Having already played all over the world at a young age, Adrien ‘AJ’ Abarca has had a far more varied tennis experience than most players his age. Despite his experience and his success in the sport at age thirteen, Abarca has a firm head on his shoulders and a steady set of targets for himself…

Being a first-generation American, born into a family with no connection to the sport, it seems unlikely that Ivan Thamma would one day be an elite college tennis player. However, Ivan found tennis and has been immersed in the sport since he was five years old. Eventually, Ivan worked his way to a full-ride scholarship…

It doesn’t matter much that Kelly Seidenkranz has never played in a tennis tournament before. When she takes to the courts to compete in the annual 2022 Donate Life Transplant Games in San Diego, what matters more is that Seidenkranz will be playing at all. The 51-year-old from Canyon Country is an example of a…

After eight years as an Assistant Coach at the University of San Diego, Nadia Abdala was named Head Coach of the Toreros in June 2022. The Mexico City native started her career at age four, influenced by her mother who was a huge tennis fan. Despite growing up in soccer crazy Mexico, Nadia defied the…

Jeffrey Lee of San Diego County had a twenty-year gap between tennis matches. Having played the sport as a hobby with his wife many years ago, he was unable to pick it up regularly due to his condition of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (O.I.) Many years later, as his condition worsened and Lee made the decision to…

The LA84 Foundation held its annual Play Equity Summit this summer in Los Angeles, welcoming an array of guests including Olympic and professional athletes who helped to amplify the organization’s underlying message of increasing awareness of the power of sport, especially for children from underprivileged and minority backgrounds and neighborhoods in LA. A longtime strategic…

– Amory Park will be hosting a drop in round robin on the 4th starting at 7:30 am. Space limited to the first 12 players. – Summer Cycle 2 begins Tues, July 12th, keep you and your child’s progression moving in the right direction – “Live Ball’ training at Amory daily 10-11:30 am – Summer…

The USTA Foundation, the charitable arm of the United States Tennis Association, has awarded grants totaling nearly $3 million to 155 National Junior Tennis & Learning chapters (NJTL) nationwide, including 14 programs located right here in Southern California. The grants are designated to support under-resourced youth through tennis and education programs designed to improve health,…

Later this year, the trifecta of USTA Southern California, the LA84 Foundation, and the LA City Department of Parks & Recreation will launch a collaboration with the State of California to implement the California Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant, a large step toward increasing access to sports for children of lower income backgrounds. Andy Schwich…

There was never a moment during Hudson Rivera’s recent long three-set quarterfinal match against August Holmgren that he didn’t feel like he had a chance to upset one of the best players in all of college tennis. Just days after winning his first ATP ranking points and two rounds of singles as a wild-card entry…