Center Court News
Defending 50 and over champion Tracy Houk of Montara, Calif., arrived at this week’s USTA National Senior Women's Hard Court Championships at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club determined to defend her singles title.
San Diego’s Colleen Clery Ferrell is very happy the United States Tennis Association (USTA) National Senior Women’s Hard Court Tennis Championships are being played this week at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club.
Tennis history is in the walls of Westwood Sporting Goods. Walking into the small, venerable tennis shop – which this year is celebrating its 80th year of operation – on a mid-morning, mid-week visit, you could practically see it seeping out from all four sides. And you could certainly smell it.
The U.S. Tennis Association is a fat target. With a 1994 budget of over $91 million and an estimated surplus of almost $23 million, the Association has become an octopus of pro-active projects across America. With so much going on in so many directions, the Association is bound to offend someone sometime.
California State University, Los Angeles will break ground on the future site of the Rosie Casals/Pancho Gonzalez Tennis Center at the Billie Jean King Sports Complex on May 6, from 10 a.m. to noon. This is one of several events to mark the investiture of William A. Covino as Cal State L.A.’s seventh president.
The following is a reprinted “Vantage Point” column that was written by Gene Scott and appeared in Tennis Week on May 26, 1987.
The Pac-12 Men’s Tennis Championship final will be between the top two seeds as No. 1 USC and No. 2 UCLA blanked their respective opponents to advance to the championship match. The Trojans and Bruins will face off on Saturday in the final.
Tennis players of the world unite! Complain about the prices of rackets and court rentals and club memberships and most of all the prices of seats / tickets to tennis tourneys. Yikes you practically need to mortgage your house to attend a really super nice tourney in Indian Wells. Wake up all tournament directors.
Legendary tennis coach Nick Bollettieri has led life with the intensity of a fifth set tiebreaker. In his autobiography he tells all, from his humble beginnings in a suburb of New York to his triumphs on the center courts at Wimbledon, the French Open, the Australian Open and the U.S. Open.
Pop star and global icon Redfoo of LMFAO has never been shy sharing with the world his love for tennis. Local Southern California fans will get to see Stefan Gordy, a.k.a Redfoo, in action on the courts at one of the oldest and largest tennis tournaments in the country as he takes on Weil Academy junior Zhang Liang to kick off the 114th annual Ojai Tennis Tournament.
Subscribers of DISH Network L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of DISH Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH), are now able to access Tennis Channel’s linear stream through DishAnywhere.com on computers and the Tennis Channel Everywhere app for Android and iOS devices.
The one that played fire tennis against Jimmy Connors
IMG Tennis, a division of the global sports, fashion and media company, IMG Worldwide, announced today a new global partnership deal for its client Maria Sharapova with Supergoop!, the first prestige skincare line solely dedicated to a healthy approach to broad spectrum sun protection.
Acrimony toward the NCAA continues to grow – they've now abolished the third set for the women and made the men’s game no-ad scoring. Ever the contrarian, this time I’m going to side with the organization.
"Court Confidential: Inside The World of Tennis," the new tennis book by leading tennis writer Neil Harman of The Times of London, is now available in paperback in the United States.
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