From the hardcourts of Guatemala City to the hardcourts of Fountain Valley’s Los Caballeros Racquet & Sports Club in Fountain Valley, Max McKennon of Newport Beach enters play at the 117th annual Southern California Junior Sectionals as the player to beat. Top-seeded in the Boys’ 18-and-under singles division, McKennon is coming off a combined 8-1…

If there is to be a contender in the sport of tennis to the traditions and aura of Wimbledon, you can find it by turning inland from Ventura and going about 25 miles into peace and quiet. You drive through Casitas Springs, where a sign tells you was “The Home of Johnny Cash,” and soon…

COLLEGE TENNIS SPOTLIGHT: Emma Higuchi Emma Higuchi doesn’t know any other feeling than ending a college tennis season playing on the sports’ grandest stage. The Hollywood resident recently concluded her junior season winning her second consecutive national title as a key singles contributor for the Stanford University women’s team holding down the No. 6 spot.…

Despite experiencing international junior tennis in such places as Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Colombia to start the year, Maxi Duncan never misses the opportunity to play Southern California’s biggest events. The 16-year-old lefty from Irvine is one of the nation’s top juniors and will try to win her second consecutive USTA Southern California Junior Sectional…

  The USTA Southern California Junior Sectional Championships return to Orange County June 19-23, 2019. Billed as “Southern California’s most competitive junior tennis tournament of the year,” nearly 900 athletes will take part in a tournament that has proven to be a stepping stone for some of the game’s most prolific names, including past competitors…

  Applications are now being accepted for the Victor Stern Scholarship Grant. The Victor Stern Grant is designed to support juniors between the ages of 8 and 18 who demonstrate academic and athletic promise, aspire to play competitive tennis at the collegiate or professional level, or to compete in national or sectional tournaments. The recipient…

JUNIOR SPOTLIGHT: Ian Freer Ian Freer knew the CIF-Southern Section Individual Championships singles draw was missing a few of SoCal’s top players, including winners of the past two Ojai Boys’ Interscholastic singles titles from Irvine powerhouses Woodbridge and University in Stefan Dostanic and Aditya Gupta, respectively. But that did nothing to diminish the fact that…

The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men’s and women’s tennis team got as far as they could, but both came up just a little short in their quests for NCAA Division III Championships. Playing at Stowe Stadium on the campus of Kalamazoo College, the Stags held a 3-2 lead over Emory, which rallied for a 5-3 decision as the…

Gold, silver and bronze USTA national balls were handed out to a special group of women senior tennis players at the recently concluded USTA National Women’s Senior Hard Court Championships played at the prestigious La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club. It was a matchup of the top two seeds in the 50-and-over division as No.…

Both the top USC women’s and UCLA men’s doubles teams are favored to get at least to the final round of the upcoming NCAA Doubles National Championships, if the seedings hold true. Trojans Angela Kulikov and Rianna Valdes have been tabbed the No. 1 seeded team on the women’s side, while Bruins Max Cressy and…