Djokovic’s Choice Of Racquet Is The Perfect Stocking Stuffer For Your Tennis Player
December 18, 2011 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
Novak Djokovic really improved his game this year and become the World’s No. 1 Player. How did he do it you might ask. Practice? Conditioning? Why play with a new and improved racquet, of course. Djokovic played 2011 with the second generation HEAD YouTek Speed racquet in his hand. Something that may have helped give [...]
Peer Moves Along In The First
August 30, 2011 by Richard Kent · Leave a Comment
There are few tennis players in New York more popular this week than Shahar Peer.And Peer is not even an American. The no. 24 seed is an Israeli.New York has a heavily Jewish population and many of them come out to Flushing Meadows on an annual basis to cheer her on. It worked on Tuesday at beautiful [...]
Hall Of Famer, Tennis Legend Bjorn Borg Returns To New York To Replace Injured Jimmy Connors, Takes On John McEnroe In July 14 World TeamTennis Match At Sportime Randall’s Island
July 9, 2011 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
NEW YORK (July 7, 2011) – Tennis Hall of Famer Bjorn Borg will step in to replace fellow tennis legend Jimmy Connors to face long-time rival John McEnroe in a World TeamTennis match on July 14 at Sportime Randall’s Island. Borg and McEnroe will compete against each other that night when the defending Eastern Conference [...]
Odds of a Federer Reemergence
November 11, 2010 by Tennis Ledger Staff Reports · Leave a Comment
With the frenetic pace of which a tennis match is played, most athletes barely get a foothold in the “professional” rankings before their careers are derailed by injury or simply a natural aging process which causes them to lose a proverbial step and fall behind the competition. Roger Federer, undoubtedly one of the best tennis [...]
ATP Launches Art Series
September 27, 2010 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
LONDON, ENGLAND – The ATP has commissioned the world’s top tennis players to create a series of one-of-a-kind self-portraits in celebration of their qualification for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, to be played at The O2 in London from 21-28 November. The world’s leading players used their tennis skills to create individual masterpieces by [...]
Edberg, Courier, Safin, and Chang Headline Field at Grand Cayman
September 13, 2010 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
NEW YORK, September 13, 2010 – InsideOut Sports & Entertainment today announced that Stefan Edberg, Jim Courier, Marat Safin and Michael Chang will headline the field at the 2010 The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman Legends Championships to be held November 5-7 in Grand Cayman. Former U.S. Davis Cup standouts Aaron Krickstein and Jimmy [...]
Celebrity Tennis Premieres Tomorrow
January 31, 2010 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28, 2010 – Tennis Channel, the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle, will premier original series Celebrity Tennis, Monday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 pm ET. The half-hour show is hosted by film, television actor and commentator of The World Poker Tour, Vince Van Patten, [...]
Prince Introduces New Lightspeed Footwear Series to Tennis Players
January 21, 2010 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
January 21, 2010 – Bordentown, NJ, – Prince, a global leader in performance tennis equipment, announces the arrival of Lightspeed footwear for competitive players. Designed to be lower, lighter and faster, Lightspeed models feature sleek silhouettes on a low-profile platform that keeps a player’s center of gravity low for enhanced balance, agility and responsiveness on [...]
Sharapova’s Loss May Be More Than A Bad Day
January 18, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
Don’t weep for Maria Sharapova. Don’t shed a tear for her, the same way you didn’t cry for Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, or even Conan O’Brien. These are rich celebrities, who make more money than any of us commoners would dream about. And in Maria’s case, she just signed an extension of her Nike deal [...]
Recreational Tennis Players Increasingly Disillusioned with High-Tech Strings
September 18, 2009 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
Ashaway, RI — Perhaps it’s a function of the aging demographic in the recreational tennis market, or a function of the economic downturn, or perhaps it’s a combination of both, but according to Steve Crandall of Ashaway Racket Strings, players seem disenchanted with today’s high-tech, high-end strings, and are increasingly turning to softer playing, more [...]


