Brief weather report: the sun was observed in Karlovy Vary today and the temperature was pleasant. I played Lyn Mortimer from Australia again today. She played very well, I escaped […]

I had today off from singles, but got up early and warmed Ellen Neumann up for her singles. Then I checked out the match between Polyakova, who I beat yesterday […]

The good news was that the rain only lasted a short while today and my match was only an hour later than scheduled.There wasn’t much bad news, only that temperatures […]

Click here to see the draws.   The week of June 24th I am playing an ITF Tournament in Karlovy Vary (aka Karlsbad or Carlsbad) Czech Republic, in the western […]

Saturday morning was my last day in Poertschach. I was to meet with Ellen and Lutz Neumann to go to Munich and then on Monday to Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad in […]

It was another 90 degree day in Austria and a nice day for tennis, as a breeze came up midday. I played my doubles partner, Gundula Weiland, in the final. […]

Yes, it was warm again today, 90. (Here’s the weather forecast.) I tried was warming up at the Werzer Cups but the officials there aren’t very player friendly, they chased […]

I had a day off today from the tournament, so I went to another venue, the Leonstein courts which are about a five minute walk from my hotel or a […]

I am playing a tournament in Austria this week. Here are links to the draws and the blog posts. Here’s the link to the draws. Here’s a link to the […]

Draw for the Werzer Cup in Austria. Sunday I took the train all day to Portschach, Austria from Baden-Baden Germany. I left Baden-Baden at 7:52am and by 9:15 had changed […]

Today was a 50/50 day…I won the singles over Lyn Mortimer 61 76 (1) and we lost the doubles to Lyn and Sabine Schmitz 26 64 1/0 (8); we played […]

It was a beautiful day here (though right now at 10:30pm it’s raining pretty hard…just a thunderstorm type of rain I think). It was about 80 and there were a […]

Today I had my first round match, the round of 16 against a German player, Marion Von Gerlach. She moved well and ran down a lot of dropshots…enough so that […]

Here’s the draw: http://www.itftennis.com/seniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100027878 Roz King finished a great week with wins in singles and doubles in Poertschach. She beat Lyn Tietz, USA, in three tight sets and combined with […]

Today was a relaxing day, I hit early and watched quite a few matches, trying to get a feel for the tactics on the clay. The clay here is pretty […]

Yesterday, Friday, was a quiet day. I did play tennis finally in the late afternoon with the Club Vice President. We drove to the Country Club about 10 minutes away, […]

  Click the links below for my blog posts from the ITF Tournament in Baden-Baden Germany. The draws have been posted here:http://www.itftennis.com/seniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100027837 (click on “order of play” then the appropriate […]

I am off to Germany for the European Open Senior Championships in Baden Baden. This is the third time I have played this event and it’s a nice venue. The […]