USTA Eastern's Southern Region 

USTA Eastern Southern Region organizes all USTA tennis programs throughout seven counties in New York State: Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester, plus Southern Connecticut (Greenwich). 

News

• Multiple Southern Region-based players scored big wins at the 2025 NTRP National Championships.
• Longtime volunteer and former staff member Sandy Hoffman was honored as the 2024 USTA Eastern Tennis Woman of the Year. Read our profile.
• Former Army head coach Jim Poling was posthumously honored as the 2024 USTA Eastern Leslie J. Fitz Gibbon Tennis Man of the Year.
• The Rockland Community Tennis Association was named the 2024 USTA Eastern Organization of the Year.
• Two Southern Region-based players captured a title at the 2024 NTRP National Championships.
• Janet Lefkowitz, a local adaptive tennis legend who serves as the tennis director for the Greenburgh Parks & Recreation Department, was honored as the Tennis Woman of the Year at USTA Eastern's Annual Awards Dinner on January 28, 2023. Read our profile.

Upcoming Events

Information will be posted here as it becomes available.

The Southern Region Team

Adult League Coordinators

• Amy Guttman - guttman@eastern.usta.com (Westchester/Rockland Counties)
• Kate Jennings - jennings@eastern.usta.com (Westchester/Rockland Counties)
• Fiona Strachan - strachan@eastern.usta.com (Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties)

Community Tennis Coordinator

• Eric Cruz - cruz@eastern.usta.com

Southern Region Council

Officers:

• Peter Krasinski, Regional Council Director
• Ben Thompson, Vice Chair
• Khayot Narzikulov, Junior Competition 
• Igal Katan, Adult Competition
• Zuka Mukhuradze, Coaching
• Elisa Tertulien, DEI
• Leaf O'Neil, Junior Council Lead

• Matt Anastasi
• Michele Arbogast
• Johnny Benoit
• J. Calungcagin
• Urvashi Gupta
• Sandy Hoffman
• Rokhsha Michael-Razi
• Dennis Zaide

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