Former No. 1 world tennis champion Andy Roddick will join the Austin Aces at the Cedar Park Center.[/caption]
After one year at the Cedar Park Center, the Austin Aces professional tennis team will move to Central Austin for its 2015 season.
The Aces will relocate to Gregory Gymnasium on The University of Texas campus for its Mylan World TeamTennis regular season matches, which take place July 14-29.
“From feedback we received and the analysis that was done by our front office, we felt that a relocation to a venue located closer to the center center would be in our team’s best interest,” Aces owner Lorne Abony said in a statement. “We are thrilled to have been able to find a downtown home … as the Aces work to become Austin’s premier professional sports brand and the must-attend sporting event each summer.”
Gregory Gymnasium is also home to UT’s volleyball team. The gym’s tennis configuration will seat 3,500 spectators, according to the organization. That includes space for VIP tables, court-side seating, reserved chair-back seating and general admission bleachers.
Austin resident and longtime pro Andy Roddick is expected to return to the Aces for a second season. Nine-time Grand Slam doubles winner Rick Leach will coach the team this season.
For more information about the team, visit the
Aces website.
Joe Lanane’s career is rooted in community journalism, having worked for a variety of Midwest-area publications before landing south of the Mason-Dixon line in 2011 as the Stillwater News-Press news editor. He arrived at Community Impact Newspaper in 2012, gaining experience as editor of the company’s second-oldest publication in Leander/Cedar Park. He eventually became Central Austin editor, covering City Hall and the urban core of the city.
Lanane leveraged that experience to become Austin managing editor in 2016. He managed eight Central Texas editions from Georgetown to San Marcos. Working from company headquarters, Lanane also became heavily involved in enacting corporate-wide editorial improvements. In 2017, Lanane was promoted to executive editor, overseeing editorial operations throughout the company. The Illinois native received his bachelor’s degree from Western Illinois University and his journalism master’s degree from Ball State University.
