The 2016 ITF Super Seniors World Team Championships are taking place from September 12-17 in Umag, Croatia. The ITF Seniors World Individual Championships will be held the 18-25 of September, […]
King Van Nostrand won the 80 singles over his doubles partner Peter Froelich (AUS) by default (the match was scheduled for tomorrow), but Peter and King won the 80 doubles […]
King Van Nostrand will be looking to add two gold medals to his team gold when he goes for his 11th world singles title tomorrow. Seeded a lowly 8th, he’s […]
The ITF Individual Championships in Croatia started this week. This is the first time I’ve been able to stay and play the individuals & it’s been a very busy and […]
Update Sunday: USA won the bronze in Men’s 65 & gold in Women’s 75 thus winning 3 gold and 2 bronze overall. The USA Doris Hart Cup beat Great Britain […]
65s: The USA Britannia Cup team beat Sweden 3/0 to advance to the semifinals on Friday in Umag. Their match tomorrow will be live streamed. Here is the live stream […]
One note before today’s results are discussed: the draws are out for the individual world championships and can be found here: http://www.itftennis.com/seniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100035782 Sheila Weinstock writes from Umag for the USA […]
The Women’s 65s Kitty Godfree Cup team had the day off today. Actually a lot of teams had time off due to heavy rain. We took this opportunity to see […]
Individuals Just a quick summary of the past week — the ITF Individual World Championships. Many of the team players remained in Umag to play in the Individuals, while others […]
Today the Women’s 65s Kitty Godfree Cup team had the honor of playing our semifinal match against Australia in the Goran Ivanisevic Stadium Court. It was a beautiful setting on […]
The Women’s 65s Kitty Godfree Cup Team achieved their first goal by completing the Round Robin play undefeated. We played a very friendly Canadian team with the following results: Toni […]
The USA is into the medal rounds in the Men’s and Women’s 65, 7 & 80 divisions after round robin play concluded Wednesday in Umag. 65s: The Kitty Godfree Cup […]
Sue Bramlette writes: As I watch the sun set over the Adriatic Sea, I report to you another successful day for the Women’s 65s Kitty Godfree Cup Team. We defeated […]
USA teams went 6/0 on Tuesday in Umag and dropped few games and no sets. On Wednesday the round robin portion of the event concludes, and once the knockout portion […]
The USA Althea Gibson Cup (W70) team faced a tough adversary on Day 1, last year’s finalists, Great Britain. Betty Wachob started the team off with a win but Frances […]
Sue reports from Umag on Day 1 of the ITF Super Senior Team Championships: It was another warm day in Croatia where the Kitty Godfree team competed. Early this morning […]
It’s Sunday evening in Umag, Croatia, where the Kitty Godfree team had a good practice in the morning and then enjoyed a trip into the village of Umag. It was […]
The 2017 ITF Super Senior World Team Championships begins tomorrow, September 12th, in Umag, Croatia and finishes on September 17th. The USA has eight teams participating in age divisions 65-80. […]
Umag Croatia Sue Bramlette is blogging for the USA Kitty Godfree Cup team (women’s 65) this week. The ITF Super Senior World Team Championships are being held this week in […]
ITF Young-Seniors World Team and Individual ChampionshipsVenue: Cape Town, South AfricaDates: 19 March – 01 April 2017Teams: Sunday 19 March – Friday 24 March 2017Individuals: Saturday 25 March – Saturday […]
The big news today was that Kerry Ballard and I actually played a doubles match! It so flummoxed us that we nearly lost the first set (due in large part […]
I played the semis of the singles in Bordeaux against Christiane Deryckere today and won 60 64. The second set Christiane played very well…aggressively with few errors and she moved […]
I had the day off today but like any nerdy senior player, I headed off to the club pretty early to watch and practice. I warmed up Ross Persons for […]
Wednesday brought cooler weather to Bordeaux and even some scattered thunderstorms. I played Gisela Heinold of Germany. She was much better than the woman I played yesterday. In fact she […]
Bordeaux was pretty toasty today, it felt like summertime where I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley of California, only a bit cooler. (Yes, it was a dry heat). […]
Yesterday I flew from Barcelona to Bordeaux (travel tip: take the train!) along with several other players from Barcelona, mostly Aussies. The flight was fine and the tournament director, Bruno […]
I played the singles final tonight against Carmen Perea who is a very nice player. I won 62 63 and it was a good match, as Carmen is an extremely […]
Kerry Ballard and I are the 2016 W60 doubles champions in Barcelona, and we never had to take the court for a match! To recap: We entered 60 doubles We […]
Today is Thursday; the tournament began Monday and so far I have played one match. It’s a good thing I have had Heide Orth and Kerry Ballard to practice with! […]
I played my first round match in Barcelona tonight. Checking in was chaos! Players were there early but there was no way the organizers were going to allow players on […]
