Les Grandes Dames Palm Beach Gardens Cat II/ITF Grade I Finished with a Blast of Air
Fort Lauderdale, FL I’ll start today’s blog by wishing my dad a happy 94th birthday. He’s a tennis player and when I called to wish him a happy birthday he […]
Category Archives: Category II Nationals
Kraujina, Klitch, Novack, Weber Win Singles Titles Saturday
Kristin Kraujina of Florida won the 30 singles on a sunny, breezy Saturday. Kraujina lives in a town called Sunny Isles Beach, which sounds awfully pleasant! She won the four […]
Palm Beach Gardens Friday, Sun & Smashes
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida It was another sunny 70s day in Palm Beach Gardens today, pretty much perfect for tennis. I played Kim Dean, whom I’d not played before. She’s […]
New Category 2 in Massachusetts: Clem Easton Tournament
The USTA has added a Category 2 tournament to the national schedule. It will be held June 21-24 at the Field Club of Longmeadow in East Longmeadow, MA. This tournament […]
Bermuda USTA Category II Tournament!
The Coral Beach and Tennis Club is hosting a USTA Cat II clay court tournament in Bermuda from April 11th-15th, 2018. The flyer can be found here: bda breeze tennis The […]
2018 National Schedule Now Posting on Carolynnichols.com
2018 Schedule with links has started posting on carolynnichols.com Click here to see schedule. This will be updated periodically. The date of the last update will appear on the site. […]
A Tournament Held in a Paradise Called La Jolla
The 50/60/70/80/90 Women’s Hard Courts began today at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club in La Jolla, CA, near San Diego. The club is wonderful, located right on the […]
Barker, Carter, King Take Singles Gold in Bocage
Baton Rouge, LA, April 21, 2017 I played Diane Barker in the final of the 60 clay courts and she won for about the 50th or so time against me…I’ve […]
National Clay Courts, Baton Rouge, LA, USA: Successful Day on the Dirt
Bocage Racquet Club. Today I played the quarters of the national clay courts against Rita Giles from Washington DC. We had a good match, plenty of long rallies which I […]
Team Bryan Category 2 Cancelled
From the USTA Caregory II Grid Dates: May 1-5 Tournament: Team Bryan Senior Open CANCELLED Location: Las Verage, NV Age Divisions: Men’s and Women’s 50-85 & Open Singles, Doubles, Mixed […]
McDonald, Nichols, Carter & Weber Win Singles at Joanne Russell Cup Sunday
Naples, Florida, 2/19/17 Kris McDonald won the 50s at the Russell Cup Category II today, but not before dropping the first set 60! She rebounded nicely though to win the […]
Joanne Russell Cup: Russell Makes Successful Tournament Debut on Friday
There was much to be happy about on Friday: lots of tennis, wonderful weather and a big and happy crowd for Joanne Russell’s first match in the tournament named for […]
Russell Grandes Dames, A Category II USTA Tournament
There is a new Category II tournament in Naples, for women age 40-80, even divisions for singles and odd and even for 50-80, plus 40 doubles. I am playing 60 […]
Manning, Nichols, McColskey & Anderson Win Singles Titles Sunday at Crawford Cup
Sunday was a beautiful day to play tennis, albeit a bit warm for Northerners, as temperatures flirted with 80 and the humidity increased. All the singles started at 9am. I […]
Crawford Cup Saturday: Injuries Plague 55s; Wendy McColskey Impresses in 65s Debut; All California 75s Final
There was a lot of great tennis, particularly in singles on another sunny, warm, gorgeous day in South Florida. With temperatures approaching 80, the play also heated up. Starting with […]
Ronan, Works, Barker, Clay, & Weber Win Singles Titles on a Warm & Windy Sunday at BallenIsles
Canadians won two singles titles Sunday at the USTA Super Category II Tournament in Florida, at opposite ends of the age scale. Sophie Ronan won the five person round robin, […]
Into the Final at BallenIsles on a Warm and Windy Saturday
It was a warm and windy day in Palm Beach Gardens. I played Wendy McColskey from NC today, our third meeting in a year. It was a tough match with […]
Tennis & Fun at BallenIsles
Link to draws: http://m.tennislink.usta.com/TournamentHome/tournament.aspx?t=185079 First, the tennis: there were a few upsets but the top seeds advanced in the 50-80 singles without incident except in the women’s 70 division. Charleen […]
Busy Thursday at BallenIsles
Today was a beautiful, sunny, warm day at BallenIsles. A huge slate of matches meant play, which started at noon, continued under the lights and into the dinner hour. Upsets […]
BallenIsles Day 1: Hot Tennis in Sunny, Warm Florida
The first USTA Category II tournament of the year began today under sunny skies in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. After a short morning practice, I went over to BallenIsles Country […]
BallenIsles Grandes Dames Starts Today: Note Parking Alert!
BallenIsles, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida From Tournament Director Trish Faulkner: PARKING ALERT!! THIS YEAR YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO PARK AT THE SPORTS COMPLEX HOWEVER YOU MUST USE VALET PARKING […]
Westwood Super Cat II, Austin, TX
I hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day, thanks to all the men and women who have fought for our freedom and served the USA since the 1700s, including […]
Carter, Nichols Win Double Gold at Bocage; Smith/Weber Take 80s Doubles Crown
The match of the day wasn’t a main draw match, it was the quarterfinal loser’s consolation match between Leslie Murveit and Rita Giles in the 60s. Rita took the first […]
DeVries Claims 80s Crown; Nichols/Karwasky & Carter/Wachob to Play Gold Friday
Dori DeVries of Reno claimed her first national title in the 80s (she turns 80 in December) when she beat two-time former world champion Inge Weber of Toronto, Canada 62 […]
Crawford Cup Sunday: It’s a Wrap
Sunday was a chilly, windy day in Florida but dry and the tournament was finished on time. Donna Fales was flawless all week in the women’s 75s and never more […]
Crawford Cup Saturday: Great Tennis, Great Weather in Fort Lauderdale
Today was beautiful and not too windy, and there was a lot of good tennis of course! Link to all photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/111133686884013323699/CrawfordCup2016 Link to draws: http://tennislink.usta.com/tournaments/TournamentHome/Tournament.aspx?T=170979#&&s=8Results0 Suella Steel was unseeded […]
Crawford Cup Friday: Upsets, Tumbles and Tennis in the Wind
The tennis started early on a cool, breezy Friday. A cold front bringing cold weather and some rain improved the courts’ playability a lot, and the grounds crew did a […]
Crawford Cup: Windy & Warm Thursday
The Crawford Cup, a Super Cat II tournament for women: 35/45/55/65/75/85 started yesterday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It’s being held at the venerable Lauderdale Tennis Club which has 20 green […]
BallenIsles Final Day:Brrr giving way to a California Blue Sky Day
The weather the final three days at BallenIsles was Friday; all day rain; Saturday: all day wind; Sunday; at very cold morning followed by a beautiful afternoon and a lot […]
WINDY Quarterfinal, Semifinal Day at BallenIsles
Yesterday, Friday, was a washout, though it wasn’t super windy or particularly cold. Today was a sunny, cool and very windy day with gusts up to 40 mph (maybe more, […]