2021 USTA Women’s Intersectional Team Results

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Summary:

  • 35s: Southern d. NorCal
  • 45s: Mid Atlantic d. SoCal
  • 55s: Southern d. SoCal
  • 65s: Southern d SoCal
  • 75s: SoCal d. Southern
  • 80s: Florida d. NorCal
  • 85s: SoCal d. Texas

Congratulations to Andrea Barnes, NorCal, recipient of the Margaret Russo Award. Well deserved.

Women’s 35s:

Southern d. NorCal in a very tight match 3/2. It came down to the #1 doubles which was won 75 in the third by Southern. All but #2 doubles were three set thrillers.

Singles:

  1. Hurst (NC) d. Sinclair
  2. La O (NC) d. Dimitrov
  3. Waters (S) d. Sosa

Doubles:

  1. Sinclair Docter (S) d. Hurst/La O
  2. Waters/Dimitrov (S) d. Rosette/Saito

3/4: New England d. Southwest 3/2

Interestingly, Fintel (SW) retired with an injury after the first set of #1 singles but managed to play #2 doubles which was the deciding match. Chiang/Ramesh (SW) d. Fintel/Carlsen (NE) 16 64 75.

Women’s 45s

Mid-Atlantic (MATA) beat SoCal 3/2

Singles:

  1. Parson Siegel (SC) d. Rice 63 75
  2. Merrick (MATA) d. Le 75 61
  3. Purpura (MATA) d. Northcott 60 60

Doubles:

  1. Rice/Purpura (MATA) d. Parson Siegel/Eggers 64 62
  2. Northcott/Le (SC) d. Merrick/Walsh 46 62 1-0 (7)

3/4: Texas d. Northern California 4-1

Women’s 55

Southern d. Southern California 3/2

The women’s 55 final was another nail biter, coming down to #2 singles where C Hartsock/A Frautschi edged J Lyons/C Clery Ferrell 46 76 63.

Singles:

  1. F Chandler (S) d. E Hammargren (SC) 67 61 64
  2. E. Brinson (S) d. K Archibald 67 61 64
  3. J Lyons (SC) d. R. Saheim 63 63

Doubles:

  1. S Tharp/Brinson d. K Haas/R Miller
  2. C Hartsock/A Frautschi d. Lyons/C Cleary Ferrell 46 76 63

3/4 playoff: Texas d. Florida 5-0

Women’s 65s

Southern d. Southern California 3/2

Despite Tina Karwasky’s heroics for SoCal (winning #1 singles and #1 doubles, both in three tough sets), SoCal fell to Southern. SoCal was lucky to reach the final though, having been down six match points in the semis before beating NorCal.

Singles:

  1. Karwasky (SC) d. W McColskey 67 75 62
  2. B Jackson (S) d. K Chain 64 63
  3. B Timmis (S) d. G Beneke 64 62

Doubles

  1. Karwasky/Chain (SC) d. McColskey/J Kirkland Cochran 46 75 76
  2. Jackson/C. Babb d. J. David/E. Kuhle 61 46 64

3/4: NorCal d. Texas 5-0

Women’s 75

In the women’s 75 the format is two singles and two doubles. I assume that in matches that tie 2/2 that the winner is the team which wins the most sets (or loses the fewest sets) , and if that’s a tie, it goes to games. So it looks like Southern California beat Southern 2/2 having won 5 sets and lost 4. I did confirm with Cathie Anderson from SoCal that SoCal won the competition in the 75s.

Southern California d. Southern 2/2 (tiebreaker was sets lost)

Singles:

  1. B Carter (S) d. C Anderson 62 63
  2. A Hunt (S) d. F Kia in three sets (score reported is 76 64 61 ret which cannot be correct)

Doubles:

  1. Anderson/A Polisky (SC) d. Carter/Hunt 63 62
  2. L Nilsen/G Halverson (SC) d. T Rob/K Shelburne 62 63

3/4: Pacific Northwest d. New England 3/1

Women’s 80s

The format in the 80s is 1 singles and 2 doubles. There seemed to have been some sort of modified RR.

Florida beat NorCal 2/1

Singles: Donna Fales (F) d. Jean Ainger 60 61

#1 Doubles: Fales/D Wasser (F) d. Ainger/C Hadley 64 63

#2 Doubles: P Boyer/N Garcia (NC) d. M Watts/A Moore 64 61

New England appears to have placed third. NE beat Midwest twice including on the last day.

Women’s 85s

The women’s 85s had a four team round robin between Texas, Southern California, Florida and New England. The format in this age division is 1 singles and 1 doubles.

Southern California, the only team which seemed to consist of just two players, trounced Texas, FL and NE 2/0. Dori DeVries won her singles against New England and Texas and Sheila Palmer won against Florida. DeVries/Palmer teamed up to win three singles matches.

Texas edged New England to place second, winning at singles 61 60 and winning five games in a doubles loss. They beat Florida 2/0.

New England edged Florida for third, winning 60 60 in singles and managing to win two games in doubles to place third.

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