Ledby Isis Gill, first singles, and her sister Alexus,second singles, Beacon rolled to an 11-1record, with the lone loss coming to BronxScience, and will return the majority of theplayers from last year’s squad.

Talented freshman Victoria Sec gave Bea-con an incredible amount of depth last sea-son. She went 5-1 on the year and won allthree of her playoff contests, including a 6-3,6-2 win in the city championship. With an-other year of experience, Sec should be evenbetter this season, and along with the Gill sis-ters, will make it tough for any opponent tonotch a win in singles competition.

Beacon will have to make up for the loss ofits second doubles tandem, Isadora Braune &Sara Levy Lambert, both of whom were sen-iors last season and reached the Mayor’s Cupquarterfinals. With the plethora of depth readyto replace them though, Beacon should onceagain be considered a contender in New YorkCity.

Queens: CardozoCardozo has been in the city championshipfor the last three seasons, winning it all in2012 and falling short to Beacon in each ofthe last two seasons. Despite losing its sec-ond and third singles players to graduation,Cardozo is again a favorite to go far in theplayoffs.

The Lady Judges will be led by arguablythe best player in the city, senior SabrinaXiong. She is currently ranked 24th nationally,and has already committed to continue her




tennis career at Harvard University nextyear. She didn’t lose a single match lastseason, including notching Cardozo’s lonepoint in the city championship, beatingBeacon’s Isis Gill 6-1, 6-2. Xiong recentlycompeted in the USTA National SelectionTournament in Cincinnati, Ohio, reachingthe Round of 16.

Cardozo hopes to get back to the city titlematch again this season, and will lean onXiong to carry the load at the top of the lineupcard.

Staten Island: McKee/Staten Island TechMcKee/Staten Island Tech dominatedLeague A4 last season, going 10-0 in the reg-ular season and eventually reaching the citysemifinals. The Seagulls lost a tough 3-2 con-test to Cardozo, but on a team with no con-tributing seniors, it showed that it will be adefinite threat this spring.

Sophia Kryloff anchored the Seagullslast season and was the oldest player onthe roster as just a junior. Kryloff went 7-1 on the season, with the lone losscoming at the hands of Cardozo’s SabrinaXiong. At second singles, Staten IslandTech featured standout freshmanAnastasiya Malinouskaya, who wentundefeated last season.

The young talent on the Seagulls was clearlast season as both the first and second dou-bles duos were made up of a freshman andsophomore. Heading into this season with thesame lineup and with another year of experi-ence, Staten Island Tech hopes to improve onits semifinal run a year ago.

Key datesl Individual Singles and Doubles Qualifier

Tournament: Saturday, April 18l Singles and Doubles First and Second

Rounds: Monday, April 20

l Singles and Doubles Quarterfinals: Tues-day, April 21

l Singles and Doubles Semifinals: Wednes-day, April 22

l Singles and Doubles Finals: Thursday,April 23

l Team Quarterfinals: Monday, May 18l “A” Division Team Semifinals: Tuesday,

May 19l “B” Division Team Semifinals: Wednes-

day, May 20l “A” Division Team Finals: Thursday, May

21l “B” Division Team Finals: Tuesday, May

26l New York State Singles and Doubles

Championships: Thursday-Sunday, May28-31

l Team Mayors Cup: Saturday-Sunday,May 30-31

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Forbes listNovak Djokovic has beenannounced as one ofForbes’s “30 Under 30” inthe sports realm. He wasthe lone tennis player

chosen. Last year, four tennis players madethe list, including Serena Williams, Li Na,Victoria Azarenka and Rafael Nadal.

Tying the knotTomas Berdych andhis girlfriend of two-and-a-half years, EsterSatorova, are now en-gaged. Berdych and

Satorova, a Czech model, began dating inthe fall of 2012 after his long-time relation-ship with WTA player Lucie Safarovaended.

Aussie Open ratingsThe Serena Williams-Maria Sharapova2015 Australian Open Women’s Final matchdrew a 0.7 overnight rating on ESPN, up 40percent from both Li Na-Dominika

Cibulkova’s AussieOpen finals match in2014 and the VictoriaAzarenka-Li Na finalsshowdown in 2013(0.5 both years). Thenext morning, the

Novak Djokovic-Andy Murray Men’s SinglesFinal drew a 0.5 overnight rating—down a tickfrom the 2014 Men’s Singles Finals match be-tween Stanislas Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal(0.6 rating), but even with the Djokovic-Murrayfinals match in 2013 (a 0.5 rating).

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By Richard Thater

“Should I play tennis to getfit, or should I get fit to playtennis?” This question hasbounced around the tennis

world for years, and like most either/orquestions, the answer lies somewhere inthe middle.

The direction you take depends on whoyou are and what you want. An armycolonel played in my doubles group a fewyears ago, and he told me that playingtennis and handball got his legs fit forjump school. His fitness was enhancedbecause his steady partner had a badknee and stood in one spot during points,forcing the colonel to run for any shot nothit directly at his partner.

Current thinking is that distance run-ning to get in shape for tennis is wastedeffort since most of the movement in ten-nis is lateral. And running for health got abad rap when Dr. Jim Fixx, an early en-thusiast for running, died in 1984 duringan early morning run. In truth, Dr. Fixx hadunderlying cardiac problems, and a fam-ily history of heart problems. So runningwas probably good for him, but it was nota cure-all. I have never been excitedabout running, and by the time seriousrunners began laughing at those of uswho called the activity jogging, I hadstopped altogether.

Enthusiasm for stretching has gone upand down during the last decade. AndreAgassi made the least favorable commentabout the value of stretching. When

asked if stretching was part of his fitnessregimen, he demonstrated by pulling hiswallet out of his pocket, tossing it on theground, then bending over and putting itback in his pocket—stretching. Of courseAgassi is no critic of performance enhanc-ing programs, and credits his fitness train-ing with Gil Reyes for getting him back ontop for the last stages of his playing career.Together, they have designed and are pro-ducing gym-quality machines to improve aserious competitor’s strength.

Novak Djokovic, on the other hand,says that stretching is a major componentof his off-court preparation for staying inthe top four. According to one Internetsource, Roger Federer uses props suchas jump ropes, resistance bands andmedicine balls to help maintain and en-hance his high level of skill.

Just a reminder … the key to your fit-ness is to know who you are and what youwant.

If you are number 14 in your group’sranking, you know that getting into thetop 10 will require a major commitment ofboth time and effort. Decide if yourproblems are your tennis skills andstrategies, or your level of fitness. Thenget professional help in that area tofacilitate success.

You can see how fit young children arejust by watching their everyday activities.I observed some of my six-year-oldstudents working their tricks on monkeybars, but why did some need a nap afterjust 15 minutes?

If you are somewhere in the middle like

most of us, you are probably managing abusy career and family life. The thought offinding an easy-to-follow moderate fit-ness program seems attractive. Resteasy, you are not alone.

The Daily Dozen originated with the mil-itary. They needed a fast way to get re-cruits up to acceptable levels of fitness.According to Sarah Koh of DemandMedia, the Daily Dozen was developed byWalter Camp in 1920, and originally con-sisted of 12 simple exercises that tookabout 15 minutes to complete. The DailyDozen was one of the early total bodyworkouts and the full set of exercisesconsisted of moves that he labeled“Hands, Grind, Crawl, Wave, Hips, Grate,Curl, Weave, Head, Grasp, Crouch andWing.”

Those exercises would probably behard to incorporate into your tennis train-ing, so let’s move to the 1950s and look ata very popular program called “The RoyalCanadian Air Force Exercise Plans forPhysical Fitness.” According to fitnessgal,an exercise blogger and instructor, “Thisplan is old school, designed by a doctorfor the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).It is a series of five exercises for men, and10 exercises for women. The idea is towork all your muscle groups in a short pe-riod of time (approximately 11 minutes).”This is an efficient and effective plan forthe short time required.

In 1974, a Chinese trauma physiciancreated a program based on thousands ofyears of Qigong tradition. Rather thanworking muscles, his program was

Should I Play Tennis to Get Fit, or Should I Get Fit to Play Tennis?


designed to move every joint in the bodysmoothly. Dr. Zhuang Yuan Ming calledthis program “Lian Gong Shi Ba Fa.”Once learned, the program can becompleted in 18 minutes. There are manyfree versions on YouTube, and a DVD canbe purchased if you want a well-organized presentation to help you learnquickly. When I work this program, myheart rate and blood pressure both dropsignificantly.

For 2015, the trendy program is theSeven-Minute Workout, as popularizedby a New York Times article. All you needfor this program is a wall, a chair, and thewillingness to work for seven minutes athigh intensity. There is disagreementabout the value of this combination ofshort duration plus high intensity, but ifyou are doing nothing this might be agood place to start. Apps are availablefrom Apple’s iTunes Store and for An-droid devices.

Because I like researching topics, Isometimes forget that solutions are oftenfound close to home. I am going to quotefrom the publication QuickStart Tennis: A

Guide for Parents and RecreationalCoaches:

“It is important to prepare your body be-fore you play tennis and treat it kindly afteryou play. You can easily do this by follow-ing a simple warm-up exercise, pre-playstretching, warm-down exercise andpost-play stretching routine. If you do this,you will have fewer injuries, feel better andrecover sooner to play again the same orthe next day. As people age, this routinebecomes even more important. It is alsoimportant for serious younger players whospend many hours on the tennis court.”

You might want to download just theappendix to the book, which starts onpage 111. The USTA has outdone itselfwith this section of the book, which haseasy to follow background, instructionsand diagrams.

Most New Yorkers can find easy waysto put simple fitness into their daily rou-tines. When riding the subway, try gettingoff one stop before your regular stop, andput a few extra blocks into your everyday

habits. If your train is not crowded, remainstanding and practice your balance asyou move from station to station. If youlive on the 10th floor of your building, getoff the elevator on the ninth floor and walkup one flight. When that becomes easy,get off on floor eight, seven, six, five, four,etc. How about walking crosstown atlunch hour instead of waiting for the busin frustration? If you drive to work, parkas far away from the entrance to yourbusiness as you can.

Reviewing some of the exercises I haveused has been fun for me. But don’t delayby searching for the perfect program.Pick a routine you are willing to do on aregular basis. Why wait? Start today.

Richard Thater is a long-time teacher andplayer on New York City courts. He isPTR-certified in both Junior and AdultDevelopment, and has played in seniortournaments in the Greater New Yorkarea. Richard currently teaches at theWest Side Tennis Club. He may bereached by phone at (917) 749-3255 or e-mail [email protected].

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New York Tennis Magazine and LongIsland Tennis Magazine recentlyhosted the Second Annual Holiday

Gourmet Brunch at Engineers CountryClub in Roslyn, N.Y.

The event brought together membersfrom all sides of the tennis community in

New York and Long Island, and kicked offthe 2015 tennis season in style. New YorkTennis Magazine wanted to extend itsthanks to everybody on hand for the event,as well as to the staff at Engineers CountryClub who provided guests with excellentservice and delicious food and drinks.

Over the past four years, one of NewYork Tennis Magazine’s proudest accom-plishments has been the many fantasticrelationships that have been built withinthe tennis community and the AnnualHoliday Gourmet Brunch was a great wayto kick off 2015.

Tennis Community Unites for New York Tennis Magazine’s Holiday Brunch


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Following the success of numerousevents in 2014, we are proud to announcethe very first Cayman Island ITF SeniorTennis Championships 2015 at the beauti-ful Sunshine Suites Resort. Guests at ourevents have become accustomed to stun-

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USTA Metro RegionScenes From the USTA Eastern Conference

January 30-31 in White Plains, N.Y.

The first Metro Board meeting of the 2015-2016term, as Metro Board Members, communityvolunteers and CTAs meet to discuss the goals ofthe new term

The USTA Eastern Conference Welcome Reception: MetroBoard member Natalie Ferguson, Metro Region PresidentJackie Clark, Tennis Service Representative Jocelyn Cruz,USTA Eastern Assistant Executive Director JennySchnitzer, Metro Board member Joani Akpan andSouthern Region President Olga Harvey

President of the Kings CountyTennis League, MichaelMcCasland, with MetroRegion President Jackie

Clark at the USTA EasternAwards Dinner

Congrats to USTA Eastern Metro Award Winners …USTA Eastern JuniorSportsmanship Awardswinners from Brooklyn,N.Y. Arnelle Sullivanand AnnaUlyashchenko arecongratulated by PabloSierra (left) and JackieClark (right)

The USTA EasternCollegiate Awards

winner forCommunity Servicewas the Wagner

Men’s Tennis Team

Congratulations to USTAEastern’s Tennis Family of the

Year, The Yee Family


USTA Metro RegionA Message From USTA Eastern Metro Region

President Jackie ClarkWow! I cannot believe howfast the last two years havegone, and I am so honoredand thrilled to start my secondterm as the USTA EasternMetro Region President. As anew York City kid growing up

in Queens, I would have never dreamed that Iwould have the opportunity to be a part of andlead such a talented, smart, compassionateand highly motivated group of passionate indi-viduals that want to grow tennis in NYC andgive kids and adults such wonderful opportuni-ties. This is so amazing and we have alreadyrolled up our sleeves and hit the ground running!

The Metro Junior Team Tennis League is in fullforce, as is our rolling grant application process.Our new Young Professionals Group, NYCAces, will soon have their first social and we arerolling out a brand new college scholarship op-portunity for our Junior Tennis Team players.Tennis play days are in the works and our MetroBoard is coming up with more and more funevents for new and existing tennis players andfans. Folks, jump on, buckle up those seat beltsand join the Metro NYC Express!

Please meet our 2015-2016 Metro RegionBoard Officers:

First Vice President: Jeffrey Fairbanks

Jeffrey Fairbanks worked as aCommunity Outreach Spe-cialist at USTA Eastern for al-most two years. When thatended due to budget cuts, hejoined the Metro Board.

“I strongly believe in themission of the USTA,” said Fairbanks. “I feltthat I could make an impact on the tenniscommunity within the Region. It has beena pleasure to work alongside wonderful,dedicated and determined volunteersthroughout the past six years, and I lookforward to working hard in the next few

years to continue the progress that hasbeen made.”

Second Vice President: Pablo SierraPablo Sierra first joined theUSTA when it was called theUSLTA (the United StatesLawn Tennis Association).

“I remember when theUSLTA was located on 42ndStreet in New York City, and I

also remember taking the subway there one dayso I could re-new my membership,” said Sierra.“The reason I enjoy being involved with theUSTA is because it promotes the game that Ihave loved ever since I saw my first tennis matchon Channel 13. I experienced the tennis boomduring that period, with greats like Billie JeanKing, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Virginia Wade …just to name a few. I feel confident that we arebeginning to experience the next tennis boomin the United States, and that the USTA is at theforefront of this boom. However, this boom ishappening at all levels, from kids, to juniors toadults to seniors. USTA is promoting the gamethroughout, meaning that all individuals will beable to enjoy and play this great game. This is anew and exciting time to belong to the USTA aswe promote the game of tennis.”

Secretary: Corrine IrishA certified couch potato as achild, Corrine Irish discoveredtennis in the last five yearsand immediately fell in lovewith the sport.

“After years of grueling les-sons (thanks, Esu!), I have

now gone from a tennis ‘practice player’ to atennis ‘player,’” said Irish. “As a tennis novice, Ihope to use my role on the Eastern Metro Boardto promote introducing newcomers to the sport,at any age and at any skill level.”

In her other life, Corrine is an attorney atSquire Patton Boggs, a large international law

firm, where she litigates and counsels clients ona wide range of complex commercial and pub-lic interest matters. In addition to tennis, she en-joys cooking and the arts. Corrine is also a “BigSister,” in Big Brothers, Big Sisters of New Yorkand an alumni mentor at her high school.

“I am is excited about serving as secretaryfor Eastern Metro, and am looking forward toan amazing two years,” said Corrine.

Member-at-Large: Jonathan WilliamsJonathan Williams is a musicbusiness consultant for ChaoticHarmony Consulting and alegal assistant for Carroll, Guido& Groffman LLP. At ChaoticHarmony, he negotiates, man-ages and develops the careers

of music producers, songwriters and recordingartists. As a legal assistant, he modifies anddrafts recording, publishing and various enter-tainment contracts. Jonathan is also vice presi-dent for Kings County Tennis League, anon-for-profit organization that teaches tennis forfree to underserved urban youths in Bed-StuyBrooklyn. In addition, Jonathan is also chairmanof the Scholarship Committee and GameDay/Tournament Manager of the Junior TeamTennis Committee for the USTA Metro Region’sBoard of Directors. Jonathan attended the Uni-versity of Miami, where he studied Pre-Med/Psy-chology and minored in Business Law.

“At only 33-years-old, tennis has been a partof my life for last 30 years,” said Williams. “Mydad teaching me tennis at the age of threechanged my life forever, and I wanted to be ableto share the same gift of tennis with youths in un-conventional areas that haven’t been exposed tothe sport. In addition, I get to collaborate withother individuals who love tennis just as much asI do to grow the sport across the New York Metroarea, which will always be my home.”

Jackie Clark, PresidentUSTA Eastern Metro Region


USTA Metro RegionIn the Hopper!

Ping pong, pizza, music, drinks!NYC Aces will have its first Young Professionals Party on Saturday, March 28 at Fat Cat in the West Village from

5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Open to ages 21-35, this event is for all levels of tennis players and tennis enthusiasts lookingto meet other young professionals in New York City. If you have any questions or would like to RSVP, e-mail [email protected].

Metro Region Grant applications now available

Start, support and participate in ourmission to promote and develop thegrowth of tennis in the USTA MetroRegion. We are focused on fosteringparticipation in tennis and USTA pro-grams with the USTA member or-ganizations of New York City. Special

consideration will be given to organ-izations seeking to expand tennisprograms to the following groups:1. Special populations2. Minority populations3. Parks and recreation4. Community Tennis Associations

5. Schools/after school6. Wheelchair tennis7. Senior tennis

Visit http://goo.gl/CDLKaq to ac-cess the 2015 USTA Metro RegionGrant Application.


Getting the Most Out of Your Tennis Camp Experience

By Luke Jensen

It is time to thaw out from thewinter freeze and start plan-ning ahead for a summertennis camp for your little

tennis champs. Attending a tennis campcan be one of the best experiences ayoung player has in their lifetime.

When I was 14-years-old, I went to aNick Bollettieri tennis camp in Wisconsin.Then, at the age of 15, I was given a greatsummer opportunity to travel with TennisEurope and play tournaments in a bunchof European countries. I competedagainst all levels of players and played onred clay for the very first time.

I found that the tennis camp and tour-nament experience helped lay the foun-dation for the person I am today. Evenafter all of these years, I still have lastingfriendships and memories as a youngteenager exploring a new world throughthe game of tennis.

When you are looking into tenniscamps for your tennis champs, my advicewould be to find the right balance of ten-nis and social growth for your child. I haveseen so many high-end tennis camps thatoffer a positive range of tennis experi-ences. I would check out the reviews fromprevious campers. Look into the numberof players on court per instructor. I founda more personal experience was benefi-cial to the camper. A good number is sixplayers on court per instructor, but eightplayers can be a manageable number.Anything over that is too much standingaround between balls hit.

I am also a big fan of camps that have

more than just tennis. I have worked atcamps with fishing, boating and a greatbalance of fun. A former WTA top 10player, Brenda Schultz-McCarthy has aVirginia mountain tennis experience thatis amazing! You never wanted to leaveand the coaching was first-class. I caughta ton of trout on the trip.

There is a massive amount of tennisand other activities out there if you doyour homework to find the right fit. Youwill be amazed at just how much your lit-tle tennis star improves and is inspired bya new tennis experience. I recommendteaming with a buddy and sharing thecamp experience. It will give them someindividual confidence and self-esteem tobe on their own. I recently ran into my ten-nis camp buddy Jeff “Cowboy” Slaggertand we had some great laughs about oursummer tennis camp some 30 years after

the experience. Look at all your options and believe me,

the tennis camp is a massive winner that canbe a life-long game changer for every littletennis champion!

Born in Grayling, Mich., Luke Jensen’s re-sume includes 10 ATP Tour doubles titlesand singles victories against AndreAgassi, Pete Sampras, Ivan Lendl, JohnMcEnroe, Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors,Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg and JimCourier. Jensen and his brother, Murphy,won the 1993 French Open doubles title.He was also a member of the 1991 and1992 Davis Cup Teams. His ambidextrousplay, including his ability to serve the ballwith either hand at 130 mph, earned himthe nickname “Dual Hand Luke.” He maybe reached by phone at (315) 443-3552 ore-mail [email protected].



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We have developed the “For-ever Court,” a post-tensionedconcrete tennis court with aunique coating system that is“Guaranteed Not to Crack for20 Years.”

Available for residential or commercial courts, the “ForeverCourt” can be built as new or overlaid over existing asphaltor clay courts.

Post-tensioned concrete is changing the way tennis courtsare built by allowing slabs to be built without cut-joints or ex-pansion joints. The durability is unsurpassed, and when youstart with a base that won’t crack, heave or settle, whateversurface system you use on top will last longer and play bet-ter.

We have been in the construction and concrete businessfor four generations. Michael Fortuna has also been projectmanager for several tennis court construction companies be-fore he started Ace Tennis Builders in 2013.

“My vision was to offer our customers the best tennis courton the market by improving the process of tennis court con-struction by using the best materials, the best methods andthe best contractors we could find,” said Fortuna. “We be-lieve we’ve done that.”

We are certified by the Post-Tensioning Institute, are amember of the American Sports Builders Association and theAmerican Concrete Institute, and are the “Official Post-Ten-sion Concrete Tennis Court Builders Company of USTA NewEngland.”

Call us for more information or a quote over the phone at(203) 263-0773.

Century Tennis56 Brook AvenueDeer Park, N.Y.(631) 727-0097Since 1965, Century Tennis has been dedicated to the grow-ing sport of tennis by building quality tennis courts and pro-viding a specialized service to the tennis club industry as wellas the private community. Maintaining a high quality of serv-ice and customer satisfaction over the years, the owners andstaff at Century Tennis have built, not only great tennis courts,but have built a trust that is ever so hard attain.

“We simply want to be the best at what we do.”In order to build great tennis courts, you have to start at

the bottom with an understanding of soil conditions and con-verting it to a good base. With a solid base, we can use ourlatest technologies, such as laser-controlled graders, to buildthe rest. Whether it is asphalt or the most durable post-ten-sioned concrete base, we offer the best solutions for long-lasting play.

Building the right surface that fits our client’s needs is animportant part of our business. Whether it is a hard court withthe softness of Deco-Turf or Classic Turf Rubber, or whetherit is a soft court like Har-Tru or Hydro Court, or a surface thatoffers a little of both like Nova Synthetic Turfs, we can deliver.

We are members, in good standing, with the AmericanSports Builders Association, Better Business Bureau and theLong Island Builders Institute. Our building techniques meetand or exceed those of the ASBA and the USTA and with our“Certified Tennis Court Builder” staff assures this quality. Ourintention is to deliver the very best tennis courts for the mostdemanding players and tennis club owners.

“Expanding the game of tennis, one court at a time.”


Har-Tru Sports2200 Old Ivy Road, Suite 100Charlottesville, Va.(877) 442-7878 l www.hartru.com

The first Har-Tru court was con-structed in Hagerstown, Md. in1932 and the brand was born.Har-Tru is consistent, timelessand intimately acquainted withsome of the greatest momentsin the history of the game.

Har-Tru Sports is a global, values-based, sports companywith its roots in the tennis industry. Our expertise in tennis in-cludes well over 200 years of collective experience on ourteam. Based in Charlottesville, Va., Har-Tru is the leadingprovider of clay courts, court consultation, court accessoriesand maintenance equipment in the tennis industry.

We are proud of our legacy of developing innovative tennisproducts, dating back to the 1970s when we developed ourfirst complete line of brushes and line sweepers and the firsttennis court roller. From court maintenance products to shoecleaners to court organizers and products that enhance theplayer experience, the company continues to evolve its ex-isting products and develop new ones.

With a focus on developing champions worldwide throughinnovative products, Har-Tru Sports, one of the business di-visions operated by Luck Companies, is best known for itsHar-Tru brand of clay courts and uses its products, knowl-edge, advocacy and passion to further the development oftennis champions around the world. The company shipsproducts around the world and its global reach includescourts in Canada, Australia and China, with a focus on inno-vative green technology to provide world-class products. Formore information about Har-Tru Sports, visit www.hartru.com.

Lux-Craft Inc. 2220 Voorhies Avenue l Brooklyn N.Y.(718) 934-3600 l (917) [email protected] l www.luxcrafters.com

Since 2010, Lux-Craft Inc. hasbeen involved in research anddevelopment of the newest LEDtechnologies for sport facilities.

In 2013, we had installed thefirst ever 100 percent LED sys-tem for indoor tennis at Robbie

Wagner Tennis Academy. Building on successful installation withamazing results, our team continued the research in order to im-prove the product line even further. Today, through hard work anddedication we are the only company who is able to deliver indirectLED lighting with direct replacement capability of old HID systems.

Our systems outperform old 1,000-watt HID systems by deliv-ering crisp and clear lighting, while reducing electricity cost by asmuch as 70 percent. By utilizing the latest technologies with yearsof research and development we are able to make conventionallight sources to become a thing of the past.

No other lighting systems on the market today are comparablein quality and light level output. Currently, the company has a lineof lighting for indoor arenas, but that line will soon be compli-mented with outdoor lighting. Early results indicate that new rev-olution in outdoor LED lighting for sports venues is just aroundthe corner. Our new outdoor fixtures will minimize the glare andprovide bright day-like lighting.

In order to achieve consistent quality, only the latest techno-logically advanced components are used, and final assembly iscompleted in the United States. We provide a three-year full guar-antee, with the option to extend the guarantee to five years.

Since our systems deliver substantial energy savings, many ofour clients qualify for government-sponsored rebate programs.

We understand that anything new is met with skepticism, thatis why we invite you to contact us. We would eagerly provide asmuch information as possible and facilitate the tour of completedinstallations at our home on Long Island, N.Y.


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MBR Builders is a nationwide ex-pert in all facets of constructionand renovations of metal buildingsfor the indoor tennis market.

With more than 50 years ofcombined experience of theirhighly qualified staff, MBR offers a

full range of services for your tennis club. Besides being aCertified Butler Builder for new construction and re-roofingsystems, MBR Builders also works closely with their clienteleto provide easy and cost-efficient ways to lower operatingcosts of their existing buildings.

With a multitude of high quality insulation and lighting sys-tems, MBR Builders can match your individual club needs tothe perfect energy-efficient system for your facility. MBR’s of-fers LED lighting systems, such as The Watt Slayer Series,which have been extremely successful in reducing energyconsumption, while giving their clientele the light levels theydesire.

MBR Builders also offers a quality line of indoor tennis ac-cessories, including custom backdrop curtains and dividernets. Check out MBR’s Web site at www.mbrbuilders.com tolearn more about their services or request a free estimate.

MBR’s services include: New construction, re-roofing, in-terior ceiling systems, lighting systems, curtains and wirework, and tennis accessories.

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If you cannot afford to do itright … can you afford todo it again?

You’ve heard that before,it’s not just a catchy rhyme,it’s our mantra. Traditionalcrack repair methods canleave unsightly patches thatdon’t last—resulting in fre-quent and costly repairs.The installation is so uniquethat many tennis court own-ers cannot believe itsproven success until theysee it for themselves.

The RiteWay System utilizes exclusive technology that al-lows the existing cracks in your court to move without break-ing the repair. Tennis court cracks expand and contract withchanges in temperature, freezing, thawing and with use. Toinsure a long-lasting, durable and seamless repair, we usethe Rite-Way Crack Repair System.

RiteWay is a layered system that becomes an integral partof the tennis court and results in an invisible repair which isnot affected by weather or temperature. It not only keepscracks from coming back, but it eliminates dead spots, hol-low sounds and bubbling common with other systems.

No hollow-sounding areas. No dead spots. No bubbling.A true bounce … guaranteed.

We’ve seen the other systems on the market, but no otheroverlay system can give you the RiteWay results or guaran-tee. A RiteWay repair comes with a two-year conditional war-ranty and is priced 50 percent to 75 percent below the costof reconstruction. RiteWay will keep your court looking newand playing safe, year after year.

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Velvetop Products is afamily-owned and oper-ated business since1968. We are a stockingdistributor of a full line oftennis court materialsand equipment. Ourbrands include:

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MYTHBUSTERSTale of the Tape–Tournament Directors

and Parents of Tournament Players

college tennis spotlight

By Ricky Becker

I’m going to take off my college consultant base-ball cap and put on my ski cap for this issue. Theski cap says “Tournament Parent” on one sideand “Tournament Director” on the other. With ex-

perience playing tournaments (30-plus years), coaching juniorswho play tournaments (15-plus years) and being a parent of achild who started playing tournaments a couple years ago, I haveformed some strong opinions on how tournaments should be run.Over the last three years, I have run almost 100 tournaments andhave heard people start a sentence with “Tournament directorsshould … ” or “Parents should … ” I’m going to tackle both sidesof some topics and award the advantage to the side of parent ortournament director.

Tournament director says: “We can’t post the draws andtimes until we know what courts will be available.”Parent says: “We can’t plan our weekend because thedraws and times don’t get posted until two days before thetournament.If families are required to leave a whole weekend open for theirchild to play, the tournament should be sympathetic to the factthat most families have other kids, warm-ups to schedule, etc.Clubs fill their empty court time with tournaments (tournamentsdon’t bring in as much revenue as regular programming) but cando this immediately after the deadline, not wait until the lastminute.

Advantage: Parents

Tournament director says: “Our job is to administer the rulesthe way the USTA asks us, so we will be enforcing the code(point penalty system) and sending the violations to theUSTA.”Parent says: “It is ridiculous to give my child a point penalty

for smashing the curtain. They don’t enforce that at othertournaments.”When I won the Eastern Sportsmanship Award and went out toCalifornia for college, my teammates joked that I won the “TheBest of the Worst Award.” Simply put, the Eastern Section isknown throughout the country as having the players with theshortest tempers. Just because other tournaments don’t enforcethe code doesn’t make it right. There is also a large silent portionof parents who want tournaments to enforce the code. I alwaystell my umpires to give a “soft” warning first to a player when theydo something that goes slightly over the line.

Advantage: Tournament directors

Tournament director says: “We had to change the surface forthe event because of unforeseen circumstances.”Parent says: “I signed up my child for this tournament be-cause of the surface, I should be able to pull my child out andget a refund.”Interestingly, it says in the USTA rules that a tournament is al-lowed to change the surface of a match at any time. With thatsaid, that’s a crazy rule. If the surface change is announced afterthe deadline, and a player wants to withdraw, the tournamentshould give the courtesy of a refund if a player requests it and put“Tournament Administration Error” in the default code.

Advantage: Parents

Tournament director says: “Sorry, we are running late, a lot ofmatches ran long or there was a screw-up with the courts.”Parent says: “This is ridiculous! They are running an hourlate!”The USTA recommends that tournament directors schedulematches one hour and 15 minutes apart. I admit, as aparent/coach, I hate the super tie-breaker with a passion. As atournament director, I couldn’t live without it. With super tie-breakers, it shouldn’t be difficult to run somewhat on time. Don’t


forget though that pros play on a “to be followed by” basis. If youare the fifth match of the day at the U.S. Open, you could go onat 3:00 p.m. or 8:00 p.m. With relatively limited indoor courts, it’svery difficult to run things perfectly on-time, but some clubs tour-naments always run late which isn’t fair.

Slight advantage: Parents

Tournament director says: “You don’t need an umpire or courtmonitor roaming the courts. Come get someone at the deskif you have a problem.”Parent says: “It stinks that nobody is on the courts roamingaround. My child is getting bad calls.”All tournaments are told by the USTA to have court monitors or um-pires. Level 1, Sectionals and Super Six events are provided umpiresby the USTA. Level 1B, Level 2 and Level 3 tournaments are requiredto provide their own umpires. Some tournaments do not have offi-cials, presumably to save costs (cost of officials is the biggest ex-pense to tournaments). I know of kids who left tennis because theyfelt like they were cheated in matches. Just having an extra set ofeyes is the best preventative measure to having a conflict.

Advantage: Parents

Tournament director says: “Sorry, I can’t take your late entry.”Parent says: “I missed the deadline, can you please put mychild in the tournament.”Interestingly, I have heard at national tournaments that Easternparents account for a large majority of late entry requests. Withthat said, it doesn’t hurt anybody to put in someone else if thedraw hasn’t been made. If the draw has been made, it cannothappen because the director is changing the whole randomnessof the draw and one’s late entry affects others. I once had a stu-dent who has extremely responsible parents who booked thehotel, airline and made arrangements for me to travel with her andone other girl to the national hard courts in Kentucky. I noticedthree days before the tournament that her parents forgot to enterher into the tournament! The draw hadn’t been made yet, but tour-nament director held her ground and couldn’t add her to the draw.

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Those are pretty extenuating circumstances, but they were theright ones. It would be nice for a director to add someone beforethe draw is made, but be appreciative if they do … and never calltheir cell phone around midnight to enter your child after missingthe deadline. That’s a surefire way not to get in.

If draw is made: Advantage directors and if the draw is notmade: Even

Tournament director says: “The court monitors are impartial.”Parent says: “There must be some kind of connection be-tween the court monitor and my child’s opponent because thecourt monitor was being very impartial.”From my experience, this is total paranoia from the parents. Onemight not like an overrule, a foot fault call or a decision the umpiremade but rarely if ever is it because the umpire is favoring one childover another. Truth is, the goal of these officials is to have a fair matchand avoid conflict with players and parents. Sometimes even to err onthe side of doing nothing to avoid conflict. I got a handful of com-plaints this year from parents who contended the umpire favored theirchild’s opponent due to a conflict of interest. In every situation, theumpire didn’t know either child in the match. Over the last 30-years,I can remember calls I may not have liked but to my knowledge it wasnever because the umpire “liked” my opponent more than me.

Advantage: Directors

In the next issue of Long Island Tennis Magazine, I will continuealong this theme. I’ll give the edge in topics regarding trophies,player time requests, spectator viewing, warming up at the facilitybefore the match, arriving late and more.

Ricky Becker is the founder of JuniorTennisConsulting LLC, direc-tor of tennis at Pine Hollow Country Club and independentlycoaches high-performance juniors year-round. Ricky was namedthe Most Valuable Player for the 1996 NCAA Championship Stan-ford Tennis Team and was a top-five nationally-ranked junior. Hecan be reached by e-mail at [email protected], by phone at(516) 605-0420 or via JuniorTennisConsulting.com.


Having just recently graduatedfrom University of Wisconsin-Madison, I am filled with a senseof pride and accomplishment. I

competed for their Division I tennis team,played first singles, and was the team cap-tain my senior year. It was easily one of themost fulfilling and best experiences of mylife, but it was not always easy. There weremany hardships (which are common in thelife of a student athlete), but looking backon the experience as a whole, I think manyof the difficult times could have beenavoided or handled differently. I wish I hadsomeone beforehand to pass down someadvice on what to expect and how to han-dle life as a student-athlete.

What coaches are looking forWhen coaches begin recruiting, they are al-ways on the lookout for well-rounded indi-viduals. A student with good results, bothacademically and athletically, indicates thatthey are mature, hard-working and self-re-liant. They also look for individuals who are“team players,” because even though ten-nis is generally an individual sport, in col-lege it is a team sport. The combination ofthose skills will eventually come together toform a leader on the team as well.

The college searchBegin one to two years in ad-vance and contact as manycoaches as possible. If youget a response from 15-20percent of these coaches,you have done a good job sofar, but you still need to fol-low up. Promptly e-mail thecoach back, attaching yourbio, some recent results anda video. The video is basi-cally a highlight reel of yourbest shots and some of yourbest points. If you have aparticular strength in yourgame, try to accentuate it.

If communication thereafter is goingwell with the coach, you should try tovisit the college to take a closer look,meet the coach in person, as well asmeet some of the team. If you live too far,try to contact some of the players on theteam as they can give you a more realis-tic view.

What to expectLong hours on the court, followed by longhours in the library can be quite over-whelming at times. Make sure you use your

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time wisely as most schools do not offerthe student-athlete any special academicbenefits.

Also, expect pressure from the coach.They are there to help you in any way theycan, but they also expect results, both onand off the court.

Lastly, expect to miss a lot of classesdue to travel, especially in the spring.This is the main season for men’s tennis.A good thing to keep in mind is if youhave any tough classes, you are betteroff taking them during the fall semesteras you’re likely to have more time tostudy for it.

The college tennis experience can betough and overwhelming at times, butnot many things will leave you with thismuch satisfaction. Good luck in yoursearch!

Petr Satral grew up in the small town ofKlatovy in the Czech Republic and startedto play tennis at the age of seven. He wasranked in the top 40 in adults in the CzechRepublic at the age of 17, when he movedto the United States to pursue a bachelor’sdegree in economics. He played for theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, servingas the men’s tennis team captain. He is cur-rently in management and an instructor atStadium Tennis Center. He may be reachedby e-mail at [email protected].

There is no doubt that technological devel-opments are always at the center of change,and that is no more evident than in coachingand teaching.

Over the last couple of decades, advancesin technology have changed and shaped theway some of the top tennis coaches in thecountry teach their players.

“One of the first ways I can remember wasthrough the use of video,” said Ken DeHart,a Professional Tennis Registry internationalmaster pro and United States ProfessionalTennis Association Master Pro. “My dad builtme a homemade camera unit on the courthitting. We were able to record players andplay their favorite music next to the video sothey could see themselves in their greatesthits and create a positive NLP (neuro-linguis-tic programming) anchor with the music.”

DeHart has been a certified coach formore than 40 years and has seen how effec-tive video analysis can be.

“Pictures are worth 1,000 words,” said De-Hart. “We cannot see ourselves play, so wethink we look like the picture in our head. Thecoaches use their best choice of words to tryand create a word picture for the student.They are often amazed when they see theactual picture of what the coach has beentrying to describe.”

Using video to see yourself on the courthas gone a step further with the developmentof tablets and apps.

“Now on the iPad, I use a program calledVstrator which allows me to draw lines, ar-rows and diagrams right on the screen,” saidDeHart. “From the video picture, you demon-strate, in super slow motion, the skill youwere focused upon, put a voice over to it,and e-mail it to the player or parents so theycan see it. The point is … instant feedbackequaling instant performance is both mean-ingful and measurable.”

Beyond the use of video, other productshave come along to enhance on-court

teaching, such as the radar gun. The daysof using expensive radar guns may be gonebecause of new inexpensive and more ac-curate alternatives.

“Things like Pocket Radar are great be-cause it’s the size of a cellphone and fits rightin your pocket,” said DeHart. “You can seehow fast your serves or groundstrokes are in-stantly. For example, if you’re hitting firstserves at 90 miles per hour, but not accurateenough for the results you want. You drop themeasured speed down to 80 or 85 miles perhour as measured by the Pocket Radar tobecome more consistent. When combinedwith your video you are able to demonstratea technical adjustment and measure the re-sults instantly.”

They also provide more features and ca-pabilities than your prototypical radar gun,and can be used from essentially any areaon the court, and measure more than justserves.

“I now use it to monitor all strokes, not justserves. I am able to compare things likegroundstroke speeds of my players to thepros speeds,” said Mike Gennette, USPTA

California immediate past president and cur-rent head coach at California Lutheran Uni-versity. “I also noticed that the speed of anincoming ball affects the outgoing speedstoo. All of that data can then be used to steerour practices.”

The science and technology behind work-ing out and training have also seen tremen-dous strides. Things like vision training andperformance analysis isolate and specifyyour work out to increase its effectiveness aswell as injury prevention.

The technological innovations will continueto improve and enhance the way coachesengage with their players and students. Thedevelopment of video analysis and the tech-nological advances of radar guns are at thecornerstones of coaching change, and it willbe interesting to see what new advancescome along that continue to build on that aswe move into the future of tennis technology.

Brian Coleman is editorial coordinator forNew York Tennis Magazine. He may bereached by phone at (516) 409-4444, ext.314 or e-mail [email protected].

Modern TechnologyImproving Tennis Coaching

By Brian Coleman



By Andrew Eichenholz

When the playerswho are supposedto come out ontop at a tennis

tournament win, one would think that therewould not be too many stories to go over.Yet, this Australian Open was different.

While world number one Novak Djokovicand his counterpart on the women’s side,Serena Williams, both ended up takinghome the big trophy and the even largerwinner’s check that comes with it, therewas a lot for onlookers to take note of.Whether it was those who surprised in agood way, or players who flopped, therewas no lack of intrigue.

Three exceptional performersMany people inthe tennis world,from writers tofans have gottenon Andy Murraysince his big win atWimbledon in2013 to break theinfamous Britishdrought. It waswarranted in away, since he has

never played at the same level since. But,people need to remember that the man hasnot lost before the quarterfinals of a majorsince, which means that he has not beenplaying bad tennis. He merely has just nothit quite the same level. At the AustralianOpen, he got as close as he could get, innearly winning the entire thing. It is nevereasy to beat Novak Djokovic, especiallywhen the champion is at his best, yetMurray seemingly took the final out of hishands for much of two sets. In the third set,only having managed to take one of thefirst two, Murray started off by playingsome of the best tennis he ever has, but hismental game let him down. That was all ittook for Djokovic to pounce and cruise the

rest of the way. But, to see Murray at orpretty close to his very best again is a goodsign for his season.

When VenusWilliams wasd i a g n o s e dwith Sjogren’sSyndrome in2011, thingswere on adownwardsslope for the

former world number one. Her resultsslowly deteriorated as she looked fatiguedon the court. Yet, after showing momentsof her former self at points last season,Venus amazingly showed that not only canshe still play really good tennis, but she cancompete with the best in the world. Venustook down the always tough AgnieszkaRadwanska of Poland, and looked as if shecould eventually be a legitimate threat tosister Serena in the semifinals if she madeit that far. However, she did lose in thequarterfinals to up-and-coming AmericanMadison Keys in a battle, one of the bestof the tournament. What is exceptional isthat she made the quarterfinals and nearlythe semis of a major without really playingher very best. The match against Keys mayvery well have been her worst in Australia,yet she still almost won. That is a goodsign.

Finding a way tofend off AndyMurray’s best ten-nis is impressiveenough. But, find-ing a way to win aGrand Slam semi-final against anelite ball striker in

Stan Wawrinka while playing subpar tennisfor Novak Djokovic’s standards should givethe Serbian a ton of confidence headinginto Roland Garros. It is not every day thatsomebody could win a major title without

really hitting their stride. In the final againstMurray, one could argue that he neverplayed the best that Djokovic could play.He showed heart and fight, which for everyother player could mean a great run thatcomes to a close before raising a cham-pion’s trophy. Yet, on the last day, it wasDjokovic on top.

Three lackluster performersQuite frankly,Roger Federershould never,ever lose in thethird round ofany tourna-ment that heplays in. Ar-guably thegreatest to everstep on a ten-

nis court, he has proven time and timeagain that even his “off-game” could beatnearly everybody in the world. That in-cludes Andreas Seppi, the Italian who beathim in the third round of the 2015 AussieOpen. What was most shocking was one ofthe most opportunistic players the sport hasever seen took almost no chances that hehad in the match. He had more break pointsthan Seppi, won more points than his oppo-nent, yet still lost in four sets. His break be-fore the spring hard court season comes justin time.

The Romanian has proven to the world thatshe is no fluke. There are few people in theworld with as strong and sound of agroundstroke game as Simona Halep, whobludgeons the ball on both wings. Yet, shelost her match in Australia while winning a

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total of four games. Not in a set, but theentire match. Better yet, her opponentwas not Serena Williams. It was EkaterinaMakarova, a crafty Russian lefty. It is im-possible to say that a quarterfinal show-ing coming off of the offseason is a badshowing, but it is the manner in whichshe lost. Committing more than doublethe unforced errors as she hit winners,Halep just did not have it, and that iswhat was disappointing. The best play-ers in the world more often than not havea second gear that they can find in orderto compete as hard as they can despitehaving an off day, but it just was notthere.

Again, a quarterfi-nal performancefor almost any-body in the worldis nothing to beashamed of. But,people have beenwaiting for MilosRaonic to breakthrough at aGrand Slam, and it

is just not happening. One may argue that

it is impossible to critique a loss to even-tual champion and the best player in theworld, Djokovic, but there will always be aDjokovic around until Raonic becomes thatguy. For him to become the next great thingthat many believe the Canadian can be, hehas to beat the best on the biggest stages.Ceding 11 break points to anybody, eventhe best returner out there, when Raonichas the biggest serve in the world, is dis-appointing. The big man will have to find away to hang in there in his service games atthe majors against the very best, because itwill be at the end of sets that he will be ableto make his moves. He earned no breakpoints against Djokovic, which means thatnot only did he struggle on serve, hisstrength, but he found no opportunities onthe return side of things, something he willneed to develop in the future.

Three important notes from Down Under1. Stan Wawrinka played better than hisnew ranking showsMore times than not, a player whomakes a Grand Slam semifinal rocketsup the rankings. Stan played arguablybetter than anybody else did in the en-

tire tournament to beat Kei Nishikori in astraight set quarterfinal win. However,after losing a five-setter against Djokovicin the semis, a match that he realisticallycould have and should have won giventhe quality of play, Stan saw his rankingplummet five spots to ninth in the worldthe following Monday. Again, people whotake a look at the big movers of the weekwill think that the drop is a reflection onthe Swiss’ current level of play. That sim-ply is not the case. He may have playedhis worst match of the Australian Openin losing to the world number one in fivesets, and can still lay claim to arguablythe best shot in tennis, his one-handedbackhand.

2. American tennis, anyone?If somebody had said before the first GrandSlam of the year that the top-ranked Amer-ican male, John Isner, would lose in astraight sets third round match against anunseeded opponent, most people wouldprobably start to write headlines aboutAmerican tennis staying in the dungeons.But, the country enjoyed its finest tourna-

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ment in years. Donald Young showedsigns of another resurgence, and TimSmyczek showed that not only could aguy who has spent much of his career onthe Challenger Circuit nearly beat RafaelNadal, but that he is a class act as well,giving Nadal a free first serve as theSpaniard served for the match, becausea fan in the crowd made noise. On thewomen’s side, results and performanceswere even more impressive. The runs ofSerena winning the title, along with Venusand Madison Keys playing terrific tennisare one thing, but the rest of the bunch isanother. Seven total American women madethe third round, and Madison Brengle joinedthe other three in the fourth.

3. A coaching switch got more attentionthan a matchMany people probably expected Federer toplay Rafael Nadal in the semifinals of thetournament, and rightfully so. Federer had

been playing great tennis leading into theyear’s first major, and Nadal is, well, Nadal.But, it ended up being a clash between thenumber six and number seven players inthe world, Andy Murray and TomasBerdych. After staying with Murray for ashort while after he hired Amelie Mauresmoas his coach, Dani Vallverdu, the Scot’slongtime friend and coach, moved over toBerdych’s camp to work with the Czech.There had been gossip going around thatVallverdu had left because of Mauresmo,which led to the match centering aroundplayer versus old coach rather than the

match at hand, which happened to be agood one. Murray prevailed in four setsplaying spectacular tennis, eventuallyreaching the final.

Andrew Eichenholz is a journalism studentat Stony Brook University, where he cur-rently is a staff writer for The Statesman,covering tennis amongst many sports. Hegrew up playing tennis at the USTA BillieJean King National Tennis Center, wherehe learned to love the game, eventuallybecoming a part time tennis instructor,working for the most part with the Quick-Start 10 & Under Program. Andrew hasalso served as a ballperson at the U.S.Open. He may be reached by e-mail [email protected].

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“If you ding it, just re-swing it.”David E. Moe has written a book that will be

of use to any tennis player if they are open to amulti-disciplinary guide to improving their game.The Making of a Winner: A Fable About thePower Within takes tidbits from sports psychol-ogy, biofeedback and Eastern religions, andweaves them into a short primer on how to playbetter tennis.

This isn’t a book that concentrates on the virtues of an open-stance forehand versus a closed-stance, it is concerned with themental and emotional aspects of becoming a better player. Notsurprisingly, it carries a blurb from one James E. Loehr, one of theleading sports psychologists working in tennis. Published in 1990,The Making of a Winner also carries a recommendation fromArthur Ashe.

The book’s framework consists of a story about a young tennisplayer named John who has what we would now call anger man-agement issues. His parents sign him up for lessons with a tennisteacher named Mr. Lovano who immediately gets to work on hisbad attitude with a number of techniques that range from com-puterized personality assessments, to touches of Eastern medi-tation. As a tennis instructor, Mr. Lovano goes way beyond theapproach you might encounter in USPTA or USPTR trainingvideos. One tactic Mr. Lovano teaches his student is to re-swingthe stroke after you make an error so that you are imprinting amore successful version of the shot you just screwed up.

In the story, it works for John as he is able to beat a player whois described as being more macho, at least in as far as he can hitthe ball harder. But John is able to pull out a win in a close match

by using Mr. Lovano’s positive reinforcement principles.Of course, there is a girl mixed in with the story as well. Marlene, an-

other young player, wants to shape her own game so that it resemblesChris Evert’s. She takes lessons from Mr. Lovano. The guy he beats inthe final also wants to hang with Marlene, but apparently using Mr. Lo-vano’s techniques not only helps the hero win the tournament, butalso makes him a better boyfriend for Marlene.

The Making of Winner would be a valuable addition to anyyoung player’s library if they have the patience to absorb and prac-tice the lessons that Mr. Lovano, who is basically a mouthpiecefor the author, espouses. It’s the kind of book that can help aplayer reach their full potential. Even though most of the charac-ters and situations are aimed at young players, there are tips herethat could conceivably help people like myself who having beenplaying so long that I am the only player at the East River Parkcourts still using a Continental Grip.

The author describes himself as a teacher, philosopher, counselorand mathematician. From these various backgrounds, he has put to-gether a tennis instruction book that may well reach a studious youngplayer or veteran who has tried other approaches from Zen Tennis toBrad Gilbert’s classic Winning Ugly.

The Making of a Winner will probably not leap to the top of the ten-nis books bestseller list, but is a valuable tool. It’s a shame it won’t geta marketing push from a big publishing house because I could imag-ine catchy commercials on Tennis Channel saying, “If you ding it, justre-swing it.”

The Making of a Winner: A Fable About the Power Within is avail-able on Amazon at http://goo.gl/SfVedm.

Brent Shearer may be reached by e-mail at [email protected].

The Making of a Winner: A Fable About the Power Within by David E. Moe

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For beginners and advanced beginners be-tween the ages of three to nine, you can expectyour child to have fun, develop self-confidence,and learn tennis fundamentals.


Julian Krinsky School of Tennis610 South Henderson Road

King of Prussia, Pa.(866) 879-5527

www.jkcp.com/tennis

Julian Krinsky School of Tennis was cre-

ated over 35 years ago by Julian Krinsky,who played at Wimbledon and the FrenchOpen. Over the years we have trained morethan 20,000 tennis players. We know eachplayer has unique goals, interests andstrengths. This is why we have reimaginedtennis camp and allowed you to choose theintensity you want to learn to achieve thebest results for YOU!

First, choose from five levels of tennis.Then, each day pick from a variety of con-centrations so you can focus on the areasof your game that matter most to you.l Tennis Basic Training: We make the

game easier and more fun; play gamesand build confidence in relaxed envi-ronment.

l Tennis for Improvement: Increase yourconsistency, endurance, footwork, andcompete in our weekly tournaments.


CAMPGUIDEl Tennis to Compete: Ideal for school

team players to prep for next seasontryouts or to improve your spot on theteam.

l Tennis for Tournaments: This is yourturning point. Prepare for USTA Tourna-ments, step up your training, and learnto execute your best game every time.

l Tennis for College: For the true com-petitors who want high performanceand high intensity classes to preparefor college level tennis. Class that willpush you past your limits to achievegreatness.

No matter what your goal or level is,work with our professional tennis instruc-tors to reinvent your tennis game. Plus,enjoy campus life at Haverford College orVillanova University, evening activities andweekend trips!



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Junior Stars Fitness (a division of Silver Stars)

850 7th Avenue (West 54/55th Street), Suite 305

New York, N.Y.www.silverstarsfit.com (click on “Junior Stars”)

Junior Stars Fitness Studio offers childrenages nine through 17 the highest quality in-struction based on the most up-to-date re-search available in the fitness industry.

Our Junior Stars studio allows kids an op-portunity to receive personalized instructionand have fun in a comfortable studio settingas opposed to a large crowed gym.

Junior Stars Programs include: PrivateTraining; Small Group Training (three to fourpeople); Five-Week Summer Camps; FatLoss; Sports-Specific; General Fitness;Yoga/Pilates; and Massage Therapy.

Junior Stars Fitness ProfessionalsAll of our instructors are hired and trained byour director and renowned fitness profes-sional, Jason Greenspan. Our instructors arenot only certified by the leading fitness organ-izations, but are trained to work specificallywith children to ensure you are getting thehighest quality instruction. Some of our fitnessprofessionals are also certified tennis profes-sionals, so we really understand the tennisplayer!

Junior Stars Training PhilosophyWhether your goal is tennis-specific, fat loss,

through 18 and an additional six weeks ofday camp only (8:45 a.m.-4:15 p.m.) for agesnine through 18.

Other locations in the area include:Lawrenceville School (Lawrenceville, N.J.),Randy Mani Tennis Academy at Hardscrab-ble Club (Brewster, NY), Colgate University(Hamilton, N.Y.), Elizabethtown College (Eliz-abethtown, Pa.), Chirico-Cohen TournamentTraining at Chestnut Hill College (ChestnutHill, Pa.), and Sacred Heart University (Fair-field, Conn.). With more than 80 locationsand programs for all levels, there is a campfor everyone!

Who says that only kids can go to camp?The Nike Adult Tennis Camp at Amherst Col-lege has hosted more than 30,000 adult ten-nis players since 1972. Camp DirectorsReiny Maier and Maureen Rankine are out-standing teachers and passionate coacheswho inspire all players to get better and lovethe game. Multiple camp options and datesoffered throughout June and July. Visitwww.ussportscamps.com/tennis for details.The Lawrenceville School and Curry Collegealso offer adult weekend clinics.

NYJTL Outdoor Program OfferingsNYJTL Advanced Training Program (ATP)Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning

1720 Crotona Avenue • Bronx, N.Y.Contact: Elena Bantovska: (347) 417-8168

[email protected] • www.nyjtl.org

ATP Summer Tournament Team—FREEtrainingThe ATP Summer Tournament Team, pro-

general fitness or maybe just preventing an in-jury, our fitness professionals are trained to fol-low an integrated approach whichincorporates several key components to anysuccessful fitness program. These key com-ponents include proper posture, flexibility, mo-bility, balance and stability around the mostvulnerable joints, in addition to overall strength,power, cardio endurance and energizingspeed, agility and quickness drills.

At Junior Stars, you will have fun as we willkeep you up on your feet and moving while wework on all the skills required for your specificgoal.

We look forward to helping you achieveyour health and fitness goals.

Nike Tennis Camps (800) NIKE-CAMP (645-3226)

www.ussportscamps.com

Come join the fun and get better this sum-mer at a Nike Tennis Camp! With more than80 locations nationwide, both overnight andday options, there is a camp for everyone.Nike Tennis Camps provide young playersthe opportunity to improve their tennis skills,work hard, make new friends and have a lotof fun. Our dedicated camp directors have apassion for teaching and a gift for helpingyou take your game to the next level.

This summer on Long Island, RobbieWagner’s Tournament Training Camp in GlenCove, N.Y. is offering nine weeks of daycamp (8:45 a.m.-4:15 p.m.) for ages nine


vides talented players ages six through 18with year-round on- and off-court elite train-ing by USPTA- and PTR-certified coaches.The program focuses on developing skills,improving technique, footwork, balance, co-ordination and point construction. Each stu-dent will gain discipline, decision-makingskills, self-esteem, the ability to focus ongoals and a commitment to high standards.Training will take place at the Cary LeedsCenter for Tennis & Learning. The tryoutdate is Saturday, April 25.

New—Cary Leeds Center Summer TennisCampThe Cary Leeds Center Summer TennisCamp is designed for players with inter-mediate and advanced skill levels. Playerswill train to develop the necessary tennistechnique, improving consistency and cre-ating basic patterns of play for effectivepoint construction. Included is a fitnesscomponent designed to improve players’footwork, balance, speed and overallstrength. We advise all players to attendtryouts for evaluation and placement.Training will be provided by a qualifiedteam of coaches at a reasonable cost.

Benefits include free entry to USTA tour-naments at the Cary Leeds Center, tourna-ment trips, college selection guidance,special events and uniforms. Training willtake place at the Cary Leeds Center forTennis & Learning.

Community Tennis Program (CTP) NYJTL’s free summer Community TennisProgram will begin Monday, July 6. Theseprograms generally run 9:00 a.m.-Noon;1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.; or 9:00 a.m.-2:00p.m., Mondays to Fridays for six to eightweeks. For specific days and times, pleasevisit www.nyjtl.org as the season nears.Register for free on-site, during hours ofoperation at various locations citywide. Formore information, contact Scott Daly byphone at (347) 417-8177 or [email protected].


CAMPGUIDErooms. A delicious breakfast of freshmuffins, bagels, cereal, fruit, juice, coffee,tea, milk and yogurt is included daily.

The Tennis Academy, located threemiles away, is primarily a teaching centerfeaturing 12 soft courts. We have wel-comed participants from over 25 coun-tries and 30 states since 2000. TheAcademy features an enthusiastic staff,renowned for its high-quality instructionand low student-to-staff ratio. The maxi-mum ratio is 4:1, but the average ratio is2:1.

Thirty-five Japanese juniors have beencoming for three weeks annually, for thelast eight years. They run three miles be-fore breakfast and then 10 hours of in-struction, running and matches.However, most participants seek a lessintensive program, taking three to fivehours of instruction daily. The staff is al-ways accommodating and happy to tai-lor programs to fit the needs of thecustomer. Frequently, an adult team willcome at the beginning of the season andreturn for a family vacation. There arealso tennis pros who bring groups. TheAcademy’s staff is available to supple-ment visiting pros staff. The groups al-ways have an incredible time, somehaving returned for 10 consecutive years.Tennis during the day, a trip to the beachin the late afternoon, perhaps a glass ofwine at sunset, and then dining at a greatrestaurant, a movie or a show at the Per-forming Arts Center. Occasionally, guestsare coaxed into karaoke with the interna-tional staff!

Peter Kaplan’s Westhampton BeachJunior/Adult Tennis Academy

Contact: Peter Kaplan at (631) 288-4021 or (914) 234-9462

[email protected]

Peter Kaplan’s Westhampton Beach Jun-ior/Adult Tennis Academy, and the affili-ated Grassmere Inn, is a wonderfuldestination for beginners to nationally-ranked players of all ages. Private in-struction and 90-minute clinics areoffered daily. Camps and one- throughseven-day programs are available. Theflexibility of the programming enablesparticipants to enjoy the nearby beautifulocean beaches, charming village, Per-forming Arts Center, movie theatre, winecountry, flower farms, shopping, cafes,restaurants, water park and other EastEnd attractions. Peter Kaplan, an attor-ney, former New York State Tennis Cham-pion, and a graduate of CornellUniversity, is on-site every day.

Resident students/families/teams stayat the historic Grassmere Inn, located onquiet, tree-lined Beach Lane in West-hampton Beach, N.Y., only 50 yards fromthe beginning of the charming village, yetless than one mile from a beautiful oceanbeach. The location could not be better.The Grassmere has 22 guest rooms, allwith air conditioning, WiFi, cable televi-sion and private bathrooms. Ideal forfamilies, are two suites or interconnected



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Multi-Sport Summer Camp96th Street Red Clay Tennis Courts and

at the 102nd Street PlaygroundExecutive Director (RCTA):

Mark McIntyre(212) 870-3078

[email protected] • www.rcta.info

Riverside Park Conservancy’s (RPC) Multi-Sport Summer Camp offers week-long daycamp in four different sports, including ten-nis, as well as several dual-sport weeks, atthe ball fields and courts of Riverside Parkon the West Side of Manhattan. RPC is anon-profit organization and proceeds fromthe camp go towards the improvement ofthe park.

The Tennis Camp is run by the RiversideClay Tennis Association (RCTA) at the 96thStreet Red Clay Tennis Courts and at the102nd Street Playground, where 36’ and60’ courts have been lined on existing vol-leyball and basketball courts.

Participants four- through eight-years-old will play on the well-shaded play-ground, while eight- to 16-year-olds willplay at the beautiful red clay courts alongthe Hudson River. The Tennis Camp canaccommodate participants with all skill lev-els, from beginner to advanced.

A week of tennis camp, which operates9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Monday through Fri-day, is $450. Early registration, multipleweek and sibling discounts are available.Registration is available online atwww.riversideparknyc.org. For more infor-

resort, in addition to making new friendsand enjoying fun social activities withother student athletes.

After years of experience and provensuccess with professional players, suchtop American John Isner, Saddlebrook’sjunior program has been designed to im-prove each athlete’s technical, tactical,and mental abilities. Our daily clinics andprofessional analysis includes a series ofimaginative drills designed by the leg-endary Harry Hopman taught by ourcoaches. Our tennis program also in-cludes on- and off-court performanceroutines, including specialized drills forconsistency and accuracy, and super-vised match-play under the direction ofour professional coaching staff. Alto-gether, the components of the programwork to improve upon the student ath-lete’s physical and mental tournamentmatch play.

l Five days of instruction: Five hourseach day

l Maximum 4:1 student to instructor ratiol Video analysisl Refreshment and fruit breaksl Six nights shared and supervised ac-

commodations in Junior Suites (unitcontains two bedrooms, each with itsown bathroom, living/dining area,kitchen and a patio or balcony) Sun-day to Saturday weekly programs(extra nights and weeks are availableupon request)

l Three meals daily, per night of stay(starting with dinner Sunday and end-ing with breakfast Saturday)

l Fitness center access and various fit-ness activities daily

l Saddlebrook Tennis t-shirt and sportbag per visit

mation, contact RCTA Executive DirectorMark McIntyre at [email protected].

The RPC Multi-Sport Camp also offersbaseball, soccer and basketball weeklycamps. Soccer camp is run by the CarlosRivera Soccer Academy, which has beenoperating summer programs in RiversidePark for over 10 years. Baseball and bas-ketball camps are run by Kids of Summer,a long-time provider of after school andsummer programs throughout New YorkCity. Some dual camps are offered, for ex-ample, soccer in the morning and baseballin the afternoon. Details for all camps, aswell as registration, can be found atwww.riversideparknyc.org or call the RPCcamp director at (212) 870-3070.

Saddlebrook Resort5700 Saddlebrook Way

Wesley Chapel, Fla.(813) 973-1111

www.saddlebrook.com

Saddlebrook Resort is home to the Sad-dlebrook Tennis Program and is ratedamong the top student athlete training fa-cilities in the world. With 45 tennis courts,Grand Slam surfaces, and with our world-class year-round coaches SaddlebrookResort is truly a tennis mecca. Hundredsof talented athletes come to Saddle-brook’s tennis camp in Florida each yearand improve their game through special-ized training, discipline and motivation.Juniors train up to five hours daily at our


Southampton Racquet Club & CampDirectors: Thomas Coffey & Cindy

DavidowitzWinter: 85 Crescent Beach Road

Glen Cove, N.Y.(516) 953-5176

Summer: 665 Majors PathSouthampton, N.Y.

(631) [email protected]

Southampton Racquet Club & Camp(SRCC), part of the TLC Family of Camps, of-fers an extraordinary program at theirSouthampton, N.Y. location for children agestwo-and-a-half through 16 years of age.

Tucked away in the heart of Southampton,SRCC offers an amazing Racquet Club &Camp experience in a truly unique setting.Situated on 17 idyllic acres of natural land-scape, our SRCC facility provides an excep-tional environment for campers to learn, havefun, and the perfect summer program forevery camper.

Our camp program, for campers aged 2.5-10, is truly unique and filled with a blend ofage appropriate activities including tennisand swim instruction, athletics, creative artsand special events that help build a strongfoundation of physical movement skills andcross-training, essential for the developmentof every child.

Our tennis academy program, for campersaged 8-16, is facilitated by the nationally-renowned Cliff Drysdale Tennis Company,


CAMPGUIDEers ages 7-18.

New this summer 2015:

l Athletic and Performance Training pro-gram provided by SportsLab NYC

l Mental Toughness and related psycho-logical training provided by HourglassPerformance Institute

l Enhanced DARTFISH Video Analysis

Our intensive SPORTIME EXCEL Sum-mer Training Camp, located at SPORTIMERandall’s Island, SPORTIME’s flagship siteand the NYC home of the John McEnroeTennis Academy, is specifically designedfor players competing in or striving to com-pete in USTA Sectional, USTA National andITF tournaments, and those interested inplaying high school tennis, college tennisand beyond. Our world-class JMTA tennisand performance directors and coachescarefully evaluate EXCEL students, placethem in small age and level appropriategroups, and customize programs to meettheir developmental needs. All levels arewelcome!

The EXCEL Summer Training Camp willbe directed by JMTA Director LawrenceKleger, JMTA Associate Directors NateEmge and Felix Alvarado, and Camp Di-rector Greg Evans. In addition, EXCEL willbe staffed by other JMTA Assistant Direc-tors, and by our world class JMTA tennisand athletic training coaches.

Program curriculum and philosophyThe EXCEL curriculum features a combi-nation of drills, technical coaching, matchplay, off-court athletic and cross-training,and mental toughness training, specificallytailored to the ages and levels of eachEXCEL player group. Our coaching ap-proach is positive, encouraging and moti-vating, as we believe this approachproduces the best short-term and long-term results, and maximizes players’ en-joyment of the sport. Our curriculum isdesigned to develop players, not great hit-

and provides world class coaching from ahighly qualified national and internationalstaff. With a well-balanced program of tech-nique, strategy, game-play, and having lots offun, our program is established to instill qual-ities on and off the tennis court.

SRCC offers air-conditioned bus trans-portation, included in tuition, from Westhamp-ton-Bridgehampton, flexible enrollmentoptions, including full and mini-day, and is alsocommitted to small groups with extensivestaffing. Qualified teachers, coaches and ac-tivity specialists ensure that all campers havethe best summer possible. We also offer mem-bership benefits at our Racquet Club for allfamily members for every camper enrollment.

Come and join us at Southampton Rac-quet Club & Camp and enjoy one of our per-fect summer programs, buildingself-confidence, self-esteem and resilience ina safe and fun environment.

SPORTIME Randall’s Island SummerTraining Programs and Camps

SPORTIME Randall’s IslandOne Randall’s Island

New York, N.Y.(212) 427-6150

[email protected] /NYC

Twelve weeks, June 8-Aug. 28, Mondays-Fridays, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. SPORTIMERandall’s Island and the John McEnroeTennis Academy present: EXCEL SummerTraining Camp 2015 for committed play-



CAMPGUIDEters with beautiful strokes who cannotcompete and/or win. We carefully balancetechnical stroke development with devel-opment of tactical and strategic proficiencyso our players “EXCEL” in competition. De-veloping competitive tennis players is notjust about the technical, the tactical andon-court training. We integrate mentaltoughness and off-court athletic develop-ment training into the EXCEL program todevelop complete players—stronger, fitter,faster and smarter.

This summer, train where top Americanplayers like JMTA’s Noah Rubin, JamieLoeb, and Madison Battaglia, Oliver Sec,Sabrina Xiong and Jessica Golovin train—SPORTIME EXCEL!

SPORTIME Randall’s Island presentsSportime U10 Tennis and Sports

CampsOne Randall’s Island

New York, N.Y.(212) 427-6150

www.sportimecamps.com /NYC

Led by Camp Director Greg Evans, andU10 and Tennis Whizz Director, WojtekStarakiewicz, SPORTIME’s U10 summercamp programs challenge campers’ abili-ties, while enhancing their self-esteem andproviding positive social interaction. Weoffer campers the best tennis and sportsprogramming, with experienced, qualifiedcounselors and sports professionals, andthe finest and safest facilities in NYC.

Tennis Whizz Preschool Camp–Ages 3-5(Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m.-Noon)Tennis Whizz is a complete preschooltennis a sports program that fostershealthy mental, physical and emotionalgrowth. Physical activity is important toany child’s overall well-being and learn-ing to enjoy physical activity now will helpinstill healthy habits for a lifetime. In Ten-nis Whizz, your child will receive person-alized and caring attention in a safe andage-appropriate learning environment.The Tennis Whizz camp day includes artsand crafts, specialized tennis instruction,a variety of multi-sport lessons andgames, and our slip n’ slide water feature.

U10 Red and Orange Ball Tennis andSports Camp–Ages 5-10 (Mondaythrough Friday 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.)Our U10 Red and Orange Ball Tennis andSports Summer Camp offers young ath-letes high-quality, professional tennis in-struction by JMTA coaches, using ourunique U10 curriculum. Campers also re-ceive instruction and enjoy “cross-train-ing” in a variety of team sports activitieslike basketball, soccer, kickball, flag foot-ball, softball and others.

Minutes from Manhattan, SPORTIMERandall’s Island features 160,000-squarefeet of tennis courts and amenities, in-cluding five indoor and five indoor/out-door Deco-Turf hard courts, and 10indoor/outdoor Har-Tru clay courts.Camp facilities also include outdoorsports fields and an outdoor basket-ball/multi-sport court. This extraordinaryclub also features a functional trainingcenter; comfortable lounge areas with ex-cellent viewing; a junior lounge/computerlab; a pro shop and cafe.

Stadium Tennis Center Summer Camps

Stadium Tennis Center at Mill PondPark

725 Gateway Center Boulevard (formerly Exterior Street) at E152nd

Street and the Harlem RiverBronx, N.Y.

Contact: Eric Faro or Rachel Aaron(718) 665-4684

[email protected]

Stadium Tennis Center offers a uniquearray of summer camp programs designedfor tennis players of all levels to experience.Through our partnership with Gotham Ten-nis Academy, we have assembled some ofthe most talented, and engaging tennispros in New York City.

Our pros share a passion to work closelywith players of all levels and ages to helpthem develop their fullest potential.

Stadium Tennis Center offers two dis-tinct summer tennis camp experiences tochoose from:

l The Summer Elite High PerformanceTennis Academy is designed for thosejuniors who are ranked in the top 30 orbetter in their section. It includes a lowplayer-to-coach ratio, on-court drills,match play, video analysis, mentaltoughness training and an extensive fit-ness program to prepare for sectionaland national events.



CAMPGUIDEnis techniques, tactics, sports condition-ing and strategy geared to maximizingthe learning experience in a fun presen-tation. As the juniors develop, they areadvanced to more challenging groups.Tennis activities include Stroke-of theDay, team games and Competitive MatchPlay. The camp also offers cross-trainingactivities such as soccer, softball andbasketball in the park or at the Coronapark multi-purpose recreational facility,off-site field trips include ice skating,Mets games, and much more, and full ac-cess to the many fun activities on thegrounds of the USTA Billie Jean King Na-tional Tennis Center.

We accept junior players four- through10-years-old for the 10 & Under pro-grams. Recreational players 10-years-old and up are enrolled in the JuniorCamps (8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. or 4:30p.m.-7:00 p.m.). Advanced High Per-formance Tournament training camperswill be invited to participate in an inten-sive Tennis Academy training programwhich runs Monday-Friday, from 10:00a.m.-4:30 p.m.

We have 22 outdoor courts, 12 indoorcourts, and four stadium courts. We haveavailable on-site Ping-Pong tables, ballmachines, fitness center, and other ageappropriate fun activities like arts andcrafts, and other engaging sportingevents. Our primary focus will be on de-veloping tennis skills while offering otheractivities to enhance the learning andcamp experience.

Parents, we also offer adult daytime,weekday evening and weekend campsfor you as well.

Detailed information will be availablesoon at www.ntc.usta.com. We are lo-cated in Flushing Meadow Corona Park.You may contact the USTA Billie JeanKing National Tennis Center at (718) 760-6200 for more information about yearround and summer camp programs.

l The Junior Summer Tennis Develop-ment Program is designed for beginner,intermediate and advanced players.Ages five through 14 are welcome toenroll. Your child will learn properstroke production fundamentals, strat-egy, match-play, conditioning and foot-work. Round trip transportation frompoints in New York Center, Westchesterand New Jersey may be arranged.

Tennis Innovators Tennis & SportsSummer Camp 2015

Contact: Juan Andrade(646) 476-5811

[email protected] Edge Flagship Location:

Delfino ParkWhite Plains, N.Y.

Upper Westside Location: 59th Streetand 10th AvenueNew York, N.Y.

Eastside Location: Kips Bay 28th Street and 2nd Avenue

New York, N.Y.

Tennis Innovators is proud to once againprovide your junior with one of the top ten-nis camps in New York City. The Tennis &Sports Summer Camp 2014 begins onJune 15 and runs through Sept. 4. We offeryour junior a daily dose of stroke develop-ment, private instruction, fun drills andgames. Our camp ensures a successful ex-perience developing tennis skills and coor-dination while enjoying a fun and excitingsummer camp day. Outdoor fields are

available for multi-sport activities, whereplayers can enjoy soccer, basketball, base-ball and more to keep each camp day freshand exciting. Tennis Innovators offers: In-door and outdoor locations; tennis lessonsand games; multi-sport activities; arts andcrafts; and sprinklers and a trip to the pool.

A typical summer camp day at our campruns from 8:45 a.m.-4:00 p.m. and featuresyoga-infused stretching; tennis instruction,drills and games; multi-sport activities;lunch; and a cool down at the pool or in thesprinklers.

Full-day, half-day or weekly enrollment isavailable. For more information, please call(646) 476-5811 or visitwww.tennisinnova-tors.com.

USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center

Flushing Meadows Corona ParkFlushing, N.Y.(718) 760-6200

www.ntc.usta.com

The USTA Billie Jean National TennisCenter will once again offer seven weeksof fun in the sun tennis camps starting inJune 2015. Enrollment will soon be avail-able online and you may choose to regis-tration for one, two or as many as sevenweeks. The weekly program runs fromMondays through Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-5:30p.m., with a one-hour lunch break or atwilight session from 4:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Campers work on development of ten-


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West Side Tennis Club’s 2015 Summer Camp

The West Side Tennis ClubOne Tennis Place • Forest Hills, N.Y.Contact: Thomas Gilliland, Assistant

Tennis Director at (718) 268-2300, ext. [email protected]

The West Side Tennis Club’s Summer Camp of-fers top notch coaching at the most historic ten-nis venue in the U.S. Led by former touring proBob Ingersole, who has coached numeroussectional, national and professional players, ourprogram outlines the “Road to Success.” For-mer home of the U.S. Open, the Club still main-tains grass, hard, red clay and Har-Tru courts.Each day, campers receive three hours of in-struction from our certified staff. Our 10 & Underprogram is an innovative way to start children offon the right foot. Using graduated-length rac-quets, low compression balls and smaller nets,we can immediately increase their success ratewhich makes learning tennis more fun.

West Side’s Tournament Training Programwas created to meet the needs of the top play-ers in the area. Gus Alcayaga, one of the high-est caliber coaches in the area, heads up ourteam of senior staff professionals. In addition to

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the high intensity drills, we conduct on the court,we incorporate conditioning and match playinto the curriculum to make sure our playersreach their maximum potential. The camp con-sists of players ranging from touring pros tocomplete beginners. Campers also have twohours of free swim in our Junior Olympic-sizedpool. The camp provides drinks throughout theday, a snack of fresh fruit, a lunch catered byour restaurant and towels for pool time.

Day-to-day activities are handled by AssistantTennis Director Thomas Gilliland. A nationalcoach, graduate of Columbia University’sMaters of Sports Management Program andvice president of the USTA Metro Region,Thomas has run the camp for the past five years.Thirteen weeks of camp begin June 9, andtransportation is available from Queens andManhattan. For more information, call (718) 268-2300 or e-mail [email protected].



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By Rob Polishook, Mental Training CoachMA, CPC

In my last article, we dis-cussed the secret to sus-

tained peak performance, a principal called“More Than an Athlete: Person First. Ath-lete Second.” We also clarified that MoreThan an Athlete doesn’t require workingharder, pushing or even pulling, it does re-quire that the athlete, coach or parent shifttheir perspective so they can see the per-former through a wider lens which includesthe whole person, not just the athlete.

More Than an Athlete gives the athletefive essential licenses that will help themfeel more at ease with themselves as anathlete and as a person. Once they em-brace this perspective, the performancebecomes more authentic, the game be-comes easier and the result shifts expo-nentially for the better. These licenses areas follows …

1. The license to just be yourselfWhen we start with you, the person, rather

than just the athlete, we take the time tounderstand what it is that makes you whoyou are. We look at your attributes, experi-ences, and values that are the buildingblocks to your inner game. We look at your“More,” the inner fuel that drives you anddoesn’t let you quit. Once you identifythese qualities, you are able to bring yourauthentic self, spirit and story onto thecourt, and these characteristics will differ-entiate you from other players. Further-more, you will feel encouraged and free,valued for being your authentic self (your“More”) rather than trying to be someoneyou’re not. Imagine Roger Federer trying tobecome Rafael Nadal? It wouldn’t work!

2. The license to let goWhen you recognize you are more than anathlete, you realize the game isn’t “Whoyou are” but “What you do.” Once you re-alize this essential fact, you are less apt totie your self-worth and self-esteem to yourresults as an athlete. You won’t readilyallow the attitudes of others about your re-sults impact you. The process of letting goallows the athlete to unwind, unravel and

refocus on what they can control withoutgetting distracted by outside noise.

3. The license to see the entire pictureMost training is focused on technique, tal-ent and skills, with little consideration tothe mental game. However, in order fortechnique, talent and skill to fall into place,the entire picture must be seen, includingthe mental component. When you have thelicense to look at the entire picture, ratherthan just the game, you can view underly-ing issues which may have previously heldyou back. Experiences such as a bad dayin school, an argument with significantother, trying to live up to expectations canget in the way of performance. It may be ascomplicated as an injury, personal traumaor past failures. Through the big picturelens, the whole story can be taken into ac-count, not just the “missed shot” that ismistakenly seen as bad technique when anunderlying stress is really tightening thebody so the technique can’t happen. InAndrew Friedman’s book, Breaking Back,which chronicles former top 10 U.S. tennis

The Game Inside the GameFive Licenses

Top Tennis Players Have


player James Blake, he quotes Blake assaying, “If there is something wrong in yourlife, it’ll show up in your tennis game—notalways in predictable ways, but in waysthat are logical: Self-belief might be mani-fested in weak second serves, impatiencecan cause you to make low percentagegambles and so on.”

4. The license not to be perfectWe all know that being perfect is impossi-ble. Imagine if we stopped trying for per-fection, but just tried to do our best? Whenwe know we are “More Than an Athlete,”we understand we are human and there-fore imperfect. The expectations of tryingto be a superhero is no longer realistic.Now we can focus on one thing at a time:Our process, our choices, how we adapt,and what we can control versus what wecannot.

5. The license to be more and do lessPushing and pulling isn’t the only option.Letting go, taking a step back to rewind,recharging and rebooting are all also op-

tions. Metaphorically, it may feel similar tostepping out of your house in the morningand not being able to see 10 feet in front ofyou because of a dense layer of fog. Thenyou take a step back into the house.Twenty minutes later, you return outside tosee that the fog has cleared. Only from thisperspective of clarity are you able to takethe next step. The mind works similarly. Sooften it’s not about “doing more,” learninganother technique, or getting the next greatpiece of equipment. Rather, it’s about giv-ing yourself a little time and space so youcan see clearly. Sometimes, you have tostep back to move forward.

With these five licenses comes a moreclear and relaxed perspective in which toadapt and adjust to what is happening dur-ing competition. From this place, the ath-lete will be more free to let go of what theycannot control, focus on what they cancontrol, and consistently play their best.

Rob Polishook, MA, CPC is the founderand director of Inside the Zone Sports Per-formance Group. He works with athletes in

all sports at all levels helping them to breakthrough mental barriers and be their bestboth as a person and an athlete. Rob hasspoken to athletes, coaches, and parentsboth nationally at USTA, USPTA, ITA con-ferences, and internationally in India and Is-rael. Additionally, he is author of TennisInside the Zone: Mental Training Workoutsfor Champions. His work was recently fea-tured in ESPN’s latest 30 for 30 film calledFields of Fear. In prior years, Rob receivedthe USPTA-Eastern Division High SchoolCoach of the Year Award and coachedUSTA’s 16 and under Zonals. He may bereached by phone at (973) 723-0314, e-mail [email protected] or visitwww.insidethezone.com.

www.riversideparknyc.org

“If there is something wrong in your life, it’ll

show up in your tennis game—not always in

predictable ways, but in ways that are logical:

Self-belief might be manifested in weak

second serves, impatience can cause you to

make low percentage gambles, and so on.”—

James Blake, from the book, Breaking Back


The Metro Corporate Tennis League, pre-sented by Advantage Tennis Clubs, is a jointinitiative of the Metrotennis Community Ten-nis Association and USTA/Eastern-Metro. OurLeague is divided into three levels of play, In-termediate (3.0-3.5), Advanced Intermediate(4.0) and Advanced (4.5+). An Advanced Be-ginner Clinic program is also offered for teamsthat are not ready to compete. Every season,more than 46 teams take part.

The following is the roster for the currentseason:Advanced Division1. NYJTL2. Bloomberg (Vighnesh)3. Credit Agricole 4. Protégé Partners5. BNP Paribas (Pierre)6. PwC (Gellert/Dan)7. Bloomberg (Patrick)8. The Corcoran Group

Advanced Intermediate Division I1. Credit Suisse2. Bloomberg (Ankur)3. Nielsen4. Bank of America 5. Patterson6. Mizuho Bank

Advanced Intermediate Division II1. Deutsche Bank (Elena)2. Cleary3. MSCI4. Proskauer5. The Corcoran Group6. Watson Farley & Williams

Intermediate Division I1. BNP Paribas (Nicolas)2. D.E. Shaw & Company3. Deutsche Bank (Tony)4. Barclays5. The Corcoran Group6. Practical Law7. Lacoste

Intermediate Division II1. Moody’s2. MUFG Union Bank3. Deutsche Bank (Armen)4. Highbridge5. Sidley6. Schulte

Intermediate Division III1. Fried Frank2. HBO 13. Cleary

4. ING5. Paul Weiss6. Adobe Systems

Intermediate Division IV1. Ernst & Young2. Sullivan3. PwC (Max)4. White & Case5. HBO 26. Neuberger Berman

Advanced Beginner Clinic1. Bloomberg (Peggy)

The season will run from February toApril, culminating with an end-of-seasonparty at Roosevelt Island Racquet Club.

Please help us welcome new teams,Adobe Systems, The Corcoran Group,Lacoste, Protégé Partners, and WatsonFarley & Williams LLP to the roster.

For more information, please visitwww.metrotennis.com/corporate

/main.html, or call Luis Espinoza at(347) 886-3117 or [email protected].


USTA LEAGUES UPDATE

The Metro Mixed-Doubles and 40-plusleagues are in full swing. The ManhattanMixed-Doubles Season has just finishedup, and playoffs will begin soon with the fi-nals on March 8 at the USTA Billie JeanKing National Tennis Center. Congratula-tions to the following teams for advancingto playoffs:

6.0 LevelKates/ChristopherCambor-Pheister

7.0 LevelRowe/Tarlow

DermanRosenberg/Bordick

Ragione

7.0 Level (Continued)Reid

Huttner

8.0 LevelPeck/Tarlow

Subramanian/BenniaSlotnick/Schaffer

AkpanBourque/Lebovic

RobichekZaldivar

Bricker/Ford

9.0 LevelDoan/HingFreed/Glick

It’s hard to think about the Spring/SummerLeagues in the freezing cold, but the 2015Metro 18-Plus USTA Leagues will soon bestarting up. Tentative start dates are as follows:

l Manhattan: Monday, March 30l Queens: Monday, May 4l Brooklyn: Monday, June 1l Staten Island: Monday, June 1

These leagues consist of separate men’sand women’s teams, which play five courtseach match (two singles and three doublescourts). Levels of play include the 3.0, 3.5,4.0, 4.5 & 5.0 Levels. If anyone is interestedin playing or captaining, please [email protected]. See you on the courts!

adult league


By Lisa Dodson

If you wanted to takethe most comprehen-sive tennis lesson pos-sible, what would it

include? First, you’d have to think outsideof that rectangular court and venture intoareas of the game that you’re really notgood at. You’ll need to set some priorities,but you’re not sure what those are. You’repretty good at hitting most shots althoughthose could always use some work. You’rereally not good at staying balanced and hit-ting every ball cleanly with a fear of gettingahead. Hmmm … what should you workon, where should you start? Maybe youshould just hit more balls.

Recently, I collaborated with two expertsin their field, Lenny Schloss (www.howto-playtennis.net) and Dr. Jay Granat(www.stayinthezone.com) to develop whatwe call “The world’s best tennis lesson”.We had some fun explaining our parts inthis epic lesson, and we all know we wouldneed each other in order to build our best

player. It would be a team effort and wewould have a heck of a great time doingit. What we know and agree upon is thatSight, Thought, Emotion Managementand Feel would be the building blocks forthis great time together. Let’s explain thisa little.

Lenny Schloss is a leader in his field inunderstanding how the eyes and brain ruleus on the tennis court. Lenny is a wealth ofscientific proof about the eye at point ofcontact and head shift. Think about this:Our head shifts eight out of 10 times on ahit. Wow! If POC (Point of Contact) is themoment that the ball is on the strings–onlyfour milliseconds per shot–then the aver-age player has a really slim chance of aclean hit and being balanced without someserious training on the subject. It onlymakes sense that strengthening this part ofthe game comes first. It doesn’t matterwhat our strokes are like if we don’t see theball.

Seeing the ball at the point of contactand focusing on that spot is fundamentalto balance and … well, everything that you

are attempting to accomplish on the court.Dr. Jay Granat, psychotherapist and

sports psychologist, is a renowned experton many brain-related subjects. He hasbeen instrumental in helping me discoverwhat holds so many players back fromovercoming common, but complex prob-lems such as losing to players you shouldbeat, pressure-point choking or nervesbringing you to ruin. These behaviors andmany others are not ones to be solvedwith more ball hitting. These issues needto be acknowledged, discussed and aplan of action taken in order to changethe outcome.

Emotional management and stress re-duction (our psychological perspective) isalso, obviously, an above the neck func-tion. The better we can manage ourthoughts and emotions, the sooner we canshed any negative patterns on and off thecourt. The good news and the bad news isthat problems begin and (hopefully) endwith us but we generally need some helpto figure them out.

Feeling (the technical aspects of striking

How Many Pros Does It Take to Give the Ideal Tennis Lesson?


a ball and movement) is where I come in.This is all the stuff that happens below theneck. Feeling what is correct, even if it feelswrong, is central to productive and accel-erated learning. Your body is smart and itlearns best by feeling physical cues andactions through repetition. I’m a big be-liever in tools, so I’d pull out a couple of mysecret weapons and eliminate excessivetalking and explanations to accelerate yourlearning by feel.

When you feel an action your bodyacts instinctively. It is then able tostring together a natural pattern ofmovement. Many of you know this as“muscle memory.” We are going to callthis “body intelligence” instead. Thepower of this body intelligence cannotbe underestimated.

So, the answer to our question: Howmany pros does it take to give the idealtennis lesson? It takes three professionalswith distinctly different skill sets and fo-cuses on some really effective physical andmental tools. One coach trains vision andbrain perception skills, one trains technical

skills and movement, and one examinesour mental/emotional development andstress management. If we all do our jobswell, you’ll be one heck of a player!

Of course, the purpose of this informa-tion is to get you to open your eyes andconsider taking a deeper look into what youneed to be a better player. Realistically, theaverage player isn’t going to hire a staff ofpros to work with them. What I’m attempt-ing to do is to get you to look closely atyour choices and to start thinking aboutwhat you can do now to become a betterplayer and find out what options you haveavailable to you.

Here is a list of things that would be re-quired (but not limited to) for this epic,three-pro tennis lesson. Take a look andsee if you can choose two or three thingsthat you think might really help you make agame-changing breakthrough:

l Technical evaluation with detailed videoanalysis (technical/visual)

l Shadow, dead ball and live ball evalua-tions (technical/visual)

l Mental toughness evaluation (men-tal/emotional)

l Vision analysis through a three-stepprocess: Still ball, moving ball, ballmoving away (visual)

l EPOC (Eye at Point of Contact)strengthening (visual)

l Strategy evaluation (mental/emotion-al/technical)

l Personality profile (mental/emotional)l Training in hypnosis, meditation and vi-

sualization (mental/emotional)l Match planning (mental/emotional &

technical)l Training in stress management (men-

tal/emotional)l Error/winner analysis (mental/emo-

tional/technical/visual)l Confidence building techniques (men-

tal/emotional & technical/visual)l Focus building techniques (men-

tal/emotional/technical/visual)l Goal-setting (mental/emotional &

technical)

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Typically, players will try to fix these prob-lems by hitting more balls. If I make toomany unforced errors, then I need to hitmore balls so that I don’t hit unforced errors.If my hit doesn’t feel solid, then I need to hitmore balls to make it better. If I’m chokingon pressure points, I need to hit more ballsso I’m confident. You get the point.

We know that hitting more balls reallyisn’t the answer, but it’s comfortable andsecure and makes you feel like you’redoing something good. But, there are somany other things that need to be incorpo-rated into the lesson that you may nevereven think of. Your poor tennis pro is goodbut she/he cannot wear as many hats asyou demand. So, start thinking, be open-minded about what you need and startasking some really good questions.

Lisa Dodson is owner of Servemaster atThe Total Serve, a USPTA Elite Pro, a for-merly world ranked player and radio showhost. She may be reached by e-mail [email protected] or visitwww.theto-talserve.com.

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l Development of between point andbetween game strategies (men-tal/emotional)

l Strategies and techniques for avoidingchoking and fear (mental/emotional &technical)

I bet this list includes ideas most of uswouldn’t even think of as something that weneed to work on. As players, we tend to goheavy on the technical (if I hit enough balls, Iwill be KING!) and light on the mental/visualtraining. What we are probably most un-aware of is how weak our vision and ball-watching skills are as well as our ability tocope under stress. We wonder why our con-centration shifts or our mood swings at thedrop of a hat and why we sometimes fall intopatterns of failure.

Let’s take a little quiz … for the statementsbelow, decide whether this problem can bebest remedied with a visual, technical or emo-

tional/mental improvement. There really is noright or wrong answer, but it will be worth yourtime to take a look. It may teach you some-thing about how you perceive yourself andyour game and how you attempt to improve.You just might begin to understand what isholding you back and open your mind to thethings that will lead to real improvement.

l I make too many unforced errors socannot sustain a rally

l I’m tired of losing to players that Ishould beat

l I’m great in practice, but struggle incompetition

l I get so nervous before I competel I’m sick of choking on pressure pointsl My approach shot is all over the placel I need to hit more topspin to keep my

ball in the courtl I always do better coming from behindl My hit doesn’t feel solid

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In early February, the USTA Billie Jean KingNational Tennis Center hosted a specialfundraiser screening of the film “Althea.”Filmmaker Rex Miller was on hand to discussand answer questions about the film, a doc-umentary based on the life of Althea Gibson,the first African-American to compete andwin Wimbledon and Forest Hills. All event do-nations went to the Wheelchair Sports Fed-eration, host of the annual Jana HunsakerMemorial ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tournament

held at the National Tennis Center.Born in South Carolina to a sharecrop-

per, Althea Gibson moved to Harlem withher family in the 1930s. She overcame bothrace and gender obstacles to become thefirst African-American to play at Wimbledonand the U.S. Open. She is an 11-timeGrand Slam champion which includes sixdoubles titles.

Gibson didn’t only break the color barrierin tennis, but also in golf, becoming the first

black player on the women’s professionalgolf tour in the early 1960s. She would playon the tour for 10 years and later pursuedher career as a jazz singer and even per-formed on the Ed Sullivan Show.

“Her road to success was a challengingone,” said Billie Jean King, a trailblazer inher own right. “But I never saw her backdown.’”

Gibson passed away in September 2003in East Orange, N.J.

NTC Hosts Screening of New Althea Gibson Documentary



At the 2013 Australian Open,Sloane Stephens, 19-years-oldat the time, beat Serena Williamsin a tense quarterfinals match,leading everyone to believe she

had a huge opportunity ahead of her.Stephens has not lived up to those ex-pectations so far.

At this year’s Aussie Open, anotherAmerican, 19-year-old Madison Keys,stepped into the spotlight and staked herclaim as “The Next Great AmericanWomen’s Player.”

Keys got by Australian crowd favoriteCasey Dellacqua, the 29th seed, in thesecond round. She followed that up byupsetting two-time Wimbledon championPetra Kvitova in round three.

Against Madison Brengle in the fourthround, another young American, Keysshowed her class. In a performance thatone would expect from a veteran, she didexactly what she had to do. She playedsolid tennis, playing patiently and aggres-sively to overpower her opponent and hither way into the quarterfinals againstVenus Williams.

Venus, a former world number one andseven-time Grand Slam champion, is stillone of the best on the Tour, and is alwaysdifficult to deal with given her still-big serve.

That is where a future prospect becamea current star.

Keys did not play her best match, asshe would have hoped for in such a bigmatch. Under the world’s watchful eye,she made 45 unforced errors, comparedto 34 winners. On a normal day, thosenumbers would signify a loss. On this day,the Rock Island, Ill. native was victoriousover Venus in three hard fought sets, 6-3,4-6, 6-4, to achieve her first career majorsemifinals appearance.

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The teenager did not play par-ticularly well against one of thehottest players on the WTA Tour,yet she managed to find a wayto win. That is the mark of achampion, and that is why Keyswill eventually become the faceof the circuit and presumablywin many, many titles.

In the semifinals, Keys forcedSerena to scratch and claw in aneck-and-neck first set of theirencounter, but did not haveenough in her arsenal to overcomethe eventual 2015 Aussie Openchampion, falling to Serena 6-7, 2-6. What shone through, however,was her will to win on one of thegrandest of stages.

John Evert is the founder andmanaging partner of the EvertTennis Academy (ETA), brother ofETA co-owner Chris Evert, andcoached Keys from the ages of 10-17.

“She came to us when she was 10 as asummer camper,” said John Evert. “I metwith her parents and her parents told meshe had watched Venus Williams on TV.She liked Venus’ outfit and she decidedthen she wanted to be a tennis player be-cause of the outfits.”

By the time she was in the final year ofthe 12s, Madison won both the EddieHerr and the Orange Bowl. She went fromnot being on the radar at all, to the top ofher age bracket.

“She was probably two to three levelsbehind when she came to us, not even inthe top 50 in the country in her age groupwhen she started,” said Evert. “I saw abig, tall and strong explosive athlete. Ithink her physical tools were obviousfrom the beginning, and an emotional

and mental growth has taken place. Herhand-eye coordination wasn’t quitethere, but she was only 10 when she firstcame to us and was taller than every-body else there. There was explosive-ness … a big and tall athlete, butsometimes it takes a little while to de-velop that hand-eye coordination.”

Madison Keys, as she continues to de-velop under the tutelage of coach LindsayDavenport, who was a top player herself

Keys to Successbegins rise to stardom By Andrew Eichenholz

for many years, will end up hav-ing the biggest groundstrokes inthe game. Owning one of thebetter serves on the WTA Tour ispretty nice to put in her pocketas well.

“I think Madison can walk onthe WTA Tour with anyone rightnow, and if she’s playing well, canbeat anyone,” said Evert. “I thinkshe is going to take a lot awayfrom her performance at the Aus-tralian Open. The next step is fin-ishing and winning those last foursets to finish a tournament. I thinkonce she does it once, there is nolimitation. The sky’s the limit forMadison, and I think she’s rightthere.”

But, no matter how hard shewill be able to hit the ball andwhere she will be able to placeit, nothing will be able to repli-

cate the characteristics of a natural com-petitor. If she continues to reproducewhat she showed in Australia, that will bewhat distinguishes Madison Keys fromthe rest of her WTA Tour counterparts in2015 and beyond.

Andrew Eichenholz is a journalism studentat Stony Brook University, where he cur-rently is a staff writer for The Statesman,covering tennis amongst many sports. Hegrew up playing tennis at the USTA BillieJean King National Tennis Center, wherehe learned to love the game, eventuallybecoming a part time tennis instructor,working for the most part with the Quick-Start 10 & Under Program. Andrew hasalso served as a ballperson at the U.S.Open. He may be reached by e-mail [email protected].

“The sky’s the limit for Madison, and I think she’s

right there.”—John Evert, founder and managing partner of

the Evert Tennis Academy (ETA)

By Lonnie Mitchel

So you are in a competitivematch and the score is 4-4in the third set with yourranking on the line. Your

parents, maybe a college coach, a friendor other adversaries are watching. Now isthe time when the rubber hits the road. Itdoes not matter if you win or lose, whatmatters is how you are going to completethe match. You are branding yourself.How are you going to act and behave?How are you going to compete? What willyou do after the match is over? How willpeople perceive and remember you?

Developing your own personal brand issimilar to product branding. The overallgoal with branding is to differentiate your-self in the tennis world so you can attainyour objectives. By landing your dreamcollege of choice or getting on that USTA

team you want to make, to simply just be-coming known both on and off the courtas the hardest worker are all keys to yourown self-branding. The process includesdefining your brand attributes, positioningyourself in a different way than your com-petitors and managing all aspects of thatperception.

John McEnroe branded himself as atennis brat early in his career because ofhis inadequate behavior. As entertainingas it was, he was a winner as his overalltalent helped him to triumph. However,the chances of you winning a Grand Slamtitle are slim, and a good majority of youwill not play tennis in college. So whatyou are left with is your own personalbrand. If you wish to portray yourself assomething less than a person of integrityand honor, you will be known as just thattype of person. Back in the 1970s and1980s, we did not know John McEnroe as

a good person, a family man and some-body who really wants to give back totennis in a meaningful way. We know bet-ter now, but it took him a very long timeto break the perception of the brand thathe initially portrayed.

Have you ever sat in the tennis club-house and had a friendly chat about otherpeople’s tennis game? Most have hadthese types of conversations, while as-serting your own opinion about others.Things like, he or she works really hard onthe court or he/she cheats and gives badlines calls might be discussed. Those peo-ple have placed a personal brand onthemselves. Your behaviors both on andoff the court will follow you throughout lifeand affect your reputation possibly for-ever. A player who quits a team in the mid-dle of a season could effectively bebranded a quitter even though that personmay believe there is good foundation be-

Branding Yourselfin Tennis and in Life


hind that decision. Someone who con-fuses hurt with injury could be branded aslazy (although you have to know your levelof pain tolerance working with a medicalprofessional).

I am in the business of interpretingyour brand. I talk with parents and play-ers who are interested in playing tennisin college often. That first impression isthe one you initially make and you donot get a second chance to make a firstimpression. The first impression, right orwrong, is the first attribute people seeand the brand foundation has just beenlaid. Personally, I know I cannot hold apoker face and I tend to wear my emo-tions on my sleeve when competing.Maybe I shouldn’t, and I try very hard toovercome it so that I can be more suc-cessful and I work at it often. My per-ceived brand might be that I amemotional. Therefore, my opponentsmight try to unravel me while in the heatof competition. I have been branded andnow have that obstacle to overcome.

Knowing your own weakness or thebad brand within you is an invitation to

improve yourself; it is a work in progressall the time. However, when I coach, oneof my priorities is making sure my play-ers represent themselves as a personfull of integrity and honor; charactercounts! This is the brand I am interestedin creating as well as developing youngpeople’s skills both on court and off thecourt. My players and the way they rep-resent themselves will prove if I havebeen successful. This brand that I mar-ket on the court will speak volumes asto the team I want and the person that Istrive to be every day. A brand is impor-tant because when you step back in theyears to come asking yourself if youmade the world a better place, what isthe answer? Have I impacted youngpeople to become better people andbetter tennis players? I use the game oftennis as a tool to augment a brand.

On the tennis court, you can also makethe playing environment better. Do youmake the correct line calls? Did you treatyour opponents with respect? Do youtreat your doubles partner with dignity andall people similarly? Are you known as a

competitor who will work their hardest?Did you walk into the tennis club and treatthe employees the way you want to betreated? Money in your pocket and themeans to play tennis is not permission toact unruly! How did you brand yourselftoday and every day?

Today, Facebook and other social mediaoutlets play an important part in how webrand ourselves. It is said you would neverwant to do anything on the tennis court tohelp you lose. Why would you knowinglybrand yourself poorly in the game of tennisand in life? For college recruits that is astrong message.

Be a better tennis player by giving 1,000percent effort and brand yourself accord-ingly … not just on the tennis court, buteverywhere!

Lonnie Mitchel is head men’s and women’stennis coach at SUNY Oneonta. Lonnie wasnamed an assistant coach to Team USA forthe 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel for theGrand Master Tennis Division. Lonnie maybe reached by phone at (516) 414-7202 ore-mail [email protected].


By Bill Longua

The Lob Volley is a tennis shot that is not dis-cussed very much. Let’s go over a couple of tipsthat will help you.

First of all, it is not an easy shot, which explainswhy you don’t hear a lot about it. The shot is hard to practice,and it is a shot hit completely through feel, so you have to havebeen playing a while in order to be able to hit it. Having saidthat, start to work on it, and when the time is right, it is usuallyan outright winner.

The Lob Volley is 90 percent a doubles play shot, and nor-mally when you are in a defensive position around the serviceline. In classic doubles when both opposing partners are trying

to get to the net, being on the of-fense is when the shot becomesavailable. The Lob Volley is an offen-sive shot hit from a defensive posi-tion that you will gently lift over theopponent’s heads with a bit of back-spin on the ball.

How to hit the shot:

Step one: Use the Continental Grip,which you should be in when youhave moved in from the baseline.

Step two: Some degree of knowledge is needed knowing how to

hit the slice backhand and forehandbecause the Lob Volley is basically ashortened backspin shot. When youattempt the shot, use your volleyknowledge of no back swing, the headis slightly above the handle so you canbrush down the back of the ball just abit, like cupping it and then a slightupward lift to finish the shot.

When both opponents are close tothe net is the ideal time when they are

vulnerable to the Lob Volley. The backspin will make that lob highenough to get over their heads, but low enough to keep the ball inwhen you hit from the service line.

To practice the Lob Volley, either find a partner to feed you balls thatyou can volley from the service line area, or access a ball machine.You’ll need to hit a lot of balls to generate that feel, but it’s worth it.

Good luck and have fun!

Bill Longua is the tennis director and head pro at Palm Island Resortin Cape Haze, Fla. Bill is a member of the USPTA, has been teachingtennis for more than 35 years and is the author of Winning TestStrokes. Bill also enjoys teaching tennis on his Web site, www.on-linetennistraining.com. Search the Apple App Store or Google Play forBill’s new 117 lesson app, “Complete Tennis Mastery” or to purchaseBill’s book, visit www.onlinetennistraining.com. He may be reachedby e-mail at [email protected].

TIPS FROM THE PRO: The Lob Volley


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N E W Y O R K R A N K I N G S

Boys & Girls Metro Rankings(as of 02/20/15)

BOYSMetro Boys 12 SinglesRank Name ................................City1........Brandon Torres................Bronx, N.Y.

2 ........Winter Forest Fagerberg New York, N.Y.

3 ........Donovan JSpigner ..........New York, N.Y.

4 ........Solomon Brown ..............New York, N.Y.

5 ........Ryan David Brandes ......Rego Park, N.Y.

6 ........Dylan Lachmanen ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

7 ........Sabian Kosinov ..............Forest Hills, N.Y.

8 ........Nicholas Suhanitski ........Staten Island, N.Y.

9 ........Joshua Staroselskiy ........Brooklyn, N.Y.

10......Jasper August Hunt ........New York, N.Y.

11......Guy Ferrera......................New York, N.Y.

12......Daniel Galisteo Gordon ..New York, N.Y.

13......Matthew Mosejczuk........East Elmhurst, N.Y.

14......Marko R. Gural ................New York, N.Y.

15......Paul Elghouayel ..............New York, N.Y.

16......Evan Friedmann ..............New York, N.Y.

17......Bradley Bennett ..............New York, N.Y.

18......Alexander Oh ..................New York, N.Y.

19......Nicholas Laffont ..............New York, N.Y.

20......Kole Henry Moses ..........New York, N.Y.

21......Cooper Williams ..............New York, N.Y.

22......Isadore Jude Axinn ........Brooklyn, N.Y.

23......Sebastian Brustein..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

24......Rafe Photopoulos ..........New York, N.Y.

25......Eric Dubilirer ....................Little Neck, N.Y.

26......Sachin Palta ....................Forest Hills, N.Y.

27......Jonathan Rabinowitz ......Bayside, N.Y.

28......Jonathan Laforest ..........Queens Village, N.Y.

29......Gabriel E. Chiha ..............Staten Island, N.Y.

30......Jeffrey Yu ........................Forest Hills, N.Y.

31......Joshua Staroselskiy ........Brooklyn, N.Y.

32......Luca Photopoulos ..........New York, N.Y.

33......Neel Epstein ....................New York, N.Y.

34......Yesh Nikam......................New York, N.Y.

35......Charles Robertson ..........Whitestone, N.Y.

36......Safin Shaikh ....................Bayside, N.Y.

37......Noah Butler......................New York, N.Y.

38......Mike William Shepard ....New York, N.Y.

39......Allen P. Brinzensky ..........Staten Island, N.Y.

40......Ronald Aaron Fridlyand ..Forest Hills, N.Y.

Metro Boys 14 SinglesRank Name ................................City1........Igor Maslov ......................Brooklyn, N.Y.

2 ........Christopher Tham ..........Flushing, N.Y.

3 ........Christian Rabinowitz ......Bayside, N.Y.

4 ........Daniel Leon-Maseyev ....Brooklyn, N.Y.

5 ........Robbie F. Werdiger..........New York, N.Y.

6 ........Eli Taylor-Kerman ............New York, N.Y.

7 ........Jonathan Glinsky ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

8 ........Blake Frank......................New York, N.Y.

9 ........Donald James Smith ......Roosevelt Island, N.Y.

10......Michael Kaydin................Brooklyn, N.Y.

11......Dylan Conner Charles ....New York, N.Y.

12......Matthew Mosejczuk........East Elmhurst, N.Y.

13......Ameer Hosain..................New York, N.Y.

14......Donovan Brown ..............New York, N.Y.

15......David Dylan Pines ..........New York, N.Y.

16......Alfonso Laffont ................New York, N.Y.

17......Solomon Brown ..............New York, N.Y.

18......Jackson Trevor ................New York, N.Y.

19......Jack Mascone ................New York, N.Y.

20......Ethan King ......................New York, N.Y.

21......Gabriel Isaac Rissman....Brooklyn, N.Y.

22......Tyler Kats ........................New York, N.Y.

23......Leonidas Vrailas ..............New York, N.Y.


25......Ethan Finley ....................New York, N.Y.

26......Robert Shinder ................Brooklyn, N.Y.

27......Alexander L. Chiu............New York, N.Y.

28......Justin S. Taub..................New York, N.Y.

29......Scott Fischer....................New York, N.Y.

30......Teddy Brodsky ................New York, N.Y.

31......Sadi Guicelik....................New York, N.Y.

32......Alex Portnoy ....................New York, N.Y.

33......Jeffrey McCready............Brooklyn, N.Y.


35......Shanay Ashesh Amin......New York, N.Y.

36......Noah D. Edelman............New York, N.Y.

37......Michael Gechka ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

38......David Krasner..................Staten Island, N.Y.

39......Daniel Levy ......................New York, N.Y.

40......Benjamin Goldstein ........New York, N.Y.

Metro Boys 16 SinglesRank Name ................................City1........Justin Arrington-Holmes..New York, N.Y.

2 ........Nicholas Pustilnik ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

3 ........Fayed Fayaz Uddin ........Elmhurst, N.Y.

4 ........Igor Maslov ......................Brooklyn, N.Y.

5 ........Wiley Schubert Reed ......Brooklyn, N.Y.

6 ........Leonardo Escudero ........Ozone Park, N.Y.

7 ........Adam Lane Bernstein ....New York, N.Y.

8 ........Eli Taylor-Kerman ............New York, N.Y.

9 ........Mark Karpovas................Staten Island, N.Y.

10......Leaf Fagerberg ................New York, N.Y.

11......Christopher Tham ..........Flushing, N.Y.

12......Michael Kamsky..............New York, N.Y.

13......Lucas DeSanto................New York, N.Y.

14......Ameer Hosain..................New York, N.Y.

15......Gabriel Sifuentes ............Flushing, N.Y.

16......Andrew Zucker ................New York, N.Y.

17......Richard Wickman............Bayside, N.Y.

18......Jackson Trevor ................New York, N.Y.

19......Daniel Ertel ......................New York, N.Y.

20......Derek Lung ......................Brooklyn, N.Y.

21......Oliver Jaskowski..............Bayside, N.Y.

22......Stephen Mai ....................Flushing, N.Y.

23......Joseph Zac Namtalov ....Staten Island, N.Y.


25......Justin Belnavis ................Jamaica, N.Y.

26......Bryan Chu........................Flushing, N.Y.

27......Jonathan Glinsky ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

28......Benjamin Thier ................New York, N.Y.

29......Simon Ross Heinberg ....New York, N.Y.

30......Matthew Joshua Ross....New York, N.Y.

31......David Dylan Pines ..........New York, N.Y.

32......Damon Watson................New York, N.Y.


34......Jonathan Shapiro............Brooklyn, N.Y.

35......Daniel Davis ....................New York, N.Y.

36......Andre Agregado ..............New York, N.Y.

37......Daniel Leon Maseyev......Brooklyn, N.Y.

38......Ethan Finley ....................New York, N.Y.

39......Umar Akhmedjanov ........New York, N.Y.

40......Robert Freitag..................New York, N.Y.

Metro Boys 18 SinglesRank Name ................................City1........Nicholas Pustilnik ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

2 ........Adam Lane Bernstein ....New York, N.Y.

3 ........Douglas Nover................Bayside, N.Y.

4 ........William J. Trang ..............Staten Island, N.Y.

5 ........Michael Gardiner ............New York, N.Y.

6 ........Nicholas Rudman............New York, N.Y.

7 ........Oliver Jevtovic ................Astoria, N.Y.

8 ........Shawn Jackson ..............Staten Island, N.Y.

9 ........David Farina ....................New York, N.Y.

10......Justin Arrington-Holmes New York, N.Y.

11......Richard Wickman............Bayside, N.Y.

12......Arthur Elghouayel............New York, N.Y.

GIRLSMetro Girls 12 SinglesRank..Name................................City1........Nadejda Maslova ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

2 ........Rachel Zhang ..................Forest Hills, N.Y.

3 ........Masha Serjantov ............New York, N.Y.

4 ........Rebecca Sitkovetsky ......Staten Island, N.Y.

5 ........Nicolette Fundator ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

6 ........Leila M. Epstein ..............New York, N.Y.

7 ........Sage Loudon ..................New York, N.Y.

8 ........Alina Kargin-Utkin............Brooklyn, N.Y.

9 ........Alyssa An ........................New York, N.Y.

10......Blakely Dushkin ..............New York, N.Y.

11......Beyonce Blake ................Brooklyn, N.Y.

12......Nicole Bolkunova ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

13......Niki Truszkowski..............Middle Village, N.Y.

14......Sarah Lucy Youngberg ..New York, N.Y.

15......Samantha Bentsianov ....Staten Island, N.Y.

16......Taylor Overstrom ............New York, N.Y.

17......Kristina Pali ......................Briarwood, N.Y.

18......Katherine Krieger ............New York, N.Y.

19......Nathalie Williams ............New York, N.Y.

20......Celina Liu ........................Forest Hills, N.Y.

21......Sofia Allinson ..................New York, N.Y.

22......Angelica Schell ................New York, N.Y.

23......Emma Sofia Ostlund ......New York, N.Y.

24......Sophia Cisse....................New York, N.Y.

25......Alyssa Pustilnik................Brooklyn, N.Y.

26......Cassie Tian ......................Flushing, N.Y.

27......Bukky Alalade..................Rosedale, N.Y.

28......Elizabeth Serjantov..........New York, N.Y.

29......Julia Gottschalk ..............New York, N.Y.

30......Sofie Shen ......................New York, N.Y.

31......Emma Eisenberg ............New York, N.Y.

32......Piper Sydney Brown ......New York, N.Y.

33......Paula Ann Maseyev ........Brooklyn, N.Y.

34......Medina Garunja ..............Bronx, N.Y.

35......Sheyna Esther Karen ......New York, N.Y.

36......Maxie Molly Karen ..........New York, N.Y.

37......Nicole Wooyin Lee ..........New York, N.Y.

38......Linda Ziets-Segura..........New York, N.Y.

39......Nia Lashawn Dabreo ......Brooklyn, N.Y.

40......Brooke Hoffman..............New York, N.Y.

Metro Girls 14 SinglesRank..Name................................City1........Amy Kaplan ....................Brooklyn, N.Y.

2 ........Rebecca Sitkovetsky ......Staten Island, N.Y.

3 ........Nadejda Maslova ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

4 ........Casey Brandes................Rego Park, N.Y.

5 ........Rebecca Izyayeva ..........Staten Island, N.Y.

6 ........Hillary Sherpa ..................Astoria, N.Y.

7 ........Nicole Koi Massa ............Astoria, N.Y.

8 ........Kristina Pali ......................Briarwood, N.Y.

9 ........Sofia Kate Levine ............New York, N.Y.

10......Theodora Vrailas..............New York, N.Y.

11......Barbara Podvorchani ......Bronx, N.Y.

12......Taylor Simone Williams ..New York, N.Y.

13......Alexandra Coulombe ......New York, N.Y.

14......Cassie Tian ......................Flushing, N.Y.

15......Alanna Levitt ....................New York, N.Y.

16......Karolina Lankamer ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

17......Danielle P. Kezeli..............Staten Island, N.Y.

18......Joanna Urena ..................Hollis, N.Y.

19......Josephine Kimball ..........New York, N.Y.

20......Julia Gottschalk ..............New York, N.Y.

21......Naomi Park......................New York, N.Y.

22......Rebecca MacDonald ......Brooklyn, N.Y.

23......Lauren Wooyoung Lee....New York, N.Y.

24......Michelle Kleynerman ......Staten Island, N.Y.

25......Jamila Akhmedjanova ....New York, N.Y.

26......Kate Yamin ......................New York, N.Y.

27......Shakima Hotaki ..............Flushing, N.Y.

28......Nicole Sin Ming Chu ......Flushing, N.Y.

29......Niki Truszkowski..............Middle Village, N.Y.

30......Julia Kirsh ........................New York, N.Y.

31......Diana McCready..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

32......Nicolette Fundator ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

33......Amalia M. Parrish ............Queens Village, N.Y.

34......Leah Margulies ................New York, N.Y.

35......Emma Eisenberg ............New York, N.Y.

36......Masha Serjantov ............New York, N.Y.

37......Elisabeth G. Schlossel ....New York, N.Y.

38......Mia Parrish ......................Queens Village, N.Y.

39......Caroline Paige Kantor ....New York, N.Y.

40......Alina Kargin-Utkin............Brooklyn, N.Y.

Metro Girls 16 SinglesRank..Name................................City1........Tamila Latif-Zade ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

2 ........Amy Kaplan ....................Brooklyn, N.Y.

3 ........Gianna Gaudio ................Staten Island, N.Y.

4 ........Natalie Marguiles ............New York, N.Y.

5 ........Liana I. Weitzman ............Whitestone, N.Y.

6 ........Denise Marie Trerotola ....Brooklyn, N.Y.

7 ........Tomi Alalade ....................Rosedale, N.Y.

8 ........Sophia Hartman ..............New York, N.Y.

9 ........Kelsey Emma Gund........New York, N.Y.

10......Kayla MSchumacher ......Brooklyn, N.Y.

11......Isabella Rendon ..............Oakland Gardens, N.Y.

12......Emma Wrazej ..................New York, N.Y.

13......Rebecca Xinyue Zhou ....New York, N.Y.

14......Anna Maite Kaplan..........New York, N.Y.

15......Gabrielle Eitkas................Brooklyn, N.Y.

16......Alexandra Sanford ..........New York, N.Y.

17......Barbara Podvorchani ......Bronx, N.Y.

18......Nadejda Maslova ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

19......Alanna Levitt ....................New York, N.Y.

20......Nicole Khorosh................Brooklyn, N.Y.

21......Joanna Urena ..................Hollis, N.Y.

22......Anastasia Lukyanovich ..Brooklyn, N.Y.

23......Maryna Bohdanovska ....Brooklyn, N.Y.

24......Alexandra Coulombe ......New York, N.Y.

25......Mariam Shengelia ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

26......Nicole Koi Massa ............Astoria, N.Y.

27......Grace L. Kennedy ..........New York, N.Y.

28......Kiara Rose ......................New York, N.Y.

29......Elizabeth Khusid..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

30......Shelby Lau ......................Brooklyn, N.Y.

31......Anastasya Menshikova ..Brooklyn, N.Y.

32......Danielle P. Kezeli..............Staten Island, N.Y.

33......Carolyn Silverstein ..........New York, N.Y.

34......Gianna Medici ................Bayside Hills, N.Y.

Metro Girls 18 SinglesRank..Name................................City1........Julia Zbarsky....................New York, N.Y.

2 ........Tamila Latif-Zade ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

3 ........Isabelle Rovinski..............New York, N.Y.



Boys & Girls Sectional Rankings(as of 02/04/15)

BOYSSectional Boys 12 Singles—Metro RegionRank Name............................City..........Noah Edelman ................New York, N.Y.

10......Wesley Zhang..................Staten Island, N.Y.

12......John-Thomas Bilski ........New York, N.Y.

14......Maxwell Kachkarov ........Flushing, N.Y.

15......Sebastian Sec ................New York, N.Y.

18......Brandon T. Cohen ..........New York, N.Y.


23......Tyler Korobov ..................Brooklyn, N.Y.

24......Ty Switzer ........................New York, N.Y.


35......Charles William Phillips ..New York, N.Y.

37......Sidharth Chawla..............New York, N.Y.

38......Hudson Beaudoin ..........New York, N.Y.

40......Anthony Cataldo ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

41......Jasper August Hunt ........New York, N.Y.

44......Winter Fagerberg ............New York, N.Y.


49......Jace Alexander................New York, N.Y.

60......Mitchel Pertsovsky..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

66......Solomon Brown ..............New York, N.Y.

70......Gunnar S. Overstrom......New York, N.Y.

71......Bradley Bennett ..............New York, N.Y.

72......Nicholas Doupsas ..........New York, N.Y.

79......Donovan Spigner ............New York, N.Y.

82......Kole Henry Moses ..........New York, N.Y.

83......Noah Abels Eisenberg ....New York, N.Y.


91......Nicholas Murphy ............New York, N.Y.

92......Joseph Phillips ................New York, N.Y.

94......Cooper Williams ..............New York, N.Y.

95......Paul Elghouayel ..............New York, N.Y.

98......Sabian Kosinov ..............Forest Hills, N.Y.

99......Adrien Svilen Jippov ......New York, N.Y.

100....Benjamin Ebanks ............New York, N.Y.

113....Jack Benavides ..............New York, N.Y.

117....Eric Dubilirer ....................Little Neck, N.Y.

118....Evan Friedmann ..............New York, N.Y.

120....Guy Ferrera......................New York, N.Y.

121....Nicholas Suhanitski ........Staten Island, N.Y.

122....Daniel Galisteo Gordon ..New York, N.Y.

127....Ryan David Brandes ......Rego Park, N.Y.

142....Marko R. Gural ................New York, N.Y.

146....Ryuichi Nitta ....................Bronx, N.Y.

150....Mathias Isaac Davila ......Whitestone, N.Y.

Sectional Boys 14 Singles—Metro RegionRank Name............................City9........Lantis Wang ....................New York, N.Y.

14......Gary Fishkin ....................Staten Island, N.Y.

15......Igor Maslov ......................Brooklyn, N.Y.

16......Derek Raskopf ................New York, N.Y.

17......Steven Nazaroff ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

18......Nicholas Pustilnik ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

26......Jeffrey Fradkin ................New York, N.Y.

27......Ethan Leon ......................Woodhaven, N.Y.

32......Shawn Jackson ..............Staten Island, N.Y.

39......Alexander Petrov ............Middle Village, N.Y.

41......Oliver Jevtovic ................Astoria, N.Y.

43......Sam Vagner ....................Staten Island, N.Y.

44......Jonah Jurick ....................New York, N.Y.

45......Noah Edelman ................New York, N.Y.

47......David Raphael Weiner ....Forest Hills, N.Y.

49......Richard Zusman..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

51......Dylan Friedman ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

53......Shand Stephens..............New York, N.Y.

55......Robbie F. Werdiger..........New York, N.Y.

57......Kai Yuminaga ..................Oakland Gardens, N.Y.

62......William Charles Phillips ..New York, N.Y.

68......Jeffrey McCready............Brooklyn, N.Y.

70......Alexander Chiu................New York, N.Y.


78......Christopher Tham ..........Flushing, N.Y.

80......Brandon T. Cohen ..........New York, N.Y.

83......Gabriel Isaac Rissman....Brooklyn, N.Y.


94......Blake Frank......................New York, N.Y.

96......Alexander Nielsen ..........New York, N.Y.

102....Oliver Obeid ....................New York, N.Y.

104....Daniel Leon Maseyev......Brooklyn, N.Y.

108....Kemal Irfan Aziz ..............Staten Island, N.Y.

Sectional Boys 16 Singles—Metro RegionRank Name............................City13......Sumit Sarkar....................New York, N.Y.

21......Mitchell Ostrovsky ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

27......Calvin Chung ..................Bronx, N.Y

30......Gary C. Fishkin ................Staten Island, N.Y.

46......Zachary Jordan Lieb ......New York, N.Y.

53......Jeffrey Gorilovsky............Brooklyn, N.Y.

61......Sam Vagner ....................Staten Island, N.Y.

66......David Mizahi ....................Brooklyn, N.Y.

71......Robert Kennedy ............New York, N.Y.

72......Christopher Kolesnik ......Staten Island, N.Y.

76......Allan Ethan Magid ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

78......Nicholas Rudman............New York, N.Y.

80......Jordan D. Jordan ............Astoria, N.Y.

81......Xavier Pacthod ................New York, N.Y.

86......Philip Belmatch ..............Staten Island, N.Y.

111....Adam Bernstein ..............New York, N.Y.

123....Gabriel Sifuentes ............Flushing, N.Y.

128....Michael Tyutyunik............Brooklyn, N.Y.

130....Ethan Moszkowski..........New York, N.Y.

135....Derek Raskopf ................New York, N.Y.

Sectional Boys 18 Singles—Metro RegionRank Name............................City2........Oliver Sec ........................New York, N.Y.

16......Ananth Raghavan............New York, N.Y.

20......Christopher Paul Auteri ..Staten Island, N.Y.

26......Marcus T. Smith ..............Little Neck, N.Y.

28......Ethan Nittolo....................Flushing, N.Y.

31......Felipe Osses-Konig ........Rego Park, N.Y.

33......Victor Miglo......................Kew Gardens, N.Y.

36......James Wasserman..........New York, N.Y.

53......Maurice Russo ................New York, N.Y.

56......Alexander Pintilie ............New York, N.Y.

66......Artemie Amari..................New York, N.Y.

81......William J. Trang ..............Staten Island, N.Y.

95......Faris Nathoo ....................New York, N.Y.

99......Zachary Kaplan ..............New York, N.Y.

100....Alexander Thrane............New York, N.Y.

103....Leonard Margolis ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

107....Jordan D. Jordan ............Astoria, N.Y.

112....Alex Chao ........................New York, N.Y.

113....Brett W. Jones ................New York, N.Y.

115....Michael Gardiner ............New York, N.Y.

137....Jack Haroche ..................New York, N.Y.

GIRLSSectional Girls 12 Singles—Metro RegionRank Name............................City6........Miriam Aziz ......................Staten Island, N.Y.

7 ........Dakota Fordham ............New York, N.Y.

9 ........Nadejda Maslova ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

13......Elvina Kalieva ..................Staten Island, N.Y.

18......Daniella Benabraham......New York, N.Y.

20......Lorraine Bergmann ........Forest Hills, N.Y.

23......Khyanna Singh ................Queens Village, N.Y.

25......Karolina Lankamer ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

26......Shawnte Beale ................Bronx, N.Y.

28......Rebecca Eliana Fisch......New York, N.Y.

30......Carolyn Brodsky..............New York, N.Y.

31......Shakima Hotaki ..............Flushing, N.Y.

36......Michelle Kleynerman ......Staten Island, N.Y.

41......Sarah Youngberg ............New York, N.Y.

43......Zoe Kava..........................New York, N.Y.

44......Natalie Eordekian ............Woodside, N.Y.

59......Sabrina Boada ................Woodhaven, N.Y.

60......Rachel Zhang ..................Forest Hills, N.Y.

67......Sage Loudon ..................New York, N.Y.

68......Masha Serjantov ............New York, N.Y.

73......Nathalie Williams ............New York, N.Y.

90......Elizabeth Serjantov..........New York, N.Y.

93......Alyssa An ........................New York, N.Y.

95......Deliala Friedman..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

96......Alina Kargin-Utkin............Brooklyn, N.Y.

102....Niki Truszkowski..............Middle Village, N.Y.

105....Nicolette Fundator ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

117....Kassia Taylor....................New York, N.Y.

119....Nicolette Fundator ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

122....Leila M. Epstein ..............New York, N.Y.

131....Kasia Ojar ........................New York, N.Y.

135....Blakely Duskin ................New York, N.Y.

137....Sofia Allinson ..................New York, N.Y.

138....Sofie Shen ......................New York, N.Y.

139....Lara Rose Berliner ..........New York, N.Y.

142....Beyonce Blake ................Brooklyn, N.Y.

143....Alyssa Pustilnik................Brooklyn, N.Y.

Sectional Girls 14 Singles—Metro RegionRank Name............................City4........Shelly Yaloz......................Little Neck, N.Y.

5 ........Michelle Sorokko ............Little Neck, N.Y.

8 ........Dasha Kourkina ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

15......Rosie Garcia Gross ........New York, N.Y.

16......Nicole Semenov..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

24......Anastasia Koniaev ..........Forest Hills, N.Y.

25......Katherine Kachkarov ......Flushing, N.Y.

29......Christina Huynh ..............Astoria, N.Y.

30......Perene Wang ..................New York, N.Y.

32......Sonia Tartakovsky ..........New York, N.Y.

33......Chelsea Williams ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

37......Kyra Bergmann................Forest Hills, N.Y.

41......Stephanie Li ....................New York, N.Y.

43......Jennifer Yu ......................Forest Hills, N.Y.

48......Dakota Fordham ............New York, N.Y.

52......Diana McCready..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

54......Rebecca Eliana Fisch......New York, N.Y.

56......Miriam Irfan Aziz..............Staten Island, N.Y.

57......Marie Ivantechenko ........Brooklyn, N.Y.

58......Amanda Solecki ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

61......Diana Sosonkin ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

64......Katelyn Walker ................New York, N.Y.

67......Isabella Nicole Tushaj......Bronx, N.Y.

68......Isabella Sinclair Cooper ..Brooklyn, N.Y.

75......Giuliana Rosa Gibson ....Bayside, N.Y.


82......Gabriella Eitkis ................Brooklyn, N.Y.

86......Audrey Pacthod ..............New York, N.Y.

87......Rachel Rubenzahl ..........New York, N.Y.

89......Amy Kaplan ....................Brooklyn, N.Y.

93......Sofie Kate Levine ............New York, N.Y.

99......Nadejda Maslova ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

107....Grace L. Kennedy ..........New York, N.Y.

109....Shakima Hotaki ..............Flushing, N.Y.

116....Daniella Benabraham......New York, N.Y.

122....Emily Moczulski ..............Oakland Gardens, N.Y.

133....Shawnte Beale ................Bronx, N.Y.

138....Maryna Bohdanovska ....Brooklyn, N.Y.

139....Rebecca Sitkovetsky ......Staten Island, N.Y.

140....Daniela Hernandez..........Corona, N.Y.

145....Anastasya Menshikova ..Brooklyn, N.Y.

146....Casey Brandes................Rego Park, N.Y.

147....Khyanna Singh ................Queens Village, N.Y.

148....Sabrina Boada ................Woodhaven, N.Y.

150....Zoe Kava..........................New York, N.Y.

Sectional Girls 16 Singles—Metro RegionRank Name............................City8........Shelly Yaloz......................Little Neck, N.Y.

13......Brianna Williams..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

14......Michelle Sorokko ............Little Neck, N.Y.

16......Nicole Semenov..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

17......Alexus Gill ........................Brooklyn, N.Y.

18......Dasha Kourkina ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

24......Aleksandra Bekirova ......Brookln, N.Y.

25......Alexandra Koniaev ..........Forest Hills, N.Y.

27......Victoria Sec......................New York, N.Y.

30......Sarah Rahman ................East Elmhurst, N.Y.

34......Yuka Lin ..........................Kew Gardens, N.Y.

36......Lauren Munari..................Middle Village, N.Y.

38......Regina Furer ....................Brooklyn, N.Y.

48......Chelsea Williams ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

50......Stephanie Li ....................New York, N.Y.


54......Jillian Auteri......................Staten Island, N.Y.

55......Patricia Obeid..................New York, N.Y.


61......Sydney Lynn Katz ..........New York, N.Y.

69......Lisa Marchelska ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

70......Jennifer Yu ......................Forest Hills, N.Y.

72......Anastasia Koniaev ..........Forest Hills, N.Y.

85......Brittny Jo Ferreira............Brooklyn, N.Y.

91......Lia Kiam ..........................New York, N.Y.

92......Emma Brandes Kassan..New York, N.Y.

93......Katherine Kachkarov ......Flushing, N.Y.

98......Isabelle Rovinski..............New York, N.Y.

102....Barbara Podvorchani ......Bronx, N.Y.

104....Isabel Balilo......................Flushing, N.Y.

114....Tamila Latif-Zade ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

116....Sabrina Lee Abrams ......New York, N.Y.

119....Kiara A. Rose ..................New York, N.Y.

126....Liana Weitzman ..............Whitestone, N.Y.

133....Amy Kaplan ....................Brooklyn, N.Y.

139....Kyra Bergmann................Forest Hills, N.Y.

141....Miriam Irfan Aziz..............Staten Island, N.Y.

146....Christina M. Huynh..........Astoria, N.Y.

Sectional Girls 18 Singles—Metro RegionRank Name............................City2........Sabrina Xiong ..................Fresh Meadows, N.Y.

4 ........Anna Ulyashchenko........Brooklyn, N.Y.

8 ........Arnelle Sullivan ................Brooklyn, N.Y.

22......Isis Gill ..............................Brooklyn, N.Y.




24......Yuka Lin ..........................Kew Gardens, N.Y.

27......Alexus Gill ........................Brooklyn, N.Y.

29......Jessica Livianu ................Brooklyn, N.Y.

32......Christina Puccinelli ..........New York, N.Y.

36......Brianna Williams..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

40......Sheely Yaloz ....................Little Neck, N.Y.

42......Shayna Spooner..............New York, N.Y.

43......Alexandra Koniaev ..........Forest Hills, N.Y.

45......Sophia Kryloff ..................Brooklyn, N.Y.

47......Jessica Golovin ..............New York, N.Y.

48......Patricia Obeid..................New York, N.Y.


53......Sarah Rahman ................East Elmhurst, N.Y.

55......Jillian Rose Auteri ............Staten Island, N.Y.

63......Sofia Anouk Alsiks ..........New York, N.Y.

65......Elizabeth Tsvetkov ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

72......Nia Rose ..........................New York, N.Y.

77......Annie Reiner ....................New York, N.Y.

87......Emma Brandes Kassan..New York, N.Y.


101....Lauren Munari..................Middle Village, N.Y.

104....Jennifer Yu ......................Forest Hills, N.Y.

107....Stephanie Johnson ........Richmond Hill, N.Y.

115....Michelle Sorokko ............Little Neck, N.Y.

118....Dea Koiava ......................New York, N.Y.

129....Tamila Latif-Zade ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

134....Angeline Devanthiran......Corona, N.Y.

135....Dasha Kourkina ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

139....Kiara A. Rose ..................New York, N.Y.

149....Keren Khromchenko ......Staten Island, N.Y.


Boys & Girls National Rankings(as of 02/25/15)

BOYSNational Boys 12 Singles—Metro RegionRank ..Name ..........................City55......Noah Edelman ................New York, N.Y.

93......John-Tomas Bilski ..........New York, N.Y.

112....Wesley Zhang..................Staten Island, N.Y.

130....Brandon T. Cohen ..........New York, N.Y.

204....Sebastian Sec ................New York, N.Y.

210....Maxwell Kachkarov ........Flushing, N.Y.

262....Ty Switzer ........................New York, N.Y.

307....Tyler Korobov ..................Brooklyn, N.Y.

359....Hudson Beaudoin ..........New York, N.Y.

448....Sidharth Chawla..............New York, N.Y.

538....Charles William Phillips ..New York, N.Y.

549....Donovan Brown ..............New York, N.Y.

633....Winter Fagerberg ............New York, N.Y.

645....Jace K. Alexander ..........New York, N.Y.

716....David Krasner..................Staten Island, N.Y.

741....Sachin Palta ....................Forest Hills, N.Y.

837....Nicholas Doupsas ..........New York, N.Y.

893....Jasper August Hunt ........New York, N.Y.

National Boys 14 Singles—Metro RegionRank ..Name ..........................City68......Lantis Wang ....................New York, N.Y.

128....Derek Raskopf ................New York, N.Y.

131....Gary Fishkin ....................Staten Island, N.Y.

161....Nicholas Pustilnik ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

291....Igor Maslov ......................Brooklyn, N.Y.

300....Shawn Jackson ..............Staten Island, N.Y.

314....Jeffrey Fradkin ................New York, N.Y.

396....Ethan Leon ......................Woodhaven, N.Y.

405....Steven Daniel Nazaroff....Brooklyn, N.Y.

644....Oliver Jevtovic ................Astoria, N.Y.

699....Dylan Friedman ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

714....Alexander Petrov ............Middle Village, N.Y.

929....Jonah Jurick ....................New York, N.Y.

930....Harry Portnoy ..................New York, N.Y.

935....Noah D. Edelman............New York, N.Y.

National Boys 16 Singles—Metro RegionRank ..Name ..........................City240....Sumit Sarkar....................New York, N.Y.

276....Mitchell Ostrovsky ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

368....Gary C. Fishkin ................Staten Island, N.Y.

434....Calvin Chung ..................Bronx, N.Y.

940....Robert Kennedy ..............New York, N.Y.

949....Xavier Pacthod ................New York, N.Y.

961....Sam V. Vagner ................Staten Island, N.Y.

National Boys 18 Singles—Metro RegionRank ..Name ..........................City94......Oliver Sec ........................New York, N.Y.

118....James Wasserman..........New York, N.Y.

166....Ethan Nittolo....................Flushing, N.Y.

179....Christopher Auteri ..........Staten Island, N.Y.

228....Felipe Osses-Konig ........Rego Park, N.Y.

273....Ananth Raghavan............New York, N.Y.

449....Marcus T. Smith ..............Little Neck, N.Y.

524....Alexander Pintilie ............New York, N.Y.

736....Maurice Russo ................New York, N.Y.

GIRLSNational Girls 12 Singles—Metro RegionRank ..Name ..........................City30......Nadejda Maslova ............Brooklyn, N.Y.



70......Miriam Irfan Aziz..............Staten Island, N.Y.

183....Khyanna Singh ................Queens Village, N.Y.

237....Lorraine Bergmann ........Forest Hills, N.Y.

265....Rebecca Eliana Fisch......New York, N.Y.

289....Daniella Benabraham......New York, N.Y.

427....Shawnte Natalique Beale Bronx, N.Y.

454....Shakima Hotaki ..............Flushing, N.Y.

483....Carolyn Brodsky..............New York, N.Y.

487....Karolina Lankamer ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

530....Sarah Lucy Youngberg ..New York, N.Y.

542....Michelle Kleynerman ......Staten Island, N.Y.

689....Rachel Zhang ..................Forest Hills, N.Y.

National Girls 14 Singles—Metro RegionRank ..Name ..........................City24......Shelly Yaloz......................Little Neck, N.Y.

28......Dasha Kourkina ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

38......Michelle Sorokko ............Little Neck, N.Y.

142....Nicole Semenov..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

165....Katherine Kachkarov ......Flushing, N.Y.

210....Rosie Garcia Gross ........New York, N.Y.

219....Anastasia Nicole Koniaev Forest Hills, N.Y.

239....Perene Wang ..................New York, N.Y.

308....Sonia Tartakovsky ..........New York, N.Y.

344....Jennifer Yu ......................Forest Hills, N.Y.

365....Christina M. Huynh..........Astoria, N.Y.


516....Stephanie Li ....................New York, N.Y.

608....Chelsea Williams ............Brooklyn, N.Y.

616....Katelyn Walker ................New York, N.Y.

749....Diana McCready..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

881....Rebecca Eliana Fisch......New York, N.Y.

911....Amanda Solecki ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

National Girls 16 Singles—Metro RegionRank ..Name ..........................City166....Dasha Kourkina ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

185....Brianna Williams..............Brooklyn, N.Y.


224....Alexandra Koniaev ..........Forest Hills, N.Y.

287....Shelly Yaloz......................Little Neck, N.Y.

306....Alexus Gill ........................Brooklyn, N.Y.

368....Victoria Sec......................New York, N.Y.

398....Aleksandra Bekirova ......Brooklyn, N.Y.

407....Lauren Munari..................Middle Village, N.Y.

483....Sarah Rahman ................East Elmhurst, N.Y.

564....Nicole Semenov..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

782....Dakota Fordham ............New York, N.Y.

783....Regina Furer ....................Brooklyn, N.Y.

875....Anastasia Koniaev ..........Forest Hills, N.Y.

National Girls 18 Singles—Metro RegionRank ..Name ..........................City56......Anna Ulyashchenko........Brooklyn, N.Y.

64......Sabrina Xiong ..................Fresh Meadows, N.Y.

110....Jessica Melanie Livianu ..Brooklyn, N.Y.

123....Jessica Golovin ..............New York, N.Y.

141....Arnelle Sullivan ................Brooklyn, N.Y.

379....Brianna Williams..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

429....Isis Gill ..............................Brooklyn, N.Y.

507....Sophia Kryloff ..................Brooklyn, N.Y.

533....Alexandra Koniaev ..........Forest Hills, N.Y.

568....Stephanie Johnson ........Richmond Hill, N.Y.

586....Sonia Tartakovsky ..........New York, N.Y.

705....Alexandra Sanford ..........New York, N.Y.

751....Nia Rose ..........................New York, N.Y.

770....Sheely Yaloz ....................Little Neck, N.Y.


881....Christina Puccinelli ..........New York, N.Y.

892....Elizabeth Tsvetkov ..........Brooklyn, N.Y.

910....Dasha Kourkina ..............Brooklyn, N.Y.

950....Julia D. Fisch ..................New York, N.Y.

USTA/Metropolitan Region

2015 TOURNAMENT SCHEDULEFor detailed information on these and all USTA tournaments, visit tennislink.usta.com/tournaments.

MARCH 2015Sunday, March 8PSP 3; Cunningham Sports Center Metro Orange Series #1Cunningham Sports Center19600 Union TurnpikeFresh Meadows, N.Y.Divisions: Entry Level Boys & Girls 10 and Under Singles:60’ Orange Ball 10 (NEF)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $38.13 per player (deadline for entries is Monday, March 2 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] call (718) 740-6800.

Friday-Sunday, March 13-15 & Friday-Saturday,March 20-21L1B Sportime Randall’s Island March ChallengerSportime at Randall’s Island1 Randall’s IslandNew York, N.Y.Divisions: Challenger Boys & Girls Singles: 78’ Yellow Ball14-18 (SE)Surface Type: Clay, HardEntry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline for entries is Friday, March 6 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] call (212) 427-6150.

Friday-Sunday, March 13-15L1B Alley Pond March ChallengerAlley Pond Tennis Center7920 Winchester BoulevardQueens Village, N.Y.Divisions: Intermediate Boys & Girls Singles: 78’ YellowBall 12 (SE)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline for entries is Monday, March 9 at 9:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call(718) 264-2600.

Friday-Sunday, March 20-22L2O Cunningham Tennis Center March OpenCunningham Sports Center19600 Union TurnpikeFresh Meadows, N.Y.Divisions: Intermediate Boys & Girls Singles: 78’ YellowBall 12 (FMLC); Intermediate Boys & Girls Singles: 78’Yellow Ball 14-18 (SE); and Intermediate Boys & GirlsDoubles: 78’ Yellow Ball 14-18 (SE)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $54.25 for first singles/$28 for first doubles(deadline for entries is Friday, March 13 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] orcall (516) 984-3711.

Friday-Sunday, March 20-22L1A Harlem Junior Tennis Spring ChampionshipHarlem Junior Tennis Program40 West 143rd StreetNew York, N.Y.Divisions: Championships Boys & Girls Singles: 78’ YellowBall 16 (SE)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $48.88 per player (deadline for entries is Sunday, March 15 at 5:00 p.m.)For more information, call (212) 491-3738.

Friday-Sunday, March 20-22Eastern Super Six Stadium Tennis Center (National L4)Stadium Tennis Center725 Exterior StreetBronx, N.Y.Divisions: Super 6 Event Boys Singles 78’ Yellow Ball 18(FIC-R16)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $116.60 per player (deadline for entries isMonday, March 9 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call (718) 665-4684.

Friday-Sunday, March 20-22Eastern Super Six APTC (National L4)Alley Pond Tennis Center7920 Winchester BoulevardQueens Village, N.Y.Divisions: Super 6 Event Girls Singles:78’ Yellow Ball 18(FIC-R16)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $116.60 per player (deadline for entries isMonday, March 9 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call(718) 264-2600.

Friday-Sunday, March 20-22Eastern Super Six NYJTL (National L4)New York Junior Tennis and LearningClub address to be determinedDivisions: Super 6 Event Girls Singles 78’ Yellow Ball 16(FIC-R16)Surface Type: Hard Entry Fee: $116.60 per player (deadline for entries isMonday, March 9 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] orcall (347) 417-8168.

Saturday-Sunday, March 28-29L3 Alley Pond TC March UPSAlley Pond Tennis Center7920 Winchester BoulevardQueens Village, N.Y.Divisions: Entry Level Boys & Girls Singles: 78’ Green Ball12, 78’ Yellow Ball 14-16 (RR)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $43.50 per player (deadline for entries isWednesday, March 25 at 5:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call(718) 264-2600.

Saturday-Sunday, March 28-29PSP 2; Cunningham Eastern Orange Challenger Series #2Cunningham Sports Center19600 Union TurnpikeFresh Meadows, N.Y.Divisions: Intermediate Boys & Girls 10 and Under Sin-gles: 60’ Orange Ball 10 (FRLC); and Intermediate Co-ed10 and Under Singles: 60’ Orange Ball 10 (FRLC)Surface Type: Hard Entry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline for entries is Monday, March 23 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] call (516) 984-3711.

Saturday, March 28PSP 3; Stadium Metro Orange Series #2Stadium Tennis Center725 Exterior StreetBronx, N.Y.Divisions: Boys & Girls 10 and Under Singles: 60’ OrangeBall 10 (NEF)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $38.13 per player (deadline for entries is Sat-urday, March 14 at 11:59 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call (718) 665-4684.

APRIL 2015Friday-Sunday, April 3-12L1B Sportime Randall’s Island April ChallengerSportime at Randall’s Island1 Randall’s IslandNew York, N.Y.Divisions: Entry Level Boys & Girls Singles 78’ Green Ball12 (RR)Surface Type: ClayEntry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline for entries isThursday, March 19 at 5:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] call (212) 427-6150.


USTA/Metropolitan Region

2015 TOURNAMENT SCHEDULEFor detailed information on these and all USTA tournaments, visit tennislink.usta.com/tournaments.

Monday-Thursday, April 6-9L1B APTC Spring Break ChallengerAlley Pond Tennis Center7920 Winchester BoulevardQueens Village, N.Y.Divisions: Challenger Boys & Girls Singles: 78’ Yellow Ball12-18 (SE)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline for entries is Tuesday, March 31 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call(718) 264-2600.

Friday-Sunday, April 10-12L1 Stadium Tennis Center April ChampionshipsStadium Tennis Center725 Exterior StreetBronx, N.Y.Divisions: Championships Girls Singles 78’ Yellow Ball 18(SE)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline for entries is Sunday, April 5 at 5:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call (718) 665-4684.

Friday-Sunday, April 10-12L1 APTC April ChampionshipsAlley Pond Tennis Center7920 Winchester BoulevardQueens Village, N.Y.Divisions: Championships Boys Singles 78’ Yellow Ball 18(SE)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline for entries is Sunday, April 5 at 5:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call(718) 264-2600.

Friday-Sunday, April 17-19L1B Stadium Tennis Center April ChallengerStadium Tennis Center725 Exterior StreetBronx, N.Y.Divisions: Challenger Boys & Girls Singles 78’ Yellow Ball12,16 (SE)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline for entries is Monday, April 13 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call (718) 665-4684.

Friday-Sunday, April 17-19L1B Cunningham Park TC April ChallengerCunningham Sports Center19600 Union TurnpikeFresh Meadows, N.Y.Divisions: Challenger Boys & Girls Singles 78’ Yellow Ball18 (SE)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline for entries is Monday, April 13 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] orcall (516) 984-3711.

Friday-Sunday, April 17-19L1A NYJTL Spring ChampionshipsNew York Junior Tennis and Learning5812 Queens BoulevardWoodside, N.Y.Divisions: Championships Boys & Girls Singles 78’ YellowBall 14 (SE)Surface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline for entries is Sunday, April 12 at 9:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] orcall (347) 417-8168.

Friday-Sunday, April 17-19L2O Sportime RI April OpenSportime at Randall’s Island1 Randall’s IslandNew York, N.Y.Divisions: Intermediate Boys & Girls Singles 78’ YellowBall 12 (FMLC); Intermediate Boys & Girls Singles 78’ Yellow Ball 14 (SE); and Intermediate Boys & Girls Doubles: 78’ Yellow Ball 14 (SE)Surface Type: Clay, HardEntry Fee: $54.25 for first singles, $28 for first doubles(deadline for entries is Friday, April 10 at 9:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] call (212) 427-6150.

Friday-Sunday, April 24-26Empire Cup National Doubles at Stadium Tennis CenterStadium Tennis Center725 Exterior StreetBronx, N.Y.Divisions: Boys Singles 78’ Yellow Ball 14 (FRLC) andBoys & Girls Doubles 78’ Yellow Ball 14 (FMLC)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $43.50 per player (deadline for entries is Friday, April 17 at 8:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call (718) 665-4684

Friday-Sunday, April 24-26Empire Cup National Doubles at APTCAlley Pond Tennis Center7920 Winchester BoulevardQueens Village, N.Y.Divisions: Boys & Girls Doubles: 78’ Yellow Ball 12,18(FRLC)Surface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $43.50 per player (deadline for entries is Friday, April 17 at 8:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call(718) 264-2600.

Friday-Saturday, April 24-25L3 Sportime at Randall’s Island April UPSSportime at Randall’s Island1 Randall’s IslandNew York, N.Y.Divisions: Entry Level Boys & Girls Singles 78’ Green Ball12 (RR)Surface Type: HardEntry Fee: $43.50 per player (deadline for entries is Friday, April 17 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, e-mail [email protected] call (212) 427-6150.



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