Feld Am See 2024
I played this last year and it was a lot of fun and beautiful, on a small lake (which you can bike around easily). The flyer for the 2024 Feld […]
Category Archives: Austria
Vienna!
Monday I drove to the Klagenfurt airport for a flight to Vienna. I stayed the Monday night in Vienna before flying to Mallorca I checked into my hotel after landing, […]
A Visit to a Castle, the Top of a Mountain and the Town of Villach; Touring Carinthia, Austria
Saturday a group of players and I took a day trip to the Landskron Castle outside of Villach, to see the views. MJ Pachl (USA/CAN) was with Wanda Howes and […]
Singles Success in Feld am See
Draws are here. Today was a pretty long one, as I had matches at 10:30, 1:30 and 4:30! After playing three matches in three days I played three in one […]
Swimming into the Final in Feld am See
Draws are here. The predicted rain arrived today in Feld am See, though for the most part it did not stop tennis from being played. I played Karien Theeuwes, with […]
Doubles Day in Feld am See
Draws are here. I thought I had a day off today, as my name was not on the schedule last night to play. I received a message from my doubles […]
First Round Test Passed in Feld am See Austria
Draws are here. It was another sunny beautiful day in Feld am See today, but from here on out the forecast is a bit grim, 90% chance of rain each […]
Lesons in Travel
Tuesday Sept. 12, 2023 Spoiler alert…this is being written from Feld am See, Austria. Sunday and Monday: Travel from Essen to Feld am See: more “learning experiences”. My travel […]
Fort Lauderdale ITF Grade 1/USTA Super Cat II, Jabour Cup Day 2, Thursday
Palm Beach Gardens, FL On a warm (80s), windy, humid day, most players were in action in the 55/65/75 & 85 divisions. In singles the upsets were hard to come […]
USA Men’s & Women’s 60 & Women’s 50 Teams Advance to Semis; USA Men’s 50 & 55 Fall in Quarters in Porgtugal
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 […]
Munich, Munchen, Sunday Vibes
June 16, 2019 Munich, Germany I arrived late in Munich after a longer than expected train ride (the train stopped for about half an hour just before my stop…but the […]
Biking Around the Wörthersee
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 […]
European Singles Champion; Auf Wiedersehen Austria
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 […]
Successful Semis in Poertschach
June 13, 2019, Poertschach, Austria The order of play here was posted pretty late yesterday (about 9:30pm), due to the thunderstorms which delayed play. I was scheduled for 9am which […]
Sunny Morning, Donner & Blitzen Afternoon
Today was a tale of two different weather patterns: in the morning and early afternoon it was quite warm and muggy, but by mid afternoon it was cloudy and thunder […]
Practice Day in Warm and Sunny Austria
While it’s raining in England….it was warm (upper 80s) and sunny on the “Austrian Riviera”, and it’s supposed to hit 90 by Friday. I had a hit set up today […]
Werzer Cup Final Matches; European Regional Championships Draws
Rafa, 12 French Opens; Dominic Thiem…fought so hard. I enjoyed listening the to the French Open final on Radio Roland Garros (Via Tuned In’s ATP Radio station, it’s great), while […]
Werzer Cup Singles Champion
I didn’t get to catch much of the French Open today because I had three matches…but did catch Thiem’s third (and final) match point and the first five games of […]
King Van Nostrand Sweeps 85s; San Diegans Win 75 Doubles
While in a rain delay during Thiem/Novack (and the Barty/Anisimova semi was…streaky). I won my singles semis against Gundi Wieland from Germany. She beat the #3 seed yesterday; I won […]
Let the Tournament Begin
So the French Open ended early on a delayed quarterfinal day…so I’m writing without that distraction! Who will reach the final: Konta vs Vondrousova; Anisimova vs Barty; Fed vs Rafa; […]
Last Practice Day
While NOT watching the French Open…. Poertschach am Worthersee, Austria Unlike Paris, where it rained all day, it was a warm, sunny day in Poertschach, and even a bit humid. […]
Practicing on the Dirt
While everyone is glued to Tsitsipas/Wawrinka…practicing was going on here in Poertschach (Eurosport switched to cycling in the middle of the match but came back, only to go away to […]
Poertschach, Austria…Planes, Trains and Tennis
Poertschach am Worthersee, Austria Thursday and Friday were travel days…I left California around 11:30am Thursday and two planes and three trains later ended up in Poertschach (with a nine hour […]
Auf Wiedersehen Germany, Hallo Austria
Yesterday was a relaxing day in Baden Baden. I warmed up Carole, packed up and wandered around the old town and down Lichenthaler Allee and did a bit of shopping. […]