TAG: USTA
By Scoop Malinowski As usual, there was an abundance of distinguished competitors this year at the 2025 Masters Clay Courts Longboat Key, a USTA sanctioned Category 2 national tournament contested from Dec. 1-7 at five different venues on Longboat Key. One competitor was President Jimmy Carter’s tennis coach in Camp David – Kenneth Fugate. Another […] Continue to read full article...
By Scoop Malinowski Status: Chairman of the Board and President of USTA. Former ATP player ranked no. 64. Scored career wins vs Fernando Gonzalez, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Tommy Robredo, Michael Chang, Vince Spadea, and also a doubles win with Andy Roddick vs the Bryan Brothers in Washington DC. Ht: 6-0 Wt: 180 Born On: July […] Continue to read full article...
Andre Agassi · Andy Roddick · BNP Paribas Open · Brian Vahaly · Michael Chang · US Open · USTA
The USTA and US Open have decided to make some radical changes to the mixed doubles event later this year. Sets will be to four games in the severely altered Grand Slam event. 16 teams will compete with eight based on singles rankings and eight wildcards. Former Grand Slam champion and Australian Open tournament director […] Continue to read full article...
Fan Week · Mixed doubles · US Open · USTA
Frances Tiafoe has decided to make a coaching change and will no longer use the services of Diego Moyano. Tiafoe parted ways with Wayne Ferreira at the end of 2023 and hired Moyano but the partnership did not produce any notable results this year. In 2024 with Moyano, Tiafoe has a 10-8 match record and […] Continue to read full article...
By Johan Kriek Waiting to watch the Dimitrov versus Sinner final at the Miami Open…. Just thinking back to the times I played at Key Biscayne etc. and listening to the “Fanduel” ad even spouted by the commentator on TV. Amazing…. How far we have come.. or fallen. The betting companies never came close to […] Continue to read full article...
American tennis · Lake Nona · Orlando · USA · USTA
Feb/24
4
When Billie Jean King Snapped At A Ballboy
11 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Articles, Scoop
We all know tennis can be excruciatingly stressful and tense and even the coolest, most admired legends of the game can have a bad moment of judgement they would later regret. Even Billie Jean King, the pioneer hero and sort of godmother of tennis, was not always an angel on the court in the heat […] Continue to read full article...
Billie Jean King · Boston · International Tennis Hall of Fame · USTA · Virginia Slims · Wimbledon · WTA
Oct/23
27
Junior Tennis “Waste of time and money”
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A top coach of a world ranked 15 year old with a WTA ranking just inside the top 1000, dropped a bombshell about the value or international junior tennis… “99 out of 100 adult players who played ITF juniors will tell you it was a waste of time and money. So far, we did not […] Continue to read full article...
ITF · Junior Tennis · USTA
Feb/23
27
It All Happened At The Larry Turville Grand Prix National USTA Tournament
14 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Articles, Scoop
By Scoop Malinowski Playing in the Raymond James Super Senior Larry Turville Grand Prix National USTA Level 2 Tournament at the St. Petersburg Tennis Center provided more thrills and excitement than I could have imagined. In no particular order, there was a Grand Slam finalist working as a volunteer at the tournament assigning courts and […] Continue to read full article...
Five Teenagers Among Eight Quarterfinalists Advancing On At Second Annual Rancho Santa Fe Open USTA Women’s Pro Circuit $80,000 Continues All Week With Semifinals Saturday and Finals On Sunday At Rancho Santa Fe Tennis Club Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. – October 6, 2022 — To get a glimpse at the future of the WTA and […] Continue to read full article...
Alexandra Eala · ITF · Rancho Santa Fe · Rancho Santa Fe Open · Robin Montgomery · USTA
A parent/coach of a prominent American junior tennis players expressed some alarming complaints about how the USTA operates business for junior tennis tournaments in Florida… “Fifty years ago it was because of the love of the game somebody would do a job to run junior tournaments. Now it is for love of the wallet or […] Continue to read full article...
Florida · Junior Tennis · USTA
