Posted in Florida Tennis News on Aug 29th, 2007
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Playing great tennis starts at the feet. [...]
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 28th, 2007
McEnroe got a cold shoulder when he proposed setting up the John McEnroe Tennis Academy at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows. So now he’s been talking to Larry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire who spent about $200 million buying up the Casa Malibu Inn, two restaurants, and five adjacent houses on Carbon Beach [...]
Posted in Florida Tennis News on Aug 28th, 2007
Two Florida recreational tennis teams captured regional championship titles at the World Team Tennis National Qualifier in Raleigh,NC. “Prickly Pairs” of Boca Raton won the Senior 3.5 division and “The Aces” of Miami won the Senior 4.0 division. Winning teams in each division advance to the WTT National Finals, Nov/1-4 in Indian Wells,CA where they [...]
Posted in Video of the week on Aug 28th, 2007
Andy Roddick butts up!…watch here…
Posted in Florida Tennis News on Aug 28th, 2007
“…The big tennis topic on the junior tour is whether one should home-school their child. In other words, in order to keep up with the competition, parents must pull their child out of their current school. The most salient reason kids skip formal school is to have at least five hours of [...]
Posted in US/World Tennis News on Aug 28th, 2007
It is reported that James Blake is now dating the US soccer star Heather Mitts. Heather attended the ATP tennis event in Cincinnati while Blake was playing there and ESPN reported that she is now dating James. Blake previously has been dating Jennifer Scholle.
Posted in Florida Tennis News on Aug 28th, 2007
Norman Canter, who manages a number of tennis pros, is negotiating with World Team Tennis to bring a professional tennis team franchise to South Florida in 2008. Potential locations are the FAU indoor courts and the Delray Beach Tennis Center for outdoor courts. There are many current and past tennis players living in Florida who [...]
Posted in Florida Tennis News on Aug 28th, 2007
By early October, the U.S. Tennis Association plans to open a state-of-the-art, $4 million residential junior development facility on the grounds of Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton. The USTA hopes it will be the crown jewel in a strategy to revitalize the nation’s tennis farm system. For the first time, the USTA will house [...]
Posted in Florida Tennis News on Aug 28th, 2007
The United States Tennis Association gave a proposal to the city of Daytona to purchase the financially troubled Florida Tennis Center. The offer of $1.0 million is just over half of what Daytona still owes on the facility, approximately $1.8 million plus interest. The city and the USTA agreed in 2000 that the USTA [...]
Posted in Florida Tennis News on Aug 27th, 2007
Venus Williams and retailer Steve & Barry’s® announced they are creating the largest fashion collection called EleVen™. The signature item in the line is the “V-Court,” a high performance, on-court sneaker. EleVen marks Williams’ first-ever fashion line created with an exclusive retailer. Williams said the name EleVen comes from the address of the [...]
