Reporting from California, USA I will update the results of the Men’s 65 & 80 later today. Update, 10 pm CET: USA lost 2/1 to Chile in the M80 and […]
California, USA, Reporting from Afar The opening ceremonies of the ITF Super Senior World Team Championships (ISSWTC) in Umag took place yesterday, as well as the captains’ meetings, during which […]
On a train near Lake Balaton, Hungary Janos Latura and I won the mixed doubles in Hungary today over Eva Bogar Szabo and Peter Sakovics from Hungary 64 31 retired. […]
Keszthely, Balaton Lake, Hungary I played the mixed doubles semis and our first and last women’s doubles match today. Our mixed was scheduled yesterday for “not before 2 pm” but […]
Mallorca, Spain, July 29, 2019 This post was lost in the Ethernet the last month. My last day in Mallorca was a busy one! I hit tennis balls or 90 […]
Keszthely, Balaton Lake, Hungary It was an early start today at the Hungarian International Grade A. I had a “not before 9:30” match and warmed up around 8:30 and we […]
Keszthely, Balaton Region, Hungary Today was very cool and windy, quite a change from the mid 90s on Sunday! There are two venues here, the Fonix venue and the Ady […]
Quick take: Applications Open OCTOBER 1, 2019 Applications Close November 10, 2019 Deadline to notify the USTA of any omissions is November 18, 2019 Results from the 2-year period ENDING […]
On an airplane somewhere between Mallorca and Munich…. I had my last training in Mallorca today, then quickly made it to the airport. I checked in and then went to […]
Mallorca, Spain This trip I am staying in a completely different area from Bunyola, north of Palma in Inca. However, the hotel is in the middle of orchards and very […]
From the USTA Adult National Tournament FACEBOOK Page: Dear All, Unfortunately, we were not able to find a replacing host venue for the Men’s 55 and 80s Grass Court National […]
Lisbon, Portugal, Friday Aug 9th The USA three of six cups at the 2019 ITF Seniors World Team Championships in Portugal, and none of the victories were easy today, with […]
Lisbon, Portugal The top seeded USA Alice Marble Cup team (W60) advanced to the final with a 2/1 win over 5th seeded Argentina. USA won both singles (Carolyn Nichols 61 […]
The draws for the ITF Seniors Individual World Championships are now available. Click here to view. The women’s 60 singles draw features three of the USA Women’s 60 team as […]
Lisbon, Portugal All the USA teams won today 3/0 to advance to the knockout portion of the draw. We beat Spain. I played #2 singles and won 64 61 against […]
Lisbon, Portugal Today was the start of the ITF Seniors World Team Championships. We played Brazil today, starting at 9:30. I played #2 singles and won 60 60; Diane played […]
Lisbon, Portugal Today we had our first complete team practice, as Robin arrived too late yesterday to practice. We played some singles and doubles and stayed from about 10-1. The […]
Lisbon, Portugal Today, Thursday, all of the USA Marble Cup team members have arrived in Lisbon. Susan, Jenny and I met Diane and Jack Barker at the CDN Jamor (National […]
Lisbon, Portugal The ITF Seniors World Team Championships begins on Sunday morning. Yesterday I met Jenny Cerff from So Africa and Susan Wright, one of my Alice Marble Cup teammates, […]
Mallorca, Spain After six days and nine practice sessions, I had a much needed break from tennis. I decided to try and book a massage and ended up booking one…at […]
Mallorca, Spain Thursday was another sunny, hot day in Mallorca. I have only an evening practice today so I took a drive to a couple of mountain villages. From Bunyola […]
Bunyola, Mallorca, Spain Since my tennis was scheduled for the evening yesterday, I decided to take the antique train (Ferrocarril de Sóller) to the little town of Sóller, north of […]
Bunyola, Mallorca, Spain Today I trained twice and in between went to three grocery stores (they were adjacent to each other). In other words, it was a fun day! I […]
Bordeaux, France It was another lovely day in Bordeaux. Sue Bartlett and I were rescheduled to the 6th match after 8:30 (not before 2pm)…we got on around 5pm. We played […]
Bordeaux, France I played my second round robin match today against Carmen Lang, who just won the Spanish closed nationals in the 60s. We were the 2nd match after 11am […]
Bordeaux, France Today was a pretty relaxing one since I only had one doubles match, 2nd match on court 9 after 2pm. We started around 3:30 or so I think […]
Bordeaux, France, Wednesday (WiFi was down Tuesday….) After a long weekend watching my nephew getting married (The Carmel Mission Church is beautiful as was the wedding), I drove to SFO. […]
The Men’s 60 Grass has found at home in Rancho Mirage, CA at the Mission Hills Country Club. Steve Solomon, who runs the 60 Hard Courts will take over this […]
June 15, 2019 While on the train to Munich..(highly recommended, beautiful scenery, especially from a Poertschach to Salzburg). Today I biked around the Wörthersee. The lake is about 10 x […]
June 14, 2019, Poertschach am Worthersee, Austria I played and won the 60 singles here over Karien Theeuwes of the Netherlands 61, 60. My dropshots worked well when Karien wasn’t […]