Tennis

The warm up before your match begins is a vital part of your game. If you have ever attended a professional match, or have a chance to watch the pros during the warm up on television, pay attention to the ...

Marco Island's Lauren Embree, a Lely High School graduate who plays for the University of Florida, has been selected by the USTA to represent the United States in the sixth annual Master’U BNP Paribas, an international collegiate team competition held ...

Lely High School graduate Lauren Embree of the University of Florida lost to Georgia’s Chelsey Gullickson, 6-2, 7-5, in the singles championship of the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional in Gainesville on Monday.

Top-seeded Lauren Embree, a Lely High School graduate who plays for the University of Florida, advanced to the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional Singles Championship on Sunday.

Florida's top-seeded and fifth-ranked Lauren Embree, a Lely High School graduate, dropped only three games in two singles victories on Saturday en route to a berth in Sunday's quarterfinal round of the USTA/ITA Regional Championships, hosted by the University of ...

For five days Everglades City area kids learned about tennis and some life lessons, thanks to members of the Players Club & Spa at Lely Resort.

Jesse Witten began playing tennis at the age of 6. It wasn’t until he was 15 years old, however, that he began taking the sport seriously. From that point, Witten, now 28, went on to win two state singles titles ...

Chase Polley, who just turned 5, makes his move. His spiked, reddish-toned hair doesn’t move as he has the latest look, but his arm whips the racket, sending the tennis ball across the net.

Regional USTA Adult League championships are on the line the next two weekends at eight sites around the Sunshine State. The Naples Grande Beach Resort is among the facilities hosting regional action. At stake are berths in the 2011 USTA ...

Petra Kvitova won her first Grand Slam title Saturday by beating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4 in the Wimbledon final.

Serena Williams has been known to say she isn't satisfied with this or that aspect of her game, even after easily winning a match, say, 6-3, 6-2.

Ariel Schneider, 13, has been gone from her Atlanta home for more than two weeks. Much of her time has consisted of hitting tennis balls ­­­— for hours.

Lely High School graduate Jesse Witten lost in the first round of qualifying for Wimbledon on Monday in Roehampton, England.

University of California’s Jana Juricova has won the Honda Sports Award as the nation’s top college women’s tennis player.

Naples' Bjorn Fratangelo became the first American boy since John McEnroe in 1977 to win the junior title at the French Open by defeating Dominic Thiem of Austria 3-6, 6-3, 8-6 Sunday.