A Frozen, Fertile Ground for Developing Tennis Players By BEN ROTHENBERG JAN. 5, 2014 COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Following tennis usually means chasing summer, with players training on sunbaked courts in Florida and California and traveling the globe in search of...
(College Park, Md.) January 8 - The Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), the world-class tennis training center in College Park, Md., today announced that Vesa Ponkka, Senior Director of Tennis at JTCC, was named Junior Tennis Champion of the Year by Tennis Industry...
The Mid-Atlantic section winners for the 15th Annual Arthur Ashe Essay Contest were selected earlier this month. National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) participants were asked to answer this question: “If you could follow in Arthur Ashe’s footsteps and ‘give back’...
The below article was written by Junior Tennis Champions Center Director of Tennis Vesa Ponkka and appeared in the Washington Post on Tuesday, August 20. The best part of this game is that it is an individual sport. You take the blame; you keep the glory. Nobody can...
She is now part of history. Alison Riske, WTA Tour player, was tabbed by the effervescent Coach Murphy Jensen to serve as an alternate for the Washington Kastles squad during their home opener on Monday, July 8. The Kastles, the gold standard in World TeamTennis...
In the fourth and final segment featuring JTCC on Good Morning Washington, reporter and aspiring tennis player Adam Caskey attempts to return Nadia Gizdova's serve. The form could use some work... [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CiN1qHoL8s&w=640&h=360]
For the third segment of Good Morning Washington's Monday, June 3 broadcast featuring Ali Agnamba, Director of Junior Champions:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_KcNn7il0Y&w=640&h=360]
In the second segment on Good Morning Washington, JTCC Senior Director of Tennis Vesa Ponkka details Game On!, JTCC's community outreach program: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEzCrBNyRYw&w=640&h=360]
In the past week, JTCC has been featured on ABC 7 (Good Morning Washington) and Comcast Sportsnet. Over the next couple of days, we will post segments from those shows. Below is a report filed by GMW reporter Adam Caskey: [youtube...