Gretchen Magers won her third straight National Women’s 40 Hard Court title. She beat Tracy Houk in the final. Gretchen also won the doubles, with Kathy May Fritz, bottom photo above, […]

Gretchen Magers "three-peated" as the 40 singles champion this year. She beat Tracy Houk 60 63, using her aggressive all court style to defeat the always tenacious Houk. The second […]

Patricia Zerdan captured her second national 30 singles title of the year, beating Cristina Sirianni in a well played match, which had many momentum swings and a long rain delay […]

The 40 Hard Courts began November 27th in La Jolla and the main draw concludes tomorrow, December 2nd. The singles was the toughest of the year for the 40 women. […]

The second week of October,  in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Brenda Carter won her first 60s doubles gold ball (with Judy Louie) to go with the singles title she earned […]

Who says Californians can’t play on clay? The gold balls in the 50s today went to three Californians. Robin Ogburn and Chris Ramsower-Pearlstein won their third title of 2006 and […]

The six players pictured below completed “golden” slams in doubles in 2006 at the hard courts in Folsom. Julie Cass and Michelle King won all four 35 doubles titles this year. […]

Charleen Hillebrand and Suella Steel won their third doubles title of the year in the 65s, beating Lurline Fujii/Jane Pang in the final. Fujii/Pang upset the 2nd seeds, Wasser/Weinstock in […]

Merion ended today and most of the usual suspects took home the gold balls…but there were a few who snuck out with bronze and silvers.   Julie Cass continued her […]

Forest Hills came and went last week.   The 40s was won by Yukie Koizumi again. The Japanese player is awesome on grass, great movement. She also won the doubles […]

Rita Price won her first singles gold ball today, beating June Dickey in straight sets in the final. Dickey handed Eisenstein, who 2 years ago won this event without the […]

The story from the first days of La Jolla was the number of players who ended up in the emergency room.   Doris Hakman ended up in the emergency room […]

The 30 Grass Courts have been moved from Scottsdale to Forest Hills, NY at the Westside Tennis Club. The tournament website is http://tournaments.usta.com/Tournaments/TournamentHome/Tournament.aspx?T=37501   The dates are July 9-16.   […]

Suella Steel won her first singles clay court gold ball Friday. She said she’s won the doubles at the worlds on clay, and many doubles gold balls on clay, but this […]

Julie Cass had a terrific tournament in Houston. Even though she’s a serve and volleyer, she won the singles and doubles here for the 2nd straight year. She beat Shelly […]

Click here for all results.   Anne Guerrant won the 55s title here, her 3rd straight 55s singles title. She beat the ageless Heide Orth, the 2nd seed, 64 63. […]

Click here for all results.   Myke Bodisch won a well deserved gold ball in taking the 45 singles final in Houston Friday. She started in the round of 64 […]

It was a sunny beautiful day in Houston. Every age division, from 35 to 85 was in action.   There were 2 great matches in the 45s. Myke Bodisch had […]

Rain started the day, and play finished under the lights as a result.   The 45s had 2 "matches of the day". The first was Myke Bodisch, first year 45er, […]

The USTA announced today that the dates of the Women’s 60-80 Clay Courts will be Oct. 12-18 2006 and the site will be the BallenIsles Country Club in Palm Beach […]

The 30 clay courts concluded on December 13th…as scheduled, despite a draw of 60 men in singles, plus doubles, a 16 draw in women’s singles, women’s doubles, and mixed. Andy […]

  Betty Eisenstein beat Elaine Mason in the final of the 80 Indoors in Portland, Oregon on Friday the 26th of August 63 75. This win completed her third consecutive 80’s singles […]

Mary Wilson won her third straight national doubles title Friday. She added the 60 Indoors to her 55 Indoors title, also won with Barb Mueller and 60 grass doubles title. […]