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By Tom Ferraro, Ph.D.

The night before an event often determineswho the winner is. The loser will be anxious,worried, distracted, thinking of troublingthings, and above all, never be thinking ofhow good a player he or she actually is.

The winner, on the other hand, will be re-membering who they are, and will recall

and own their talent. This will allow them torelax, rest, practice a bit (but not too much)and be ready to enjoy the match. The win-ner knows there will be ups and downs, butthat they are a good player and can easilybounce back from a bad point.

The mindset of the loser focuses on anx-iety and how tough the opponent will be.The winner does not do this, but rather,

thinks more about his past wins. You candetermine the winner versus the loser bythis mindset, so try to learn the winner’smindset by practicing the above points.

For consultations, treatment or on-site visits,contact Dr. Tom Ferraro Ph.D., sport psycholo-gist, by phone at (516) 248-7189, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.drtomferraro.com.

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Feature Story24 Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Coaches Roundtable Discussion

The area’s top tennis coaches sound off in our third annual Coaches Roundtable Discussion on a variety of topicsincluding coaching philosophies, the state of American tennis, the development of 10 & Under tennis, howinvolved should coaches and parents be in the development of a player, and at what age should junior playersbegin cross-training, among others.

Additional Features16 The Biofile: Scott Lipsky By Scoop Malinowsky37 Charitable Initiatives: Tennis Benefits The Cancer Center for Kids38 Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Junior Player Spotlight on Claire Handa40 The On-Court Consultation: A New Way to Find the Perfect Racquet for You

By Roman Prokes44 Carefree 2.5 Team Finishes Second at Sectionals By Arlene Griggs46 A Look Back at Long Island Tennis Summer Camps: Summer of 201152 The Teacher is King By Lonnie Mitchel54 Camhi Rolls to 2011 Nassau County Girl’s Championship By Gary Simeone

Columns1 Dr. Tom on the Mindset for Winning—The Night Before the Big Match By Dr. Tom Ferraro3 The Jensen Zone By Luke Jensen6 USTA/Eastern-Long Island Region Recap8 Riding the Waves: Using Momentum to Win in Competition By Rob Polishook, MA, CPC18 Fitness and Nutrition: Meeting Energy Needs By Irina Belfer-Lehat20 Court Six: Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Gossip Column By Emilie Katz30 Good to Great: A Model for Safely Building the Tennis Champions of Tomorrow (Part II)

By Steve Kaplan34 College Tennis Spotlight: Mythbusters … College Club Tennis is for Losers By Ricky Becker35 The Sand Pit36 Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: The Wimbledon Final That Never Was and

Other Tennis Tales From a Bygone Era By Brent Shearer42 Tips From the Tennis Pro: Power … You Want It? You Got It! By Miguel Cervantes III45 Adult League Recap By Kathy Miller56 Off the Court Directory58 Long Island Tennis Club Directory60 Long Island Ranking, Sponsored by Denny’s63 USTA/Long Island Region 2011 Tournament Schedule

News Briefs4 2011 Hall of Fame Class Honored at the Legends Ball10 Inwood County Club Captures Their First LIMTL Championship17 Top USTA Eastern Section Juniors Honored Prior to U.S. Open41 Army and Navy Capture the Women’s Collegiate One-on-One Doubles® Tournament at Stony

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USA Back on Track: Americans ShowingSigns of Life at the U.S. OpenAs evidenced by the results of American tennis players at the recent U.S. Open, Americantennis is once again on the rise. From the upsets scored by Christina McHale and DonaldYoung, to the winning of the mixed-doubles crown by Jack Sock & Melanie Oudin, theAmericans are again taking the spotlight and the future looks bright for the USA.

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Iam still fired up from thisyear’s U.S. Open … themost physical Grand

Slam tournament I’ve everbeen a part of since I beganplaying in 1983. Before the

tournament began, there was an earth-quake centered in Washington, D.C. andfelt on the USTA Billie Jean King NationalTennis Center with no physical damageto the site of the Open. A Hurricanenamed Irene put a direct hit on the U.S.Open grounds just a day before the tour-nament began. The matches were de-layed by just an hour on the field courtsand two hours on Arthur Ashe Stadium.Two solid days of rain in the secondweek pushed the women’s final to Sun-day and the men’s final to a third Mon-day. In addition, you must also take intoaccount the emotional toll of the 10thanniversary of Sept. 11 on the New Yorkarea, as so many of the professional ten-nis family have connections to thattragedy. The event I was supposed toparticipate in at the 2011 U.S. Open, the“Dead Division” or the “Over Your Play-ing Weight by 35 Pounds Division,” akathe “Former Champions Division,” wascancelled due to the bad weather.

The entire tournament presented someamazing challenges and still producedone of the best U.S. Opens in history. Themen’s final was a match that reflected therough and tough U.S. Open of 2011.Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal infour sets, 6-2, 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-1, but by thefourth set, both players had gone pastempty and were playing on fumes.Djokovic tweaked his lower back late inthe third set and Nadal poured every

By Luke Jensen

ounce of energy, power and will into win-ning the third set. It was the most physi-cal men’s Grand Slam final I have everseen. I have seen the five-set thrillers inother Slams, but this final was played at alevel none of those were played at. I havenever seen anyone wear Nadal out, butDjokovic did. The pace of the rallies wasat a level in the third set I have never seenin the game. Nadal dug so deep into him-self to redline to the max in order to winthe third set and stay alive in the final.Nadal was so spent after the third set, thateven an injured Djokovic was too much tohandle. Djokovic is 6-0 against Nadal thisseason alone, and Nadal must evolve as aplayer once again to compete for the topspot in the world. Like Rafa did as a claycourt player to win Wimbledon and lastyear’s U.S. Open, Nadal must adapt hisgame to beat Djokovic.

That is the beauty of our game. It will

always challenge you to come up withmore to succeed. If you don’t … the gamewill pass you by. The game gets better …are you getting better? Go for the lines!

Born in Grayling, Mich., Luke Jensen ishead coach of the Syracuse UniversityWomen’s Tennis Team. Jensen’s resumeincludes 10 ATP Tour doubles titles andsingles victories against Andre Agassi,Pete Sampras, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe,Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, BorisBecker, Stefan Edberg and Jim Courier.Jensen and his brother, Murphy, won the1993 French Open doubles title. He wasalso a member of the 1991 and 1992Davis Cup Teams. His ambidextrous play,including his ability to serve the ball witheither hand at 130 mph, earned him thenickname “Dual Hand Luke.” He may bereached by phone at (315) 443-3552 ore-mail [email protected].

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On the eve of U.S. Open Finals Week-end, tennis champions, industry lead-ers and supporters of the game

gathered at Cipriani Wall Street for The2011 Legends Ball. The event honored thegreatest legends and supporters of thesport of tennis while raising funds to sup-

port the Inter-national TennisHall of Fame &Museum intheir missionto preservetennis historyand inspire itsfuture.

Class of2011 Hall ofFame inducteesAndre Agass iand PeachyKellmeyer werehonored at theevent. An in-

credible collection of tennis champions andHall of Famers joined in the celebration, in-cluding Stefanie Graf, Billie Jean King,Tracy Austin, Martina Navratilova, ChrisEvert, Pam Shriver, Tony Trabert, MariaBueno, Vic Seixas, Stan Smith and DickSavitt. Additionally, some of the sport’smost influential contributors attended, in-cluding Hall of Famers Donald Dell, ButchBuchholz and Russ Adams. Also joining in

the festivities was 2012 Hall of Fame nom-inee Jennifer Capriati.

At the event, legendary sportscasterDick Enberg was presented the Eugene L.Scott Award, a tribute to his 50-year careerin sports broadcasting and long-time sup-port of tennis. Campbell Soup Companywas presented the Joseph F. Cullman IIIAward, in recognition of their years of sup-port for tennis at all levels.

2011 Hall of Fame

Class Honored

at The Legends BallCredit all photos to Anne Marie McLaughlin/International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum

2012 Tennis Hall of Famenominee Jennifer Capriatiarrives at The 2011Legends Ball

StefanieGraf andAndreAgassiwerehonored atthe 2011LegendsBall

Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert chatwith Andre Agassi


The crowd was treated to a special per-formance by Grammy Award winner MarcCohn, who dazzled the crowd with his al-ways popular “Walking in Memphis.”

A live and silent auction of exclusive ten-nis experiences, travel and memorabiliaraised more than $150,000. Additionally,many attendees contributed more than$25,000 to a special fund which will providefree admission to the Tennis Hall of Fame &Museum for kids ages 16 and under for a fullyear, in support of the Hall of Fame’s mission

Grammy Award-winning artist Marc Cohnperforms his hit, “Walking in Memphis”

to inspire the future of tennis.The event was made possible with the

generous and dedicated support of the threeLegends Ball co-chairs, as well as eventsponsors, BNP Paribas, FILA, Rolex andTransamerica Retirement Management. The2011 Legends Ball co-chairs were Mark Einof Washington, D.C., founder and CEO ofVenturehouse Group LLC and owner of theWashington Kastles of World TeamTennis;Mike Goss of Westport, Conn., who is man-aging director and COO of Bain Capital; andBob Jeffrey of New York City, worldwidechairman and CEO of J. Walter Thompson.

Former NewYork MayorDavid Dinkinsand MurphyJensen pausefor a photo

Mary Carillo (right) interviews members ofthe 2011 Tennis Hall of Fame Class, AndreAgassi (left) and Peachy Kellmeyer (center)

2012 Australian Open to Offer $25 Million in Prizes

The 2012 Australian Open, set for Jan. 16-29 at Melbourne Park, will be the rich-est tournament in Grand Slam tennis history, with the winners of both the men’s andwomen’s singles to pocket $2.2 million U.S. and a total of $25 million U.S. will bepaid out at the event.

Australian Open Director Craig Tiley expects defending champion Kim Clijsters and2011 U.S. Open finalist Serena Williams to participate on the women’s side of thedraw, in addition to Australia’s own Samantha Stosur, the 2011 U.S. Open champion.

“We know that Kim’s been out for most of the year, but she’s planning on beingback to defend her title,” said Tiley. “We’ve still got three months to go, but the lastcommunication is that she’s planning on being back. The same thing with Serena,she unfortunately missed this year’s Open [2011 Australian Open] with her injury, butshe’s back playing, we all saw at the finals of the U.S. Open, and she’ll be here too.”


Malverne’s “Coach” named L.I. heroCharles Nanton of WestHempstead, N.Y., affection-ately known as “Coach”throughout the Malverneschools community, wasnamed a “Hero on Our Is-land” by FIOS-1 News, theLong Island-focused newschannel seen on VerizonFIOS cable systems. CoachNanton was profiled in a 15-min.-long segment filmed at

Malverne High School and Hempstead Lake Indoor Tennis in WestHempstead. Nanton was previously named Adult Volunteer of theYear by the USTA/Eastern-Long Island Region in May 2011 (pic-tured above with USTA/Eastern-LI Region President DanielBurgess).

The news segment focused on Coach Nanton’s volunteer workwith both the Malverne High School tennis and football teams, andincluded interviews with current and former students who haveworked with Coach for many years.

“Charles Nanton has worked tirelessly on Long Island as a vol-unteer to provide positive outlets for children through athletics,”said Daniel Burgess, president of the USTA/Eastern-LI Region.

Since his retirement from the New York City Police Department,Nanton has taken on the role of president of the Lakeview YouthFederation, which organizes community tennis programs and bas-ketball leagues, funds and administers track teams and providestutoring programs. He has been a volunteer tennis coach for manyyears in the Malverne School District, where he works closely withthe athletes to ensure their academic eligibility.

“With his dedication and leadership, the overall academic aver-age in the Malverne School District has improved significantly,”Burgess said. “Charles’ tennis mission is to accomplish a stan-dard of excellence in the spirit of friendship, brotherhood, peace,tolerance and respect for all.”

Nassau County thanks the USTA/Eastern-Long Island RegionUSTA/Eastern-LI Region Vice President Michael Pavlides (left) andWilliam Mecca (right), USTA/Eastern Tennis Service Representative,have been honored by Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano(center) for contributing to the health and welfare of Nassau Countyyouth through their efforts in coordinating the 4th Annual Tennis Blitzin the Parks. The event, held in late July, brought nearly 1,000 chil-

dren to eight different NassauCounty parks for free tennislessons. Conceived and or-ganized by Mecca, alongwith Karen Beckhard-Ravenerfrom Nassau County’s Parks& Recreation Department, theBlitz teaches children the ba-sics of tennis.

Many of the lessons utilized the USTA’s QuickStart tennis format, aprogram specially designed for children under the age of 10 where theracquets are smaller, the balls are lighter and courts are shorter. Nas-sau County Executive Mangano presented Pavlides and Mecca withspecial County Citations recognizing their efforts along with the sup-port of the entire Eastern Section and Long Island Region and all of thepros and tennis clubs that participated, making the event a success.

Long Island Region plays at Bellmore FairThe USTA/Eastern-LI Region took its talents outdoors at the 25th An-nual Bellmore Family Festival, where the region made it first appear-ance with a special 10 & Under court set up in the fair’s Sports Expoarea. QuickStart courts were the place to be during the Festival, ashundreds of kids took their turns trying out tennis the QuickStart way.Tennis pros from across Nassau and Suffolk Counties volunteeredtheir time and equipment to make the day a success.

“Not only did the Bellmore Festival provide an opportunity for us toexpose numerous children to the sport of a lifetime, but we also signedup 100 kids for 10 & Under USTA memberships,” said Daniel Burgess,president of the USTA/Eastern-LI Region.

Children ages 10 and under who sign up for a new USTA mem-berships can do so for free until Dec. 31, 2011. For more informationon becoming a USTA member, please visit www.TRYUSTA.com/KIDSor call 1-800-990-8782 and mention source code “NEWGAME.” AUSTA kids’ membership includes:

�An annual subscription to the Bounce newsletter�Access to play USTA Junior Tournaments�Access to play USTA Junior TeamTennis

“Special thanks to Bill Mecca, Marian Morris and Melanie Rubin,who coordinated the Region’s activities at the Bellmore Fair, aswell as all of the pros who came to help give lessons and sign upnew members,” said Burgess. “Additional thanks to the BellmoreChamber of Commerce for their support. We look forward to par-ticipating again next year.”

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USTA/Eastern-Long Island Region

Ed Fishkind, Sunny Fishkind andMelanie Rubin set up for the 25thAnnual Bellmore Family Festival

Noah Rubin (center) with Dylan (age 5) andRyan (age 3) Levinter of Merrick, N.Y.

Bellmore JFK HighSchool Tennis team

members Ross Binder(left) and Jared Zeitlin

(right) joinUSTA/Eastern-LIRegion President

Daniel Burgess andNassau County

Legislator DavidDenenberg

Sunny Fishkindteaches tennis

basics

Tennis pro Kerrisha Buckleyintroduces young players tothe sportEd Fishkind gives a lesson

Michael Liu, Marian Morris and SteveHaar show their support forUSTA/Eastern-Long Island Regiontennis at the Bellmore Family Festival

Noah Rubinintroduces five-year-old DylanLevinter to tennis

Marian Morrisprepares the

USTA/Eastern-LIbooth for the

Bellmore Street Fair

Tennis players in disguise

A local dog shows hissupport for theUSTA/Eastern LI Region

USTA/Eastern-LIRegion PresidentDaniel Burgess(left) gets ready forthe Fair with 15-year-olds RossBinder (center)and Jared Zeitlin(right) both ofMerrick, N.Y.


Asurfer sits out in theopen ocean. The wateris calm, the surfer is in

complete control. Atop hissurfboard, the surfer can

enjoy the tranquility of his sport. However,he has not come out to the open water toenjoy tranquility. The surfer has venturedout in search of the big wave … the wavethat will get his adrenaline pumping; theone that will satisfy his craving for the thrillof competition; the wave that will push himto the absolute limit. He has come not forrelaxation, but to embrace a challenge.The surfer looks forward to the biggestwave that may come his way. When the“big one” comes along, it will undoubtedlytest his physical abilities, challenge hismental game, and for a moment, leave thesurfer wondering if he can come out of thewave unscathed. But if he does, if he stayson the board and is able to ride the waveout, he will be ready for whatever comesnext. If he cannot stay on the board, he willspiral out of control, be thrashed under the

water, and have no ability to take advan-tage of the calm seas which will follow orhandle a new wave.

There are parallels between this anec-dote and a tennis player competing in amatch. Just like the surfer, a tennis playermay begin a match in complete control.They make the shots they are supposed tomake, and win the points they are sup-posed to win. But then, just as a wave isbound to occur in the open ocean, achange and momentum shift is bound tooccur in a tennis match. This is the naturalevolution of nature and sports. Consis-tency plays a small role in both. The waveis impossible to stop, the momentum can-not be controlled. The best strategy is tocontinue to battle and try to ride it out.

A surfer may see a wave approaching farin the distance, just as a tennis playersenses a change in momentum before itshows on the scoreboard. The wave mayshow itself either as a letdown in one’s owngame, i.e., unforced errors, double faults,etc. Or, a boost in your opponent’s game,

i.e., aces, running winners, treeing, etc.Factors beyond the player’s control, suchas poor line calls or distracting fan con-duct, can also lead to a momentum swing.These situations are inevitable in a match.But given the player’s level of awareness tothe specifics of a match and their ability tosense the upcoming waves of momentum,players have the opportunity to mentallyhunker down and prepare themselves forthe impending change. There are timeswhen the waves may be so sudden that allthe player can do is hang on, grind it out,and hope to stay afloat.

Metaphorically, the wave is a change ofmomentum often out of the player’s con-trol. Your opponent may hit a winner thatpaints the line, or hit a ball that hits the netand trickles over for a winner. The onlyhope to get through the wave is to ride itout. The wave should not be viewed as asetback or even an obstacle, but rather, asan opportunity … an opportunity to testone’s ability to remain focused, level-headed and in control. An opportunity toadapt and adjust one’s game to whatworks best in changing situations, and anopportunity to push oneself both mentallyand physically towards eventual success.

But success can only be achieved if aplayer can proactively ride out the waveand stay above water. The goal is to sim-ply stay afloat … nothing fancy, just keepgrinding. Countless times, Rafael Nadalhas demonstrated his ability to do this bysaving break point after break point in amatch. Just as the calm existed before thewave, the calm will resume after the wavehas passed. The question becomes: Is theplayer still on the board, or have they letthat wave throw them off? If they are onthe board, they are in a position to battleonce the wave and momentum passes.However, if the player feels sorry for them-

Riding the WavesUsing Momentum to Winin CompetitionBy Rob Polishook, Mental Training Coach MA, CPC

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selves, cannot stop thinking about pastpoints, and is despondent about the neg-ative turn of events, they will be completelyunaware that the wave has passed. Theywill continue to spiral out of control. Theplayer will not be able to take advantage ofthe newly-found calm after the storm.

A player must recognize that momentumshifts are unavoidable in competition. It isjust part of the rhythm of a match. Just aswaves in the ocean ebb and flow, thecourse of a match constantly changes aswell. This is a natural phenomenon and thereason why we find sports so entertaining.Waves, momentum shifts and adversity ina match should be seen as a challenge,something to be embraced. Perhaps BillieJean King said it best when she textedMaria Sharapova “pressure is a privilege.”before Sharapova beat Serena Williams inthe 2004 Wimbledon finals.

In the end, riding the big wave is the ulti-mate thrill. A surfer may struggle with thewave, but stay on the board and ride the bigwave out. Or, they may completely fall off theboard and capsize. When the surfer staysconsistent and sensible, calm under pres-sure, that surfer has a chance to persevereno matter how big and how many wavescome his way. A surfer, once he knows hecan handle the waves, embraces even biggerwaves, hopes for even bigger challenges.Only through challenging oneself and con-fronting increasingly bigger obstacles canyou improve. No one’s saying the wave willbe easy to ride out, the object is to battle itand stay afloat. Only by embracing the chal-lenge of a big wave and testing one’s limitswill true potential be uncovered. Remember,nothing great is ever achieved without over-coming adversity.

Rob Polishook, MA, CPC is the founder anddirector of Inside the Zone Sports Perform-ance Group. As a mental training coach heworks with athletes and teams of all levels.His work focuses on helping athletes gain themental edge and letting go of blocks whichget in the way of peak performance. He is aUSTA Zonal Coach and has spoken andbeen published for the USTA, USPTA andITA. Additionally, he has conducted work-shops nationally and internationally in Indiaand Israel. He may be reached by phone at(973) 723-0314, e-mail rob@insidethezone orvisit www.insidethezone.com.

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Since its inaugural season in 1979, noteam based on the South Shore ofLong Island has won the Long Island

Men’s Tennis League (LIMTL). On Aug. 24,that all changed as Inwood Country Club,captained by Lionel Goldberg and co-cap-tained by Jonathan Klee, defeated Cold

Spring Valley 4-1 to take the championship.Finishing in second place in the regularseason behind Woodbury at Crest HollowCountry Club, Inwood defeated two-timedefending champion Shelter Rock TennisClub in the semifinals 3-2 before playingCold Spring Valley in the finals. The team,

Inwood Country Club Captures Their FirstLIMTL Championship

which previously played their matches atthe Village of Lawrence Club, is comprisedof Inwood Country Club members andplayers who live on the South Shore ofLong Island. Inwood Country Club will addtheir name to the league trophy alongsideprevious LIMTL winners Shelter Rock,Woodbury, North Shore, Fleetwood, Wild-wood, Cold Spring Valley, Bethpage, Pi-quet Lane and Hunting Hills.

The LIMTL is comprised of seven teams,with six based on the North Shore, andmatches are played every Wednesdaynight starting from the second week in Maythrough August. Limited to players who are35 years-of-age or older and made up ofpredominately 5.0 and 4.5 Level players,the LIMTL consists of five Har-Tru doublescourts. Individual match results for the reg-ular season and playoffs, and more infor-mation on the LIMTL can be found on theleague Web site, LIMTL.com.


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The 2011 U.S. Open was certainlyone to remember for tennis fansaround the world. Whether it was

the intense match play, the chaoticweather, or even the 9-11 ceremony,fans will remember this Open for yearsto come. Of course we remember theepic final between world number oneNovak Djokovic from Serbia and worldnumber two Rafael Nadal from Spain;however, what should be given more at-tention than it’s getting is how well ouryoung American players performed atthe final Grand Slam of the year. Overthe years, we’ve come to depend onnames like Andy Roddick, Mardy Fish,Serena and Venus Williams. The truth isthat these players aren’t getting anyyounger, and we need fresh Americantalent to step up and represent theUnited States.

This year’s U.S. Open gave us a lookat a few names we’ve heard of, such asDonald Young and Ryan Harrison, butalso introduced us to players such asJack Sock, Christina McHale, MadisonKeys, Sloane Stephens and more.

The summer of 2011 wasone to remember forDonald Young, whowe’ve been waiting toemerge as the talent weall thought he would bewhen he burst onto the

ATP Circuit almost five years ago. Since theconclusion of Wimbledon, Young was 10-4in his last 14 matches, including a career-best semifinal run in the Legg Mason Clas-sic where he fell to eventual championRadek Stepanek of the Czech Republic. Atthe 2011 U.S. Open, Young made it to thefourth round where he picked up qualitywins over Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzer-land and veteran Argentine Juan IgnacioChela before falling to fourth-seeded AndyMurray of Great Britain. It appears as ifYoung may finally be on his way to becom-ing the player we thought he’d be.

Though RyanHarrison pos-sesses a greatdeal of talent, theyoung American

fell in the opening round to Marin Cilic ofCroatia. Harrison, who some think has abit of a childish cocky-like attitude, stillhas massive potential, and we’ll defi-nitely be on the lookout for him in the2012 season.

Lastly on the men’s sideis 19-year-old Jack Sockfrom Lincoln, Neb. YesLincoln, Neb. as inwhere Andy Roddickhails from. In fact, thetwo met in the secondround of this year’sOpen, where the young-

ster fell in straight sets to the veteran Amer-ican. However, Sock did go on to win themixed-doubles title with American MelanieOudin. This result was a complete shocker,as the two players never teamed up beforethe U.S. Open. Oudin who made herself fa-mous for her performance at the U.S. Opena few years back, has struggled since, butwith the U.S. mixed-doubles championshipnow under her belt, perhaps this will kick-start a quality 2012 season.

Americans Show Signs of Life

at the 2011 U.S. OpenBy David Drucker

Photo credit: KennethB. Goldberg

Photo credit: Kenneth B.Goldberg


In women’s singles, wewere introduced to playerssuch as Christina McHale,who upset the eighth-seededMarion Bartoli of France in thesecond round before losing toRussia’s Maria Kirilenko in thefollowing round.

Madison Keys showedthe fans her potential witha tough three set matchagainst veteran CzechLucie Safarova. Hopefully,she can continue to im-prove in the upcomingyears and make a namefor herself.

Sloane Stephens hada quality tournamentmaking it to the third,round before falling toSerbia’s Ana Ivanovic.However, Stephens up-set Israeli veteran ShaharPeer in the second

round, which probably was her best career vic-tory to date. American Vania King also reachedthe third round where she fell to the number oneseed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark. King, whostarted slow in her singles career, has picked upher play over the past year, so look for her tocontinue to rise in the rankings.

Lastly is IrinaFalconi whotook out Slova-kian DominikaCibulkova in agrueling three-set

match, before falling to Wimbledon semifinalistSabine Lisicki of Germany in the third round.

With all this new young talent, the U.S. fi-nally has something to look forward to in thefuture. It’s only a matter of time before theAmericans we’re used to seeing, such as AndyRoddick, Mardy Fish, James Blake, Serenaand Venus Williams are all retired. For a fewyears now, Americans John Isner and SamQuerrey have made a name for themselves,however, they need some help. The UnitedStates remains hopeful for that next big player,whether on the men’s or women’s side, andwith the emergence of players like RyanHarrison, Donald Young, Jack Sock, Christina

McHale, Sloan Stephens, and all the rest, thatsuccess is within reach.

American Grace Min upsetstop-seeded Caroline Garciato win U.S. Open Junior Girls Singles Title

Grace Min, a 17-year-old from Duluth, Ga.,upset top-seededCaroline Garcia ofFrance, 7-5, 7-6(3), towin the 2011 U.S. OpenJunior Girls singles titleat the USTA Billie JeanKing National Tennis

Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. Garcia iscurrently ranked 135th in the WTA rankingswhile Min is ranked 552. Min did not drop a setin six matches, which included an upset overthe number two seed, Irina Khromacheva ofRussia, in the first round, and a victory over fel-low American and Stanford University sopho-more Nicole Gibbs in the semifinals. With thewin, Min becomes the first American to win theU.S. Open Junior Girls Singles Title sinceCoco Vandeweghe in 2008. When asked howit felt to be a champion Min said, “I don’t reallyknow yet. I’m still processing the win.”

Min reached the singles final at the 2010 Or-ange Bowl and won the Junior Girls Doublestitle at Wimbledon earlier this summer. She hastrained full-time at the USTA Training Center inBoca Raton, Fla. since the fall of 2009.

American duo of Oudin &Sock capture 2011 U.S.Open Mixed-Doubles Title

American teen-agers MelanieOudin and JackSock won the2011 U.S. OpenMixed-Doubles

title, beating the eighth-seeded team GiselaDulko and Eduardo Schwank of Argentina in athird set super-tiebreak, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 10-8.

The 19-year-old Oudin had previously takenthe tennis world by surprise in becoming thedarling of the 2009 U.S. Open, reaching thewomen’s quarterfinals. The 18-year-old Sockearned his first Grand Slam singles victory inthe first round this year before being elimi-nated by fellow countryman Andy Roddick.The two needed a wild card to get into thetournament, then upset top-seeded defend-ing champs Bob Bryan & Liezel Huber in thesecond round.

“It was actually really easy playing together,because we’re really comfortable with eachother,” said Oudin. “It kind of worked reallywell because he like jokes a lot when we’replaying and he keeps me relaxed, and some-times, that’s what I have been having troublewith, is staying relaxed playing.”

David Drucker is an intern with Long Island Ten-nis Magazine and is a member of the NicholsCollege Men’s Tennis team. He may be reachedby e-mail at [email protected].


Photo credit: Kenneth B. Goldberg




Television ratings for the Men’s Sin-gles Finals of the 2011 U.S. Openbetween top-seeded Novak Djokovic

and second-seeded Rafael Nadal were upover last year’s Nielsen Ratings on CBS,with an overnight rating of 2.6 and a sixshare. The four-hour-plus Djokovic-Nadalmatch of 2011 was up 18 percent over2010’s finals match between the two.Nielsen Ratings represent the percentageof all homes with televisions tuned into aprogram. Shares represent the percent-age of all homes with TVs in use at thetime. Nielsen Ratings are audience meas-urement systems developed by NielsenMedia Research that determine the audi-ence size and composition of televisionprogramming in the United States.

Approximately 53.1 million viewerswatched all or part of this year’s Open onCBS Sports, up 17 percent from lastyear. Ratings overall for the U.S. Openon CBS Sports, which includes broad-casts of Labor Day Weekend and FinalsWeekend, saw overall ratings increaseover the past three years, matching theratings of 2007.

The 2011 Djokovic-Nadal finals matchwas moved from Sunday to Monday,

Sept. 12 due to rain that washed outmen’s and women’s action, sendingschedule-makers into a frenzy and con-densing the schedule for the fourth roundonward.

The move of the Men’s Singles Finals toMonday, Sept. 12 at 4:00 p.m. may havealso given the match a ratings boost asthe originally scheduled day and time slotof Sunday, Sept. 11 at noon, was the firstSunday of action of the 2011 NationalFootball League schedule.

This year’s Women’s Singles Finals onSunday, Sept. 11 achieved a 3.3 national rat-ing, with 13.1 million viewers watching all orpart of the final, an increase of 93 percentfrom viewership of the Kim Clijsters-VeraZvonareva final which aired in primetimeon Saturday last year. In addition, theMen’s Singles Final was seen in all or partby 11.8 million viewers.

USOpen.org set a new site record forunique visitors (15,421,675), surpassing2010’s total by 24 percent, and total visitsto the site topped 51 million (51,868,345),the second most in history. Additionally,more than 3.1 million hours of live stream-ing was viewed, an increase of 12 percentover last year. USOpen.org also saw

record mobile traffic across its mobile-friendly Web site (m.usopen.org) and theofficial iPhone and Android apps, withmore than 84 million page views(84,350,596), a 173 percent increase over2010’s totals.

Despite facing Hurricane Irene at thestart of the tournament and then workingthrough two days of rain, the USTA an-nounced that the 2011 U.S. Open still at-tracted more than 650,000 fans to thegrounds of the USTA Billie Jean King Na-tional Tennis Center in Flushing Mead-ows, N.Y.

Attendance highlights included:

� The all-time Labor Day Weekend atten-dance record (Saturday, Sept. 3-Mon-day, Sept. 5) of 186,186.

� The Men’s Final featuring Djokovic andNadal also set an all-time attendancerecord of 24,713 in Arthur Ashe Stadiumand on the grounds of the USTA BillieJean King National Tennis Center.

� The Men’s Semifinal attendance of24,071 on Saturday, Sept. 10 set arecord as well.

�Overall, 11 sessions of the 2011 U.S.Open sold out.

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Scenes from the2011 U.S. Open

Serbian Novak Djokoviccelebrates winning the2011 U.S. Open

Serena Williams (pic-tured), the favorite on

the women’s side, pon-ders her upset loss toAustralia’s Samantha

Stosur in the Women’sFinals, 2-6, 3-6

Switzerland’s RogerFederer (pictured)returns a backhand in his7-6, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6, 5-7loss to eventual U.S.Open winner NovakDjokovic in the Men’sSemifinals

Spain’s Rafael Nadal (pictured)en route to his 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 winover American Andy Roddickthat would land him a trip to the2011 U.S. Open Finals

Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki (pic-tured) at Arthur Ashe Stadium duringher 2-6, 4-6 loss in the Women’sSemifinals to Serena Williams

Great Britain’s Andy Murray(pictured), the number fourseed, in his 7-5, 6-4, 3-6,7-6(2) quarterfinals winover American John Isner

France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

(pictured)defeated

AmericanMardy Fish, the

number eightseed, 6-4, 6-

7(5), 3-6, 6-4,6-2 in fourthround action

Germany’s AndreaPetkovic (pictured), thenumber 10 seed,celebrates her 3-6, 6-3, 6-3win over China’s Jie Zhengon the Grandstand

The American doubles teamof Bob & Mike Bryan (pic-tured) were upset early on inaction by Croatia’s IvoKarlovic & Frank Moser fromGermany

2011 U.S. Open winnerSamantha Stosur (pic-tured) of Australia inearly round actionagainst American CocoVandeweghe at LouisArmstrong Stadium

The number seven seed GaelMonfils (pictured) of Francedisplays his athleticismduring his opening round 7-6(4), 6-3, 6-4 win againstBulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov

Julia Elbalba ofOyster Bay, N.Y.in first roundaction on Court13 at the U.S.Open Junior GirlSingles event

Unseeded AmericanChristina McHale (pic-

tured) celebrates her 7-6(2), 6-2 win over the

eighth-seeded MarionBartoli from France

Credit all photos to Kenneth B. Goldberg


By Scoop Malinowski

Status: 2011 French Open Mixed-Doubles Cham-pion. Winner of six career ATP doubles titles.

Height: 6’1” • Weight: 175 lbs.

Date of birth: August 14, 1981 in Merrick, N.Y.

First tennis memory: I’d say hitting balls at the back of the housewhen I was five.

Tennis inspiration: My favorite player was Pete Sampras.

Nicknames: My nickname is “Lipper.”

Last book read: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Favorite movies: Any comedy.

Pre-match feeling: I don’t really think about much. Getting readyto play. Just go out there and just do my thing.

Favorite meal: Pasta.

Favorite ice cream flavor: Chocolate.

Current car: A red Jeep.

First job: This is my only job.

Greatest sports moment: Winning the French Open Mixed-Dou-bles Title with Casey Dellacqua over Katarina Srebotnik & NenadZimonjic. You watch these matches on television, and you wishthat someday you can be there. To be on this stage playing aGrand Slam final, and to come out with a win, and to say now forthe rest of my life that I’m a Grand Slam champion, it’s amazing.

Most painful moment: Losing in the finals of NCAA doubles. Welost to a team from Auburn.

Favorite tournament: Wimbledon.

Closest tennis friends: Any of the Americans.

Funniest player encountered: Jordan Kerr because he says a lotof stupid things [smiles].

Embarrassing tennis memory: Can’t think of any. Never lost loveand love.

Best you’ve ever felt on-court: I played a tournament inBarcelona this year and we beat all the good teams. We beat theBryans (who were on a 10-match win streak) and we beat JurgenMelzer & Nenad Zimonjic, as well as Max Mirnyi & Daniel Nestor.Yeah, those were good matches.

Strangest match: I played a match in Kuala Lumpur last year. Wewon 21-19 in the third set tie-break against Santiago Gonzalez &Travis Rettemaier.

Favorite players to watch: Roger Federer … and I like watchingGrigor Dimitrov. He plays a lot like Federer.

Favorite sport outside tennis: Football.

Funny tennis memory: I got one from Wimbledon this year. Thebaseline umpire fell asleep during the match [smiles].

Favorite TV show: Seinfeld.

Hobbies/interests: I like to watch sports on TV and go to sport-ing events.

People qualities most admired: Sense of humor.

Education: Stanford University.

Scoop Malinowski is the co-owner of Tennis-prose.com. His nextbook, Marcelo Rios: The Man We Barely Knew, will be publishedand available at Amazon.com in October 2011.

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On Aug. 29, prior to the start of the 2011U.S. Open, some of the top juniors in theUSTA Eastern Section were honored at

the Junior Awards Gala. All of the junior play-ers received free grounds passes to watch thebest players in the world compete on OpeningDay of the 2011 U.S. Open. All 25 honoreesfinished strong in sectional tournaments thisyear, earning enough points to be recognized.One of the juniors managed to achieve per-fection though. Sixteen-year-old Jaime Loebof Ossining, N.Y. won all eight tournamentsthat she entered, earning a perfect 800 pointsand a place in USTA Eastern history.

“Jamie’s record is truly incredible,” saidJulie Bliss, director of competition and playerdevelopment for the USTA Eastern Section.“And it is a testament to her talent, hard workand dedication to the sport.”

Loeb, who attends Ossining HighSchool, decided to play in all of the sec-tional tournaments to avoid traveling to In-ternational Tennis Federation tournaments

and missing school. But playing againstonly Eastern Section girls presented itsown set of challenges and rewards.

“The pressure was always on me since I wasthe number one seed,” Loeb said. “It taught mehow to deal with high expectations.”

Congratulations to the following:

2011 USTA Eastern Award WinnersBoys 12s1. Jeff Zucker (Short Hills, N.J.)2. George Gramatikov (Vestal, N.Y.)3. Finbar Talcott (Sea Cliff, N.Y.)

Girls 12s1. Sarah Rahman (East Elmhurst, N.Y.)2. Stephanie Schrage (Millburn, N.J.)3. Loren Haukova (Elmsford, NY)

Boys 14s1. Brendan Volk (Dix Hills, N.Y.)2. Robert Levine (Bedford, N.Y.)3. Maverick Lin (Edison, N.J.)

Top USTA Eastern Section Juniors Honored Prior to U.S. Open

Girls 14s1. Jessica Livianu (Brooklyn, N.Y.)2. Madison Battaglia (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)3. Jackie Urbinati (Harrison, N.Y.)

Boys 16s1. Sam Swank (Bedford, N.Y.)2. Quentin Monaghan (Chatham, N.J.) &

Matthew Nardella (Manlius, N.Y.)3. Josh Silverstein (Great Neck, N.Y.)

Girls 16s1. Quinn Gleason (Mendon, N.Y.)2. Louisa Chirico (Harrison, N.Y.)3. Katherine Orozco (New Milford, N.J.)

Boys 18s1. Winston Lin (Williamsville, N.Y.)2. Andrew Yaraghi (Mill Neck, N.Y.)3. Andrew Adams (Bronx, N.Y.)

Girls 18s1. Jamie Loeb (Ossining, N.Y.)2. Amanda Muliawan (Wyckoff, N.J.)3. Katherine Yau (Manhasset, N.Y.)

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Martina Hingis, a five-time GrandSlam champion, will be making areturn to the pro tour at the Aus-

tralian Open for her first time since2007 when she competed at the U.S.Open. She will be entering the mixed-doubles competition with partner RogerFederer. Hingis is aiming to earn amixed-doubles entry into the SummerOlympics held in London to take placenext summer.

She won five majors while in herteens and was number one in the worldat one point; she retired from play at theyoung age of 22 after having chronicankle problems. In 2006, Hingis playedtwo more seasons where she was ableto make it to the quarters of three Grand

Slams where she once again retiredafter testing positive for cocaine.

Hingis has since played for NewYork’s World TeamTennis teams for thepast two years and this will be her firstmajor Grand Slam re-emergence inmore than four years.

On Federer’s side of play, this will bethe first time he enters into a doublescompetition at a Grand Slam since2004. In order for Hingis to enter theOlympics, she has to gain rankingpoints to enter contention. The exactguidelines for entry into play are notclear, but a mixed-doubles entrance atthe Australian Open would be a goodbeginning to getting into the next Sum-mer Olympics.

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Ready for the football seasonSabine Lis icki(@sabinelisicki): Myfavorite player isDrew Brees, so I’mgoing with the

Saints! :) But I still remember how great Pack-ers played in the Super Bowl …

John Isner (@JohnIsner):Patrick Peterson meet#89 Steve Smith. Thisain’t LSU rook. Best in theleague …

What do they do in their time off?Caroline Wozniacki(@carowozniacki): Camehome today, unpacked,went grocery shoppingand cooked. Proud of my-self LOL. Now I am tired,lying in bed chilling.

Serena Williams(@serenawilliams): Hadan amazing time atHamptons Party tonightwith @Venuseswilliams.

Novak Djokovic (@Djok-erNole): I had a goodday off today: Had agood hit, relaxing dinnerand I‘m ready for tomor-row’s challenge.

S a n i a M i r z a - M a l i k(@mirzasania): Spa daytoday with @anammirza :)Girls have to pamper them-selves sometimes :)

Serena Williams (@sere-nawilliams): With @andy-roddick we miss you@ B r o o k l y n D D e c k e rAndy’s nuts!!!!!

Justin Gimelstob (@ justingimel-stob): Hanging at Yankee Sta-dium.

Victoria Azarenka(@vika7): Watched V.Klitchko fight! Great vic-tory! Congrats! Realstrong!

Sabine Lis icki(@sabinelisicki):Horseback ridinganyone? :D

Hurricane Irene had them scaredSania Mirza-Malik (@mirza-sania): Hurricane Irene com-ing … supposedly the worst in100 years … Yikes! Hit at 8:30a.m. tomorrow before every-thing shuts down.

Serena Williams (@ser-enawilliams): Ok. Its offi-cial. I’m scared. I’m inNYC. Oh boy … #Hurri-caneIrene :(

Sabine Lis icki(@sabinelisicki):Flights are can-celled because ofthe hurricane ...

Hope to find a solution soon! Now I’m off tobed. Good night <3.

Fashion Week has them excitedSerena Williams (@sere-nawilliams): Wow. Fash-ion Night out, footballgame opener, U.S. OpenTennis … And I havehomework :(

Carol ine Wozniacki(@carowozniacki): NYCis so busy tonight …Fashion Week starting!!

Victor ia Azarenka(@vika7): Aloha people!I’m back in the plane andback to NY for a coupleof days! I’m going to

Fashion Week :) First time! So I’m really re-ally excited!


Open congrats!Sabine Lisicki(@sabinelisicki):So proud of mydoubles partnerSam to win her

first Grand Slam title!

Bob Bryan (@Bryanbros):Congrats to Sam Stosur.

C a s e y D e l l a c q u a(@caseydel lacqua) :Congrats Sammy …bloody awesome game!

Anastasia Rodionova(@arodionova): Woohoo!Sam won U.S. Open!!!!Bravo!

K a t i e O ’ B r i e n(@kat ie jobr ien) :Sam Stosur … RE-SPECT!

Amer Delic (@amerdelic):Congrats to my neigh-bor Sam Stosur onwinning the U.S. Open!Well done.

Taylor Dent (@taylor-dent81): I hope every-one is enjoying thistennis as much as Iam!! These guys are in-credible!

Shahar Peer (@shaharpeer):WWWWOOOOWWWWwhat a match Nadal vs.Djokovic!

Carol ine Wozniacki( @ c a r o w o z n i a c k i ) :Watching Nole againstNadal … What a final!

Among the celebrities who attended the open

Donald TrumpJeremy PivenVanessa HudgensJustin TimberlakeBeyonceJay-ZBrooklyn DeckerChris BoshWill FerrellOlivia MunnBlake LivelyThe IcemanBar RefaeliOwen WilsonChristine TaylorBen StillerDennis LearyBradley CooperAlec BaldwinAdrian Grenier

Zvonareva bares all for magazineWorld number threeranked Russian tennis starVera Zvonareva hastaken it off for ESPN: TheMagazine’s “Body Issue,”posing nude for a pictorialalongside other notable

sports celebs including Jose Reyes of theNew York Mets, U.S. Women’s soccer starHope Solo, and speedskater Apolo AntonOhno.

Savic banned for life for fixing matches

Serbian tennis playerDavid Savic hasbeen hit with a life-time ban from thesport for attempting

to fix multiple matches. Savic was fined$100,000 after being found guilty of threeviolations. These bans begin immediatelyand at the time of the ban, he was ranked659th. Just this past May, DanielKoellerer was banned as well for life forthe same violation.

First Lady Michelle Obama loves tennis

At the 2011 U.S.Open, First LadyMichelle Obamaapplauded the USTAfor engaging mil-lions of children intennis, introducingtennis into thou-

sands of elementary schools throughoutthe country, and building more than2,000 courts that provide a place foryoung people to play tennis. The USTA’sefforts were part of its partnership withboth the President’s Council on Physi-cal Fitness and the First Lady’s Let’sMove! initiative to encourage more chil-dren to become active and lead health-ier lifestyles. The USTA exceeded itscommitment.

The First Lady was in New York to par-ticipate in a USTA 10 and Under TennisClinic at the U.S. Open. She was joinedby several current and former tennischampions including Billie Jean King,Serena Williams, John McEnroe,James Blake, MaliVai Washington andKatrina Adams, as she thanked childrenfrom the Harlem Junior Tennis and Edu-cation Program for participating in herLet’s Move! initiative.

“I have been trying to get to the U.S.Open my entire life. I am so incredibly ex-

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cited to finally be at my first U.S. Open,but I am equally excited and proud to bestanding in partnership with the USTA andall they have done for hundreds of thou-sands of kids across this country. You arean example of what we can do when weput our minds to it,” said First LadyMichelle Obama. “I am again grateful tothe USTA. The courts you build, thesekids-sized courts, are just amazing. Theywill break that barrier; they will make ten-nis accessible to kids… I am so proud ofthe USTA.”

Djokovic breaks ATP money mark in 2011

Novak Djokovic’s nightwin over Rafael Nadalin the finals of the 2011U.S. Open earned theworld’s top-rankedmen’s singles tennis

player a $2.3 million payout, pushing theSerbian’s earnings in 2011 to date over the$10.6 million mark. Djokovic’s $2.3 millionU.S. Open payout consisted of $1.8 millionfor winning the event, plus a $500,000bonus for finishing second in the U.S. OpenSeries Standings. Djokovic’s win overNadal in a rematch of last year’s U.S. Openfinals, gave the number one-ranked ATPplayer his 64th win of the year with just twolosses in 12 tournaments to date in 2011.

Djokovic will make more money in2011 than any other men’s professionalplayer during a full season, topping his fi-nals opponent Nadal who took home

around $10 million last year, while partici-pating in 17 tournaments and Switzerland’sRoger Federer who earned around $10million as well in 2007 and took part in 16tournaments.

McIlroy and Wozniacki verify romantic link

U.S. Openchamp andgolfer RoryM c I l r o yhas admit-ted that heis romanti-

cally involved with top-ranked WTA starCaroline Wozniacki from Denmark.McIlroy’s admission verifies a relationshipthat has been long-rumored as McIlory hasbeen spotted in New Haven, Conn. sup-porting Wozniacki at the New Haven Openat the Connecticut Tennis Center in Yale.

“Obviously, different sports, but we’repretty much in the same position at ayoung age and we can talk about thingsthat probably a lot of 21-, 22-year oldscan’t talk about,” said McIlroy. “It’s nice tohave someone that sort of understandswhat you’re going through.”

Venus vs. Shaq for OreosVenus Williams joinedShaquille O’Neal on“FOX & Friends” withhost Brian Kilmeadeat FOX Studios inNew York City battling

it out over Oreos at Chelsea Piers in ten-nis, basketball and an Oreo-eating con-test as part of the promotion for the newTriple Double Oreo. Venus lost the com-petition after Shaq’s Oreo-eating teamdefeated hers.

“Shaq got lucky today but it was reallyfun,” said Venus.

Shaq said of Venus, “She’s fabulous.She’s always been a great athlete.”

Serena and Roddick to team up?

Serena Williams has dropped an intrigu-ing Twitter bombshell, with the former num-ber one hinting that she might be teamingup with Andy Roddick for some mixed-doubles in Australia. Her post-U.S. Opentweet, however, begs as many questionsas it answers.

“Me and @andyroddick decided to playmixed-doubles Australia! We love Aussie!Book it, it’s real!,” the Tweet read.

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The Long Island tennis community is blessed to have someof the best indoor facilities and best coaches in the worldright here in our backyard. Recently, Long Island Tennis

Magazine spoke with some of these top coaches to get insightinto their coaching/training strategies, what they look for in agreat player, views on important local tennis topics, and abackground in how they got into coaching. Even the bestcoach can always learn an extra tip or two, and the followingarticle will provide all players and coaches with a chance tolearn from the best.

Meet the participants …Howie Arons Cunningham Park Tennis Center Union Turnpike & 193rd StreetQueens, N.Y.(718) 217-6452Howie Arons is owner and director of GreatNeck Estates Tennis Center and has beencoach of the B.N. Cardozo High School Boys

Tennis Team for the past 35 years. His teams have won 18 NewYork City Public School Team Championships, giving Howie 567wins, the most of any high school coach in New York State.

Carl BarnettGlen Head Racquet Club, Home of the Early Hit Training Center95 Glen Head RoadGlen Head, N.Y.(516) 455-1225This is the 10th season of Carl Barnett’s EarlyHit Training Center at Glen Head Racquet Club.

Early Hit is dedicated to providing lessons, groups and training inits comprehensive ALPS program. Pat Etcheberry has worked withCarl as an advisor with the ALPS training program. Carl has con-cluded that students learn faster when they have core fitness, flex-ibility and explosive strength. Early Hit not only serves juniors asthe program features nationally-ranked players in the U.S. Open,40s, 60s and 70s divisions.

Nick Brebenel(516) [email protected] the last 20 years, Nick Brebenel has devel-oped three professional players who, at onepoint, were in the ATP Top 30 (Adrian Voinea,Pavel Andrei and Max Mirnyi). Those three play-ers have wins over the likes of Pete Sampras,


Roger Federer and Andre Agassi amongst others in their careers.On the junior level in the last seven years, Nick has coached a jun-ior champion at Wimbledon and three Kalamazoo Junior Champi-ons (Nikita Krivonos, Mergea Florin, Adam El-Mihdawy and JamesWang).

Vinicius CarmoRoss School18 Goodfriend DriveEast Hampton, N.Y.(631) 907-5162Vinicius Carmo is tennis director of the RossSchool tennis academy and coach of theboys and girls varsity tennis teams. As a

player, Vinicius was ranked among the top five junior players inBrazil and played several international junior tennis tournaments,and attended the University of Tennessee for four years on a fullscholarship. For seven years, Vinicius was the regional tennis di-rector of the East End Sportime locations. He also coached manytop juniors in the country and has helped them to get tennis schol-arships in many universities. Now, Vinicius runs the tennis pro-gram at the Ross School. The boys varsity tennis team won theleague VII title in 2010 and finished second in the Suffolk Countyteam tournament.

Stonar ColemanRobbie Wagner’s Tournament TrainingCenter at Glen Cove60 Sea Cliff AvenueGlen Cove, N.Y.(516) 759-0505Stonar Coleman is a pro at Robbie Wagner’sTournament Training Glen Cove facility. Stonar is

a USPTA High Performance Coach, Professional 1 Rating, and wasranked in the top four nationally as a Jamaican junior player. Stonarcurrently coaches several top nationally-ranked junior players.

Ron D’AlessandroCarefree Racquet Club1414 Jerusalem Avenue #1North Merrick, N.Y.(516) 489-9005Ron D’Alessandro is the head pro and directorof tennis at Carefree Racquet Club and Hemp-stead Golf & Country Club. Ron has more than

20 years of teaching experience, and is USPTA/USPTR Certified,specializing in teaching Cardio Tennis.

Steven KaplanBethpage Park Tennis Center99 Quaker Meeting House Road #1Farmingdale, N.Y.(516) 777-1358Steven Kaplan is the owner of Bethpage ParkTennis Center, as well as the director of ReebokAcademy for New York City Parks Foundation.

Over the last 34 years, Steve has been the longtime coach of morethan 500 nationally-ranked junior players, 14 state high schoolchampions, two NCAA Division 1 Singles Champions, and nu-merous touring professionals and prominent coaches. Steve’s stu-dents have been awarded in excess of $7 million in collegescholarship money.

Bandar KayaliLong Beach Tennis Center899 Monroe BoulevardLong Beach, N.Y.(516) 432-6060Bandar Kayali is assistant director at LongBeach Tennis Center. He was MVP and first sin-gles and doubles player for Adelphi University

Men’s Tennis, and an ITF Futures player. Bandar has a 363 U.S.national ranking for the ITF Pro Circuit. He is a USTA 5.0 NTRPrated player.

Michael KossoffSportime New York101 Norcross AvenueBethpage, N.Y.(516) 933-8500, ext. 5123Michael Kossoff is regional director of tennis forSportime New York. He was a college tennisstandout at Bowling Green University and has

coached numerous top national players.

Whitney KraftUSTA Billie Jean King National Tennis CenterMeridian Road at Grand Central ParkwayQueens, N.Y.(718) 760-6200Whitney Kraft is director of tennis programs atthe USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Cen-

ter and director of player operations for the U.S. Open. A native ofSummit, N.J., Whitney brings more than 25 years of tennis expe-rience to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Prior tojoining the USTA, Kraft served as director of tennis for the city ofFt. Lauderdale, Fla. where he oversaw the daily programming andoperations of more than 45 courts at nine different facilities. As atennis player, Kraft was a four-time National Mixed-Open Cham-pion and most recently in 2006, Kraft was the USPTA InternationalChampionship 45 Doubles Champion.

Alyssa MorraRockville Racquet Club80 North Centre AvenueRockville Centre, N.Y.(516) 764-5350Alyssa Morra has been teaching tennis forseven years. She first started working at theUSTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center,


where she played as a junior. She also worked at CunninghamTennis Center, Queens College Tennis Center, Bronx International(NYJTL) and The Field Club of Greenwich. She played for QueensCollege and helped her team to four regional championships andwas ranked seventh in the east for doubles and 11th for singles inDivision II tennis. Alyssa is currently with Rockville Racquet Clubwhere she works with adults and juniors of all ages and levels.

Maurice TrailAdvanced Tennis Academy(516) [email protected] Trail has been coaching for more than 15years, beginning as a coach at the Rick MacciAcademy in Florida. Maurice played on the circuitfor a few years before moving to New York. He is

currently running drill programs and private lessons at Jericho-West-bury Indoor Tennis Club and also runs Advantage High PerformanceTennis Camp at St Dominic’s Athletic Fields in Muttontown, N.Y. “Ifind great satisfaction in helping players develop their tennis and ac-complishing their goals,” said Trail. “Knowing that you’ve had a handin the success of a player you’ve worked with is very rewarding.”

Tonny van de PietermanPoint Set Indoor Racquet Club3065 New StreetOceanside, N.Y.(516) 330-6070Tonny van de Pieterman is director of tennis atPoint Set Indoor Racquet Club in Oceanside, N.Y.He is the co-founder of Point Set’s high perform-

ance Tournament Training (TTP) programs, and he has coached manyjuniors to sectional and national rankings. Before arriving in New York,he was traveling coach for the Harry Hopman Academy in Saddle-brook, Fla. He was briefly an ATP touring pro after college. Tonny wasthe captain of the University of Miami Hurricanes men’s tennis teamwhere he won the Big East title in 1993.

What are the best things you see about tennis in the NewYork area? What are your biggest concerns about thelocal tennis scene?Vinicius Carmo: I like how the USTA has been trying to help jun-ior players become better tennis players. It is important to growtennis in this country. It would be great if everyone could be onthe same page with the USTA and work together. I think thebiggest problem that I found in this area is how expensive tennishas become. We also need more indoor facilities so that we canhave more kids playing tennis.Maurice Trail: There is a lot of talent in the New York area. Thereare a lot of good players who are capable of being highly rankedin the nation and worldwide. My concern is that we need more af-fordable indoor facilities, which will allow the playing field to beleveled. Junior players need to be able to train more all-year round.This will enable New York area players to compete at a better levelwith kids from warmer climates like Florida, California and Texas.

What is your opinion of the state of American tennis?Ron D’Alessandro: The men’s tour is struggling right now. Weneed someone who is going to compete for Grand Slam champi-onships with Nadal, Djokovic and Federer. We thought that AndyRoddick was going to emerge as the next superstar, but he hasbeen an utter disappointment. American tennis lacks the excite-ment it had with Connors and McEnroe in the 1980s, and Agassiand Sampras in the 1990s. We could use another good rivalry toget things moving forward.Steven Kaplan: Players from the United States have experiencedlimited success internationally, at the highest levels of professionaltennis in the last 10 years. This doesn’t seem to have stopped thegrowth of the sport’s popularity in this country, however. Reutersreports that between 2000-2010, participation in tennis has out-paced growth in all other traditional sports up an astounding 46percent. Tennis is a $5.5 billion-plus industry in the U.S. and thenumbers are growing each year. The USTA has just released num-bers for this year’s U.S. Open, indicating that media interest is up

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Serena Williams had another outburst at this year’s U.S.Open. How would you address this sort of issue withkids who saw her outburst and may be negatively influ-enced by it? How would handle poor sportsmanship byone of your players? Carl Barnett: She lost! Both times, Serena Williams lost! This is a“losing strategy” and that is how I addressed the situation with mystudents. See my article in the January/February 2010 issue of LongIsland Tennis Magazine on page 31, “82,500 Reasons for Fitness.”What happened with Serena is classic “Pampered Player Syn-drome,” and only happens when she is losing to a more fit player.Stonar Coleman: I would tell my students that the umpire shouldnot be the determining factor in a match, no matter what the callis. As the player, you ultimately control your own destiny. You haveto handle yourself maturely on the court and be aware of thematch situation. If my player shows poor sportsmanship, I wouldexplain to them where they were wrong in detail and which pointsthey were wrong on. Poor sportsmanship is bad for their success.Steven Kaplan: Serena Williams behaved poorly during her mostrecent outburst at the U.S. Open. While she might be defendedhere by the recognition that it was an emotionally-charged mo-ment, ultimately, Serena is an experienced professional with a his-tory of outbursts at the Open. She should be held to the higheststandards of accountability for her behavior and unfortunately forherself, her fans and American tennis, she did not assume re-sponsibility for her actions. Her press conference words conspic-uously omitted any personal culpability for her actions, andperhaps this is why she continues on a recurring path of self-de-structive behavior. Serena did not apologize for her actions at thisyear’s Open and the important lesson for kids here is that if you getcaught up in the heat of the moment and display bad sportsman-ship, then take ownership of your actions, apologize, learn, growand move on.

As a preface to teaching sportsmanship to young players, I be-lieve it is vital as a coach to first understand the values of theplayer’s parents. If the behaviors that define poor sportsmanship

for me are in conflict with the views held by a player’s parents,then imposing my philosophy will be both ineffective, and evenundermining to the student.

Good sportsmanship is most effectively taught to playersproactively. It is essential, as a coach, to act as a role model forgood sportsmanship in interactions with students. This means tofirst personally behave with the sportsmanship that you wish yourstudents to display. Then, instruct, and reward effort, attentive-ness and respectful behavior. Next, provide a positive environmentfor students that encourages focused determination and hardwork and leaves little opportunity for the distraction of negativebehavior. Students may still behave with poor sportsmanship attimes despite these efforts, and as a coach, I react by first demon-strating my disapproval, and then methodically reinforcing thepractices described above.Maurice Trail: I watched the women’s finals of the U.S. Open andwas shocked once again by Serena’s behavior. I can see her gettingmad at herself, but to belittle the umpire isn’t what she’s there todo. I talk to my students about how it’s important to play with pas-sion, but even more important to keep your emotions under control.Over the years, we’ve seen this behavior time and time again, withseveral top players including John McEnroe and Ilie Nastase.

Since 10 & Under tennis has been implemented at yourclub, have you noticed an increase in participation ofkids in that age group?Ron D’Alessandro: Since 10 & Under tennis has been imple-mented at our club, the number of kids participating has risen dra-matically. At least half of the children in our junior program areunder the age of 10, and that number is rising. We are excited overthese numbers, because they are the future of our club, and for thesport of tennis in general.Michael Kossoff: Enrollment is higher this year in our 10 & Underage range, but I am not sure it is directly related to our club hav-ing 10 & Under tennis. I think it has more to do with providing high-level coaches working with our younger age groups.Whitney Kraft: The 10 & Under programs should have a great ef-fect in the New York City area as the population density and nu-merous clubs and facilities should really build the local base, helpwith talent by attracting some of the better young athletes, as wellas recreational. One concern in this area is cost of indoor court time.Tonny van de Pieterman: Yes, we have had a tremendous increasein participation. We had started four QuickStart programs last year,and with the USTA’s increased focus on this age group with theiradvertising campaign during the recent U.S. Open, we added two10 & Under competition training groups as well this year.

At what age, if any, should a serious junior playerfocus solely on tennis instead of any other extracur-ricular activities? Nick Brebenel: In my personal experience, the earlier they beginto focus strictly on tennis, the better it is. Champions like MonicaSeles, Martina Hingis, Andre Agassi and Lleyton Hewitt won bigprofessional tennis tournaments at a young age. If you are seri-


ous about the sport of tennis, then focus on the sport as soon aspossible. Vinicius Carmo: I think that a player should focus solely on ten-nis around 12 or 13 years old. Tennis today is super competitive,and you just cannot afford to play other sports. Maybe 20 yearsago you were able to. But, not todayWhitney Kraft: I’m not sure if this ever needs to occur. Extracur-ricular activities develop and maintain better athletes and help pre-vent players from getting stale from the sameness of onediscipline/sport.

At what age level, if any, does home schooling becomenecessary for a serious tennis player?Stonar Coleman: Home schooling should become necessary forthe serious tennis player at the age of 14 if they show the proper ma-turity level for it. Having the desire to be home schooled is also avery important part of it. If he or she does not have the competitionin their area, then they have to travel to find it. Steven Kaplan: Schools educate children in “loco parentis” in thiscountry. That means that parents have the right and the obligation toprovide schooling for their children institutionally or personally asthey see fit. Great caution should be exercised by parents in con-sideration of this decision. Home schooling, as a tool to providegreater training and playing opportunities for serious tennis players,is effective, but at a potentially high cost. It is very limiting to priori-tize tennis education to the extent that it supersedes more academicendeavors. Professional tennis, as a career, is a trade that is a fi-nancially rewarding pursuit for a select few. Many kids, if given thechoice to drop out of school to pursue the romantic dream of beinga tennis professional, or to do homework and study, will choose thelatter without weighing the negative consequences of failure. Par-ents that try to be facilitators of their children’s dream are often un-wittingly prioritizing and enabling the satisfaction their own desires.School serves important socialization, and as well as academic func-tions, and a disruption of this experience will be a negative for thehealthy and safe development of most children. While the tennis re-wards of home schooling are undeniable, the educational compro-mise and risk engendered by this road make it, all too often, awell-intended, but misguided, decision for families at any age.

I have always believed that athletics are a vital and important partof a young person’s education. Tennis is a wonderful athletic outletand enhancement to a well-rounded education, but the most loftygoal of education is personal growth and development.Michael Kossoff: I feel like home schooling is only necessary if theplayer’s goal is to become a high-level professional tennis player. If theplayer and parents are fully on board and are willing to go “all in” andthe child is old enough to understand the decision being made, thenthere should not be an age restriction for home schooling the player.

At what age should a junior start cross-training?Carl Barnett: Let me first say that tennis for children is cross-trainingfor what happens in their off-the-court life. All of our groups at the EarlyHit Training Center have a one-hour component with JonathanLandsman, our trainer. We use body weight, not free weights. This is

a wonderful way for kids to increase strength, awareness and focus.Bandar Kayali: This is a very debatable topic. I believe kids shouldstart working on fitness and physical training for tennis immediately.I’m not saying they should start bodybuilding in the gym at 12-years-old, but I do believe that juniors should be doing explosive move-ment drills, agility and balancing drills, and footwork coordinationdrills on a daily basis. All exercises should be geared towards tennisonly and must be related to movements on the tennis court. For ex-ample, ladder drills to coordinate foot work, explosive throwing ofmedicine balls replicating forehands and back hands, and sprintsthat involve many changes in direction. Things such as long-distancerunning should be kept to a minimal, maybe only 45 min. runs aboutsix times a year to expand lung capacity because long distance run-ning can slow down ones fast-twitch muscles. Explosive calisthen-ics exercises and explosive plyometric jumps and sprints can beused to enhance fast-twitch muscle fibers. As you can see, nowherehere have I mentioned weightlifting for youngsters. Yes, it is very ef-fective in building strength and enhancing fast-twitch muscle fiberswhich are necessary for tennis, but it must be done at the proper ageapproved by a doctor, and with proper supervision and direction.Alyssa Morra: Juniors of all ages can do some version of cross-train-ing. The key is to limit the regimen to correspond with the player’s age.For younger juniors, I like to keep things easy and have them focus onhopping, skipping, jumping, relay races and other fun activities to workon footwork, hand-eye coordination and balance. Each player is dif-ferent, and therefore, their training program may vary. Some version offitness training is always recommended for players.Tonny van de Pieterman: I always advise parents to keep kids in-volved in team sports at least until the age of 12, and with my Euro-pean background, I favor soccer as great cross-training for a juniortennis player. Working with stretch resistance bands for fitness couldbe started relatively early, but I’d wait with lifting weights until theplayer’s growth spurt has passed.

How much involvement should a parent have in theirchild’s development? What role does the tennis parentplay and what role should be left to the coach?Ron D’Alessandro: It is very important for a child’s parent to be in-volved in their development. A parent needs to support their childwhen it comes to transporting them to lessons and tournaments. Also,the financial obligations always need to be factored in. The parent,coach and student need to be on the same page as far as the stu-dent’s development. Having an open line of communication betweenthe coach and the parent is vital to having a successful relationship.Whitney Kraft: The operative word is quality of involvement, notquantity. This is the same for coaching. Quantity would vary to pro-duce desirable changes without overload or undue pressure. A par-ent’s role should focus upon providing a solid support system.Bandar Kayali: The bond between a tennis player and his coachmust be very strong on all levels, such as friendship, trust, fun andbelief. Any time a parent is on the court, this takes away from thatbond and prevents a lot of coach/player social transaction that isvital to that relationship. During private lessons, I believe that theparent should stay in the clubhouse most of the time and maybeonce every two weeks, they should take a peek. Children will al-


ways see their mom or dad as a parent and never as a true coach, soanytime a parent gives criticism, they do not see it coming from acoach’s perspective, but it seems like they are being scolded. Sec-ondly, even if a parent is a tennis player, all coaching must be left tothe coach and the coaching staff of the club they play at. The coachhas a special agenda and future vision for their students based on thechild’s goals and potential. So, before you decide on a coach, youmust trust them 100 percent to take care of your child and their futurein all aspects of tennis.

Is it better for a junior player to play up or play down in abil-ity level and why?Howie Arons: Every tennis player knows that the hardest match toplay, is the player ranked just below you. Players love to play up, withno pressure and nothing to lose. The player that is number one, is al-ways playing down matches and that’s why that player is so tough.The matches played up will come if you take care of business and al-ways respect the “down match.”Carl Barnett: It really depends on the player. Every parent feels theirchild will only learn with better players. It will help their strokes, buthow about learning to win? Is that going to happen if they only playagainst better players? Who did Roger Federer practice with all thoseyears at number one in the world?Michael Kossoff: I feel like there is a lot more depth in each agegroup. It says a lot to the great coaching that we have available in thearea, as well as the sport attracting better athletes. One of my biggestconcerns is that parents and coaches tend to have their players play“up” in age groups too quickly. I am a big believer in having my play-ers play when they are expected to win. Being put in that situation iscrucial in development and helps build character.Alyssa Morra: Playing up or down in ability level depends on the in-dividual junior. They both have advantages and disadvantages phys-ically and mentally. If they want to play at a higher level, then they needto be mentally ready to compete. The junior’s physical condition alsoplays an important role in whether to play up or not. Juniors who areonly playing for fun and want to play with their friends should not moveup in ability level. They may lose interest if they are not with their friends

What qualities do you look for in a junior player that makesthem stand out from the rest as a potential top player?Vinicius Carmo: I look at their mental toughness. We can all teach kidsstrokes and get them in shape, but mental toughness is a longerprocess. Usually, the top players come from good families where theyknow how to deal with pressure, work hard, and have high self-esteem.Bandar Kayali: There are certain things that I look for in a junior toconsider them as a potential ATP or Division I player. Some things arevery difficult to teach juniors and they rarely are able to do them nat-urally. An example can be players who rarely get down on themselves,even if the score is 6-1 or 5-1. These players still believe they have achance and are playing every point with a clean mindset as if it werethe first point of the match. Another thing I look for that is very difficultto teach, but is rarely found naturally is great distance coordinationand early recognition of where, when and how to adjust one’s body tothe ball coming to them. Very few kids are able to coordinate their an-

ticipation, sprint and adjustment steps immediately after the ball isstruck by their opponent on the other side of the net. Another aspectthat stands out is when players from a young age are able to properlyconstruct points patiently and smartly. Most top juniors enjoy over-hitting or playing the game too safe, and very few are able to play bal-anced. They have a natural inclination to set up points and vary theirspeeds and angles, and then know when to risk and pull the trigger atthe proper time.Tonny van de Pieterman: Besides good hand-eye coordination,some junior players stand out because of their eagerness to learn andtry new things. This excitement usually translates into overcoming dif-ficult hurdles in anything we do in life, as well as in tennis. The amountof time a child can focus is definitely important, but I find that mostqualities can be learned if properly trained and repeated.

What’s more important for a junior player: A TennisRecruiting.net ranking or a USTA ranking? Howie Arons: While TennisRecruiting.net has become a valuable toolfor prospective college players, there is nothing more important thana USTA Sectional and National Ranking. TennisRecruiting.net is greatfor networking and meeting coaches, but your ranking gives the coacha bigger picture of your ability level and tennis potential. Any player cando for himself or herself everything that TennisRecruiting.net can do.Nick Brebenel: After having spoken to hundreds of college tenniscoaches, I understand that they clearly they prefer TennisRecruit-ing.net rankings over USTA rankings. Both rankings are important, butinseparable.Stonar Coleman: A TennisRecruiting.net ranking is more importantthan a USTA Ranking. The reason being because it carries moreweight when it comes to match wins.

What in your teaching/coaching philosophy do you think isthe backbone of your teaching and coaching methods?Howie Arons: Having the experience of coaching high school tennisand running a junior program for 35 years, I would say the “backbone”of my teaching and coaching philosophy is that just like life … achieve-ment in tennis requires passion and hard work. There are no short cutsfor anyone. If you love the game and are willing to really work hard,then you will succeed.Nick Brebenel: Over the last 20 years, I have developed three play-ers in the top 30 on the ATP Tour, and in 2003, a junior champion atWimbledon in both singles and doubles. I have also coached twoKalamazoo junior champions in the last seven years. I consider all as-pects of coaching very important, from technical aspects to physicaland mental work. You also need the ability to be able to teach childrento play complex percentage tennis from the beginning, and have theability to instruct them to work very hard all the time.Maurice Trail: This is a very interesting question for me. Just likelawyers, doctors and scientists, these people aren’t born this way,they are made. My belief and the backbone to my coaching is thatplayers aren’t born, they are made. I’m not one to spend time wor-rying about accolades. The key thing to me is I love what I do. Ilove working with kids of all ages and skill levels. I feel if you lovewhat you do, you will do a great job no doubt!


Good to Great:A Model for Safely Building the Tennis Champions of Tomorrow (Part II)By Steve Kaplan

Perhaps the most im-portant quality for suc-cess in tennis is

steadiness and the avoid-ance of errors. It mightcome as a surprise then,that in practice “Blue

Chips” miss more shots than “Five Stars,”while “Five Stars” miss more shots than“Four Stars,” etc.

If you are thinking that superior playersmiss more balls because they hit more balls,then you are on the right track, but that isnot the complete story. Better players havea higher failure rate in hitting shots thanlesser players, because failure is necessaryfor achievement. As psychologist S.W. Tyler

points out in his extensive study on humanperformance, “The power of practice ismost profound when it is challenging ratherthan nice and easy.” Almost every study onperformance excellence concurred that onlyby endeavoring to master what you cannotdo, will you become an expert on what youdesire to become.

Malcolm Gladwell, in his best-selling bookon performance, Outliers, talked extensivelyabout the quantity of practice that is neededto become a master at any skill. He identi-fied 10,000 hours of deep concentration inthe performance of a skill that is needed toattain expert status. Anders Ericsson, a psy-chologist at Florida State University, whoperformed perhaps the most extensive

study on human performance achievement,calls this practice “deliberate practice.” Iwould go further and call this “PracticalPractice.”

The most productive practices are thosewhich are challenging and specifically-de-signed to adapt to the demands of the skillsnecessary for achievement.

College coaches, for example, often havetheir team members run anywhere from oneto five miles with the notion that, since ten-nis requires strong conditioning as doesrunning, “If you can run two miles in 12 min.,then you can play top-level tennis.” Thisconvoluted logic is straight out of the“Dodgeball” school of training, in whichthe coach threw wrenches at his players

Why Failure is Necessary


and said, “If you can dodge a wrench, thenyou can dodge a ball.”

I call this practice “convoluted” be-cause it does not specifically target andaddress the demands of tennis. The aver-age run in tennis is seven feet, not twomiles. The sport is a series of short, nu-merous, fast amortization, high intensity,multi-directional sprints, not a moderatelyfast, long and linear run. Moderate runsmay actually be a hindrance since theyencourage the development of a low run-ning gait and slow twitch muscle fiber. Ifyou are going to spend the time and en-ergy on practice, then I suggest you firstidentify the actual goal and target thepractice to be practical, addressing thespecific demands of that which you seekto accomplish. In this case, if you wish tobe adept at short, reactive, explosive,multi-directional sprints, then build VO2Max with quick directional change runsusing a 3:1 Tabata protocol.

Failure does not need to be discourag-ing since success does not impact thelearning potential of the experience thatcan be achieved from feedback.

For example, let’s say you and I are be-ginners at darts, and we each are given1,000 chances to hit a bullseye from 10 ft.You get to closely examine the result ofeach toss, but I must look away after toss-ing the dart. If you toss too high, then youwill immediately know and lower your aim.If you hit the bullseye, then you may rein-force your aim. As long as you have createdperfect conditions for feedback, then youwill learn and improve. Since I have no op-portunity for feedback, I may succeed, butI will not learn and progress. Therefore, it isthe quality of the feedback that determinesthe learning potential of the experiencerather than the success of the objective.

The most successful players have inter-nalized the joy of practice, rather than thethrill of victory. Monica Seles said, “I justlove to practice and drill and all that stuff.”Serena Williams revealed, “It felt like ablessing to practice because we had somuch fun.” Tiger Woods once said, “Mydad never asked me to go play golf. I askedhim.” These players all demonstrate agrowth mindset in which the joy of theprocess is the driving force for aspirations

rather than a fixed mindset in which resultsare the motivation.

Many players confuse hitting tennis ballswith meaningful and practical practice. Inorder for players to go from good to great,they must practice with a clear and practicalpurpose. They must step out of their comfortzone and take joy in the process of improve-ment, knowing that failures are inevitable.They must rid their practices of the emotionalinterference that is precipitated by failure, sothat they get quiet and productive feedback.Every shot is a learning experience.

Steve Kaplan is the owner of BethpagePark Tennis Center, as well as the directorof Reebok Academy for New York CityParks Foundation. Over the last 33 years,Steve has been the longtime coach of morethan 500 nationally-ranked junior players,14 state high school champions, two NCAADivision 1 Singles Champions, and numer-ous touring professionals and prominentcoaches. Steve’s students have beenawarded in excess of $7 million in collegescholarship money. He may be reached bye-mail at [email protected].


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By Ricky Becker

At this point in my collegeconsulting career, each of myconsults fall into one of a few

categories. For example, many consultsare with parents of freshmen in high schoolwho want to know whether their childshould make an academic or athletic runthrough college doors. Other clients wantto know what colleges might be interestedin giving their child a scholarship. Otherclients have children outside of the IvyLeague ranking threshold, but want to betold (falsely) that there is some backdoorway in. Sometimes, I will know the situa-tion before meeting with the family, andsometimes, I won’t know.

One particular consult I did over thesummer did not fall into an aforemen-tioned category. I looked up the player ontennisrecruiting.net and did not see thename. I was also told the player neverplayed in a tournament. I had a feelingthat this player had good grades and Iwas told that the player was number oneon her high school team.

“Okay,” I thought, “This is probablygoing to be one of those sobering consultswhere I need to tell someone that if theywant to play college tennis, they will needto take an academic drop. Not get thebump up they are looking for.”

When I met the girl’s father, he was avery nice guy which made my job harder.We started talking, and I encouraged himto enter his daughter in USTA tourna-ments. Then he asked me about a lot ofthe top academic schools and is it possi-ble to play tennis at any of them withoutsetting foot onto a court in a USTA tour-nament. I empathetically said no. Not un-

less she tries out for a team and some-how makes it, but circumstances like thisare rare.

“That’s unfortunate,” the father said. “Ithought club tennis was always an option.”

Wow. I knew club tennis was growingacross the U.S., and I also knew that therewere club nationals where nationally-ranked juniors played. But I never thoughtthat club tennis would really quench a ten-nis player’s thirst for competition. I didsome research and virtually 80 to 90 per-cent of Division I teams have a club team.

“Sure,” I told the father a couple ofweeks later. “There are plenty of club ten-nis options out there.” However, there aresome pros and cons to club tennis toconsider.

The pros� There are inter-collegiate nationals for

club tennis as there is for varsity tennis.In fact, the level of top club teams (usualbig state schools) is higher than someDivision I varsity teams and many Divi-sion III varsity teams.

�At some schools, club teams have a bet-ter chance of going away to the nationalchampionships for club tennis than thevarsity team does for the NCAA Cham-pionships.

� The commitment for club tennis is oftenwhat one wants it to be. If you can’tmake a practice, it’s usually not a bigdeal.

�Often, a bench-warmer for a varsityteam would be a star for a club team.Some people would have a much morefulfilling college tennis experience play-ing high on a club team, rather than rid-ing the bench and not playing teammatches.

Mythbusters: College Club Tennis is for Losers�With fundraising as a part of club tennis,

often the camaraderie among the play-ers on the team is tighter than that ofvarsity tennis. Fundraisers can oftenbuild team unity.

� There is less pressure to perform on aclub team then there is on a varsityteam. Nobody is playing to keep theirscholarship.

The cons�Club tennis does not hold the same

cache with would-be job interviews outof college.

� The search for funds could sometimesbe a nuisance.

� There is sometimes a struggle for courttime while the varsity team doesn’t reallyneed to think about such things.

�Club tennis does not provide scholar-ships, nor does it give a student whoplans to play club tennis a real academicbump.

�Club tennis is not as organized as var-sity tennis.

Overall, club tennis is a sound alterna-tive for someone who has a strong procliv-ity for a school but won’t make the tennisteam. Club tennis is also ideal for some-one who wants to play college tennis ontheir own terms. For more information, visitTennisOnCampus.com.

Ricky Becker is founder of JuniorTennis-Consulting LLC, which offers off-court col-lege guidance services to junior tennisplayers. He is also director of tennis atSportime Bethpage. He can be reached bye-mail at [email protected], by phoneat (516) 605-0420 or via JuniorTennisCon-sulting.com.


The summer of 2011 may have come toa close, but not before a great seasonof progress made in the beach tennis

world. Beach Tennis USA (BTUSA), alongwith Long Island Tennis Magazine, held fivegreat International Tennis Federation (ITF)-sanctioned tournaments throughout thesummer which came to a close on theweekend of Sept. 17-18.

The weekend of Aug. 18-21, saw the2011 BTUSA International Championshipsheld in Long Beach, N.Y., with players fromItaly, France, Brazil, New Zealand, theUnited States, Aruba and more flying in tocompete for $10,000 in prize money for thetop finishers on both the men’s andwomen’s sides of play. The championshipsincluded both professional and amateur sin-gles, doubles, mixed-doubles, and openplay for all. The playing area in Long Beachincluded 20 courts, a boutique, a player’slounge with food provided by Long BeachBagel and One Natural Experience coconutwater for all attendees and players. Thisyear’s tournament was held at a new loca-tion, directly in front of the Allegria Hotel in

Long Beach. The results of the 2011 BTUSAInternational Championships saw AlexMingozzi & Matteo Marighella of Italy defeatAlessandro Calbucci & Nicolo Strano instraight sets, 6-4, 6-1, to win the Men’s Pro-fessional Doubles title. Another pair of Ital-ians, Simona Bonadonna & Eva D’Elia,defeated Laura Oliveri & Simona Briganti instraight sets, 6-1, 7-5, to take the Profes-sional Women’s title.

Also during the International Champi-onships, the first-ever Nation’s Cup wasplayed at Crest Hollow Country Club inWoodbury, N.Y. Crest Hollow has developeda beach arena, with five beach tennis courtsalong with a covered lounge area for players.In just six weeks under the guidance of ownerRichard Monti, Crest Hollow turned its un-derutilized hard tennis courts into the first per-manent beach arena on Long Island. Montiand his staff’s great generosity went aboveand beyond their calling during the openingweekend, providing complimentary cocktailsand lunch for players and guests during theone-day Nation’s Cup held on Aug. 19.

The Crest Hollow Country Club also put

up $1,500 in prize money for the event. At theNation’s Cup, each country assembles a teamto play against the other countries. In the end,we saw Team Italy come out on top with TeamBrazil not far behind to take second.

Beach tennis has gained a large amount oftraction this past summer, with multiple newlocations to play. Country clubs and campsare joining the movement, and tournamentshave had some of the largest turnouts to date.The summer may have ended, but that doesnot mean you have to stop playing. Check intoBTUSA’s brand new Web site, BeachTennis-USA.net, for more information about upcom-ing events and places to play. Serve’s up!

Anthony Pastecchi is an editorial and mar-keting assistant with Long Island TennisMagazine. He is currently an undergrad atC.W. Post and participant in the honorsprogram. He is also a USTA volunteer andcoach for Hicksville Community Tennis. Hewas recently named USTA/Eastern-LongIsland Region 2011 Junior Volunteer of theYear. He may be reached by e-mail at [email protected].

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Long Island Tennis Magazine’s

Literary CornerBy Brent Shearer

The Wimbledon Final That NeverWas and Other Tennis Tales From aBygone EraBy Sidney Wood With David Wood

Players will want toread this book forits many interest-

ing anecdotes and be-cause it may arm themto win drinks at tennisgatherings by bettingon either of the follow-ing obscure tennis his-tory questions: Who

was the youngest Wimbledon winner for over50 years until Boris Becker’s first title in1985? And, who is the only tennis player inhistory to win Wimbledon by default?

Of course, the answer to both questions isthe author of The Wimbledon Title That NeverWas and Other Tennis Tales From a BygoneEra, the Connecticut-born Sidney Wood.Wood (1911-2009), accomplished both ofthese feats that his book uses as supports tohang the rest of his story on in 1931.

His opponent in the final, American FrankShields, grandfather of Brooke Shields, was

ordered by U.S. tennis authorities not to playso he could rest an injured knee for an up-coming Davis Cup match. Apparently, ama-teur officials had more clout in the erabetween the World Wars. The U.S. team lostthe match against England that they had triedto save Shields for. So much for listening tothe USTA! Somehow, I think if Donald Youngwas instructed not to play a Wimbledon finalby the national tennis organization, he would-n’t listen. But this is now, and Wood’s book isabout then.

The book’s charm lies in the way it recre-ates early 20th Century tennis history and sup-plies facts and stories about such pre-WorldWar II tennis stars as France’s Four Muske-teers: Rene Lacoste, Jean Borota, HenriCochet and Jacques Brugnon, as well as otherstars such as Ellsworth Vines, Don Budge, FredPerry, Bill Tilden and Jack Kramer.

One thing Wood brings to his analysis ofthe game, which the reader should remem-ber extends from his playing days beforeWorld War II, never mind pre-Open tennis,this is pre-shorts, up nearly until his death inJanuary of 2009, at the age of 97, is an un-equaled exposure to every champion.

When Sidney Wood takes a shot at rank-ing the all-time greats in our game, it’s a fas-cinating list because he saw them all of themplay and competed against players fromTilden to Gonzales. So Wood’s ranking of thegreats and near-greats alone makes thisbook worth reading. His top 10: Budge,Kramer, Tilden, Gonzales, Laver, Sampras,Perry, Borg, Lendl and Connors. Woodmakes good arguments for those he includesand those he leaves out. Tough luck forMcEnroe and Agassi.

David Wood, Sidney’s son, who helpedsmooth some of the book’s passages, notesthat his father wasn’t able to watch the currentcontenders for that list, Federer and Nadal,enough to rate them, but that he respectedwhat they have been able to accomplish.

Sidney Wood, who stayed involved in thegame after his playing days ended, was alsoresponsible for the invention of SupremeCourt, the portable court used by the protours for many years, and the creation of boxseats at the U.S. Open championships atForest Hills, N.Y.

Wood tells the story that, at one of the firstevents that used his new surface, KenRosewall was playing Fred Stolle. As Stolleran for a wide forehand, he broke through ataped seam and fell under the carpet. Heended up buried up to his chest. Wood re-counts that “I pulled Fred to his feet, amid cat-calls from the spectators, and used a staplegun to secure the selvages to the pallet below.”

Even outside of the game, tennis savvyNew Yorkers may remember, as I do, seeingtrucks zipping around midtown streets bear-ing the logo of another one of Wood’s busi-ness ventures, the Woods-Budge laundry.

Whether as a competitor when male ten-nis players wore long pants, or as a tennis-oriented laundry owner, Sidney Wood’s bookis a rich source of stories about tennis history.

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On Oct. 1, members from the Garden CityCasino hosted a tennis match against theCold Spring Valley Tennis Club. The twoclubs have been playing in similar “inter-club” matches for many years to raisefunds for Charlie’s Champions Foundationand the United Way of Long Island. Char-lie’s Champions was established by Gar-den City residents Tara and John Schmittin the name of their son, Charlie who is cur-rently being treated for Leukemia. The mis-sion of the foundation is to raise awarenessand funds to benefit the Cancer Center forKids at Winthrop University Hospital. TheUnited Way of Long Island, together withits community partners, advances thecommon good by investing in and devel-oping programs that address Long Is-lander’s critical needs in education,income/financial stability and health.

Despite forecasts calling for rain, theweather cooperated, and all 16 matcheswere played, including men’s senior dou-bles, mixed-doubles, women’s doubles,men’s doubles, and a pro-am competition.All 16 matches played were hard foughtand eight of them went to three sets.

Cold Spring Valley Tennis Club was for-tunate enough to win 10 of these matches,but the score was secondary in everyone’smind. The approximate $11,000 that wasraised and the good times shared by all inattendance were far more important thaneverything else. The USTA and the USPTApartnered with the clubs and donatedmany gifts and tennis balls.

“It was a great day,” said Bill Mecca,USTA/Eastern-Long Island Representative.“Doing good by having fun and gettinghealthy exercise is a bonus for everyone.”

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the clay courts after every match, servingfood and beverages during the reception,and most importantly, filling in if there’s aninjury or last-minute cancellation. The eventcontinues to grow each year and there arealready children and grandchildren of bothclubs looking forward to the 2012 matchesbecause they will be of age to participatein this prestigious event.

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Claire Handa is aseventh grader fromRockville Centre,N.Y. who attendsFriends Academy.Currently, Claire isranked fourth in theEastern Section inGirls 12s Divisionand is ranked 61stNationally in Girls12s Division, the

highest ranked Long Islandplayer in the Girls 12s Division.

Long Island Tennis Maga-zine recently had a chance tointerview this top rising juniorplayer …

How did you get started intennis? And at what age? I started playing at the age ofseven. My older brother playedtennis, and I would always betaken to his lessons andmatches, and it looked like alot of fun, so I started playing.

How often do you play andwhom do you play with?I play around four or five timesa week. Twice a week, I playwith my tennis coach MauriceTrail and two or three timeseach week, I hit with a collegeplayer from New York City.

What are your strengths and weaknessesas a tennis player?The strength of my game is probably myserve. The shot I’d like to improve themost is my volleys and backhand slice.

What has been the most memorablemoment so far in your short tennis career?This past summer, I won my first nationaltournament, a Girls 12s event at RobbieWagner’s Tournament Training Center

over Labor Day Weekend.

What are your future goals intennis? I would definitely like to playcollege tennis. Beyond that, Iplan to just keep workinghard and see if I can becomegood enough to make it thepros.

What are your interests awayfrom the tennis court?My favorite thing to doaway from tennis is reading.I read a new book every twoto three weeks. I also enjoysoccer and gardening.

Do you plan on playinghigh school tennis?At Friends Academy, youcannot try out for the tennisteam until the ninth grade.

But yes, I would like to play at that time.I think it would be a lot of fun and a greatexperience.

Since you are playing in national tourna-ments, have you had the chance to go outof New York to play?Yes, I have played two Super Nationals inGeorgia and in Ohio. It is cool going tosee other areas and playing players fromall over.

Rockville Centre’s Claire Handa

“Claire has all the necessarytools to continue to be a topplayer going forward. She is

extremely athletic, a student ofthe game and a very hard

worker. She is extremely easyto work with because she is sotalented and a good listener. Ifshe realizes how good she can

be, the sky is the limit. For nowI just ask her to focus and stay

relaxed on the court. I see great things from

Claire moving forward.”

—Maurice Trail, coach of Claire Handa

Claire at a Nationalevent in Rochester,N.Y. in July 2011

Claire taking part in theZonals in Pennsylvania ear-lier this year

Claire at the Hard CourtsSuper Nationals in Atlantain August 2011


On Aug. 12, the USTA/Eastern-Long Is-land Region, along with the Town ofIslip, hosted its Annual Suffolk County

Rally Day, an event designed to promote thesport of tennis to children of all ages with proson hand to provide free clinics and a day offun for all. Throughout the event, instruction,games, teamwork and giveaways were all keyin making for yet again another great RallyDay. Children who never picked up a racquetbefore were able to hit ground strokes andvolleys with just a few drills and said they wantto continue to play tennis in the future.

“This is a great way to bring these chil-dren out to play tennis and see what thesport is actually about and how fun it reallyis,” said Amy Evans of Youth EnrichmentServices of West Islip. “It keeps them pro-active and allows them to interact with theirother peers.”

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After a morning of tennis, pizza was pro-vided to all attendees, followed by gamesand prizes.

“This was a great way to give back to thecommunity and get out to play tennis,” saidMichelle Lapierre, a junior volunteer.

Terry Fontana, Rally Day co-chair, said,“My passion for tennis keeps me motivatedto bring the NJTL (National Junior TennisLeague) Kids Day each year to Islip.”

Anthony Pastecchi is an editorial and market-ing assistant with Long Island Tennis Maga-zine. He is currently an undergrad at C.W. Postand participant in the honors program. He isalso a USTA volunteer and coach for HicksvilleCommunity Tennis. He was recently namedUSTA/Eastern-Long Island Region 2011 Jun-ior Volunteer of the Year. He may be reachedby e-mail at [email protected].

Eastern-Long Island Region Hosts Annual Suffolk County Rally Day

By Anthony Pastecchi


By Roman Prokes

Players are always lookingfor an edge on the court.They work with teachingprofessionals to master

their technique, coaches to solidify theirtactics, trainers to ameliorate their condi-tioning. Why not have an expert help withyour equipment? That is the goal of an on-court consultation.

I have been working with top pro players forover three decades. I have aided players likePete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick,Maria Sharapova, Caroline Wozniacki, andcountless others throughout the world. Thismassive experience has pushed me to reallyunderstand the game from the equipmentperspective. Players are constantly search-ing for the best specification of frames, han-dles, weights, balances, strings and tensions.I have seen the enormous diversity whenplayers change any of these variables. Oneexample is recently when I was on the courtwith Maria Sharapova and her coach MichaelJoyce. Even though Maria was hitting withextreme force, Michael hardly broke a sweat.Maria’s shots were not as efficient as theycould be. By testing multiple equipment vari-

ables and giving her direct feedback, Mariawas able to alleviate her shoulder pain, addsome pop to her ground strokes, improve herconfidence and numerous other benefits.By choosing the right specifications, wequickly had Michael doing all the running.The difference was enormous and instan-taneous, creating results that translated totournament wins and ranking points. Pro-fessionals are not only superhuman in com-petition, but they have an uncanny abilityto feel differences in almost any infinitesi-mal change when testing equipment. Thiscontinuous discussion of minute details ofequipment with myself and top profession-als has educated me to really see whatspecification is needed to achieve aplayer’s desired results.

This gave me the idea to do what I alwaysdid for the best players in the world for every-day players as well. I have tested this in acouple of formats, and have tweaked andperfected the system where, within aboutone hour of on-court time, I can determinethe best possible racket frame, grip size,weight, balance, string and tension for anyplayer. Typically, when searching for the cor-rect equipment, players demo rackets.These are programs where a player borrows

a racket, tests it for couple days, and afterfew tests, buys the racket. I have seen moretimes than I can recount, where a player pur-chases multiple rackets only to come back afew weeks later saying that they don’t likethe racket. In effect, a player ends up havingspent a lot of money and the result is notwhat they hoped for.

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That’s where I think an on-court consul-tation is far superior. The process requiresaccess to all pertinent racket demos for aplayer’s game, customization resources, atennis hitter with consistent hitting andmeaningful feedback, and a player lookingto improve. The player tests different rack-ets, strings, tensions and customizations, allthe while, they receive feedback from thehitter who has the best gauge of their per-formance. I analyze the performance, hearwhat goals are desired, and advise whichvarious equipment changes to try. There isreally no definitive format of doing this be-cause every player is very unique. Some-times, the player can try a lot of rackets,whereas other times, not many at all. Some-times, the results come with retail racketsoff the shelf, and sometimes, rackets needto be adjusted to distinct specifications tobe perfectly matched to a player’s specificneeds. In this well-controlled environment,a player gets the best litmus test of theequipment, as well as allowing the consult-ant to implement changes to the racket. Atthe end of the process, the player and theconsultant all agree on one to two possibleoptions. The player is then encouraged totest the selected rackets a few more timesunder different conditions.

An on-court consultation is a very preciseand methodical way to find out what worksbest for you. It will always be a chance for aplayer to test equipment in a controlled en-vironment, with the guidance of an expert,as well as the feedback of an educatedcoach/pro. It’s a chance for a player to knowwhat works optimally for them without the“what ifs” (what if I tried this racket at a dif-ferent tension, what if this racket was heav-ier, what if I used this racket against a bighitter, etc.). Whether you end up with a wholenew racket frame, a customization of yourcurrent racket, a new string, new tension, ora modification that you didn’t know existed,one thing is certain … you will improve.

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Army and Navy Capture Women’s Collegiate

One-On-One Doubles® Tournament at Stony Brook University’s Fall Classic

Credit all photos to Kelsey Domino

Army’s Jamila Paul won the “A”Flight of the Stony BrookWomen’s Collegiate One-On-OneDoubles Tournament. Paul de-feated Erin McCarthy of Marist, 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the eventand defeated Salom Mkervalidzeof Stony Brook University, 6-5(7-3) in the semis en route to her 6-4win over Stefanie Ton of Navy tocapture the title.

Navy’s Caitlin Olsen won the“B” Flight at the event, defeatingKirsten Ackerman of Marist, 6-3 inthe quarterfinals, Michelle Dussolof the University of Rhode Island(URI), 6-4 in the semis and NatalieHoule of Navy, 6-4 in the finals towin the “B” draw.

“It’s great to have Division 1Collegiate Women playing One-On-One Doubles Tournaments.

This tournament will encourage younger Junior Girls to play in some One-On-OneDoubles tournaments in the near future,” said Ed Krass, founder of the College Ten-nis Exposure Camps and One-On-One Doubles Tournaments.

“One-On-One Doubles skills are absolutely imperative in preparing our girls tocome forward and make the transitional volley,” said Army Coach Paul Peck, seven-

time Patriot League Champion. “GirlsOne-On-One Doubles Tournaments willbe a big step forward to help them de-velop the doubles skills and serve-and-volley half-court skills so desired bycollege coaches.”

Gary Glassman, head tennis coach atStony Brook and tournament director,said, “It’s exciting to see the women makethe first volleys in the midcourt area!These One-On-One Doubles Tourna-ments get the women’s players who arecomfortable feeling uncomfortable. It’s agreat game to develop their all-courtconfidence, too.”

Nini Logvilava and Catherine Hanson of StonyBrook took part in the One-On-One DoublesTournament held at Stony Brook University

Action at the Stony Brook Women’sCollegiate One-On-One DoublesTournament


Power ... You Want It? You Got It!

By Miguel Cervantes III

If you want more power, then I’mgoing to give it to you. Most ofthe time when trying to hit theball harder or achieve more

power in tennis, we end up doing things that takepower away. It’s a frustrating cycle, but not onethat is impossible to break. Keeping a few thingsin mind, you can hit the ball harder, faster andbetter immediately.

First, we have to define power to give us someperspective on how we can get more of it. At itssimplest, power is really just force. Anyone thathas ever taken a physics class knows that forceis equal to mass multiplied by acceleration. Whatthat means for us is that the only way to achievegreater power is to either increase the amount ofmass going into the ball, or to accelerate throughthe ball faster.

Putting more mass into your shots is merely amatter of using good technique to maximize thebody weight going into the ball. All too often, theshots we take are performed with only our armsand not our bodies. Using your body to hit the ballwill give you a great deal more power. Here are a

few things you can do to use more body mass:

Use your hips to hit the ballBy using your hips to hit the ball, you know youhave as much of your body mass going forwardinto the ball as possible. A few ways to think aboutthis is, for example on the forehand, is to start withyour left shoulder pointed toward the ball and fin-ish with your right shoulder pointed at the ball afteryour stroke is finished. When executed properly,your back leg should also come around to bringyou back into the ready position faster, thus re-ducing recovery time.

Hit at your waistThe ball is most comfortable to hit around yourwaist. A good example of this is to watch base-ball players. You rarely see a baseball player tryto hit a ball by their shoulders or by their ankles.Hitting at waist level gives you the best weighttransfer and thus more power.

Stay low and come up as you hitBy staying low before the shot and coming upas you hit the ball, you are effectively pushingoff of the ground to get more mass into the ball.

I call this “The Swimming Pool Principle.” If youare in a swimming pool, it will always be easierto swim to the other side if you push off of oneside of the pool. In tennis, the ground is that wallwe use to push off of.

Here are a few things you can do to improveacceleration:

Hit the ball in front of your bodyYou should remember to hit even with your frontshoulder or in front of your body (depending onwhere you are on court and how you are posi-tioned). When hitting even with your body or be-hind your body, your power is dissipated. To getthe best weight transfer, contact should be madein front. A good example of this is a boxer’spunch. A straight punch that makes contact tooearly will not have the force that it would have hadit the arm had time to extend and achieve maxi-mum acceleration.

Stay looseOn a scale from one to five (with five being astight as you can grip the racket) you should beholding your grip around two. Your body shouldalso be loose in order to respond to your situa-tion on-court. When you stay loose, your bodycan react quicker and accelerate faster. Stayingrelaxed and loose is a key to getting that extrapower everyone wants.

Power is not some magical thing that requireshours upon hours of practice to increase. Makinga few small changes can make the difference inyour game so that you can put away points likeyou know you can. Play hard and have fun.

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Carefree 2.5 Team Finishes Second at Sectionals

By Arlene Griggs

The Carefree 2.5 USTA team [SHI-MON] has advanced all the way tothe finals at the Sectionals held in

Syracuse, N.Y. This was my first experi-ence playing on a winning USTA team,so my immersion was quick, intense andpassionate. The period of time betweenhaving been selected to represent at theSectionals to actually playing the

matches was concentrated. Realizingthat at my age (I am retired), this oppor-tunity was never going to present itselfagain, so I had to fully explore this life-changing event.

Seven women and a child mascotdrove to Syracuse with little knowledgeof what this tournament entailed. Thiswas no chick vacation! Having said that,

we bonded as teammates and friends.No team could have been more support-ive of each other than ours. Lastingfriendships were forged, the laughter re-sounded and tennis matches were won.

By our final match on Sunday, wewere tied for first place with the “LuckyStrings” team from Albany, N.Y. Sadly,there was “No joy in Mudville,” as wecame in second place after someearnest playing. Perhaps our loss wasdue to the absence of a cool teamname? No Nationals in September forus, but our coach’s 4.5 team will carryon, and we are very proud of them.

What have I learned from this event?

� This was my one golden opportunity, andI’m happy I took advantage of it.

�Road trips don’t physically feel the sameas they did back in the 1970s.

� Tennis is still a game where one sidewins and the other side loses.

� There is always room for improvement inall areas of competition, such as sports-manship, fairness, caring about othersand performance.

�Anything is possible, considering manyof our team members are in the 50 andover category.

� Lastly, I will engage in tennis competitionwith thoughts of self-improvement, andnot anxiety. I know I’m too old for that!

Thank you, Lisa, our coach, for your inten-sity, support and coaching expertise. Thankyou to our captain Marilyn, for your unbeliev-able organizational skills, constant correspon-dence and updates, and passion for the game.

Arlene Griggs, an English teacher for 35years, taught at Grand Avenue MiddleSchool in the Bellmore-Merrick CHSD. Sheretired two years ago and has been keepingbusy playing tennis, teaching Zumba andtraveling. She plays at Carefree Tennis inMerrick, N.Y., enjoying the competition, andlearning to improve her game. She may bereached by e-mail at [email protected].

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By Kathy Miller

Congratulations to the Long Island Adult, Senior and Super Sen-ior teams that have advanced to Nationals:

�Adult League: The Women’s 2.5 Team from Carefree Racquet Club,captained by Marilyn Shimon, and the Women’s 4.5 Team from Care-free Racquet Club, captained by Sally Disabato and Jenn Miller.

�Senior League: The Women’s 4.0 Team from Sportime Syos-set, captained by Katrina Clifford.

�Super Senior League: The Women’s 6.0 Team from Rockville Rac-quet, captained by Joyce Tomaino; the Women’s 7.0 Team fromSportime Lynbrook, captained by Cathy Caldwell; and the Women’s8.0 Team from Sportime Roslyn, captained by Susan Alvy.

A job well done by all!The final ratings from the 2011 league will be published on the USTAWeb site the end of November. These are the ratings that will be usedfor the 2012 Mixed-Doubles League which begins the beginning ofJanuary. If you were bumped up in the early start ratings, appealed thebump up and had that appeal granted, you will have to appeal the year-end rating if you are again bumped up.

The Mixed-Doubles League is a combination level league. Long Is-

land will have a 6.0 Division (a 2.5 & 3.5, or two 3.0 players) a 7.0 Divi-sion (a 3.0 and 4.0, or two 3.5 players) an 8.0 Division (a 3.5 & 4.5 or two4.0 players) a 9.0 division (a 4.0 & 5.0 or two 4.5 players) and a 10.0 Di-vision (a 4.5 & 5.5 or two 5.0 players). A mixed team playing togethermay not be more than one full NTRP level apart (a 4.0 can play with a5.0 for a 9.0 match but a 3.5 may not play with a 5.0 or in a 9.0 match).

Mixed-doubles matches will be played on the weekend with the seasonrunning from January to May. A match consists of three courts of mixed-doubles and is scheduled for two hours. Players must be USTA membersand pay a $25 roster fee for each team they play on. Each match is $20 perperson, which is paid to the club where the match is being played.

If you plan to captain a team, please contact me by e-mail([email protected]) by Dec. 1, 2011. If you are looking to play on ateam, please contact me after Dec. 1 when I will know which teamsneed players. Schedules will be distributed by mid-December, with playbeginning the first weekend in January. The time frame for me to beaware of participating teams and getting schedules done and distrib-uted is very tight, so I ask that you please follow and respect that.

I wish you all a great holiday season!

Kathy Miller is the manager at Carefree Racquet Club and is alsothe Adult League Coordinator for USTA/Long Island. She may bereached at [email protected].


A Look Back at Long Island Tennis Summer Camps:

Summer of 2011

Adidas TennisCamps at StonyBrook University

23rd AnnualCollege TennisExposure Camp

Advanced HighPerformance

Tennis Academyby Maurice Trail



Summer of 2011

CarefreeRacquet

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Bethpage ParkTennis Center

Summer TennisCamp

The Early HitTraining CenterJunior Tennis

Camp at Glen HeadRacquet Club



Summer of 2011

Hempstead LakeIndoor TennisCenter Junior

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Future StarsSummer Tennis

Camps

Hofstra Summer Camps



Summer of 2011

Long Beach Tennis Camp

Joel Ross Tennis & Sports

Camp

Nike Tennis Camps



Summer of 2011

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Robbie Wagner’sTournament

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Ross SchoolTennis Center



Summer of 2011

Sportime Elite Tennis

Camps

Sportime Summer Camps

USTA Billie JeanKing NationalTennis Center

Summer Camps


By Lonnie Mitchel

Ihave read quite a bit overthe years about Easternphilosophies on martial

arts instruction and training.I learned that “Karate is a martial art inwhich the ultimate purpose is not to seekto win, but to work toward perfection ofcharacter and strong body. As with anymartial art, karate requires solid discipline.The body must go through long and stren-uous exercises for many years. Total con-trol is required over not only one’stechniques, but also emotions such as fear,pain and hate.” There are many similaritieshere to the sport of tennis.

While teaching a junior class recentlywith several high school kids, the ideacame to me about what I can share in thisarticle. I had heard that there were somegood players in this group, and I waslooking forward to instructing them. Ten

min. into the class, one student pre-sented himself as a behavioral problem.He challenged me on every piece of in-struction, if I said white, he said black.The drills were not good for him and thisstudent was a disruptive influence on theothers. It became clear to me that thisstudent was smarter than the teacher sohe thought. I tried to help him in a pro-fessional manner, but one lesson was notgoing to change his mind. I perseveredthrough the lesson as he rebuffed my cri-tiques of poor shot selections, unadvis-able slicing and inconsistent play.Unfortunately, he refused to want to im-prove even though he was a good athleteand had a high level of potential. It’s sadwhen a student comes to a class to learnand then refuses.

Sure enough, the parent called to com-plain that their son did not enjoy the lessonand felt that he got nothing out of it. I wasnot surprised by the call from the parent as

I have received several similar calls overthe years … a poorly-behaved child, com-pounded by a parent who thinks the childis right and the teacher is not.

Tennis and school teachers every-where I am sure have experienced similarstories. I am not a psychologist, but I ama darn good tennis instructor with a lot tooffer any student who is willing to opentheir mind.

“Wax on, wax off,” to quote a line fromthe movie “The Karate Kid.” The studentchallenged the teacher, but it was wax on,wax off and that’s it. The teacher was in-structing the student on correct move-ments and helping develop musclememory needed to be successful in thesport of karate. So what if the student didit his way? I think he would have gotten hisbutt kicked in the karate tournament thattook place at the end of the film. Tennis in-struction is given so that a student devel-ops muscle memory in order to hit a ballconsistently over the net. You cannot argueabout the philosophy of “wax on, wax off”to the mechanics and repetition of hitting atennis ball.

My purpose in writing this article is thatI hope parents who read this take it toheart. The student attends lessons tolearn. Every teacher has different teach-ing techniques and students have differ-ent learning styles. In some casesthough, the chemistry may not be rightand a change can be made. In life, youwill not always have a boss that you likeor a job you love, but you have to cope.Teach your children that different teach-ers have different styles and methods.Opening their mind on the court will paydividends not only in tennis, but in life.

Lonnie Mitchel has been teaching tennissince 1985, mostly at Carefree Racquet Clubin North Merrick, N.Y. and is a USPTA Level 1certified tennis instructor. He has producedmany high school and collegiate level tennisplayers, including his own children, Wayne(who plays at Muhlenberg College) andTrevor (who competes regularly on the USTALong Island Junior Circuit, gaining the num-ber one ranking in the 14s). His wife, Harriet,is a club level tennis player and can often befound on the court. Lonnie may bereached by phone at (516) 414-7202 or e-mail [email protected].

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Camhi Rolls to 2011 Nassau CountyGirl’s Championship

By Gary Simeone

Syosset High School SeniorHannah Camhi was all busi-ness on Oct. 16 winning in

impressive fashion over GardenCity’s Morgan Herrmann 6-0, 6-0in the Nassau County Girls Sin-gles Championship at Eisen-hower Park. Despite the gustywind that made adjustmentsnecessary, Camhi was able toplace the ball where shewanted to against her youngeropponent, the eighth graderHermann.

“I’m used to playing in the windand didn’t have too much difficultyadapting to it,” said Camhi. “I feltlike I was striking the ball cleanerand making my shots more im-pactful today.”

Camhi credited her coach,Steve Kaplan of Bethpage TennisCenter, with helping her makesome changes in her game. “Hehelped me with adjusting some of myshots, including incorporating a lot of spinand speed in my game. It really helpedme a lot.”

Camhi, who is off to play for BrownUniversity next fall, was able to attain thetitle that had narrowly eluded her the past

three years as she finished second as ajunior and third as a sophomore andfreshman.

Hannah Camhi from Syosset High Schoolwas crowned 2011 Nassau County GirlsSingles Champion

Syosset’s Hannah Camhi en route to her 6-0, 6-0finals win in the Nassau County Girls SinglesChampionship

Credit all photos to Gary Simeone


In the doubles final, Hewlett’s GabriellaLeon & Veronika Paikin took down PortWashington’s Lauren Livingston & EmmaBrezel in straight sets, 6-1, 6-0.

“It’s all about consistency and teamworkwith us,” said Paikin. “We felt like we wentout there and controlled the match fromstart to finish.”

Leon added that the duo from Hewlettwas motivated to come back and winafter losing in the second round in lastyear’s Counties.

“Our goal ever since that loss was toget back and win this thing,” said Leon.

“We practiced really hard and reallyworked on our volleys in order to get thiswin today.”

In the consolation matches, GreatNeck South Junior Nicholle Torres de-feated Oceanside’s Paulina Tafler, 6-4, 6-2 to finish third in the singles draw. Indoubles, Garden City’s Marisa Cameron& Brittany Burke pulled out a victory overSyosset’s Lisa Petruzillo & Katie Cirella,7-5, 6-2.

The top three finishers earn All-CountyHonors and the right to compete in theState Championships on Nov. 4.

Singles�Hannah Camhi, Syosset�Morgan Herrmann, Garden City�Nicholle Torres, Great Neck South

Doubles�Gabriella Leon & Veronika Paikin, Hewlett� Lauren Livingston & Emma Brezel, Port

Washington�Marisa Cameron & Brittany Burke, Gar-

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Gary Simeone is writing intern/public relationsassociate for Long Island Tennis Magazine.

2011 Nassau County Girls DoublesChampions, Gabriella Leon & VeronikaPaikin from Hewlett

Nicholle Torres of Great Neck South, Hannah Camhi of Syossetand Morgan Herrmann of Garden City earned All-County honors

Port Washington’s EmmaBrezel & Lauren Livingston in

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The doubles teamsof LaurenLivingston & EmmaBrezel from PortWashington,Marisa Cameron &Brittany Burkefrom Garden City,and Gabriella Leon& Veronika Paikanfrom Hewlettearned 2011 All-County honors

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631-267-3460www.SportimeNY.com/Amagansett

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SPORTIME Bethpage TennisMike Kosoff—Director of Tennis

101 Norcross Avenue • Bethpage, NY 11714516-933-8500

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SPORTIME Bethpage Multi-SportRandy Louie—General Manager

4105 Hempstead Turnpike • Bethpage, NY 11714516-731-4432


SPORTIME QuogueWill Van Rensburg—Director of Tennis2571 Quogue-Riverhead, Route 104

East Quogue, NY 11959631-653-6767


SPORTIME at Harbor IslandEric Fromm—General Manager, Director of TennisIn Harbor Island Park • Mamaroneck, NY 10543

914-777-5050www.SportimeNY.com/Harbor-Island

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SPORTIME Kings ParkDarrin Cohen—Director of Tennis

275 Old Indian Head Road • Kings Park, NY 11754631-269-6300


SPORTIME LynbrookMohamed Shabir—Director of Tennis

175 Merrick Road Lynbrook, NY 11563

516-887-1330www.SportimeNY.com/Lynbrook

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SPORTIME MassapequaFayez Malik—Director of Tennis

5600 Old Sunrise HighwayMassapequa, NY 11758

516-799-3550www.SportimeNY.com/Massapequa

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1 Randall’s IslandNew York, NY 10035

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SPORTIME RoslynAdam Mandell—Director of Tennis

Landing Road, PO Box 1Roslyn, NY 11576

516-484-9222www.SportimeNY.com/Roslyn

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2699 Curry RoadSchenectady, NY 12303

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75 Haskett DriveSyosset, NY 11791

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10 Gordon DriveSyosset, NY 11791

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Flushing, NY 11568718-760-6200 • www.usta.com


L O N G I S L A N D R A N K I N G SBoys & Girls Long Island Rankings(as of 09/22/11)

BOYSLong Island Boys 10 SinglesRank..Name............................City1..........Abhinav Raj Srivastava ........Melville, N.Y.2..........Jeffrey McDonnell ................Glen Cove, N.Y.3..........Maxwell Moadel ..................Brookville, N.Y.4..........Arjun K Sharma....................Glen Head, N.Y.5..........Karan K. Amin ......................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.6..........Robert Steven Bellino ..........Huntington, N.Y.7..........Niles Ghaffar ........................Massapequa, N.Y.8..........Alec Hunter Barres ..............Old Westbury, N.Y.9..........Kabir Rajpal ........................Syosset, N.Y.10........Oliver Worth ........................Locust Valley, N.Y.11........Zachary Reid Berlin..............Dix Hills, N.Y.12........Spencer Brachman ..............Commack, N.Y.13........Sohrob Yavari ......................Syosset, N.Y.14........Hunter Fromm......................Amagansett, N.Y.15........Jared M. Phillips ..................Plainview, N.Y.16........Luke Torel Karniewich ..........Glen Head, N.Y.17........Jacob Rusinek ....................East Hills, N.Y.18........Bradford J. Lin ....................Kings Point, N.Y.19........Evan Brady ..........................Glen Head, N.Y.20........Trevor Lanigan ....................North Babylon, N.Y.21........Logan Paik Chang ................Old Westbury, N.Y.22........Brandon Zhu ........................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.23........William G. McCreery ............Albertson, N.Y.24........Matthew Savino ..................Garden City, N.Y.25........Aman K. Sharma ..................Glen Head, N.Y.26........Michael Bruck......................Roslyn, N.Y.27........Jonathan DeGroot ................Southampton, N.Y.28........JohnChristian Matute ..........Oyster Bay, N.Y.29........Alexander Karman................Port Washington, N.Y.30........Tyler Joseph Milner..............Jericho, N.Y.31........Sam Levine..........................Roslyn, N.Y.32........Anton Geoffrey de Lesseps ..Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.33........Daniel Chikvashvili ..............Melville, N.Y.34........Grant A. Cantone ..................Oceanside, N.Y.35........Peter Bukary ........................Jericho, N.Y.36........Ethan Lipetz ........................East Hills, N.Y.

Long Island Boys 12 SinglesRank..Name............................City1..........Thomas A. Korossy ..............Oyster Bay, N.Y.2..........George Kaslow ....................Port Washington, N.Y.3..........Amani Siddiqui ....................West Babylon, N.Y.4..........Alexander Reiley ..................Manorville, N.Y.5..........Matthew Roberts..................Setauket, N.Y.6..........Matthew Franklin Porges......Sands Point, N.Y.7..........Mark Julian Baker................North Baldwin, N.Y.8..........Timothy Serignese ..............Port Washington, N.Y.9..........Daniel Meinster....................South Setauket, N.Y.10........Jackson Weisbrot ................Dix Hills, N.Y.11........Lucas Larese DeSantos........Southampton, N.Y.12........Austin Pomerantz ................Old Westbury, N.Y.13........Eric Li ..................................Old Westbury N.Y.14........Steven Well Sun ..................Glen Cove, N.Y.15........Billy G. Suarez......................Huntington, N.Y.16........Eli Grossman........................Woodbury, N.Y.17........Ben Snow ............................Water Mill, N.Y.18........Evan Kirsh............................Roslyn, N.Y.19........Matthew Lee Catton ............Woodbury, N.Y.20........Jake Spencer Grossman ......Sands Point, N.Y.21........Gardner Howe......................Locust Valley, N.Y.22........Carl Grant ............................Water Mill, N.Y.23........Benjamin Cole Grossman ....Sands Point, N.Y.24........Adam Stein ..........................Melville, N.Y.25........Daniel Weitz ........................Roslyn, N.Y.26........Zachary Ian Khazzam ..........Roslyn Heights, N.Y.27........Alexander Roti......................Locust Valley, N.Y.28........Nicholas Tyler Decker ..........East Setauket, N.Y.29........Michael Thomas Jaklitsch ....Islip, N.Y.30........Arjun Mehrotra ....................Woodbury, N.Y.31........Jonas Feuerring ..................Sagaponack, N.Y.

32........Zan Ahmed ..........................Syosset, N.Y.33........Ronald P. Hohmann ..............Oyster Bay, N.Y.34........Alex Joseph Amadio ............Smithtown, N.Y.35........Jeffrey M. McDonnell ..........Glen Cove, N.Y.36........Austin Egna..........................Port Washington, N.Y.37........Adam Bradley Wilck ............Dix Hills, N.Y.38........Justin Ilan Lempert ..............Roslyn Heights, N.Y.39........Michael Stuart Petersen ......Bridgehampton, N.Y.40........Nicolas Demaria ..................New Hyde Park, N.Y.

Long Island Boys 14 SinglesRank..Name............................City1..........Brandon Eric Remer ............Hewlett, N.Y.2..........Arnav Raj Srivastava ............Melville, N.Y.3..........Dylan Granat ........................Woodbury, N.Y.4..........Cory Seltman ......................Smithtown, N.Y.5..........Evan Kober ..........................Wantagh, N.Y.6..........Michael James DeNigris ......Islip, N.Y.7..........Braddock Chow....................Glen Cove, N.Y.8..........Raizada Bhavin Vaid ............Old Westbury, N.Y.9..........Del Schunk ..........................Westhampton Beach, N.Y.10........Benjamin Tenner ..................Roslyn, N.Y.11........Derek Steven Zadrozny ........Huntington Station, N.Y.12........Thomas Michael Dacosta ....Massapequa, N.Y.13........Ethan Susser........................Old Westbury, N.Y.14........Vincent Chen........................Hauppaugh, N.Y.15........Spencer George Bozsik ........Sag Harbor, N.Y.16........Jacob Lacks ........................Woodbury, N.Y.17........Nicholas Kevin Fox ..............Commack, N.Y.18........Cameron Posillico ................Bayville, N.Y.19........Simon Adler ........................Roslyn, N.Y.20........Matthew Powers Holweger ..Manhasset, N.Y.21........Mitchell Reid Berger ............Lake Grove, N.Y.22........Eric Handelman....................Melville, N.Y.23........Andrew Christopher Muran ..Glen Head, N.Y.24........David Binler ........................East Northport, N.Y.25........Connor Wright ......................Commack, N.Y.26........Zane Siddiqui ......................West Babylon, N.Y.27........Joseph James D’Orazio........St. James, N.Y.28........Daniel Khodosh....................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.29........Simar Deep Sawhney ..........New Hyde Park, N.Y.30........Spencer Lowitt ....................Syosset, N.Y.31........Derek Menker ......................Great Neck, N.Y.32........Nick John Stamatos ............Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.33........Florimond Le Goupil-Maier ..Oceanside, N.Y.34........David Henry Reinharz ..........Rockville Centre, N.Y.35........Brian Hoffarth ......................Fort Salonga, N.Y.36........JohnThomas Sepanski ........Huntington, N.Y.37........Justin Scott Feder ................Bellmore, N.Y.38........Faran Nazir ..........................Deer Park, N.Y.39........Matthew Kennedy Diers ......Mastic, N.Y.40........Grant Rosenberg ..................Melville, N.Y.

Long Island Boys 16 SinglesRank Name ............................City1..........Richard Mitchell ..................Franklin Square, N.Y.2..........Cole Laffitte ........................East Setauket, N.Y.3..........Erik Johann Lobben ............Glen Head, N.Y.4..........Dylan Ander ........................Hewlett, N.Y.5..........Troy Michael Haas................Huntington Station, N.Y.6..........Gregory Matthew Rosenthal Syosset, N.Y.7..........Zachary Chang ....................Massapequa, N.Y.8..........Samuel Hajibai ....................Kings Point, N.Y.9..........Brett Titcomb ......................Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.10........Connor J. Gehrke ................Miller Place, N.Y.11........Jack Vissicchio ....................Port Washington, N.Y.12........Joshua Fried ........................Plainview, N.Y.13........Jeffrey Cherkin ....................Melville, N.Y.14........Samuel Johnson ..................Huntington, N.Y.15........Steven Marzagalli ................Patchogue, N.Y.16........Andrew Reiley......................Manorville, N.Y.17........Sai Senthilkumar..................Manhasset, N.Y.18........Michael Nelson ....................Manhasset, N.Y.19........Jesse Richheimer ................Merrick, N.Y.20........Matthew Bahar ....................Woodbury, N.Y.21........Richard DeGregoris ..............Rockville Centre, N.Y.22........Cooper Francis Lacetera ......Speonk, N.Y.

23........Erik Ujvari ............................Hauppauge, N.Y.24........Connor Daniel Jeran ............Islip, N.Y.25........Jeremy Grossman................Woodbury, N.Y.26........Jonathan Carl Smucker........Lido Beach, N.Y.27........Caleb Van Loon ....................Port Washington, N.Y.28........Alex Philip Rosenfield ..........Holtsville, N.Y.29........Derek Thomas Esposito........Stony Brook, N.Y.30........Milan Asanga Gunasekera....Mount Sinai, N.Y.31........David Binler ........................East Northport, N.Y.32........Daniel Sliwowski..................Islip, N.Y.33........Daniel Christopher Lee ........Port Washington, N.Y.34........Brian Heinze ........................Garden City, N.Y.35........Alec Tuckey..........................Melville, N.Y.36........Stone E. Mitchell ..................Woodmere, N.Y.37........Michael Hakimi ....................Great Neck, N.Y.38........Austin Spencer Ash ..............Syosset, N.Y.39........Matthew Vermont Kantor......Westhampton Beach, N.Y.40........Will Pratt-Stephen................Northport, N.Y.

Long Island Boys 18 SinglesRank Name ............................City1..........Andrew Steven O’Connell ....Medford, N.Y.2..........Chris Casamassima ............Franklin Square, N.Y.3..........Sloan Millman ......................Woodmere, N.Y.4..........Erik Johann Lobben ............Glen Head, N.Y.5..........Jared Drzal ..........................West Sayville, N.Y.6..........Richard Mitchell ..................Franklin Square, N.Y.7..........Matthew Zuckerman ............Valley Stream, N.Y.8..........Jacob Mishkin......................Woodbury, N.Y.9..........Zachary Aboody ..................Roslyn, N.Y.10........Michael Freilich....................Lawrence, N.Y.11........Ryan Zuckerman..................Valley Stream, N.Y.12........Seth Kornfield ......................Jericho, N.Y.13........Jonathan Carl Smucker........Lido Beach, N.Y.14........Samuel Hajibai ....................Kings Point, N.Y.15........Roger Young ........................Brookhaven, N.Y.16........Jonathan Sanders ................Holbrook, N.Y.17........Jeffrey Cherkin ....................Melville, N.Y.18........Ignacio Casali ......................Farmingdale, N.Y.19........Darren Reisch ......................Floral Park, N.Y.20........Kevin Kim ............................South Setauket, N.Y.21........Dennis Uspensky ................Atlantic Beach, N.Y.22........Clark D. Ruiz ........................Glen Head, N.Y.23........Josh Young ..........................Old Bethpage, N.Y.24........Jordan Reiley ......................Manorville, N.Y.25........Jason Fiderer ......................Oceanside, N.Y.26........Jason Fruchter ....................Lawrence, N.Y.27........Zachary H. Mintz ..................Roslyn, N.Y.28........Anton Averin ........................South Setauket, N.Y.29........Richard DeGregoris ..............Rockville Centre, N.Y.30........Brett Titcomb ......................Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.31........Daniel Park ..........................East Northport, N.Y.32........Alex Philip Rosenfield ..........Holtsville, N.Y.33........Will Pratt-Stephen................Northport, N.Y.34........Felipe Magalhaaes Reis........East Hampton, N.Y.35........Zach Cooper ........................Holbrook, N.Y.36........Steven Ferrantello ................Dix Hills, N.Y.37........Erik Ujvari ............................Hauppauge, N.Y.38........Justin Paul Masure ..............East Rockaway, N.Y.39........Nick Wong ..........................Jericho, N.Y.40........Joseph M. Falcetta ..............Deer Park, N.Y.

GIRLSLong Island Girls 10 SinglesRank Name ............................City1..........Alexa Lynn Bracco................Freeport, N.Y.2..........Marisa L. Menist ..................Great Neck, N.Y.3..........Rachel Arbitman ..................Hewlett, N.Y.4..........Madison Li ..........................Old Westbury, N.Y.5..........Allison Cooney ....................Manhasset, N.Y.6..........Alexandra Chirinkin ..............Woodbury, N.Y.7..........Gabriella Sciarrotta ..............Woodmere, N.Y.8..........Kira Rose Giordano ..............Massapequa Park, N.Y.9..........Denise Lai............................Setauket, N.Y.10........Rebecca E. Suarez ..............Huntington, N.Y.11........Morena Devito ....................Syosset, N.Y.12........Jade Fixon-Owoo ................Lynbrook, N.Y.

13........Amy Delman ........................Great Neck, N.Y.14........Sofia Rose Anzalone ............Center Moriches, N.Y.15........Katie Dzialga........................Southampton, N.Y.

Long Island Girls 12 SinglesRank Name............................City1..........Olivia Rose Scordo ..............Glen Head, N.Y.2..........Francesca Karman ..............Port Washington, N.Y.3..........Marisa L. Menist ..................Great Neck, N.Y.4..........Trinity Chow ........................Glen Cove, N.Y.5..........Hannah Rosalie Dayton ........East Hampton, N.Y.6..........Merri Kelly ..........................Oyster Bay, N.Y.7..........Kaitlyn Byrnes......................Massapequa, N.Y.8..........Celeste Wang Traub..............Jericho, N.Y.9..........Dasha Dlin ..........................Glen Head, N.Y.10........Amanda Allison Foo..............Manhasset, N.Y.11........Marina Bracken Hilbert ........Locust Valley, N.Y.12........Devika Kedia........................East Norwich, N.Y.13........Ashley Debra Yevdosin ........Hewlett, N.Y.14........Stephanie Anne Petras ........Manhasset, N.Y.15........Maryam Beshir Ahmad ........Albertson, N.Y.16........Katelyn Walker ....................Sands Point, N.Y.17........Nicole Kielan........................Valley Stream, N.Y.18........Julia Sherwood Dudley ........Southampton, N.Y.19........Angela Chi ..........................Kings Park, N.Y.20........Christina Lorraine Jud..........Glen Head, N.Y.21........Abigail Carrie Okin ..............Amagansett, N.Y.22........Morgan Voulo ......................East Setauket, N.Y.23........Melissa Cooney....................Manhasset, N.Y.24........Risha Malhotra ....................Syosset, N.Y.25........Alexa Lynn Bracco................Freeport, N.Y.26........Rachel Arbitman ..................Hewlett, N.Y.27........Adele Sukhov ......................Westbury, N.Y.28........Ariana Malik ........................Melville, N.Y.29........Danah Han ..........................Dix Hills, N.Y.30........Josephine Winters................Elmont, N.Y.31........Morgan A. Wilkins ................Syosset, N.Y.32........Elena Artemis Vlamakis ........Garden City, N.Y.33........Rory Abigail Mary Gallaher ..East Hampton, N.Y.34........Kaitlyn Schwarz ..................Oceanside, N.Y.35........Kerri Leah Goldfuss..............Westbury, N.Y.36........Julia Kielan ..........................Valley Stream, N.Y.37........Amanda Mintz......................Sag Harbor, N.Y.38........Samantha Lena Galu............Jericho, N.Y.39........Erica Forrest ........................Jericho, N.Y.40........Stephanie Buchheim ............Roslyn Heights, N.Y.

Long Island Girls 14 SinglesRank Name............................City1..........Lauren Ann Livingston..........Sands Point, N.Y.2..........Lexee Taylor Shapiro ............Syosset, N.Y.3..........Elena Nitsa Maria Nastasi ....Bayville, N.Y.4..........Nikaylah Imani Williams ......Wheatley Heights, N.Y.5..........Julia Khan............................Port Washington, N.Y.6..........Julia Ciardullo ......................Locust Valley, N.Y.7..........Michelle Haykin ..................Great Neck, N.Y.8..........Sarah Seeman ....................Port Washington, N.Y.9..........Vanessa L. Scott ..................Dix Hills, N.Y.10........Michele Sheila Lehat............Great Neck, N.Y.11........Sophie Grace Wilson ............Oyster Bay, N.Y.12........Aidan Owens........................Manhasset, N.Y.13........Brynn Maris April ................Dix Hills, N.Y.14........Danielle Mirabella ................Wantagh, N.Y.15........Rosa LaCorte ......................Merrick, N.Y.16........Michelle N. Carnovale ..........Massapequa, N.Y.17........Courtney B. Kowalsky ..........Oyster Bay, N.Y.18........Ariel Natalie Eisenberg ........Valley Stream, N.Y.19........Eva Rosalia Petersen............Bridgehampton, N.Y.20........Laura Jean Halsey ..............Westhampton, N.Y.21........Ellen Nicole Huhulea ............Rockville Centre, N.Y.22........Juliana Shenker ..................Rockville Centre, N.Y.23........Lauren B. Dolowich ..............Jericho, N.Y.24........Alana Weitz ..........................Roslyn, N.Y.25........Ryann Moelis ......................Hewlett, N.Y.26........Kaysha Forbes ....................Valley Stream, N.Y.27........Matilda Evangelina Bros ......Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.28........Celeste Rose Matute ............Oyster Bay, N.Y.


29........Jennifer Wang......................Dix Hills, N.Y.30........Amanda Allison Foo..............Manhasset, N.Y.31........Ayesha Jagi Chhugani..........Roslyn, N.Y.32........Shannon Marie Mullins ........Oceanside, N.Y.33........Emily Margaret Marge..........Medford, N.Y.34........Tracey Nicole Rosenlicht ......Dix Hills, N.Y.35........Cecilia Combemale ..............Bridgehampton, N.Y.36........Courtney A. Digia ................Manhasset, N.Y.37........Gabrielle Raziel ....................Melville, N.Y.38........Maxine Lizaso ......................Glen Cove, N.Y.39........Mallie Feldman ....................Woodbury, N.Y.40........Celeste Wang Traub..............Jericho, N.Y.

Long Island Girls 16 SinglesRank Name............................City1..........Olivia Marie Ammirati ..........Halesite, N.Y.2..........Katharine Brandow ..............East Northport, N.Y.3..........Lauren Ann Livingston..........Sands Point, N.Y.4..........Hannah Goldman ................West Hempstead, N.Y.5..........Lara Fishbane ......................Commack, N.Y.6..........Emma R. Brezel ..................Port Washington, N.Y.7..........Aimee N. Manfredo ..............Shoreham, N.Y.8..........Kristen Bomkamp ................Northport, N.Y.9..........Julia Ciardullo ......................Locust Valley, N.Y.10........Alexa Graham ......................Garden City, N.Y.11........Elena Nitsa Maria Nastasi ....Bayville, N.Y.12........Emily Rees ..........................Rockville Centre, N.Y.13........Michele Sheila Lehat............Great Neck, N.Y.14........Brittany Burke......................Garden City, N.Y.15........Bridget Elaine Harding..........Northport, N.Y.16........Alexandra Linder..................Sands Point, N.Y.17........Rhea Malhotra ....................Syosset, N.Y.18........Lauren Difazio......................Greenlawn, N.Y.19........Ruth Freilich ........................Lawrence, N.Y.20........Angelika Rothberg................Centerport, N.Y.21........Holly Hubsher ......................Sands Point, N.Y.22........Amanda Luper ....................Melville, N.Y.23........Allison Gabrielle Huber ........Melville, N.Y.24........Taylor Brent ........................Shoreham, N.Y.25........Rachel Gastaldo ..................Syosset, N.Y.26........Bridget Connors ..................East Quogue, N.Y.27........Rithika Reddy ......................Syosset, N.Y.28........Stefanie Ebo ........................Sayville, N.Y.29........Laura Torsiello......................Bayport, N.Y.30........Morgan Herrmann................Garden City, N.Y.31........Stephanie Nakash ................Great Neck, N.Y.32........Jennifer Glukhman ..............Syosset, N.Y.33........Michelle Haykin ..................Great Neck, N.Y.34........Alexandra Nicole Linde ........Melville, N.Y.35........Shannon Marie Mullins ........Oceanside, N.Y.36........Nikaylah Imani Williams ......Wheatley Heights, N.Y.37........Karishma Ramesh Tank........New Hyde Park, N.Y.38........Elizabeth Gee ......................Garden City, N.Y.39........Brianna Biancardi ................Merrick, N.Y.40........Gina Ciliberti ........................West Islip, N.Y.

Long Island Girls 18 SinglesRank Name............................City1..........Veronika Paikin ....................Valley Stream, N.Y.2..........Hannah Goldman ................West Hempstead, N.Y.3..........Jennifer A. Carnovale ..........Massapequa, N.Y.4..........Erica Bundrick ....................Mattituck, N.Y.5..........Jennifer C. Ferguson ............Franklin Square, N.Y.6..........Nicholle Torres ....................North Hills, N.Y.7..........Jaclyn Mary Cartwright ........Deer Park, N.Y.8..........Claudia M. Ruiz ....................Glen Head, N.Y.9..........Kate C. Weidenman..............Syosset, N.Y.10........Rithika D. Reddy ..................Syosset, N.Y.11........Lara Fishbane ......................Commack, N.Y.12........Cameron Leigh Moskol ........Wantagh, N.Y.13........Jennifer Glukham ................Syosset, N.Y.14........Rachel Gastaldo ..................Syosset, N.Y.

Boys & GirlsSectional Rankings(as of 09/21/11)

BOYSSectional Boys 10 Singles—Long Island RegionRank Name............................City 7..........Cannon Kingsley ..................Northport, N.Y.9..........Niles Ghaffar ........................Massapequa, N.Y.10........Steven Well Sun ..................Glen Cove, N.Y.12........Spencer Brachman ..............Commack, N.Y.14........Sujay Sharma ......................New Hyde Park, N.Y.25........Billy Suarez..........................Huntington, N.Y.26........Oliver Worth ........................Locust Valley, N.Y.29........Maxwell Moadel ..................Brookville, N.Y.39........Jeffrey McDonnell ................Glen Cove, N.Y.48........Kabir Rajpal ........................Syosset, N.Y.56........Zachary Reid Berlin..............Dix Hills, N.Y.62........Karan K. Amin ......................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.63........Robert Steven Bellino ..........Huntington, N.Y.69........Arjun Sharma ......................Glen Head, N.Y.80........Daniel Chikvashvili ..............Syosset, N.Y.89........Alec Hunter Barres ..............Old Westbury, N.Y.90........Alexander Karman................Port Washington, N.Y.94........Brandon T. Cohen ................Westhampton, N.Y.100......Sohrob Yavari ......................Syosset, N.Y.107......Dylan Paul............................Woodmere, N.Y.110......Logan Paik Chang ................Old Westbury, N.Y.111......Brandon Zhu ........................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.118......Jared M. Phillips ..................Plainview, N.Y.120......Luke Torel Karniewich ..........Glen Head, N.Y.122......Bradford J. Lin ....................Kings Point, N.Y.127......Trevor Lanigan ....................North Babylon, N.Y.133......William McCreery ................Albertson, N.Y.134......Torin Suner Bograd ..............Huntington, N.Y.135......Matthew Savino ..................Garden City, N.Y.137......Aman K. Sharma ..................Glen Head, N.Y.141......Jonathan DeGroot ................Southampton, N.Y.144......Omar JohnChristian Matute..Oyster Bay, N.Y.

Sectional Boys 12 Singles—Long Island RegionRank Name............................City2..........Finbar Talcott ......................Sea Cliff, N.Y.5..........Ryan Goetz ..........................Greenlawn, N.Y.6..........Alan Delman ........................Great Neck, N.Y.9..........Sean Patrick ........................Oyster Bay, N.Y.10........Keegan James Morris ..........Franklin Square, N.Y.18........Brian Shi ..............................Jericho, N.Y.19........Patrick F. Maloney ................Oyster Bay, N.Y.20........Rajan Jai Vohra ....................Glen Head, N.Y.30........Yuval Solomon ....................Plainview, N.Y. 32........Daniel Eric Pellerito ..............Syosset, N.Y.41........James Kyrkanides................Stony Brook, N.Y.42........Michael Medvedev ..............Oceanside, N.Y.44........Ronald P. Hohmann ..............Oyster Bay, N.Y.50........Steven Well Sun ..................Glen Cove, N.Y.51........Neel Raj ..............................Oyster Bay, N.Y.53........Cannon Kingsley ..................Northport, N.Y.56........Pete Siozios ........................New Hyde Park, N.Y.60........Thomas Korossy ..................Oyster Bay, N.Y.67........Daniel Weitz ........................Roslyn, N.Y.79........Benjamin Cole Grossman ....Sands Point, N.Y.83........Ben Snow ............................Water Mill, N.Y.88........Gardner Howe......................Locust Valley, N.Y.94........Billy G. Suarez......................Huntington, N.Y.98........Eli Grossman........................Woodbury, N.Y.99........Nicolas Demaria ..................New Hyde Park, N.Y.100......Matthew Franklin Porges......Sands Point, N.Y.108......Amani Siddiqui ....................West Babylon, N.Y.111......Eric Li ..................................Old Westbury, N.Y.123......Jake Spencer Grossman ......Sands Point, N.Y.127......Timothy Serignese ..............Port Washington, N.Y.132......Michael Thomas Jaklitsch ....South Setauket, N.Y.136......George Kaslow ....................Port Washington, N.Y.137......Matthew T. Roberts ..............Setauket, N.Y.

140......Spencer Brachman ..............Commack, N.Y.145......Sujay Sharma ......................New Hyde Park, N.Y.147......Spencer George Bozsik ........Sag Harbor, N.Y.

Sectional Boys 14 Singles—Long Island RegionRank Name............................City 2..........Brenden Andrew Volk ..........Dix Hills, N.Y.4..........Alexander Lebedev ..............Island Park, N.Y.19........Lubomir T. Cuba ..................Massapequa Park, N.Y.22........Eric Wagner ........................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.29........Bryant J. Born ......................Manhasset, N.Y.31........Colin Francis Sacco..............Brightwaters, N.Y.36........Athell Patrick Bennett ..........Valley Stream, N.Y.40........Chris Kuhnle ........................Shoreham, N.Y.41........Palmer T. Clare ....................North Bellmore, N.Y.43........Brian Hoffarth ......................Fort Salonga, N.Y.49........Stephen Gruppuso ..............Bayport, N.Y.53........Travis Leaf ..........................Dix Hills, N.Y.56........Joshua Williams Gordon ......Hicksville, N.Y.59........Sean Patrick ........................Oyster Bay, N.Y.61........Finbar Talcott ......................Sea Cliff, N.Y.64........William Scribner Bader ........Water Mill, N.Y.73........Sean Mullins ........................Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.83........Brandon Eric Remer ............Hewlett, N.Y.85........Nasser Abdel Ghaffar ..........Massapequa, N.Y.86........Jesse M. Levitin ..................Manhasset, N.Y.87........Jordan Michael Bennett ......Valley Stream, N.Y.92........Alex Grossman ....................Sands Point, N.Y.94........Raizada Bhavin Vaid ............Old Westbury, N.Y.99........Andy Zhou ..........................Commack, N.Y.110......Nikhil Raj ............................Oyster Bay, N.Y.116......Nicholas Kevin Fox ..............Commack, N.Y.118......Dylan Granat ........................Woodbury, N.Y.119......Keegan James Morris ..........Franklin Square, N.Y.124......Michael James DeNigris ......Islip, N.Y.125......Trippie Franz ........................Bridgehampton, N.Y.127......Del Schunk ..........................Westhampton Beach, N.Y.132......Daniel Khodosh....................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.141......Braddock Chow....................Glen Cove, N.Y.143......Michael Liebman ................Roslyn, N.y.144......Duane Davis ........................Dix Hills, N.Y.148......Joseph James D’orazio ........Saint James, N.Y.

Sectional Boys 16 Singles—Long Island RegionRank Name............................City 1..........Noah B. Rubin ......................Rockville Centre, N.Y.4..........Josh Silverstein....................Great Neck, N.Y.5..........Aidan Talcott ........................Sea Cliff, N.Y.6..........Philip Daniel Antohi ..............Glen Head, N.Y.7..........Samuel Lam ........................Old Westbury, N.Y.9..........Vihar Shah ..........................New Hyde Park, N.Y.10........Ethan Bogard ......................Lido Beach, N.Y.14........Douglas Notaris ..................Wantagh, N.Y.20........Alex Sacher..........................Glen Head, N.Y.22........Jeremy Dubin ......................Southampton, N.Y.24........Brandon T. Stone..................Melville, N.Y.29........Daniel Grunberger................Great Neck, N.Y.32........Zachary A. Lessen................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.37........Alexander Lebedev ..............Island Park, N.Y.41........Julian Alexi Zlobinsky ..........Greenvale, N.Y.44........Conor Mullins ......................Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.48........Tyler J. Hoffman ..................Sayville, N.Y.49........Matthew R. Demichiel ..........Hewlett, N.Y.50........John P. D’Alessandro............Northport, N.Y.53........Jared R. Halstrom ................Bellmore, N.Y.55........Zain Ali ................................Dix Hills, N.Y.64........Lamar Remy ........................Roslyn, N.Y.67........Joshua Williams Gordon ......Hicksville, N.Y.71........Jonathan Paris ....................Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.84........Mark Daniel Temporal ..........Carle Place, N.Y.87........Brian W. Slivonik ..................Oyster Bay, N.Y.89........Alex Brebenel ......................Dix Hills, N.Y.93........Kyle Alper ............................Dix Hills, N.Y.103......Ian Baranowski ....................Syosset, N.Y.112......Bryant J. Born ......................Manhasset, N.Y.125......Erik Ujvari ............................Hauppauge, N.Y.

129......James Edward Heaney ........Locust Valley, N.Y.131......Brett Edelblum ....................Roslyn, N.Y.132......Jeffrey Cherkin ....................Melville, N.Y.141......Josh Young ..........................Old Bethpage, N.Y.144......Steven Marzagalli ................Patchogue, N.Y.149......Andrew Reiley......................Manorville, N.Y.

Sectional Boys 18 Singles—Long Island RegionRank Name............................City 2..........Josh M. Levine ....................Syosset, N.Y.4..........Andrew Yaraghi ....................Mill Neck, N.Y.5..........Bert Vancura ........................New Hyde Park, N.Y.7..........Eric Rubin ............................Lido Beach, N.Y.13........Matthew O. Barry ................Lido Beach, N.Y.15........Noah B. Rubin ......................Merrick, N.Y.18........Jensen H. Reiter ..................Syosset, N.Y.21........Brendan Henry ....................Massapequa, N.Y.26........Howard J. Weiss ..................Great Neck, N.Y.33........Samuel Lam ........................Old Westbury, N.Y.35........Ofir Solomon........................Plainview, N.Y.38........Alexander Schidlovsky ........Sea Cliff, N.Y.43........Kevin A. Katz ........................Woodbury, N.Y.48........Jonahiby Tauil ......................Valley Stream, N.Y.55........Aidan Talcott ........................Sea Cliff, N.Y.56........Alan S. Pleat ........................Roslyn, N.Y.64........Austin Davidow....................Glen Head, N.Y.74........Eric Sumanaru ....................Middle Island, N.Y.75........Conor A. Dauer ....................Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.77........David Greenbaum ................Great Neck, N.Y.79........Tyler J. Hoffman ..................Sayville, N.Y.85........Sean Jagi Chhugani ............Roslyn, N.Y.95........Douglas Notaris ..................Wantagh, N.Y.96........Doron Saraf ........................Great Neck, N.Y.97........Eric Ambrosio ......................Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.98........Jacob Mishkin......................Woodbury, N.Y.100......Daniel Khanin ......................Baldwin, N.Y.103......Clark D. Ruiz ........................Glen Head, N.Y.109......Daniel R. Grinshteyn ............Hewlett, N.Y.111......Henry D. Lee ........................Sag Harbor, N.Y.113......Paul Abrudescu ....................Great Neck, N.Y.120......Zachary Morris ....................Garden City, N.Y.128......Jared Drzal ..........................West Sayville, N.Y.130......J. T. Esposito ........................Rockville Centre, N.Y.131......Darren Reisch ......................Floral Park, N.Y.138......Michael Anthony Mcfelia ......Huntington Station, N.Y.139......Chris Casamassima ............Franklin Square, N.Y.143......Erik Johann Lobben ............Glen Head, N.Y.146......Jason A. Fruchter ................Lawrence, N.Y.148......Andrew Steven O’Connell ....Medford, N.Y.

GIRLSSectional Girls 10 Singles—Long Island RegionRank Name............................City2..........Lea Ma ................................Dix Hills, N.Y.5..........Francesca Karman ..............Port Washington, N.Y.14........Rachel Arbitman ..................Hewlett, N.Y.19........Merri Kelly ..........................Oyster Bay, N.Y.21........Julia Kielan ..........................Valley Stream, N.Y.22........Maryam Beshir Ahmad ........Albertson, N.Y.28........Amy Delman ........................Great Neck, N.Y.37........Alexa Susan Goetz ..............Greenlawn, N.Y.41........Alexa Lynn Bracco................Freeport, N.Y.54........Denise Lai............................Setauket, N.Y.59........Madison Li ..........................Old Westbury, N.Y.60........Allison Cooney ....................Manhasset, N.Y.65........Jade Fixon-Owoo ................Lynbrook, N.Y.67........Gabriela Sciarrotta ..............Woodmere, N.Y.74........Alexandra Chirinkin ..............Woodbury, N.Y.76........Rebecca Suarez ..................Huntington, N.Y.79........Morena DeVito ....................Syosset, N.Y.87........Sofia Rose Anzalone ............Center Moriches, N.Y.91........Katie Dzialga........................Southampton, N.Y.

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Sectional Girls 12 Singles—Long Island RegionRank Name............................City 4..........Claire Handa ........................Rockville Centre, N.Y.10........Jacqueline Rae Bukzin ........Manorville, N.Y.19........Jasmine Olivia Abidi ............Glen Head, N.Y.25........Lea Ma ................................Dix Hills, N.Y.32........Stephanie Chikvashvili ........Syosset, N.Y.33........Courtney Kowalsky ..............Oyster Bay, N.Y.40........Josephine Winters................Elmont, N.Y.51........Celeste Wang Traub..............Jericho, N.Y.52........Olivia Rose Scordo ..............Glen Head, N.Y.53........Francesca Karman ..............Port Washington, N.Y.63........Merri Kelly ..........................Oyster Bay, N.Y. 64........Nicole Kielan........................Valley Stream, N.Y.67........Katelyn Walker ....................Sands Point, N.Y.72........Trinity Chow ........................Glen Cove, N.Y.74........Hannah Rosalie Dayton ........East Hampton, N.Y.88........Maryam Beshir Ahmad ........Albertson, N.Y.89........Julia Kielan ..........................Valley Stream, N.Y.104......Theodora Brebenel ..............Glen Head, N.Y.106......Morgan Wilkins ....................Syosset, N.Y.111......Marisa Menist ......................Great Neck, N.Y.116......Hannah Zhao ......................Syosset, N.Y.118......Dasha Dlin ..........................Glen Head, N.Y.120......Marina Bracken Hilbert ........Locust Valley, N.Y.122......Stephanie Anne Petras ........Manhasset, N.Y.123......Rachel Arbitman ..................Hewlett, N.Y.137......Kaitlyn Byrnes......................Massapequa, N.Y.143......Nicole Rezak ........................Merrick, N.Y.144......Morgan Voulo ......................East Setauket, N.Y.150......Isabella Rose Smith..............Roslyn, N.Y.

Sectional Girls 14 Singles—Long Island RegionRank Name............................City4..........Madison Battaglia ................Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.9..........Alexa Graham ......................Garden City, N.Y.11........Isabella Pascucci ................Oyster Bay, N.Y.12........Shanice Nadia Arthur ..........Glen Head, N.Y.16........Morgan Hermann ................Garden City, N.Y.26........Taylor S. Cosme ..................New Hyde Park, N.Y.28........Mia M. Vecchio ....................Manhasset Hills, N.Y.43........Esther Chikvashvili ..............Syosset, N.Y.54........Michele Sheila Lehat............Great Neck, N.Y.55........Dominique Woinarowski ......Syosset, N.Y.56........Karen A. Serina ....................Islip Terrace, N.Y.62........Stephanie Chikvashvili ........Melville, N.Y.66........Alexandra Lipps ..................Roslyn, N.Y.80........Elena Nitsa Maria Nastasi ....Bayville, N.Y.82........Vanessa L. Scott ..................Dix Hills, N.Y.89........Courtney B. Kowalsky ..........Oyster Bay, N.Y.95........Celeste Rose Matute ............Oyster Bay, N.Y.100......Nikaylah Imani Williams ......Wheatley Heights, N.Y.102......Lexee Taylor Shapiro ............Syosset, N.Y.107......Amber Nicole Policare ..........East Atlantic Beach, N.Y.112......Claire Handa ........................Rockville Centre, N.Y.113......Rhea Malhotra ....................Syosset, N.Y.125......Julia Khan............................Port Washington, N.Y.135......Cecilia Thomas Combemale Bridgehampton, N.Y.136......Amanda Allison Foo..............Manhasset, N.Y.144......Katie Jane Cirella ................Woodbury, N.Y.147......Brynn Maris April ................Dix Hills, N.Y.

Sectional Girls 16 Singles—Long Island RegionRank Name............................City13........Sophie R. Barnard ................Mill Neck, N.Y. 21........Aleksandra Mally ................Franklin Square, N.Y.26........Vivian Cheng........................Woodbury, N.Y.35........Nicholle Torres ....................North Hills, N.Y.42........Alison Wang ........................Great Neck, N.Y.50........Paulina Tafler ......................Oceanside, N.Y.54........Sunaina Vohra......................Glen Head, N.Y.55........Claudia M. Ruiz ....................Glen Head, N.Y.59........Aimee N. Manfredo ..............Shoreham, N.Y.63........Rachel Gastaldo ..................Syosset, N.Y.

64........Madison Battaglia ................Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.68........Yuliya V. Astapova ................Port Washington, N.Y.69........Bridget Elaine Harding..........Northport, N.Y.70........Rithika D. Reddy ..................Syosset, N.Y.71........Isabella Pascucci ................Oyster Bay, N.Y.72........Mia M. Vecchio ....................Manhasset Hills, N.Y.73........Zenat Rashidzada ................Dix Hills, N.Y.77........Olivia C. Funk ......................Hicksville, N.Y.79........Cameron Leigh Moskol ........Wantagh, N.Y.82........Sara Finger ..........................St. James, N.Y.87........Alexa Graham ......................Garden City, N.Y.93........Gabriella Nicole Leon ..........Woodmere, N.Y.94........Jennifer C. Ferguson ............Franklin Square, N.Y.103......Bianca Posa ........................Valley Stream, N.Y.110......Emma R. Brezel ..................Port Washington, N.Y.118......Ruth Freilich ........................Lawrence, N.Y.119......Brittany Burke......................Garden City, N.Y.120......Julia Zhuang ........................Great Neck, N.Y.125......Shanice Nadia Arthur ..........Glen Head, N.Y.143......Esther Chikvashvili ..............Melville, N.Y.144......Karen A. Serina ....................Islip Terrace, N.Y.

Sectional Girls 18 Singles—Long Island RegionRank Name............................City5..........Katherine Yau ......................Manhasset, N.Y.9..........Hannah L. Camhi..................Woodbury, N.Y.12........Shelby Talcott ......................Sea Cliff, N.Y.27........Sophie Barnard ....................Mill neck, N.Y.28........Morgan Feldman..................Glen Head, N.Y.32........Stephanie Loutsenko............Bellmore, N.Y.35........Vivian Cheng ........................Woodbury, N.Y.46........Ashley A. Masanto................Baldwin, N.Y.47........Julia Elbaba ........................Oyster Bay, N.Y. 51........Nicholle Torres ....................North Hills, N.Y.55........Taylor A. Diffley ....................Hampton Bays, N.Y.58........Alison Wang ........................Great Neck, N.Y.66........Melissa Carlay ....................New Hyde Park, N.Y.71........Theresa Smith......................Port Washington, N.Y.72........Ludmila Yamus ....................Melville, N.Y.80........Claudia M. Ruiz ....................Glen Head, N.Y.81........Missy Edelblum....................Roslyn, N.Y. 92........Aleksandra Mally..................Franklin Square, N.Y.102......Samantha Rosca-Sipot ........Malverne, N.Y.105......Erica Bundrick......................Mattituck, N.Y.107......Sunaina Vohra......................Glen Head, N.Y.113......Ashley Sandler ....................Jericho, N.Y.116......Lila B. Martz ........................Long Beach, N.Y.130......Jessica Nowak ....................Huntington, N.Y.134......Mia M. Vecchio ....................Manhasset Hills, N.Y.135......Veronika Paikin ....................Valley Stream, N.Y.148......Carly Siegel..........................Dix Hills, N.Y.

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BOYSNational Boys 12 Singles—Long Island PlayersRank Name............................City53........Ryan Goetz ..........................Greenlawn, N.Y.86........Sean Patrick ........................Oyster Bay, N.Y.103......Alan Delman ........................Great Neck, N.Y117......Finbar Talcott ......................Sea Cliff, N.Y.156......Brian Shi ..............................Jericho, N.Y.172......Rajan Jai Vohra ....................Glen Head, N.Y.211......Keegan James Morris ..........Franklin Square, N.Y.223......Patrick Maloney ..................Oyster Bay, N.Y.280......Daniel Eric Pellerito ..............Syosset, N.Y.290......Michael Medvedev ..............Oceanside, N.Y.358......Ronald P.Hohmann ..............Oyster Bay, N.Y.644......Yuval Solomon ....................Plainview, N.Y.656......Daniel Weitz ........................Roslyn, N.Y.696......James Kyrkanides................Stony Brook, N.Y.

754......Neel Raj ..............................Oyster Bay, N.Y.805......Pete Siozios ........................New Hyde Park, N.Y.930......Steven Well Sun ..................Glen Cove, N.Y.

National Boys 14 Singles—Long Island PlayersRank Name............................City34........Brenden Andrew Volk ..........Dix Hills, N.Y.43........Alexander Lebedev ..............Island Park, N.Y.180......Bryant J. Born ......................Manhasset, N.Y.205......Lubomir T. Cuba ..................Massapequa Park, N.Y.258......Eric Wagner ........................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.450......Colin Francis Sacco..............Brightwaters, N.Y.513......Palmer T. Clare ....................North Bellmore, N.Y.600......Finbar Talcott ......................Sea Cliff, N.Y.618......Athell Patrick Bennett ..........Valley Stream, N.Y.649......Chris Kuhnle ........................Shoreham, N.Y.668......Brian Hoffarth ......................Fort Salonga, N.Y.785......Sean Patrick ........................Oyster Bay, N.Y.935......Travis Leaf ..........................Dix Hills, N.Y.

National Boys 16 Singles—Long Island PlayersRank Name............................City2..........Noah B. Rubin ......................Merrick, N.Y.41........Aidan Talcott ........................Sea Cliff, N.Y.48........Samuel Lam ........................Old Westbury, N.Y.56........Josh Silverstein....................Great Neck, N.Y.77........Vihar Shah ..........................New Hyde Park, N.Y.98........Philip Daniel Antohi ..............Glen Head, N.Y.190......Ethan Bogard ......................Lido Beach, N.Y.192......Douglas Notaris....................Wantagh, N.Y.239......Alex C. Sacher......................Glen Head, N.Y.259......Zachary A. Lessen................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.291......Brandon T. Stone ..................Melville, N.Y.356......Daniel Grunberger................Great Neck, N.Y.432......Lamar Remy ........................Roslyn, N.Y. 481......Julian Alexi Zlobinsky ..........Greenvale, N.Y.567......Jeremy Dubin ......................Southampton, N.Y.568......Conor Mullins ......................Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.611......John P. D’Allesandro ............Northport, N.Y.663......Alexander Lebedev ..............Island Park, N.Y.743......Tyler J. Hoffman ..................Sayville, N.Y.780......Jared R. Halstrom ................Bellmore, N.Y.817......Zain Ali ................................Dix Hills, N.Y.833......Stanislav Korshunov ............Oceanside, N.Y.865......Joshua Williams Gordon ......Hicksville, N.Y.917......Matthew Demichiel ..............Hewlett, N.Y.

National Boys 18 Singles—Long Island PlayersRank Name............................City57........Josh M. Levine ....................Syosset, N.Y.97........Matthew O. Barry ................Lido Beach, N.Y.101......Bert Vancura ........................New Hyde Park, N.Y.125......Andrew S. Yaraghi ................Mill Neck, N.Y.132......Eric Rubin ............................Lido Beach, N.Y.134......Noah B. Rubin ......................Merrick, N.Y.212......Jensen Reiter ......................Syosset, N.Y.236......Howard J. Weiss ..................Great Neck, N.Y.347......Samuel Lam ........................Old Westbury, N.Y.467......Aidan Talcott ........................Sea Cliff, N.Y.474......Brendan Henry ....................Massapequa, N.Y.518......Alexander Schidlovsky ........Sea Cliff, N.Y.579......Kevin Katz............................Woodbury, N.Y.654......Daniel Khanin ......................Baldwin, N.Y.663......Lamar Remy ........................Roslyn, N.Y.721......Jonahiby Tauil ......................Valley Stream, N.Y.772......Ofir Solomon........................Plainview, N.Y.806......Zachary Morris ....................Garden City, N.Y.895......Eric Ambrosio ......................Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.966......Julian Alexi Zlobinsky ..........Greenvale, N.Y.

GIRLSNational Girls 12 Singles—Long Island PlayersRank Name............................City61........Claire Handa ........................Rockville Centre, N.Y.116......Hannah Zhao........................Syosset, N.Y.239......Jasmine Olivia Abidi ............Glen Head, N.Y.269......Jacqueline Rae Bukzin ........Manorville, N.Y.325......Lea Ma ................................Dix Hills, N.Y.373......Ashley Lessen......................Roslyn Heights, N.Y.420......Courtney B. Kowalsky ..........Oyster Bay, N.Y.423......Stephanie Chikvashvili ........Syosset, N.Y.502......Francesca Karman ..............Port Washington, N.Y.554......Merri Kelly ..........................Oyster Bay, N.Y.627......Celeste Wang Traub..............Jericho, N.Y.676......Josephine Winters................Elmont, N.Y.

National Girls 14 Singles—Long Island PlayersRank Name............................City97........Madison Battaglia ................Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.200......Alexa Graham ......................Garden City, N.Y.206......Isabella Pascucci..................Oyster Bay, N.Y.300......Taylor Cosme ......................New Hyde Park, N.Y.301......Shanice Nadia Arthur ..........Glen Head, N.Y.354......Morgan Herrmann................Garden City, N.Y.673......Amber Nicole Policare ..........East Atlantic Beach, N.Y.831......Esther Chikvashvili ..............Melville, N.Y.874......Mia M. Vecchio ....................Manhasset Hills, N.Y.955......Karen A. Serina ....................Islip Terrace, N.Y.977......Celeste Rose Matute ............Oyster Bay, N.Y.

National Girls 16 Singles—Long Island PlayersRank Name............................City130......Sophie R. Barnard ................Mill Neck, N.Y.247......Aleksandra Mally..................Franklin Square, N.Y.278......Vivian Cheng ........................Woodbury, N.Y.687......Sunaina Vohra......................Glen Head, N.Y.744......Paulina Tafler ......................Oceanside, N.Y.910......Nicholle Torres ....................North Hills, N.Y.942......Alison Wang ........................Great Neck, N.Y.

National Girls 18 Singles—Long Island PlayersRank Name............................City69........Julia Elbaba ........................Oyster Bay, N.Y.88........Hannah L. Camhi..................Woodbury, N.Y. 104......Katherine Yau ......................Manhasset, N.Y.194......Shelby Talcott ......................Sea Cliff, N.Y. 324......Morgan Feldman..................Glen Head, N.Y.456......Vivan Cheng ........................Woodbury, N.Y.498......Stephanie Loutsenko............Bellmore, N.Y. 602......Sophie Barnard ....................Mill Neck, N.Y.944......Ludmila Yamus ....................Deer Park, N.Y.

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Friday-Sunday, November 4-6L2R Hempstead Regional ChampionshipsHempstead Lake Indoor Tennis Center525 Eagle AvenueWest Hempstead, N.Y.Divisions: Intermediate B (14)s, SESurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Oct. 28 at 8:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 486-2165.

Friday-Sunday, November 4-6Long Beach Tennis Center Men’s Open &NTRP ChampionshipsLong Beach Tennis Center899 Monroe Boulevard • Long Beach, N.Y.Divisions: Ranked M (Op)s, FRLC; W (Op)d,FRLC, NMW (3.0-4.0)s, FRLC, NW (3.0-4.0)d, FRLCSurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $50 per player singles, $25 perplayer doubles (deadline for entries isTuesday, Nov. 1 at 11:59 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 432-6060.

Friday-Sunday, November 4-6 &November 11-13L1 Sportime Kings Park ChampionshipsSportime-Kings Park275 Old Indianhead Road • Kings Park, N.Y.Divisions: Challenger G (14)s, SESurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Oct. 21 at 5:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 484-9222.

Friday-Sunday, November 4-6 &November 11-13+L1 Point Set Eastern Designated ClosedChampionships Level 5 FICPoint Set3065 New Street • Oceanside, N.Y.Divisions: Grand Prix B (12)s, FICSurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $54.25 per player (deadline forentries is Monday, Oct. 24 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 536-2323.

Friday-Sunday, November 4-6 &November 11-13L2R Long Island Regional WesthamptonChampionshipsWesthampton Tennis and Sport86 Depot RoadWesthampton Beach, N.Y.Divisions: Intermediate B G (16-12)s, SESurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Oct. 21 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (631) 288-6060.

Friday-Sunday, November 4-6L3 Long Beach Eastern UPS ChampionshipsLong Beach Tennis Center899 Monroe BoulevardLong Beach, N.Y.Divisions: Novice BG (18-10)s, RRSurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $40 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Oct. 21 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 432-6060.

Friday-Sunday, November 4-6L2R Long Island Regional SportimeMassapequa ChampionshipsSportime Massapequa5600 Old Sunrise HighwayMassapequa, N.Y.Divisions: Intermediate G (18-16)s, SESurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Oct. 21 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 809-6458.

Friday-Sunday, November 11-13L2O Eastern Athletic Club BG 16sChampionshipsEastern Athletic Clubs9 Montauk Highway, Unit ABlue Point, N.Y.Divisions: Intermediate BG (16)s, SESurface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Oct. 28 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (631) 363-2882.

Friday-Sunday, November 11-13L2O Long Beach ChampionshipsLong Beach Tennis Center899 Monroe BoulevardLong Beach, N.Y.Divisions: Intermediate B (18-10)s, SESurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Oct. 28 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 432-6060.

Friday-Sunday, November 11-13L1 Sportime Roslyn ChampionshipsSportime RoslynLanding Road, P.O. Box 1 • Roslyn, N.Y.Divisions: Championships BG (12)s, SESurface Type: Clay IndoorEntry Fee: $45 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Nov. 4 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 484-9222.

Friday-Sunday, November 18-20L1 Sportime Lynbrook ChampionshipsSportime Tennis Lynbrook175 Merrick Road • Lynbrook, N.Y.Divisions: Championships BG (16)s, SESurface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Nov. 4 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 887-1330.

Friday-Sunday, November 18-20L1 Eastern Athletic Club BG 18sEastern Athletic Clubs9 Montauk Highway • Blue Point, N.Y.Divisions: Championships BG (18)s, SESurface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Nov. 4 at 11:59 p.m.)For more information, call (631) 363-2882.

Friday-Sunday, November 18-20L1 RWTTC ChampionshipsRobbie Wagner Tournament Training60 Sea Cliff Avenue • Glen Cove, N.Y. Divisions: Championships B (14)s, SESurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Saturday, Nov. 5 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 759-0505.

Wednesday-Sunday, November 23-27+Thankful SeniorJericho Westbury Tennis44 Jericho Turnpike • Jericho, N.Y.Divisions: Ranked M (25, 35, 50, 60-65)sd,FMLCSurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $65 for singles, $65 per teamdoubles (deadline for entries is Friday, Nov. 18at 12:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 997-4060.

USTA/Long Island Region 2011TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

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USTA/Long Island Region 2011TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

For detailed information on these and all USTA tournaments, visit tennislink.usta.com/tournaments.

Thursday-Sunday, November 24-27L1B EHIT ChallengerEast Hampton Indoor Tennis ClubP.O. Box 4149East Hampton, N.Y.Divisions: Challenger: BG (10[78’Court/Yellow Ball])s, SE; Challenger:BG (16-12)s, SESurface Type: ClayEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Monday, Nov. 14 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (631) 255-1854.

Friday-Sunday, November 25-27Huntington Championships Men’s OpenHuntington Indoor Tennis 100 Broadway StreetHuntington Station, N.Y. Divisions: Ranked M (Op)s, SESurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Nov. 18 at 11:59 p.m.)For more information, call (631) 421-0040.

DECEMBER 2011Friday-Sunday, December 2-4 & 9-11L1 Sportime Kings Park ChampionshipsSportime Kings Park275 Old Indianhead RoadKings Park, N.Y.Divisions: Championships BG (10)s, SESurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Nov. 18 at 5:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 484-9222.

Friday-Sunday, December 2-4 & 9-11L1 Sportime Roslyn ChampionshipsSportime RoslynP.O. Box 1Roslyn, N.Y.Divisions: Championships B (18)s, SESurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Nov. 18 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 809-6458.

Friday-Sunday, December 2-4L3 Westhampton Eastern UPSChampionshipsWesthampton Bath & Tennis86 Depot RoadWesthampton Beach, N.Y.Divisions: Novice BG (16-12)s, RRSurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $40 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Nov. 18 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (631) 288-6060.

Saturday, December 3L3 Blue Point Round RobinEastern Athletic Clubs 9 Montauk HighwayBlue Point, N.Y.Divisions: Novice BG (12-10)s, RRSurface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $40 per player (deadline forentries is Saturday, Nov. 19 at 11:59 p.m.)For more information, call (631) 363-2882.

Friday-Sunday, December 9-11L2 Eastern Athletic Club BPChampionshipsEastern Athletic Clubs 9 Montauk HighwayBlue Point, N.Y.Divisions: Intermediate BG (16-14)s, FRLCSurface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Nov. 25 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (631) 363-2882.

Friday-Sunday, December 9-1110U & 8U QuickStart Sportime RoslynChampionshipsSportime RoslynP.O. Box 1Roslyn, N.Y.Divisions: Quick Start BG (10[60’Court/Orange Ball], 8 [36’Court/RedBall])s, RRSurface Type: Clay IndoorEntry Fee: $35 per player (deadline forentries is Monday, Nov. 28 at 1:00 p.m.) For more information, call (516) 484-9222.

Friday-Sunday, December 9-11L1B Sportime Massapequa WinterChallengerSportime Massapequa5600 Old Sunrise HighwayMassapequa, N.Y.Divisions: Challenger B (14-12)s, SESurface Type: Clay IndoorEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Nov. 25 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 484-9222.

Friday, December 16Eastern Athletic Club Adult MixedEastern Athletic Clubs9 Montauk Highway, Unit ABlue Point, N.Y.Divisions: Ranked X (Op)d, SESurface Type: Hard IndoorEntry Fee: $35 per player (deadline forentries is Monday, Dec. 5 at 11:59 p.m.)For more information, call (631) 363-2882.

Friday-Sunday, December 16-18L3 Sportime Massapequa Eastern UPSChampionshipsSportime Massapequa5600 Old Sunrise HighwayMassapequa, N.Y.Divisions: Novice BG (18-10)s, RRSurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $40 per player (deadline forentries is Friday, Dec. 2 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 484-9222.

Sunday-Friday, December 25-30L1B Sportime Massapequa ChampionshipsSportime Massapequa5600 Old Sunrise HighwayMassapequa, N.Y.Divisions: Championships BG (14-12)s, SESurface Type: Clay IndoorEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Sunday, Dec. 11 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (516) 765-5771.

Monday-Saturday, December 26-31L1B World Gym Setauket ChallengerWorld Gym Racquet & Sports Arena384 Mark Tree RoadEast Setauket, N.Y.Divisions: Challenger BG (18-16)s, SESurface Type: Clay IndoorEntry Fee: $50 per player (deadline forentries is Monday, Dec. 12 at 1:00 p.m.)For more information, call (631) 751-6100.

Monday-Friday, December 26-30Winter Solstice at Jericho Westbury TennisJericho Westbury TennisAttn: Laura Gordon44 Jericho TurnpikeJericho, N.Y.Divisions: Ranked M (25, 40, 50, 60-65)sd, SESurface Type: UnknownEntry Fee: $65 for singles, $65 per teamdoubles (deadline for entries is Friday,Dec. 23 at 12:00 p.m.) For more information, call (516) 997-4060.

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