The top seeds prevailed in all three finals played Sunday at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. Tony Bujan’s title in men’s 40 singles was his third in as […]
Neel Grover and Peter Smith won the 40 Men’s doubles over Willie Quest/Jared Jacobs, a 5-8 seed in three sets, upholding their #1 seeded position. After winning the first set […]
On a very busy day at the 40 Hard Courts in La Jolla, but again under sunny skies and warm weather, Amy Frazier won her first seniors gold ball, beating […]
Today was a day of comebacks from the brink of defeat, overwhelming victories and in the end a gorgeous sunset. The weather was California Tourist Bureau perfect, with a few […]
The only negative to such sunny days is that it’s hard to see in the afternoon! However, I played singles in the morning and got on a bit late but […]
The seeds began play today at the 40 Hard Courts and there was some good tennis! I won my match (the woman I played was recovering from abdominal surgery though…) […]
Order of Finish-Women’s 35 1st Place- Southern 2nd Place- Southern Cal 3rd Place- Texas Order of Finish-Women’s 45 1st Place- Florida 2nd Place- Southern 3rd Place- Mid-Atlantic Order of Finish-Women’s […]
The Hard Courts started today. As usual, the tournament is impeccably organized by Conan Lorenzo, Bill Kellogg, Pierrette Featherby and tournament referee Ralph Anderson and their cadre of volunteers and […]
Yesterday I wandered again in Green and Hyde Parks and down to Regent Street to see the lights, which were turned on Sunday night. It was an interesting display…a digital […]
Changing of the Royal Guard at Buckingham Palace happens every other day during the winter months and Sunday was one of those days. Last time I tried to see this […]
Saturday was a busy one in London. I was lucky enough to get to play tennis in London with Anne Clark (thank you Anne), Pauline Fisher and Pat Wire. No, […]
It was about views of London today. It wasn’t raining and there was some blue sky, so I decided to to up to the top of the “Shard”, the tallest […]
Southern Wins 55s Southern swept the singles behind wins by Diane Barker over Tina Karwasky, Sue Bartlett over Tracey Thompson and Lee King over Colleen Clery Ferrell. In the 3/4 […]
The National Senior Women’s Website will go live on or before Nov 14 2015. The website address is http://www.NSWTA.org. Members can find the directory online and more. For questions contact […]
Update 55s Semis results are below. Southern cruised to a win over Texas, while SoCal had to win both doubles to book a trip to the final in an intra-California […]
You know you aren’t in Florida any more when: You observe that people are wearing jackets and long pants and not flip flops and shorts (or not the majority anyway). […]
This tournament is new to the Category II Calendar. It is back after a year’s hiatus and is for women only, even age divisions. Click here for the website and […]
Sunday I played the final of the singles and doubles at the Regional Closed. It was still really hot and muggy, feeling more like August than November! (Close to 90/90, […]
Today I finally played singles here at BallenIsles. I played a club member Debbie Peck and won to reach the final against Kathy Foulk, who won easily today. Pam and […]
Today was the hump day for the Regional Closed; tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday are the last two days of this event. I had a default in singles but Pam and […]
The 2015 ITF Regional Closed in Florida is being played at the BallenIsles Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens. It is being held at the same club which hosted the […]
Joe Russell, Chagrin Falls, OH, completed an impressive year in the 85 singles and in so doing ticked off another item on his “bucket list”. He won the Indoor, Hard, […]
What does it mean to win a “Gold Slam”? It means a senior player has won all four Category I USTA National Championships in a calendar year: Clay, Hard, Indoor […]
The 2016 Category I and Category II and Family Schedules have started to post on carolynnichols.com. The link to the schedule is here: http://www.carolynnichols.com/16Schedule. Most of the women’s Cat I, […]
Click here to see the month by month calendar for USTA Cat 1 and Cat 2 Tournaments. (then click on 2016 for 2016 Schedule). Or copy this link: https://m.tennislink.usta.com/tournamentsearch/searchresults.aspx?Action=8&Division=&Category=0&SectionDistrict=NA&Year=2015 This […]
I arrived in Barcelona last night, and apparently most of the world did too…Barcelona was so crowded today, though I must say I did spend most of it looking at […]
The final of the women’s 60 singles was held today in Mallorca. I got up early and never looked outside, so it wasn’t till I started walking toward our warm […]
There were quite a few Americans in the 55 doubles; Dearth, Ann Stanley, Julie David, Pam Schulz, and me, plus Erin who is from Canada. Julie and Pam took out […]
Hybrid Open 2015 Flyer.pdf The two surfaces are green clay and hard court.