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 […]
Category Archives: Category II Tournaments
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, […]
Rain Out at BallenIsles
An all day rain prevented any play at the Les Grandes Dames tennis tournament at BallenIsles Country Club today. There’s a full slate of matches tomorrow though, beginning at 10am.
New Les Grandes Dames Category II Tournament in Clearwarter, Florida March 9-13, 2016
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 […]
Texas Drought Has Ended: Westwood Super Cat 2
I feel like rain is following me around! This weekend I went to Austin to play the Westwood Super Category 2 tournament and visit friends, though I came close to […]
Post Tournament Survey for USTA National Championships, Regional Closed and Category II Tournaments
Don’t forget to fill out the survey after your tournament so the USTA can help make the tournaments better! This link works for all tournaments. more info
Carter, Barker Take Crawford Cup Titles Back to Charleston
The Crawford Cup finished today with decisive singles wins by Brenda Carter and Diane Barker. Carter beat Anne Guerrant (who took out top-seeded Kerry Young yesterday) 62 62 to regain […]
Crawford Cup Day 4, Sunny Saturday in the “Sunshine” State
No rain today at Crawford Cup! I’m sure the staff, tournament director, referee and volunteers were as happy as the players about that weather outcome. There were a lot of […]
Rain Delays and Upsets on Crawford Cup Day 3
Matches started at 9am today and the weather forecast was pretty good, only a 20% chance of rain….I warmed up and then played Kathy Foulk at 9. The first three […]
2015 USTA Adult/Senior Seeding Assistants
Women 30s: Trish Riddell (trish10s@aol.com) & Mary Dailey (daileymd@gmail.com) 35s: Judy Louie (ad2louie@aol.com) & Carolyn Nichols (carolynanichols@gmail.com) 40s: Ellen Goodman (mummsey@aol.com) & Gee Gee Garvin (speed3g@aol.com) 45s: Gail Murayama (gailmvan@yahoo.com) […]
If It’s Portland, It Must be Raining, Even in July
After a very warm past few days, and a prediction of 90+ degree temperatures today….clouds came over around 9am, then thunder and lightning (followed by sun), then, just after noon…rain […]
Scorcher in Portland
The temperature soared into the mid 90s today in Portland, not an unusual occurrence in July in Portland, but yesterday and today were the first time this year for the […]
Nike Senior, Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon, July 11, 2014 The Nike tournament in Oregon, aka the Oregon State Championships, is held over three venues this week; the women’s senior event is being held at […]
Crawford Cup: Doubles Champions!
Today was a nice day for tennis in Florida…a bit cloudy but warm (80s) and not too windy. We won the final over Mary Ginnard/Kathy Vick 64 62. Pam played […]
Saturday Tennis at Crawford Cup: Semis and Finals
On another warm (80s) sunny day in Fort Lauderdale, the semis of the 45s, 65s and 75s and finals of the 55s were played. I won the 55 singles final […]
Sunny Warm Day at Crawford Cup; Into the Semis
It was almost hot today, low 80s and humid…great tennis weather for the Crawford Cup. I played early, at 9am and played Eileen Reynolds, who was my first round opponent […]
Crawford Cup Wednesday
The Crawford Cup began today in Fort Lauderdale. It’s a Super Category II USTA tournament, the grade just below our national championships. We are playing on green clay. There are […]
Final Day at BallenIsles
I played Fran Chandler in the final and she outplayed me…64 64. She moved great as always! But it was a 2 hour plus match…in fact we were at 1/0 […]
Successful Semis at BallenIsles
There were a lot of closely contested matches today at the BallenIsles Country Club. I had one of them a three hour plus affair against Sue Webb from Tennessee via […]
Into the Semis in Florida
It was a very nice day here, cool but calm and mostly sunny…sort of a California winter day (from the time when there was winter in California…). I played Jill […]
BallenIsles Thursday
It was a sunny, breezy start for the tournament today. I played Eileen Reynolds from Naples, FL and won 60 62. Eileen ran very well but I was a little […]
BallenIsles Day 1
The cold is coming…Floridians will be dusting off their winter gear for tomorrow’s bone chilling 60 degree weather (ok, that’s the high, most of the day it will be cooler…and […]
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone. The first tournament of the year is coming up this week at the BallenIsles Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. This is also one of […]
USTA Semi Annual Meeting: Minutes from Adult Senior/Senior International Meetings
Any player interested in playing National USTA tournaments or on a USA Senior International Team should read these. Meeting One: Aug 31, 2013 Meeting Two: Sept. 1, 2013
Composite Tournament Blogs Page
Click here to see more recent blog posts. 2013 Blogs Blog from Mulloy, Hart and Queens Cups in Villach. Tegernsee: German Open Seniors Blog Bad Breisig Blog Nike Senior Blog […]
Nike Senior Blog
The Nike Women’s Senior took place July 11-14 in Portland Oregon. This is a Super Category II USTA tournament with 500 ranking points going to the winner. Here are links […]
Successful Finals Day in Portland
I knew I was back in an American tournament when the final was scheduled for 8am! Fortunately, it was the warmest day of the week, hitting 90 and it was […]
Westwood Super Cat II, Austin: Rain, Heat, Lights On Tennis
Link to tournament results and draws. Austin, Monday May 27 Memorial Day was finally a day with no rain in Austin, I played my 50 and 55 doubles finals back […]