The Sacramento Capitals hosted the Boston Lobsters Wednesday evening in a World Team Tennis match at Sunrise Mall. Prior to the match, Sacramento was in a three-way tie for first place in the Western Conference standings, sharing the spot with the Kansas City Explorers and the St. Louis Aces. Kansas City and St. Louis were playing each other on Wednesday, so it was clear that at least one team would finish the day in second place. As Sacramento and Boston took the court, the announcer told the crowd that St. Louis had won their match. It was Sacramento's chance to hold onto a share of first place. The first four of the five events went to tiebreakers and Sacramento led the match 19-17 goi

The World Team Tennis (WTT) Kansas City Explorers, with the current World No. 1 Doubles Team of Bob and Mike Bryan, recently came to challenge the Sacramento Capitals. The new stadium at the Sunrise Mall was sold out on July 12. Tennis fans came to see Bob and Mike Bryan play against their dad, Coach Wayne Bryan of the Capitals. Bob and Mike Bryan are twin brothers who, unless they’re on the court, you really cannot tell apart. World Team Tennis players have their last names on the back of their team uniform and having “Bryan” on both of their backs did not make things any easier. The one sure way to tell them apart is that Mike plays right-handed and Bob is left-handed. Mike and Bob go

The World Team Tennis (WTT) Pro League returned to Sunrise Mall July 8 for the first home match of the 2011 season. The Sacramento Capitals played in front of a sold-out crowd. This year’s team includes world class players Mardy Fish, Vania King, Mark Knowles, Dusan Vemic, Christina Fusano, Nick Monroe and Sacramento’s own Yasmin Schnack. Wayne Bryan coaches the team. The Sacramento Capitals have now been part of the WTT for 26 years. Along with the growth of tennis all around the country, fan support has grown over the years. This year, nine teams make up the 2011 WTT Pro League season, sponsored by GEICO. The short season runs from July 4 to July 24. Friday night, the New York Sporti

Serena Williams showed her championship style before a sold-out World Team Tennis crowd at the 2500-seat Sacramento Capitals stadium on Saturday night. The 13-time Grand Slam singles champion helped lead the Washington Kastles to a 21-18 come from behind victory over the Capitals. The evening started out rough for the 29-year-old Williams along with her mixed-doubles partner Leander Paes who quickly got behind to veteran Capitals player Mark Knowles and newcomer 23-year-old, Elk Grove resident, Yasmin Schnack. In the fifth game of the set, as the home crowd chanted Yasmin, Yasmin…, Schnack aced the 4-time Wimbledon champion on game point to go ahead 3-2 in the set, and later pounded a ret

The Sacramento Capitals defeated the Philadelphia Freedoms 23-19 in overtime Sunday night, keeping their hopes of earning a coveted playoff spot alive. Tennis legend Billie Jean King was also on hand to help celebrate the Cap's 25th Anniversary.  The Capitals have won six King Trophies, more than any other team, and are looking to add another WTT Championship in 2010. For more information and tickets please visit:  Sacramento Capitals Match Results: Men's Doubles: Mark Knowles\Dusan Vemic (Capitals) def. Prakash Amritraj\Ramon Delgado (Freedoms) 5-3 Women's Doubles: Vania King\Riza Zalameda (Capitals) def. Noppawan Lertcheewakarn\Courtney Nagle (Freedoms) 5-3 Men's Singles: Ramon Del

The Sacramento Capitals moved into first place in the Western Conference of the World TeamTennis league after defeating the St. Louis Aces 22-19 Wednesday evening at the Roseville Galleria stadium. The match featured the Aces’ Lindsay Davenport, a former Capital and women’s number one tennis player. Davenport played in the mixed doubles, women’s doubles and women’s singles sets. Davenport took an early lead in the women’s singles set, pulling ahead 3-0 over Sacramento’s Vania King. King rallied, winning four games in a row before Lindsay tied the set at 4-4. King finally prevailed 5-4 (5-3 tiebreaker). The opening mixed doubles set gave St. Louis an early advantage when Aces Davenport an

Driving down the road on East Roseville Parkway going north towards Roseville’s Westfield Galleria I nearly got into a car wreck. About two blocks from the Galleria, on a 3 car lane section of the Parkway I was trying to make my way across an intersection during a green light. Out of nowhere, a car making a right onto E. Roseville Parkway (on a red light) casually moved across all 3 lanes to pull up right in front of me. I was going about 45 mph (or whatever the speed limit was) and I had to step on my brakes as if I was stomping on a cockroach in the middle of the night. I did not hesitate and slammed on my brakes. My car swerved, I heard my brakes making a loud screech and saw (out of my

The Sacramento Capitals opened their 2010 season Monday evening at the Galleria in Roseville. The World TeamTennis event featured Sacramento’s Michael Chang, a 2008 inductee to the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Sacramento was defeated by the Newport Beach Breakers, losing four of five matches with a final score of 24-16. World TeamTennis events consist of a fast-paced format with five sets per match. Each game is scored as one point, with the final accumulation determining the winner of the match. Theoretically, a team could lose the first four sets and still win the match in the final set. The mixed doubles match opened the warm evening, with Capitals rookies Riza Zalameda and Bret