2020 Team Application and Selection Timelines Now Posted
2020 ITF Seniors World Championships, Men’s and Women’s 50, 55, 60 Team Tournament: April 26 – May 2, 2020 Individual Tournament: May 2 – 9, 2020 Location: Boca Raton (team) […]
Category Archives: Mallorca
Tennis & Hiking, Fornalutx & Biniaraix, Mallorca
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 […]
Adios Mallorca, Hello Hungary
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 […]
Rain in Spain (Thunder and Lightning Too)
Inca, Mallorca, Spain Wednesday Morning, August 28th Monday it was nearly 100 degrees in Mallorca and sunny. Then yesterday, Tuesday, a “cota fria” hit Mallorca (a cold front) and it […]
Mallorca Encore: Training and Watching Andy Murray
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 […]
Adios Madrid, Hola Mallorca
Madrid Airport, Monday August 26th 2019 And then there was one…today Tracey and I took an early cab to the airport, which wasn’t far from our apartment (I woke up […]
Deia, Mallorca & Driving the West Coast
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 […]
Valdemossa, Mallorca & Training on the Dirt
Mallorca, Spain Today was the last day of training here in Mallorca, at least for this week & I think I worked hard, at least I’m tired…not even sore, just […]
Mountain Driving to Orient & Alaro Mallorca
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 […]
Tren de Soller; Soller and the Port de Soller
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 […]
Tennis on the Spanish Clay & Seafood is Popular in Mallorca
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 […]
Hola Mallorca…Hace Caliente!
Bunyola, Mallorca, Spain Today was another travel day. I flew from Bordeaux (did you know that in Europe, some airlines…looking at you Vueling…charge for bags by the leg, not by […]
Santa Maria, Mallorca & Nadal Academy
This morning I had my last training with Global Tennis Team (globaltennisteam.com). It’s a smallish academy in Mallorca, five clay courts and I had a good time training there this […]
Red Clay! Training in Mallorca
I flew Monday from Helsinki via Berlin to Mallorca, Spain. Mallorca is an island (famously where Rafa Nadal grew up and still resides) about a 30 minute plane ride from […]
Mallorca Senior Champion; Adios Mallorca, Buenas Tardes Barcelona
The final of the women’s 60 singles was held today in Mallorca. I got up early and never looked outside, so it wasn’t till I started walking toward our warm […]
Thursday/Friday: Into the Singles Final
There were quite a few Americans in the 55 doubles; Dearth, Ann Stanley, Julie David, Pam Schulz, and me, plus Erin who is from Canada. Julie and Pam took out […]
Wednesday in Mallorca; Into the Singles Semis
Today I had a match at noon, and Erin had the day off from singles. I played a French woman, Patricia Labat Labarrere (corrected name!), who was a pretty good […]
Mallorca Tuesday, Success in Son Besso
I finally got to play a match, on Day 3 of the Mallorca Open. I played a pleasant woman from Frankfurt, Germany, Brigitte Kraell. I played pretty well and at […]
Mallorca Monday: Warm Weather and Marathon Matches
I had a default today so didn’t play, but I do play at 9am tomorrow. Unfortunately I booked a practice court at 8:25, since the court times come out about […]
Font de Sa Cala: Practicing and Sightseeing
Today started pretty early with an 8am practice, and then checked in where we received polo shirts and towels as player gifts, very nice. We then had a nice breakfast. […]
Adios Palma, Buenos Dias Font de sa Cala
The news of the day is that I managed to find the rental car location, and then, once I’d renewed my contract, I found the airport (where I was picking […]
Training! Mallorca Draws Posted
Wednesday was the rain day, but the past two days have been training days at GlobalTennisTeam near Palma, Mallorca. i learned about it from another senior player, Andrew and also […]
Rainy Day on a Dry Island
It rained most of today in Mallorca. There was a lot of lightning too early, but some intermittent sunshine. However, no tennis, which was ok. It gave me a chance […]
Lost and Found in Mallorca
Yesterday was a long one…4am pickup to go to Trieste, Italy, via Slovenia for a 7am flight…to Munich, Germany, finally arriving at 11am in Barcelona where I had to wait […]