Category: Tennis business

  • Boys’ and Girls’ ITF Easter Bowl Singles Final To Be Contested at IWTG

    Boys’ and Girls’ ITF Easter Bowl Singles Final To Be Contested at IWTG

    A new wave of top American junior tennis players has risen to the forefront this week and will be on display one final time during Championship Sunday in the Boys’ and Girls’ ITF division at the iconic 52nd annual Adidas Easter Bowl taking place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Left-handed, 14-year-old No. 14 seed…

  • Mandlik, Damm to Face Off In Boys’ 18s Easter Bowl Semis

    Mandlik, Damm to Face Off In Boys’ 18s Easter Bowl Semis

    Saturday’s Adidas Easter Bowl semifinal opponents Mark Mandlik and Martin Damm both had opening-set wins before letting down to lose the second and then coming back to win in three sets and advancing to the final four in the Boys’ ITF 18s singles division of the USTA Spring National Championships taking place at the Indian…

  • La Canada’s Driscoll Wins National Easter Bowl Title

    La Canada’s Driscoll Wins National Easter Bowl Title

    Losing early-round matches in past Adidas Easter Bowls proved motivating factors for Thursday’s big winners as coveted boys’ and girls’ 14s and 12s USTA Gold and Silver balls were handed out to finalists at the 52nd annual event taking place at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Ethiopian-born Tsehay Driscoll of La Canada Flintridge, Calif., erased…

  • Easter Bowl: Driscoll, Hance stage upsets as finales near

    Easter Bowl: Driscoll, Hance stage upsets as finales near

      Lucas Brown will have revenge on his mind when he takes to the courts on Thursday in the final of the Boys’ 14-and-under division at the 52nd annual Adidas Easter Bowl. The No. 3-seeded Brown of Plano, Texas, outlasted No. 15 Learner Tien of Irvine, Calif., on Wednesday, 6-4 7-5, as the semifinals were completed…

  • Tien, Deming, Driscoll among those still in the hunt at Easter Bowl

    Tien, Deming, Driscoll among those still in the hunt at Easter Bowl

      A wild card into her hometown WTA tournament in Charleston, S.C., awaiting her next week, Emma Navarro was happy to return to the courts after an eight-week layoff on Tuesday at the 52nd annual Adidas Easter Bowl. Navarro, 17, the Easter Bowl No. 3-seeded player and ranked No. 22 in the world ITF rankings, posted…

  • USTA SoCal Recognized as Team USA Developmental Section of the Year

    USTA SoCal Recognized as Team USA Developmental Section of the Year

      With the nation’s best coaches gathered together at the sixth annual USA Coaches Awards and Reception at the 52nd Adidas Easter Bowl, USTA Southern California Player Development Manager Trevor Kronemann proudly accepted the 2018 Team USA Developmental Section of the Year award. “You’re only as good as your team and we really have a…

  • McBride Enjoys Seven-Match Winning Streak at Irvine ITF Event

    McBride Enjoys Seven-Match Winning Streak at Irvine ITF Event

    After a seven-match winning streak at the recent Irvine Level 4 ITF event, 17-year-old Jordyn McBride simply ran out of gas during Adidas Easter Bowl qualifying. “The past two weeks have been a highlight, for sure,” said McBride of Valencia. “I don’t play a lot of ITFs, but these last two tournaments have been exhausting…

  • Future Bruin Baird Continues Winning At Calabasas

    Future Bruin Baird Continues Winning At Calabasas

    It hasn’t taken high school senior and future UCLA Bruin Drew Baird very long to become acclimated to the Southern California hard-court surface and surroundings. Baird advanced to the semifinals of the ITF World Tennis Tour $25,000 Calabasas Tournament taking place this week at the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Center. Baird, 18, was given a…

  • Adidas Easter Bowl Gets Underway In Desert

    Adidas Easter Bowl Gets Underway In Desert

    Seventeen-year-old Elli Mandlik hasn’t played a junior tournament in 2019, instead focusing her attention on the ITF professional World Tennis Tour. That will all change next week as Mandlik leads an impressive group of top American junior tennis players entered in the 52nd Annual Adidas Easter Bowl. The Florida resident Mandlik recently had a nine-match…

  • First FLEXit Tournament begins April 8, spots limited!

    First FLEXit Tournament begins April 8, spots limited!

      This spring, USTA Southern California launches our first FLEXit Tournament! It’s a tennis tournament on YOUR time. We’ll put the draws together, and you’ll contact your opponent to arrange the match time and location. You’ll have a week to do it – after work, before church, while the kids are in school – whenever…