Sunday Oct. 24, 2021 Draws are here. Photos are here The 40th ITF Super Senior World Championships ended with a whimper more than a bang as the final mixed doubles […]
October 22, 2021 Draws are here. Photos are here The good news today was that the weather forecasters were wrong about the rain today…it never came (80% chance of rain […]
Thursday October 21, 2021 Draws are here. Photos are here Today was a day off for singles but Sabine Schmitz and I played Hildegard Bruggraber/Christiane Deryckere. In contrast to our […]
Tuesday October 19, 2021 Draws are here. Photos are here Today I warmed up again with Sabine Schmitz even though I didn’t play till 2pm…it was good to hit early […]
Monday October 18, 2021 Draws are here. Photos are here Today I played my first singles match at the ITF Super Senior World Championships, ten days after my last match […]
Sunday October 17, 2021 Draws are here. Photos are here Today was the last practice day before the Individual World Championships for me. I checked on practice courts in the […]
Saturday October 16, 2021 Draws are here. Photos are here The ITF Super Seniors Individual World Championships began today with a light schedule: Men’s 65 Round of 128 and mixed […]
Friday October 15, 2021 Yesterday, Thursday was a rest day from tennis..I watched a bit of Spain vs France in the 65 Women’s division ( France won but only in […]
Writing Thursday Morning 10/14/21 Yesterday was my last practice day at Global Tennis, in Marraxti. I drove over in the morning, over the now familiar route, past the small agricultural […]
So Sineu and Petra are towns in Mallorca in the center of the Island. I had an early practice session…9:30 (remember that it doesn’t get light till about 8am and […]
Monday October 11, 2021 Today was day two of the teams event (the one the USA pulled out of for “various reasons”). I drove over to Marraxti near Palma to […]
Sunday in Font de Sa Cala, Spain The Super Senior World Team Championships started today in Font de Sa Cala, but of course the USA teams along with many others […]
Saturday was a practice day after a day of touring. I drove over to Global Tennis on the southern end of the Island, a little over an hour from Font […]
Yesterday was a long day of touring…and I drove! I went with German Heide Froeysok and Aussie Stephen Dance. We started towards Cap de Fomentor a nearly two hour drive […]
Draws are here. I played the final today in Mallorca. As usual I warmed up with Dagmar Sperneder at 8:30. We were scheduled to play at 10:30 and got on […]
Draws are here. Photos are here. Wednesday was semifinal day in Mallorca. There were some ominous looking clouds in the not too distant sky as we waited for our court […]
Draws are here. I played the quarters of the ITF S1000 in Font de Sa Cala, Spain today, against Katrin Dippner. I warmed up early (8:30) with Dagmar Sperneder of […]
Font de sa Cala, Spain I arrived in Font de sa Cala at around 9:15, checked in (my room was to be ready at 10:30, had a bit of breakfast, […]
Saturday, after I finished my last match in Palm Beach Gardens I got organized (more or less…somehow I ended up with 4 hair brushes…and normally I wear a hat to […]
It was a “hurry up and wait” sort of morning Saturday. I left my Airbnb early, before 6 am (finally saw a sunrise in Spain). Luckily I bought fuel the […]
Today was my last day on this trip in Mallorca. It didn’t start out very promisingly…I drove to play tennis and got there (10 min walk plus 30 min drive)…and […]
The ITF has released the fact sheets for the Young Seniors, Seniors and Super Seniors here. Fact sheet for the Super Seniors World Team Championships Fact sheet for Super Senior […]
This afternoon I decided to drive to the western part of Mallorca, which has beautiful vistas of the Balearic Sea (which is part of the Mediterranean Sea). On the other […]
This afternoon I paid a visit to the Coves (Caves) de Campanet. Filled with stalactites and stalagmites (and new ones are forming all the time), they were discovered in 1945. […]
Tuesday June 29, 2021, Sa Pobla, Mallorca, Spain It was another sunny warm day in Mallorca. I trained earlier today, 10am…when I arrived at 9:30 all the courts were busy […]
This afternoon I drove to Manacor where the Rafael Nadal Academy is located, on the outskirts of the town. I’ve been there before but it looks like some big changes […]
Sunday in Sa Pobla means that the central square, which yesterday was mostly deserted becomes the busy market hub, selling everything from Mallorcan cherries and apricots to Mallorcan cheese, and […]
Sa Pobla is a small town in the north central part of Mallorca, about 10 km from Muro beach. The downtown is very quaint, densely packed, with a central square […]
After a mostly sleepless night (jet lag…I didn’t miss you), I hit on the red clay for the first time in nearly two years. I went to a small club, […]
Remember pre-9/11 air travel? (This is a Senior tennis blog after all.) It was easy..shoes stayed on, liquids were allowed through security, as were Swiss Army knives. Then we all […]