Four players who trained at the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), the area’s world-class tennis training facility in College Park, Md., will be competing in the upcoming Citi Open tennis tournament at the William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center. The tournament...
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No Riske, No Reward
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...
Kudla v. Murray in Wimbledon Final?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei7TCPVqSzk&w=640&h=360] Did you listen carefully to Andy Murray's post-match interview? After chucking the proverbial monkey off his back and with the weight of a country off his shoulders, an exhausted Murray detailed...
Kudla receives wild card entry for Citi Open
WASHINGTON—July 3, 2013—Denis Kudla, the Washington Metropolitan Area’s homegrown promising tennis star, today received a wild card to compete in the main draw of the Citi OpenSM, the capital tennis tradition and ATP World Tour 500-level tournament. The tournament...
Kudla falls to Dodig in second round at Wimbledon
Denis Kudla caught the Wimbledon injury bug. During a changeover in the third set against No. 49 in the world Ivan Dodig, the cameras zoomed in on Kudla as he was noticeably wincing in pain. A couple of brief stretches did not provide the remedy so a trainer was...
Kudla second round Wimbledon preview
Denis Kudla will take on Ivan Dodig in the second round at Wimbledon tomorrow. They are scheduled as the last match on Court 17. Play on Court 17 starts at 11:30 AM local time (6:30 AM EST). Last Meeting The two have not met previously. Tale of the Tape (2013 Stats)...
Kudla Wimbledon Primer
Adjust your alarm clocks accordingly. Denis Kudla, JTCC alum, will make his Wimbledon debut tomorrow at 6:30 AM EST (11:30 GMT). Kudla will take on Australian James Duckworth on Court 5. Last Meeting The two met for the first time last year (May 7, 2012) in Rome in...
JTCC players win five out of eight titles this weekend
The unseeded status did not faze Justin Boulais. In the Beltway Battle Boys' Final yesterday at the Tennis Center at College Park, JTCC's Boulais defeated No. 2 seed David Sun, 6-0, 6-3. The lefty was the clear aggressor in the first set. He was adamant in taking...
Baptiste and Akli to meet in Beltway Battle Finals
29 straight. No, this is not a memoir of the remarkable regular-season winning streak by the Miami Heat. But similar to the Heat, the odds-on-favorite has title aspirations. In the first two rounds of the Beltway Battle at the Tennis Center at College Park, No. 1...