Today I learned that the really loud siren wasn’t an obnoxious car alarm after all…it was a lightning warning and meant we should immediately leave the court till there were […]
Today, Wednesday, I played the round of 16 against an American from Southern California, Kim Zebot. I’d played her only a few weeks ago for the bronze ball at the […]
Tuesday, April 29 Reporting a day late, due to playing tennis matches in the evening. Started my first round singles match at 10:30am. Judy Newman also had a 10:30am. We […]
Monday, April 28 The ITF Senior Individual Championships started Sunday for main draw men’s singles, and mixed doubles. I played my first mixed doubles at 5:30pm Sunday night. My partner […]
Happy Easter Today was a great day. Team Maria Bueno started off with a great warm up. I was able to get a doubles practice match for Judy and Vicki, […]
Women’s Cups: Draws Men’s Cups (Draws) Suzanne Lenglen: 35s (USA is in Group C and Playoff 9-12) Italia: 35s (USA is in Group E and playoff 1-7) Young: 40s (USA […]
Saturday morning there were very noisy Florida thunderstorms, but we were able to practice at 11, on schedule. The maintenance crew at BallenIsles is amazing! We played some singles and […]
Saturday April 19 I woke up to rain this morning. Fran had to get a racket strung up. So we headed over to the Boca West Country Club, where we […]
Link to all Team Draws: Draws for Cups in Boca Raton and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Photos from Cups Parting Thoughts World Doubles Champions!!! May 3, 2014: Rain Delay, […]
It was another rainy day today in Fort Lauderdale, but I was lucky to get in a solid hour + of drilling before noon when the rain started falling in […]
Background: Tracy Houk is the captain of the Maria Bueno Cup team for women 50 and over. She’ll be blogging from Boca Raton and Palm Beach Gardens Florida for the […]
I’ve been practicing in Fort Lauderdale since Houston. It’s been warm and muggy mostly…and right now is raining like crazy (it’s ok because it’s nighttime!). I played Monday with Vesna […]
Patricia Zerdan, saying that she felt no pressure this year as she was playing “down” into the 35s (she’s 40) won the 35s singles title in Houston, beating Meredith Walton, […]
Martha Downing edged Brenda Carter today 76 46 76, dominating only the tiebreakers in this outstanding final (according to Barbara Hubbard and Janet Watanabe…I wasn’t there). Carol Clay turned the […]
Today was a tough one on the singles court. I played Diane Barker, who, in her third year in the 55s had yet to lose a match in this division […]
Today, Wednesday was super busy at the Houston Racquet Club. Matches began at 8am and it was barely light then. Susan Wright and I got to the club at 7:30 […]
Today is a quick one, I have an 8:30am match and 7:30 warm up with Susan and we had an NSWTA meeting which lasted till after 6…not late but it […]
Today was the last tune-up day for me in Houston. It started early, Anna Zimmermann and I hit starting a little before 8 till 9 and I hit serves afterwards. […]
Today was another beautiful day in Houston, warm, sunny, breezy. Along with the women practicing for the clay courts, nearly every club member and pro seemed to be at the […]
The National Senior Women’s Clay Court Championships begins on Monday for the women’s 45/55/65/75 & 85 divisions. The 35s begin on Thursday. This is a USTA National Gold Ball Category […]
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This is the list of the USA women’s and men’s teams going to Boca Raton and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida April 21-26 2014 This list is subject to change if […]
Roz King won her first ITF Singles World Championship in the 75s, and will go for the gold in doubles later today with Ria Graham. She beat world #1 Elisabeth […]
Roz King upset #2 seed and defending champion Inge Weber today in Villach, Austria, putting her into the final against Germany’s’ Elisabeth Von Boemmel, her conqueror in the team event […]
USA came very close to sweeping the men’s events at the 2013 Super Senior ITF World Team Championships in Austria and Czech Republic today. They won the Von Cramm Cup […]
The USA Mulloy Cup won today 3/0 over Australia and play France, an upset winner over Canada today. Crutchet best Lorne Main 06 64 1/0(4). Gr. Britain upset Germany 2:1 […]
The weather forecast was unfortunately spot on: 100% chance of rain! The courts almost dried, and we were just getting ready for an 11 am start… When it poured again. […]
Today was a day of practice for the players…I saw the women’s 75 and 80s practicing twice and the men’s 80s once at least. The Aussies were also very keen […]