After College

A quick scroll through your Twitter feed will likely bring the same disappointing, heartbreaking news - college tennis programs are being cut. Gabriella Hesse, a Tennis For America fellow at the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC), wants to see...

Somdev Devvarman's career has seen multiple big wins. There is Carlos Moya, Ivo Karlovic, Marin Cilic in 2009 at tournaments in Chennai and Washington; Marcos Baghdatis, Milos Raonic, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in 2011 at Indian Wells, Miami and Belgrade respectively....

Armed with a dozen or so forms, a vision and a plan, in 2013, Sloane Stephens began to realize the dream that she started during kitchen chats and phone calls with her longtime best friend, and Sloane Stephens Foundation...

The new Tennis for America service year will place AmeriCorps VISTA members across the country to utilize their extensive tennis backgrounds and academic credentials to add significant value to the organizations that are making important progress fighting poverty and...

Dr. Brian Hainline has helped guide the sports industry through one of the most complex pandemics in the world. During times of crisis people look for the calm, insightful, leadership from true experts whom they can trust. Dr. Brian Hainline...

On Wednesday, eight former collegiate tennis players came together - albeit virtually - to begin their year of service to our country.  The inaugural class of Tennis For America fellows attended the ITA Tennis For America Virtual Orientation where they...

I grew up in Germany. My mom’s German. My dad’s from Ghana, West Africa and he put a racquet in my hand when I was three. My parents split up when I was five and it became like a source...

** Updated: Friday, June 5, 2020 ** Collegiate tennis seasons abruptly ended this spring due to COVID-19, and in-person graduations that normally would take place in May couldn't happen. Some seniors are choosing to return to school for another year. Others played...

In the fall of my sophomore year at TCU, after a standard Thursday night out at the bars, I made my way back to my dorm. We all had a pretty big night and definitely a couple too many. I...

By Colette Lewis Introducing a nationwide pilot program in collegiate athletics would be daunting enough under normal circumstances, but now Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Dave Mullins has the added challenge of implementing the Tennis For America initiative in the midst of...