Category: Tennis business

  • San Diego Meets The ED in Town Hall Series

    Friends of the San Diego tennis community visited La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club in September for the first in a series of meet and greet forums with Lance Lee, the new Executive Director of the Southern California Tennis Association. In a town hall format hosted by the club’s owner and SCTA Board member, William…

  • Tie-Breakers And Unseededs Rule Second Day Of Los Cab Futures

    Four Doubles Quarter-Finals And Six Second Round Singles Matches Set For Thursday Seven tie-breakers, including five in the final sets of matches, were played Tuesday in the 16 singles and doubles matches at the Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures $15,000 tennis tournament at Los Caballeros Racquet and Sports Club.’ Germany’s Adrian Oetzbach won a second-set…

  • Redondo Beach And Former UCLA Player Continues Socal Tennis March

    Four Singles Quarterfinals And Doubles Final Set For Friday In Fountain Valley Professional Event Karue Sell may have been born and raised in Brazil, but he’s taken quite a liking to Southern California, as the Redondo Beach and four-year UCLA player has won 20 straight matches in his last two tournaments in Claremont and Fountain Valley. Thursday, at…

  • Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures Event Down To Final Four

    Injury Forces Doubles Team Of Past And Present UCLA Bruins To Withdraw From Finals Since turning professional in early June, Ronnie Schneider has made the finals of four USTA Futures doubles championships, winning three. His latest win, at the Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures event in Fountain Valley Friday, was by far his easiest. He…

  • Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures Singles Final Set For 11 A.M. Sunday

    Former University Of Virginia And University Of North Carolina Stars To Face Off Ryan Shane is no stranger to singles championships on the USTA Men’s Futures tour, competing in three, including winning two, since 2015. It’s foreign ground for Ronnie Schneider, however, who has won three doubles titles since turning pro in June, but has…

  • UNC Product Wins First USTA Men’s Futures In Fountain Valley

    Ronnie Schneider Topples 2015 Winner Ryan Shane In Three Sets It was a fine two weeks in sunny Southern California for Ronnie Schneider, a 23-year-old Indiana native and recent graduate of the University of North Carolina: he won two USTA Men’s Futures doubles championships and claimed his first singles championship Sunday by defeating Ryan Shane…

  • Local Junior Earns Entry Into 15K Professional Tennis Event In Fountain Valley

    Singles Qualifying Begins Sept 22; Main Draw Starts Sept. 26 San Juan Capistrano’s Gavin Spencer won the singles and doubles titles this week in a junior tennis tournament held in Fountain Valley to win slots in both the singles and doubles main draw in the Los Cab USTA Men’s Pro Futures tournament, which will be held…

  • Top Seed Upended In First Round Of Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures

    Eight first round singles and four first round doubles matches set for Wednesday Top seeded Takanyi Garanganga of Zimbabwe, who lost in the finals last year, was defeated by Belgium’s Michael Geerts in the first round of singles play in the Los Cab USTA Men’s Futures $15,000 tennis tournament at Los Caballeros Racquet and Sports…

  • LA84 hosts Youth Sports Summit on October 27

    The LA84 Foundation will host their Sixth Annual Summit, “The New Era of Youth Sports: Play For All“, on Friday, October 27th. Hosted at the JW Marriott at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles, the Summit will bring together hundreds of civic leaders, sports executives, non-profit leaders, national sports experts, and Olympic and Paralympic athletes…

  • Vickery Wins Central Coast Pro Open

    Sachia Vickery needed just over one hour to beat fellow 22-year-old Jamie Loeb, 6-1, 6-2, and become the first-ever singles champion as the inaugural Central Coast Pro Tennis Open came to a close on Sunday. Controlling the points and displaying precision shot-making from both the forehand and the two-handed backhand side, No. 4 seeded Vickery…