The Washington Kastles will play their 2019 season here.
That’s D.C. United coach Ben Olsen stunting in the background of this team photo following a Washington Kastles charity event last night at Kastles Stadium in Southwest Waterfront.
The Washington Kastles have had a busy winter for a professional tennis team. They recently acquired the services of Venus Williams to bolster a squad that already had won last year’s WTT championship, and traded for the first pick in the WTT draft (with which they chose American Bobby Reynolds). Now, we know exactly when we will get to see both Williams Sisters take the court at Kastles Stadium. Venus’ lone home match this…
The Washington Kastles — defending World Tennis Team champions, mind you — announced a big move today: both Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, will play for D.C.’s WTT outfit this summer. “The historic opportunity to have both Serena and Venus on our team is a thrill, both for the success of our team and for our fans, whose support has been so integral to our success,” said team owner Mark Ein. World number one…
It’s sadly not often that a Washington team wins a championship, so you might as well get down. A large collection of tennis aficionados did just that on Sunday night, after witnessing the Kastles overcome a late charge by the Springfield Lasers to win the WTT title and the King Trophy, 23-20. Since the WTT experience at its core is a jovial one, attendees were already in a good mood despite the sweltering heat and…
The Washington Kastles tennis match last night against the New York Sportimes was surprisingly not sold out, but did come with everything you would expect from a match featuring John McEnroe. In men’s doubles, the Kastles had Scott Oudesma and Leander Paes on the court against McEnroe and Robert Kendrick. During that match, though, it was Mac’s teammate who went a little crazy (although Johnny was never too far from the action). Paes accidentally hit…
When the number of matches a team is scheduled to play at home over the course of an entire season numbers only seven, and among those, only one will include said team’s “star player,” it’s tough not to be cynical about exactly what purpose that star is filling. Are D.C. fans really supposed to feel a connection to Wimbledon champion Serena Williams, or is she just being offered up as added enticement to buy tickets?…
Astros 5, Nationals 0: Less than twenty-four hours after cranking out 13 runs on 21 hits, the Nationals couldn’t muster up a single run in defeat yesterday afternoon.
Nyjer Morgan (right) is congratulated by Ronnie Belliard after scoring the winningrun to finish a game that had been previously suspended. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan). Nationals 11, Astros 10(Game 1): If only they could start every game with a runner on first and the score tied in the bottom half of the last inning, then the Nats might win a few more. Plenty of crazy baseball oddities in this one, the completion of the May…
Most of the excitement, such as it was, about last night’s poorly-attended match between the Washington Kastles and St. Louis Aces vanished when the main attraction, former star Anna Kournikova, was sidelined by a wrist injury. Or, at least, that would be true if the WTT was really about tennis, which it is not. Party tennis is right: the tour is obviously more entertainment than sport, focused on giving away T-shirts and Chipotle gift certificates…
