2014 ITF World Championships Results and Links
Draws from ITF Individual World Championships: ( click on “order of play” which brings up another menu; click on “draws” on this second menu.) Draws from the Cups & Results […]
Draws from ITF Individual World Championships: ( click on “order of play” which brings up another menu; click on “draws” on this second menu.) Draws from the Cups & Results […]
The individual world championships began on Sunday for the main draw. All the men’s 45, 50 and 55 players played and all the 35 and 40s men without byes. The […]
USA won the Dubler Cup, men’s 45, in dramatic fashion against top-seeded France. Oren Motevassel won the critical #2 singles point in three sets. Jeff Tarango fell to the French […]
By Tracy Houk Today we played France in the finals, and lost, 2-0, both our singles, so they don’t play the doubles. Fran, played at #2 singles, and played the […]
Special to Senior Tennis Blog by Alissa Finerman Team USA women’s 45 showed up ready to play against France for the Margaret Court Cup Finals at the Polo Club in […]
Friday, April 25 Today started off a bit rough, in our semi final march against Italy. Fran Chandler started out the matches, with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 win. She started […]
Updated Saturday Morning (see below) USA Connolly Cup beat GBR in a long match; we started play at 11:30 and it was already hot and muggy, a summer Florida day […]
USA teams successfully upheld their seeds in all but one group at the conclusion of the round robin portion of the team event yesterday (Wednesday). The Connolly Cup defeated Netherlands […]
The USA Connolly Cup team beat Netherlands today 3/0. Susan started us off with a convincing 63 60 win. Diane then won 60 60 at #1. After a brief delay […]
A great day for Team Maria Bueno !! After a Starbucks run, ( gotta have my Latte ) and breakfast. We headed out to Boca West CC for a team […]
USA Connolly Cup team blanked Turkey today at BallenIsles, winning each match 60 60. Diane Barker played #1 singles, Susan Wright played #2 singles and Carolyn Nichols/Tina Karwasky played the […]
The Connolly Cup team had the day off today: we practiced early, then watched the men’s 40s (Trabert Cup) play on Center Court against Canada. Ironically, the captain, Guillaume Gauthier […]
Competition started today, for most teams. We had a bye, so we practiced early, for a few hours, and watched our opponents, Mexico and Canada battle it out. We play […]
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 […]
Friday was a busy day and a very nice one. Susan and I packed up my car (I had so much stuff I think it looked like I was moving […]
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 […]
Simona Bruetting (Highlands Ranch) and Susan Wright (Grand Junction) have been selected to represent the USA in the 34th ITF (International Tennis Federation) Senior World Team Championships in Boca Raton […]
By Carolyn Nichols