The Friday Edition

Welcome to the Friday, May 9th edition of the Tennis Recruiting Network. This week, we allow players to link to news articles at the Tennis Recruiting Network. Also available - new TennisRPI Lists for the girls.

Website News

Articles at TennisRecruiting.net

by Dallas Oliver, 9 May 2008

The Tennis Recruiting Network is excited to announce its newest feature: links to external articles from player profiles.

Players with Recruiting Advantage memberships can now submit links to articles from other websites - like school and local newspapers. Many players and parents have been asking for this feature for quite some time, and we are excited to go live with this feature this week.

Example Profile With Articles

As an example, take a look at Melanie Oudin's profile. Scroll down and look at the news section - notice that some of the articles come from other websites. If you click on the More News link, you will see articles coming from other websites towards the bottom.

To link to a news article, just link to your player profile, click the Update link on your profile, and then click on News & Videos to get started.

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Special Feature
A Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker Tom Pura
by Colette Lewis, 8 May 2008

Tom Pura is a tennis parent, a Harvard grad and a Wall Street retiree. He is not, as he would be the first to tell you, a movie producer. But several years ago, Pura decided that if he wanted to chronicle the tennis life of his 13-year-old son TJ, it was up to him to become one. Colette Lewis talks with Pura about his resulting documentary, entitled 50,000 Balls.

Full Article

Tournament Feature
Fournier, St. Louis Juniors Go Deep at Interscholastics
by Jeff Sikes, 7 May 2008

Taylor Fournier (Leawood, Kan.), Alexandra Lehman (St. Louis) and Andrew Mellow (St. Louis) led the seven-player USTA Missouri Valley junior contingent at the USTA Interscholastic Championships - East, with each of those three reaching the semifinals or better.

Full Article

Special Feature
NCAA Tournament Roundtable
by TennisRecruiting.net, 5 May 2008

Today may be Cinco de Mayo, but the month of May is tournament time for college tennis. The first and second rounds of the NCAA Division I Tennis Championships start on Friday. We invited some of our college tennis contributors from around the country to weigh in on the Big Dance of college tennis.

Full Article

Tournament Feature
2008 Muterspaw Wrap
by Julie Wrege, 2 May 2008

The Andre Aggasi Charitable Foundation has put on the Muterspaw Championships for eight years, and each year it gets more popular - drawing more applicants from all across the United States. This year, the tournament champions hailed from Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

Full Article

Special Feature
April Aces
by Colette Lewis, 1 May 2008

Most of the aces this month are juniors who competed in the major California hard court events, but several others scored big on clay in Texas, Florida, Mexico and Italy.

Full Article

Enter a player's name to find an athlete:

Class of 2011 - Girls
1st	N. Gibbs
2nd	S. Stephens
3rd	E. Tsay
4th	E. Goldfeld
5th	L. Herring
6th	E. Bektas
7th	S. Santamaria
8th	G. DeSimone
9th	B. Niu
10th	M. Turewicz
Complete List

Page updated on Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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