Monthly Archives: June 2020
Midwestern State Women’s Tennis Answers Call to Fight Illiteracy
Community service is engrained in the identity of the Midwestern State Women’s Tennis program. The Mustangs have actively volunteered in Wichita Falls, Texas for...
Growing Champions of Life
Armed with a dozen or so forms, a vision and a plan, in 2013, Sloane Stephens began to realize the dream that she started...
Dominant Tennis, Courtesy of Dick Gould
For many years, Stanford’s tennis players had the benefit of a man who was sure, before many others were, that they could be the...
A Collegiate Model in Crisis: The Crippling Impact of Schools Cutting Sports
By Ross Dellenger and Pat Forde
In August 2016, after Clayton Murphy became the first American man to win an Olympic medal in the...
Lessons From A Legend – Dick Gould [Coaches Podcast]
Coach Dick Gould is truly a college tennis coaching legend. As the head men’s tennis coach at Stanford for 38 years his teams won...
Official Net of the ITA Now Available to Coaches
Earlier this year, 10-S Tennis Supply became the Official Court Equipment Provider of the ITA. As part of this partnership, the ITA and 10-S...
Cal Freshman All-American Haley Giavara on Her 2020 Season [Podcast]
This Cracked Racquets podcast interviews Cal Freshman All-American Haley Giavara and her coach/uncle Ken Giavara, to discuss Haley’s 2020 season, how her developmental path...
Tennis for America Launches in Sites Across the Nation
The new Tennis for America service year will place AmeriCorps VISTA members across the country to utilize their extensive tennis backgrounds and academic credentials...
ITA All-American Senior Spotlight: Riley Smith, USC
By Arthur Kapetanakis, USTA.com
Though the college tennis season was cut short, the ITA still named its All-America teams for the 2020 campaign. USTA.com caught up with...
Michigan’s Andrew Fenty Hops on the Cracked Interviews Podcast
This Cracked Racquets podcast interviews Michigan's Andrew Fenty, Big Ten Men’s Tennis Player of the Year, and 2020 Singles and Doubles All-American. Andrew discusses...