LAKEWOOD, June 30, 2025 (by Steve Pratt) Playing with supreme confidence and the knowledge that they had been there before, San Diego’s Trevor Svajda and Los Angeles’ Eryn Cayetano added more USTA SoCal Pro Series hardware to their mantels with close straight-set wins over […]
LAKEWOOD, June 28, 2025 (by Steve Pratt) After a long junior year of tennis and studies at UCLA, Anne Christine Lutkemeyer needed a break. The Hawaiian Island of Kauai came calling and Lutkemeyer answered, putting her racquets down for a week of […]
LAKEWOOD, June 26, 2025 (by Steve Pratt) Mallorca, Spain and Roehampton, England seem like a world away from the Lakewood Tennis Center, but for a few players taking part in the fifth of seven USTA SoCal Pro Series events, following the results […]
LAKEWOOD, Calif., July 15, 2024 (by Steve Pratt) The Learner Tien Express roared through Lakewood on Sunday as the 18-year-old phenom won his 25th consecutive match and fifth straight professional title on the final day of the SoCal Pro Series following […]
LAKEWOOD, Calif., July 13, 2024 (by Steve Pratt) For Tori Kinard, playing pro tennis continues to be a dream that will not die. For more than half of her life and over the past 18 years, the 36-year-old Pasadena resident […]
LAKEWOOD, Calif., July 10, 2024 (by Steve Pratt) On a day when Learner Tien made his return to the SoCal Pro Series and won his 21st straight match, he was joined by some of Southern California’s top teenagers Wednesday in moving […]
LAKEWOOD, Calif., July 8, 2024 (by Steve Pratt) It’s been said injuries are the cruelest thing to deal with in all of sports. Just ask Govind Nanda and Stefan Dostanic – and on Sunday at Wimbledon American Madison Keys would […]
LAKEWOOD, Calif., July 5, 2024 (by Steve Pratt) The SoCal Pro Series was created for players like Brandy Walker. For the sixth consecutive week the 27-year-old Walker, who grew up in Brea, has competed in ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments […]
LAKEWOOD, July 17, 2023 (by Steve Pratt) USC’s top player Stefan Dostanic saved his best tennis for last as the Irvine 21-year-old won his first ITF World Tennis Tour singles title Sunday coming back to beat Andre Ilagan in a […]
LAKEWOOD, July 13, 2023 (by Steve Pratt) USTA SoCal wild card and 17-year-old Kate Fakih overcame sweltering heat, nerves, and a more experienced opponent to advance during first-round action on Wednesday at the Lakewood Tennis Center in the final stop […]
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