Growing a champion

Long Island Tennis Magazine and New York Tennis Magazine have assembled an incredible slate of speakers for the First Annual New York Tennis Expo, set for Sunday, April 28 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y.

It all started with a phone call from Nick Valvano, the CEO of the V Foundation and brother of the late, great Jim Valvano. When Nick called and said he wanted to give more awareness to cancer research down in my area in Florida, he proposed a small ...

Little did Jim Tucker know that he would gain insight to his life's calling while watching an afternoon television show. This was the late 1950s, and television was a relatively new form of entertainment and means of communication. People around the ...

MANATEE COUNTY -- The Gio brothers are readying themselves for a restaurant makeover that will make their casual dining restaurants more fabulous and affordable. Gio Fabulous Pizza & Martini Bar is poised to makeover its two existing Manatee County ...

Volatile parents have long posed a problem for tennis. Jim Pierce, Damir Dokic and Arsalan Rezai are among those who have received extended bans for abusive behaviour. It remains unknown if John Tomic will end up on that ignominious list, but Tomic, ...

All eyes were on the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sunday, April 28 as Long Island Tennis Magazine and New York Tennis Magazine hosted the First Annual New York Tennis Expo. One may have mistaken the U.S. Open was in town, as cars ...

Open Court is CNN's monthly tennis show. Click here for program times, news, videos and features. (CNN) -- She towers above him, but she can't do without him -- so much so they even email each other up to 75 times a day. From the time they met 15 ...

Read more in Porsche News 11 Views Comments Let's Discuss this in Forum Tennis star Maria Sharapova has now been roped in as brand ambassador for Sports car maker Porsche AG. The cooperation is initially signed for three years and involves a global ...

Victoria Duval is only 17, but she has seen a lot during her short life. Born in Miami to Haitian parents who are both physicians, the family moved back to Haiti when she was an infant. At age 7, Duval and her cousins were briefly held hostage by ...