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Easter Bowl: Driscoll, Hance stage upsets as finales near
Lucas Brown will have revenge on his mind when he takes to the courts on Thursday in the final of the Boys’ 14-and-under division at the 52nd annual Adidas Easter Bowl. The No. 3-seeded Brown of Plano, Texas, outlasted No. 15 Learner Tien of Irvine, Calif., on Wednesday, 6-4 7-5, as the semifinals were completed…
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Tien, Deming, Driscoll among those still in the hunt at Easter Bowl
A wild card into her hometown WTA tournament in Charleston, S.C., awaiting her next week, Emma Navarro was happy to return to the courts after an eight-week layoff on Tuesday at the 52nd annual Adidas Easter Bowl. Navarro, 17, the Easter Bowl No. 3-seeded player and ranked No. 22 in the world ITF rankings, posted…
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USTA SoCal Recognized as Team USA Developmental Section of the Year
With the nation’s best coaches gathered together at the sixth annual USA Coaches Awards and Reception at the 52nd Adidas Easter Bowl, USTA Southern California Player Development Manager Trevor Kronemann proudly accepted the 2018 Team USA Developmental Section of the Year award. “You’re only as good as your team and we really have a…
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McBride Enjoys Seven-Match Winning Streak at Irvine ITF Event
After a seven-match winning streak at the recent Irvine Level 4 ITF event, 17-year-old Jordyn McBride simply ran out of gas during Adidas Easter Bowl qualifying. “The past two weeks have been a highlight, for sure,” said McBride of Valencia. “I don’t play a lot of ITFs, but these last two tournaments have been exhausting…
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Future Bruin Baird Continues Winning At Calabasas
It hasn’t taken high school senior and future UCLA Bruin Drew Baird very long to become acclimated to the Southern California hard-court surface and surroundings. Baird advanced to the semifinals of the ITF World Tennis Tour $25,000 Calabasas Tournament taking place this week at the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Center. Baird, 18, was given a…
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Adidas Easter Bowl Gets Underway In Desert
Seventeen-year-old Elli Mandlik hasn’t played a junior tournament in 2019, instead focusing her attention on the ITF professional World Tennis Tour. That will all change next week as Mandlik leads an impressive group of top American junior tennis players entered in the 52nd Annual Adidas Easter Bowl. The Florida resident Mandlik recently had a nine-match…
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First FLEXit Tournament begins April 8, spots limited!
This spring, USTA Southern California launches our first FLEXit Tournament! It’s a tennis tournament on YOUR time. We’ll put the draws together, and you’ll contact your opponent to arrange the match time and location. You’ll have a week to do it – after work, before church, while the kids are in school – whenever…
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Wheelchair Coaches’ Workshop set for March 29
The USTA will host a Coaching Development Workshop for Wheelchair Tennis on Friday, March 29 beginning at 9am. The event will be held at Marguerite Tennis Pavilion in Mission Viejo, and lunch is provided for attendees. Please note that USPTA credit is available for this workshop, which features USTA National Manager and Team USA Head…
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Top Seeds Broady, Kozlov Open With Wins At Calabasas
Yet another big Southern California professional tennis tournament continued on Tuesday with qualifying and five first-round matches completed at the long-standing and popular Calabasas Tennis & Swim Club $25,000 ITF World Tennis Tour event. Top-seeded Liam Broady and No. 2 Stefan Kozlov both opened with convincing main-draw singles wins dropping of a total of five…
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USTA Adaptive Tennis Grant Available – Apply Now!
The 2019 USTA Adaptive Tennis Grant is NOW OPEN! The grant is offered to all USTA registered adaptive tennis programs in the United States that have been in existence a minimum of one year. Grants are intended to assist in the promotion, implementation, and/or growth of the programs at the community level, and range…