Erin Boynton, you may know is a terrific tennis player, top ranked Canadian in her age division and getting better every year). She’s also an orthopedic surgeon who has worked […]
Writing from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida The last day of the Fort Lauderdale tournament was played under sunny skies. It was very windy, at least by the time I played […]
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida On another sunny, beautiful, breezy Florida day, there was lots of good tennis at the Palm Beach Gardens Tennis Center. I warmed up early and played […]
Updates will be made when tournaments are added by the USTA to its tennislink site.
Palm Desert, CA Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the USA, is traditionally the start of the Christmas shopping season, where there are many big sales. It’s so named […]
Santiago Airport, Chile Today and tomorrow will be marathon travel days: two different 2+hour drives to get to the airport in Punta Arenas, a two hour wait for a three […]
Patagonia Chile On day 1 we had to skip kayaking after the glacier because of wind. We got into all the gear, wetsuit, booties, etc and had a briefing but […]
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) […]
Note that this is not a complete schedule. USTA will publish the 2020 Category II schedule here.
Note that this is incomplete and until links are added is tentative. Dates taken from USTA.com. Check tennislink for up to date information. I will be adding links in the […]
Check seniortennisblog.com for updates…but most tournaments have been cancelled; all category II are now sectional events; ITF has cancelled all but Grade 2, 3, 4 for 2020 but will resume […]
West Palm Beach, FL Scores are at the end of the post. The USA women’s 35 overcame a 0/1 deficit vs Paraguay to win their Round Robin. They have a […]
This is the link to apply for the 2020 USA Senior International Teams (for Florida), for the men’s and women’s 50/55 & 60 teams. Players must have played a Cat […]
Here is the link: https://www.itftennis.com/seniors/tournaments/tournament/info.aspx?tournamentid=1100044904
Keszthely, Balaton Lake, Hungary I played the mixed doubles semis and our first and last women’s doubles match today. Our mixed was scheduled yesterday for “not before 2 pm” but […]
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 […]
Keszthely (pronounced “Kes Kay”) Lake Balaton, Hungary Yesterday was a pretty long and tiring day…travel can be stressful in new places and Hungary is definitely a new country with a […]
On a train to Keszthely, Balaton, Hungary Photos may not be loading, will try again tonight. I arrived on Friday night from Mallorca (via Munich) to Budapest, and from my […]
Madrid, Spain, Sunday Morning, August 25th I think there must be a lot of people with hangovers in Madrid today judging by the noise that was still emanating from the […]
On the AVE train to Madrid.. August 22, 2019 I wrote this blog yesterday…and then the internet ate it so we’ll never know exactly what I said then…today we are […]
Barcelona, Spain Monday August 19, 2019 It was a long and fun day in Barcelona today. We started early, leaving at 7am for Park Guell. We took the Metro, which […]
Somewhere between Lisbon & Barcelona Saturday August 17, 2019 The World Championships ended in Portugal today. They were a great success. This is a partial overview of the final day; […]
Lisbon, Portugal Sunday was Day 2 of the Individual World Championships. There are now five of us staying at the apartment I rented and only Jenny Cerff from So Africa […]
Lisbon, Portugal Today was the start of the ITF Seniors World Team Championships. We played Brazil today, starting at 9:30. I played #2 singles and won 60 60; Diane played […]
Lisbon, Portugal Today we had our first complete team practice, as Robin arrived too late yesterday to practice. We played some singles and doubles and stayed from about 10-1. The […]
Lisbon, Portugal I left Mallorca early this morning and flew via Madrid to Lisbon. The view from the air was fantastic. The only worrisome part of the flight was that […]
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 […]
Bordeaux, France It was another lovely day in Bordeaux. Sue Bartlett and I were rescheduled to the 6th match after 8:30 (not before 2pm)…we got on around 5pm. We played […]
Bordeaux, France, Wednesday (WiFi was down Tuesday….) After a long weekend watching my nephew getting married (The Carmel Mission Church is beautiful as was the wedding), I drove to SFO. […]
Poertschach am Worthersee, Austria While watching Wawrinka play another classic, this time against Federer….well, now in a rain delay at 3-3 in the fourth. Today was another warm and sunny […]