The winning smiles of Wimbledon Girls’ Champions Claire Liu (L) and Usue Arconada (R) Following in the footsteps of fellow Americans Serena and Venus Williams, who won the Wimbledon Women’s Doubles on Saturday, JTCC’s Usue Arconada and her partner...
Thirteen-year old Alexa Noel pulled off a series of convincing victories on her way to the title at the International Grass Court Championships, an ITF 18U Grade 4 tournament, hosted by the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, PA. Despite being unseeded, the JTCC High...
STANFORD, Calif.- Former Cardinal standout Paul Goldstein has been named Stanford’s men’s tennis head coach, as announced today by Jaquish & Kenninger Director of Athletics Bernard Muir. Goldstein becomes the 10th head coach in school history, following a...
Junior Tennis Champions Center's Manager Wilfrance Lominy has been named one of Prince George's County's Forty Under 40, winning the Health and Fitness Award. Wilfrance Lominy is a driving force in innovation in the health and fitness community in PrinceGeorge's...
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...