Regional Digest Tedoldi Tops Field In Suffield Amateur Qualifier Innisbrook to host USTA event encouraging college tennis players stay in school Wait Times for U.S. Visas Are So Crazy You Wouldn't Believe them if they Weren't Published by the State Department Video Shaping New Tennis Stars From Clay Jacksonville youngsters get a successful introduction Is all that buzz twittering around positive thing Pat McEnroe won't support Young until apology Panorama News Patrick Donald Apologize Names and Faces Arnold Palmer 2011 French Open Wild Card Playoff April 2022 Spain appeals USTA's choice of surface Davis Cup quarterfinal FourHour Marathon Highlights Day 4 Action at International Spring Championships Court notes Marquee matches set Announces Deadlines US Natio

Rob Tedoldi Jr. (Tallwood) shot a 1-under-par 71 Monday at Suffield Country Club to lead qualifying for the Connecticut Amateur. Michael Kelly (Greenwoods) was a stroke back as 24 players who finished at 77 or better qualified for the amateur June 20-24 at Rolling Hills CC in Wilton. … Ryan Preece was stripped of his third-place finish and dropped to 13th in the Whelen All-Amercan Series SK Modified race at Stafford Motor Speedway last Friday after his car was found to be 10 pounds over the limit. Woody Pitkat was awarded third place. … Russell Einbinder of Roxbury defeated Hunter Lathrop of South Londonderry, Vt., 6-1 Sunday to win the 18-year-old division in a USTA event at the East Hartford Tennis Club. … George Svirsky, who bought his first season tickets when the Giants played at the Polo Grounds and has held them for about 60 years, was named one of 10 winners in the Ultimate Giants Fan Contest on Facebook. Svirsky, 91, was joined by contest winners Bill Bradley, Tina Lester, Hilary Stolz, Monique Titus, Ed Magenheimer, Brian Revfi, Adam Mihan, Adrian Gennusa and Paul Crowe. Winners received photo tickets, locker nameplates, jerseys and ... Innisbrook Resort will serve as host for a $10,000 men's tennis event from June 24-July 3, featuring 32 singles players and 16 doubles teams. Patrick McEnroe won more than $3 million in his 10-year professional tennis career. He also helped Stanford win two NCAA team titles before earning ... Would you believe that foreigners wishing to vacation in the U.S. must sometimes wait for as long as 128 days for an appointment to be interviewed with respect to their application for a U.S. visa? Mind you, they are not required to wait 128 days for the visa to be issued, but 128 days for an appointment to discuss their application for such a visa. Before I prove that outlandish figure, let me first discuss why it is important. Incoming tourism is the largest export industry of the United States. It has the same economic impact as the manufacture of a machine within the U.S. to be sold to a foreign purchaser; it brings money into the United States. It has been estimated by the U.S. Travel Association (USTA) that the difficulty in obtaining visit-U.S. visas by would-be incoming tourists every year robs the U.S. of $860 billion and nearly 1.3 million tourist-associated jobs (in hotels, restaurants, sightseeing buses and attractions, shops). The U.S. State Department actually publishes a list of the wait times at U.S. embassies and consulates overseas, for an interview to apply for such a visa (in those countries where the requirement of ... Watch a video about a young tennis prospect working through the U.S. Tennis Association's new training regime, which includes greater emphasis on clay courts. A fun-filled season-ending celebration last Thursday marked the closing of a successful first season of 10 and under USTA Junior Team Tennis in Jacksonville's public parks. Ninety-eight children from the tennis parks at Burnett in Mandarin, Southside and Boone in Riverside-Avondale participated in the program, which was organized by the Jacks Youth Tennis Association in partnership with JaxParks. read more Someone once said any publicity is good publicity. If that's true, the U.S. Tennis Association is living the dream. First, there was Spain's ... Offended by American tennis player Donald Young's expletive-laden rip on the USTA via Twitter, Patrick McEnroe responded with a pointed comeback of his own, saying the 21-year-old would need to apologize before the USTA did anything more to support him. On Friday Donald Young directed a curse-filled message at the USTA on his Twitter after falling to Tim Smyczek in the final of the USTA French Open Wild Card Playoff. "F*** USTA! Their full of s***! They have screwed me for the last time!" Right afterward Young tweeted: "That tweet was out of character. ive [...] Donald Young The 21-year old American tennis player, who posted an expletive- laden rip on the United State Tennis Association via Twitter on Friday after he lost in the final of a six-man USTA qualifier for the French... The USTA announced on Wednesday that six men and six women have been invited to participate in its 2011 French Open Wild Card Playoffs, held April 20-22 at the Boca West Country Club in Boca Raton, Fla.  The USTA and the French Tennis Federation have a reciprocal agreement in which men’s and women’s singles main [...] The Davis Cup quarterfinal tie between the USA and Spain is nearly three months away, but the heat already is on. The Spanish Tennis Federeration ... After a marathon four-hour, 15-minute match in windy conditions at the ITF Grade I event being played at the Home Depot Center, Pomona’s Gabby Andrews was victorious over San Diego’s Christina Makarova recording a 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-6 (4)  win in what could be billed as the match of the tournament. Asked what she [...] Houston's Mike Russell, the second-oldest player in the ATP's top 100, plays Igor Andreev of Russia in the 6 p.m. feature today, and it should serve as great inspiration for the many Houston-area juniors who will be attending at River Oaks' invitation. The evening will feature a demonstration of the USTA's new 10-and-under program utilizing QuickStart, with the downsized court and lighter equipment. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March 31, 2011 â€" The USTA announced today that registration will close next week for the first two 2011 US Open National Playoffs Sectional Qualifying Tournaments held in the USTA Southwest and USTA Eastern sections. The registration deadline for the USTA Southwest tournament, held in Scottsdale, Ariz., April 14-17, is Monday, April [...] ASTA has applauded the report of the Blue Ribbon Panel for Aviation Security that has been operating under the auspices of the United States Travel Association (USTA). The report, was entitled "A Better Way: Building a World Class System for Aviation Security". The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the voice of the $340 billion annual business travel industry, issued a response to the call for a Trusted Traveler Program included in the "Roadmap to New Air Travel Security Screening System in United States" introduced by the U.S Travel Association (USTA)... The first lady, Michelle Obama, is teaming up with tennis's first couple, Andre Agassi and Stefanie Graf, in a partnership between the United States Tennis Association and Obama's "Let's Move" campaign to fight childhood obesity. (02-26) 07:32 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Obama administration froze all Libyan assets in the U.S. held by leader Moammar Gadhafi, his government and four of his children and abandoned the American Embassy in Tripoli in... Police raided Soner Yalcin's news website headquarters after it posted a video allegedly discrediting officers investigating the network Police on Monday searched the premises of a dissident news website and detained its owner over possible links to an alleged secularist network accused of conspiring to topple the Turkish government. Police raided the Istanbul headquarters of the Oda TV website and the homes of its owner, journalist and author Soner Yalcin, and three colleagues, lawyer Serkan Gunel told reporters. Yalcin was later detained for questioning, the Anatolia news agency reported. Turkish news reports said the raids came hours after Oda TV posted a video that allegedly discredited police investigating the network. One of the most prominent defendants is Mustafa Balbay, a columnist for pro-secular Cumhuriyet newspaper and a government critic, who has been in jail for more than two years. Turkish journalist groups decried Monday's raid as an affront to press freedoms and free speech. "This raid isn't against Oda TV, it is against press freedoms," said Atilla Sertel, who heads the Turkish Federation of Journalists. The group said police confiscated the website's computers as well as journalists' documents and notes. The Istanbul-based Turkish Journalists' Association said the raid was the latest ...
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