Houston Saturday: Hartsock Wins 55 Singles & Thu Conquers 45s
Writing from Palm Desert, CA: Draws can be found here. Charlotte Hartsock (5) won the 55 singles over Shelly Works (3); Hartsock beat the #1, 4 and 3 seeds en […]
Writing from Palm Desert, CA: Draws can be found here. Charlotte Hartsock (5) won the 55 singles over Shelly Works (3); Hartsock beat the #1, 4 and 3 seeds en […]
Draws are here Diane Barker played a near perfect match today. (I did not but she didn’t let me!) This portends well for our success in the Kitty Godfrey Cup […]
Houston, TX, March 24, 2022 The draws can be found here. Sue Kimball and Ann Eaton contested the women’s 75 final today and what I saw of it was a […]
Draws can be found here. It was an early start after a late night today…some players finished closer to 10 than to 9pm and had to return to play 9am […]
Draws can be found here There was thunder (donner) and lightning (blitzen) and hard rain this morning, which soaked the courts. Play finally began on some courts around noon and […]
The draws and results can be found here. Monday March 21, 2022, Houston, Texas, 8:50 PM CDT There was a rainy, then windy, then rainy AND windy start to the […]
Sunday March 20, 2022, Houston, TX The draws can be found here. Today was another very nice day in Houston and a busy practice days for players competing in next […]
Click here to see the draws and results. Click here to see photos. Sunday was the final day of the 2021 Clay Courts in Houston, which was the 50th anniversary […]
Click here to see the draws and results. Click here to see photos. Last night I flew to Florida for the 60 national clay but the Houston tournament is still […]
National Women’s Clay Courts, Houston, Day 5 Click here to see the draws and results. Click here to see photos. It was another beautiful, sunny warm (but not humid) day […]
Houston, Texas Click here to see the draws and results. Click here to see photos. Brenda Carter mounted an impressive comeback in the second set to win the 75 singles […]
Houston, Texas Click here to see the draws and results. Click here to see photos. The weather changed from torrid to delightful overnight and today it was breezy, sunny, warm […]
Houston, Texas, USA Click here to see the draws and results. Click here to see photos. It was sweltering, torrid, hot, humid, oppressive, sultry…air temps around 100 with high humidity […]
Houston, TX Today was my last practice day here in Houston. I practiced early (7;30!) with Jenny Klitch. It was HUMID (and warm) … by 9am I was soaked. After […]
The ITF has cancelled all tournaments including all seniors tournaments till April 20th The notice today on the Houston website is: New tournament dates!! Due to the COVID-19 virus and […]
April 4, 2019 Palm Beach Gardens, Florida The 49th National Women’s Clay Court Championships took place at the Houston Racquet Club last week. This is the best women’s senior tournament […]
Julie Thu of Austin won the 35 singles last year in Houston, under different circumstances…it was pouring down rain and she beat Nancy Hilliard then indoors last year on a […]
Julie Thu and Kaysie Smashey took different routes to the 35s final, but both arrived there in straight sets. Thu blasted her way past Julie Lessiter 61 60, in a […]
There were gold ball matches and main draw 35 matches going on all around the club today but the match of the day had to be the 45 consolation doubles […]
Jolene Watanabe avenged her 2015 loss here in the final to Julie Cass this year, beating Cass 76 64 to win the 45 Clay for the second time. Jean Marie […]
We had an early start today, 8:30, but it was overcast, so the shadows weren’t a factor today at least and the weather was fine, 60s in the morning and […]
There are two big tennis tournaments going on in Houston this week (along with some final 4 thing for basketball). One is an ATP (men’s) 250 at River Oaks CC. […]