I ended up in a rain delay…followed by going indoors to play my match in the Tennis Halle. The surface is a soft carpet. This one wasn’t too slippery, but […]

It’s a long day today and I haven’t even played yet! I was to play, according to the first match schedule posted online, at 10:20 am today. I got up, […]

Today I successfully navigated the trip to the courts…so far have not been lost…today. I hit in the morning early, 7:30 for an hour with Nora Blom from the 55s. […]

I am now in Bad Neuenahr Germany, which is near Cologne. Yesterday was interesting, I took a train and a bus and a shuttle to get my rental car and […]

The German Open finished for us today, I won the 50 singles and doubles. It’s funny, over here I’m considered a doubles expert! I beat my doubles partner, Gundi Wieland […]

http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf View all Get your own It’s late here so this will be brief. I beat the 3rd seed, Annalies Simons from Netherlands 60 60. We had good points and […]

Gundula and I won our doubles match 60 61, our opponents were very excited to win that game. We played my first round singles opponent and another German woman. Doubles […]

It’s another nice day in Bavaria today. I played Gaby Chop and she did sort of chop her backhand…used the same side of the racquet for volleys anyway as for […]

Hello from Rottach-Egern, Germany, in Bavaria, south of Munich about an hour by car or train. This is an ITF Grade 1 tournament. No one is calling footfaults here, maybe […]

   http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf View all Get your own Ann Moore wrote this article and provided these photos. Thank you Ann.              American Team Wins 2009 Wilson Friendship Cup                                June 4 […]

The tournament finished for me today, and I won the 50s, beating Beatrice Villaverde (who beat the #2 seed, Fritelli, 60 60 yesterday…Fritelli is ranked in the top 10 of […]

Hello again from Argentina. Vesna McKenna had a knock-down drag-out match today against last year’s winner, Vasconcellas, from Brazil, a former tour player. Vesna won the first set, rallying from […]

I finally played singles today and it was a tough match, though I won 61 62 it took nearly 2 hours, she was really steady and ran well….and it’s red […]

Hello from San Isisdro in the state of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. I’m here for the San Isisdro tournament, a Grade I ITF tournament. I arrived here yesterday from San […]

Update: Southern California beat Southern to win the 35s. Southern 45s held on to beat Texas 32.   35s: Southern Cal d. Southern45s: Southern beat Texas55s: Southern d. Texas65s: Southern […]

NorCal 45s finished third, beating arch-rival Southern California 4-1. I beat Tracey Thompson 62 64; Shelly Scott beat Robin Harris 62 75 and Judy Newman Rakela played the marathon match […]

Home team Texas 45s smoked NorCal 5-0, not losing a set and going 2-0 in tiebreakers to beat the #2 seeds. They take on Southern tomorrow. NorCal plays SoCal in […]

NorCal 45s had the day off, except for Erika Smith, who was battling at #1 doubles with Mai Ichikawa in the 35s when we left. NorCal lost to Southern today […]

Congratulations to the Southern 55s and Southern California 65s (who have won this event at least 7 times in a row) for their wins at intersectionals, and to the runner-up […]

Hello again from San Antonio. NorCal 35 and 45 won today. The 35s borrowed several players from the 45s team (borrowing some good tennis shots and wisdom), Erika Smith successfully […]

Click here to view all of the photos from Carolyn Wei’s album. Below are NorCal team photos.  

Click here to see which players participated. (click on team rosters, 11/7)   Click here to see how your team did.   Final results:   75s: Florida d. Mid Atlantic 3-0 […]

Senior Tournament Player Round Up 2006 By Carolyn Nichols   US senior players had a fabulous year in 2006. They won nine of 19 team competitions in age divisions ranging […]

NorCal played Florida in the 3-4 playoff and played their best matches of the week. Nichols beat Myke Bodisch 63 76(3) ; Airola-Murveit played great to beat the always tough Frances […]

In the 45s, the usual suspects, Southern and Texas are in the final. Southern beat Florida, taking all 3 singles matches. Fran Chandler beat Myke Bodisch 64 64; Diane Fishburne […]

Team Florida  added a second victory today, with a 2-1 win over Mid Atlantic. Louise Russ beat Suzanne Ryerson at #1 singles and Jane Lutz won at #2 singles. Mid […]

Congratulations to Joni Hannah, the 2nd recipient of the Margaret M Russo National Sportsmanship Award. Joni is very deserving of this honor, a true sportswoman on and off the court. […]

The 35 & 45 Captain’s meetings were held today adn the draws done.   The 35s have 6 teams, divided into 2 groups. Each group will play a round robin and […]

The Jason Morton Tennis Classic will be held March 9-12 in Sun Lakes, AZ. According to John Radcliffe (jradcliffe@msn.com) the tournament director, "This is the third year for this tournament […]

Diane Fishburne of Folley Beach, S.C. won the 2005 European Championships in Baden Baden, Germany. This prestigious event is played on red clay and is a Tier I event for […]