Hanko Success
Draws are here. It’s after 11 pm here in Hanko and the music from the party below me is making my room shake! But winter is coming…last few weeks here […]
Draws are here. It’s after 11 pm here in Hanko and the music from the party below me is making my room shake! But winter is coming…last few weeks here […]
Draws are here. Today started early with a long warmup as usual with Peter Gard, Rosemary Everett and me. Then I played my second round robin singles match with Heli […]
Draws are here. Here’s the link to photos from this European trip, with the most recent ones first. I played my first round match today against Elina from Finland (a […]
Tuesday, August 2, 2022 Today I hit with Rosemary Everett and Peter Gard for an hour in the morning before matches began. None of us played today but we all […]
Sunday was travel day #2 on my journey from Mallorca, Spain to Hanko, Finland. I arrived about three hours before my flight and though there was a long line, it […]
Today in Helsinki all the doubles finals were played. Amongst the USA players, Mike Tammen and Mike Fedderly won the 55 doubles; Ross Persons & Tina Karwasky won the 60 […]
The semis were played in all divisions today in singles, doubles and mixed, which made for a long day for a few players here, including Tina Karwasky from the USA. […]
The quarters were played today at the Talin Tennis Center in Helsinki for the ITF Seniors World Championships and several Americans are amongst the winners. I played Sue Ellis from […]
The Individual World Championships Round of 16 were played today in Helsinki. There were winners and losers among the Americans today. Draws: http://www.itftennis.com/seniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100035781 Vesna McKenna was playing a great match […]
The Individual World Championships began yesterday in Helsinki, but there were no women’s matches. Today, Sunday, the bottom half only of the 60s began along with the out rounds of […]
Saturday was a day off for all the women players in Finland though I still practiced for several hours in the morning, mostly playing doubles. Then Susan and I took […]
We won the Alice Marble Cup today 2/0 but it wasn’t easy against France. I started at #2 singles against Caroline Glazmann. It was good to have the same first […]
I am writing this after 11pm and it’s starting to get dark…dawn will happen before 3am! Hard to figure out when to sleep, fortunately our practice tomorrow is late in […]
All but one of the USA teams had the day off at the ITF World Team Championships today. The USA Men’s 60, Von Cramm Cup team advanced with a 3/0 […]
All six USA senior teams were in action today in Finland and all six won their ties. All USA women’s teams won 3/0 to advance to the semis which will […]
The USA went undefeated on Day 1 of the ITF World Team Championships in Helsinki, but the teams’ routes to victory weren’t all routine and none were routs. Results click […]
The draws are up and can be found here for the ITF Seniors World Team Championships: https://seniortennisblog.com/2016/02/03/usa-2016-senior-teams-finland/ The opening day of the ITF World Team Seniors Championships were held today […]
Today I practiced for the first time in Finland at the Talin Center. The courts aren’t bad, though being indoors it is pretty fast and low bouncing and not super […]
Hello from rainy Helsinki, Finland. We flew via Iceland and flew over Greenland which was beautiful (but not too green!). Iceland looked flat and treeless. Both flights on Iceland Air […]
After leaving Mont-Tremblant I flew from Montreal to Toronto to train indoors with Erin Boynton, who plays for the Canada 55s team, the Maureen Connolly Cup. Erin also plays a […]
Men’s 60 Player’s in M60’s Team’s.WELCOME TO FINLAND MORENO QUINTANA Gonzalo ARGALVAREZ DIEZ Eduardo ARG…LARA Juan Carlos ARGBOIDI Carlos ARGBUSBY Glenn AUSPACKHAM Steve AUSDANCE Stephen AUSHENNING John AUSPORTER Keith CANBETTAUER […]