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The World Team Tennis New York Buzz posted their third win Tuesday night, this one coming against the Boston Lobsters, who had 18-time Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova playing for them. But her 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles didn't help against Alex Domijan and Sloane Stephens, who managed to beat Navratilova and James Aukland 5-0 to open the match. Stephens and Mallory

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Thursday, July 16th at noon EDT is the deadline for entering the USTA National Championships. Every year it seems there is a player or two who would have been selected if only he or she had entered. But because they "forgot" to enter, they must ask for a wild card, and the USTA rarely awards them for that circumstance. If you want to play the Nationals, enter, via the TennisLink site. Now. It's

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Marcia Frost has already posted an article on this theme over at College Tennis Examiner, and I've come across even more collegiate success stories today. I received some photos by email from Brandon L'Heureux, a Dallas-area teaching pro who attended the $50,000 Women's Pro Circuit event in Grapevine, Texas. Although there were no college players in the women's final (Canada's Valerie Tetreault

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Although the U.S. Davis Cup team took a disappointing loss to Croatia this weekend, there was one big American winner from it. Former Illinois player Rajeev Ram, a lucky loser who got into the Campbell's Hall of Fame Championships in Newport, Rhode Island when Mardy Fish withdrew to fill in for Andy Roddick in Croatia, won his first ATP singles title with a 6-7(3), 7-5, 6-3 victory over No. 3

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In this month's Coaches Q & A, we tap the expertise of Andy Brandi and Harold Solomon of the Harold Solomon Tennis Institute in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on a very controversial topic in professional tennis today.The recent focus on the noise made by Michelle Larcher de Brito, Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams during competiton came to dominate much of the conversation about

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As I tweeted earlier today, Sloane Stephens, one of the amateur juniors comprising the World Team Tennis New York Buzz, had a very special moment last night when she defeated Venus Williams of the Philadelphia Freedoms 5-3. The Schenectady Daily Gazette, which has done a great job covering the team, calls it a "pinch-me" win for Stephens, in this article. Madison Keys did not play for the

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In my weekly story today for the Tennis Recruiting Network, I talk to Allie Will about her decision to attend the University of Florida. Although she decided on the Gators last year, it wasn't until recently that she committed to joining the team for the upcoming school year. She was very excited about playing college tennis as preparation for pro career. Florida's athletic site had this story

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Who isn't blogging from the Davis Cup in Croatia? Patrick McEnroe and hitting partner Ryan Harrison are blogging for usta.com this week, and the other hitting partner Devin Britton, who posted entertaining entries from Wimbledon for the USTA, has agreed to keep his racquet company, Prince, up-to-date on the goings-on in Porec. (I think you may need a Facebook account to read Britton's entries).

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Thanks to a Twitter follower, I learned of this excellent Washington Post story on the use of Twitter in college recruiting. I posted a couple of articles about this back in May, but I learned some new rules from this one. One of them was that Twitter's Direct Message system, which is private communication between two Twitter accounts, is not regulated by the NCAA. This means text messaging

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Before we leave Wimbledon behind for another year, I want to give a big public thank you to Guy McCrea for his fantastic efforts in getting information about the U.S. juniors competing there to me every night. With his Wimbledon Radio duties increasing this year, he had every reason to bow out, but instead he took the time to send photos, comments and audio, often after a very long day on the

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Not much that I can add to the conversation after watching the longest fifth set in Grand Slam singles history. It was a phenomenal match that looked as if it might never end and it will define the 2009 Championships. Qualifier Jordan Cox had won his own epic 16-14 final set match on Friday to reach the boys championship, but on Sunday he could not find the serve that had helped him beat Devin

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Serena Williams wasn't the only 2008 Wimbledon finalist to step up to the championship today. Thailand's Noppawan Lertcheewakarn became the first junior slam winner from her country when she fought back against top seed and World No. 1 Kristina Mladenovic of France for a 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 victory. And as she tells Guy McCrea in the above interview, she's hoping to match Serena's two titles when she

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The third set in the Wimbledon boys semifinal between Americans Devin Britton and Jordan Cox was such a classic that even ESPN and NBC, who regularly ignore the Junior Championships, gave it a few seconds of exposure on their coverage Friday. That's attention a 6-3, 6-7(5), 16-14 score will produce.Cox was in control of the match from the beginning, breaking Britton in the second game of the

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My article this week for The Tennis Recruiting Network is the First Thursday standby of the notable players and performances of the previous month. There are several repeats from May's aces, and one of them is Devin Britton, who has followed up his NCAA win with ITF Junior Grade 1 titles in singles and doubles on the grass of Roehampton. Britton's success has continued this week at Wimbledon,

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Top seed and French Junior champion Daniel Berta was pushed aside by unseeded American Alex Domijan today in the third round of the Wimbledon junior championships. Defending girls champion Laura Robson failed to last as long as Andy Murray this year at the AELTC, as the 15-year-old left-hander was stunned by unseeded Quirine Lemoine of the Netherlands.Domijan dominated today, taking out Berta 6-

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Devin Britton, the 2009 NCAA champion as a freshman at Ole Miss, will not be returning to college tennis this fall. In a story that Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim first broke on Twitter earlier today, the 18-year-old has signed with Octagon, the sports management company. Wertheim, who is at Wimbledon, has reported that Britton has been a very hot prospect this week, with agents flocking to

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It was almost complete reversal of Saturday's results--U.S. juniors won seven of the eight first round singles matches they played today (one was suspended due to darkness), but Melanie Oudin's run came to an end at the hands of Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska. The 11th seed didn't dominate Oudin, but she played the big points more steadily and her experience and court savvy earned her a second

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Thanks to Ken Thomas and radiotennis.com, I was able to fill the quiet middle Sunday of Wimbledon listening to the second set of the Pearson Ford Open in Indianapolis. Dennis Nevolo, who just completed his freshman year at the University of Illinois, was the No. 1 seed and had breezed through his first four matches. He was up against unseeded 30-year-old Javier Llanes of Argentina in the final,

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Seventeen-year-old American qualifier Melanie Oudin earned her first victory over a Top Ten player with a 6-7(8), 7-5, 6-2 decision over former world No. 1 and No. 6 seed Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in Saturday's third round at Wimbledon, and New York media has taken notice."American teen Melanie Oudin stuns Wimbledon with upset of Jankovic" says Filip Bondy of the New York Daily News, a

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2009 NCAA Champion Devin Britton came from a set down, winning a third set tiebreaker to capture the ITF Grade 1 in Roehampton today. The unseeded Britton, who last year won the International Grass Courts in Philadelphia, beat No. 10 seed Facundo Arguello of Argentina 5-7 6-2 7-6(7). He and Jordan Cox then returned to the courts for the doubles championship and it was another U.S. victory with

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My weekly article for the Tennis Recruiting Network is a profile of Grass Court champion Raymond Sarmiento. Sarmiento shares his memorable encounter with Andre Agassi (who has just held a press conference about his participation in World Team Tennis with the Philadelphia Freedoms, joining Madison Keys on the roster) and his thoughts on the recruiting process that is in his near future.Today at

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Yesterday was not a good day for British tennis; at the completion of Wimbledon's first round, only 2 of the 11 British players (nine wild cards, two direct entries) had won their opening matches. No. 3 seed Andy Murray, of course, was one of them, the other was Elena Baltacha, whose win over Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine prevented the worst British showing ever. As it was, 2009 now matches the

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The USTA announced this afternoon that 18-year-old Devin Britton and 17-year-old Ryan Harrison have been named practice partners for the upcoming Davis Cup tie in Croatia next month. The U.S. Davis Cup team has not yet been announced, and although it would be a shock if it didn't include Andy Roddick and the Bryan twins, I expect Patrick McEnroe is contemplating naming someone other than James

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Tennis ingenues Laura Robson and Michelle Larcher de Brito captured most of the women's headlines as Wimbledon opened today. Robson took the first set from Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, but double-faulted her way out of contention in the next two sets, while Larcher de Brito was unexpectedly quiet in her 6-2, 7-5 win over Klara Zakapalova of the Czech Republic. Tennis.com's Steve Tignor is at

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Ester Goldfeld will have a WTA ranking when they are released on Monday (update: it appears it will be after Wimbledon before her points are added), now that the soon-to-be 16-year-old from Brooklyn has gained points in her third Pro Circuit event. At the $10,000 event in Brownsville, Texas, Goldfeld reached the singles final as a qualifier, winning six matches before finally falling to No. 1

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