Sacramento Capitals marquee player, Mardy Fish, the top ranked American at No. 9 in the world, cancelled his appearance at the Capitals home match Friday night against the Newport Beach Breakers. Friday was scheduled to be his only appearance for the Capitals this season. 29 year old Fish has suffered from an abdominal muscle injury for weeks, since the first round of the French Open. He was reinjured Sunday during the Davis Cup Quarterfinals loss against Spain.   Despite the absence of Fish, the Capitals managed a 13-9 halftime lead, winning the men’s singles and women’s doubles, but losing the men’s doubles. The second half saw Anne Koethavong of the Breakers easily defeat Capital Vania

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 tennis team will be returning to its more centralized Sunrise Mall venue from the Roseville Galleria this year, and it’s bringing more amenities and seating to its 2,500-capacity temporary stadium. The team has been around for 26 years, winning six championships while playing at different Sacramento-area venues. Capitals General Manager Matt McEvoy said the team will be playing at Sunrise Mall, at the corner of Sunrise Boulevard and Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, for the next five years. “We’re bringing the team closer to home,” he said, adding that the Capitals played at the Roseville Galleria from 2006-2010. The move to the Galleria was to secure a five-yea

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 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

An article in the SacBee today discusses a Legislative Analysts’s suggestion that junior colleges either drop PE classes, or that the colleges be paid less to offer them than the level of state funding provided for classes that are deemed more academic in content. These are the one-unit classes that are offered in subjects such as golf, tennis, and bowling. The inference is that these classes are not worthwhile and don’t deserve to be subsidized at the same level as other classes. This seems like an odd standard to apply. As the article points out, students wanting to graduate or transfer are typically required to have one of these classes. What the article doesn’t point out is that that