Wed Update
Pam Cooke and Debbie Croft narrowly avoided a first round upset in the 45 doubles, rallying from 26 25 15-40 to beat Pam Dodman/Joy Passalaqua late yesterday. They played well […]
Pam Cooke and Debbie Croft narrowly avoided a first round upset in the 45 doubles, rallying from 26 25 15-40 to beat Pam Dodman/Joy Passalaqua late yesterday. They played well […]
http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swfBrrrrr! That’s the official weather forcast for today….but the was shining. It was 40 for the 8:30 matches, and felt like 32. Anyway, one upset in the 45s, […]
Rain for most of the day forced play to begin after 3pm yesterday. It was cold after the storm came in, and very windy, horrible playing conditions, but there weren’t […]
The women’s 90 clay and grass courts will be held in the same week this year at Forest Hills. For more information, click here.
The St Petersburg Men’s Cat II concludes today in St. Petersburg, FL Click here for all results. The 55s was won by Fred Robinson, the 5th seed, who handed Larry […]
Pat Parsons took many of the photos that are showing on my website and in the blog just below this one. It’s her birthday March 1st, so join me […]
http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf View Album Get your own Saturday it rained much of the day, till about 1:30 pm and matches started about 3pm and went on till after 9pm. […]
Friday update. Rain yesterday put the doubles in some divisions a day behind, but the weather today was nice, albeit a bit warm for some of the northerners in the […]
Checket Cup finished today on a breezy note. I didn’t blog yesterday because Mariana Hollman and I were involved in the longest match of the tournament in terms of time, […]
Play was underway in all age divisions today, 35s through 85s. Mary Boswell, winner of the world championships and the Gold Slam in singles and doubles last year, fell in […]
BallenIsles Cat II/ITF Grade 3: Trish Riddell won the 30 singles and doubles (with Mary Dailey); Renata Marcinkowska won the 40 singles; Mary Dailey/Joanne Russell won the 40 doubles; Diane […]
55s: Larry Turville won the 55s over Joe Rasgado. 60s: 5) Michael Barnes d. Laurence Hammel; Barnes beat #2 seed David Nash and Hammel beat #1 seed Hugh Thomson en […]
Results: http://tennislink.usta.com/Tournaments/TournamentHome/Results.aspx?T=55342&E=42 The final day was rained out for the 35-55 age divisions. Winners were determined in the men’s and women’s 60-80 and men’s 85 divisions. Graydon Nichols won the […]
The USTA announced today that the USTA Category I Women’s 35/45/55 Grass Court Championships will be held July 14-19 at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia, in conjunction with the […]
Diane Fishburne, 50s; Brenda Carter, 60s, Dorothy Matthiessen, 70s and Mary Boswell, 75s, all won the world championships this year and each has finished #1 in the world in her […]
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Manola Colter beat top seeded Ellie Hammargren to win her first 40s national, in La Jolla last month. She won the 35 hard courts the past two years. Gretchen Magers/Kathy […]
Brenda Carter, Fred Drilling, Dorothy Matthiessen, Mary Boswell and Graydon Nichols all won singles titles in Christchurch this year. For Carter, Drilling and Boswell it was their first ever world […]
Brenda Carter upset top seeded Carol Campling in straight sets today, a reversal of the outcome of their match a week ago during the Alice Marble Cup. It was her […]
Women’s 70s: The All American Semifinals are set. Unseeded, Roz King edged her Gibson Cup teammate Burnette Herrick in three sets, dropping the first before rallying to win the 2nd […]
The Individual World Championships began Sunday in Christchurch. The women’s 70s team has fared well there, causing three upsets already: Burnette Herrick upset the 3rd seed and top Aussie player, […]
USA won the Von Cramm Cup (men’s 60s); Gardnar Mulloy (men’s 80s); Kitty Godfree (women’s 65s) and Althea Gibson (Women’s 70s). USA finished 2nd in four other cups, Men’s 65s […]
USA has reached the final of eight of the nine cups contested in New Zealand, failing to reach the final only in the Alice Marble Cup (in which the USA […]
USA Queens’ Cup came roaring back after dropping the #2 singles match against Canada (to whom they lost 2x last year in Turkey, 2-1 both times). Mary Boswell played a […]
Hello from SUNNY Christchurch! I’m at Wilding Park today and the Marble Cup team beat Japan today, with Betty Wachob winning the #2 singles point and Brenda Carter playing a […]
USA remains in contention in all divisions as of Wed night. Del Campbell and Fred Drilling won in singles in the Britannia Cup in Ashurton and Rudy Hernando/Alan Carter won […]
BRRRRR! That’s the weather report for today…breezy, low 50s, cloudy and some rain. The men’s and women’s 70s and men’s 75s swept their singles at Hagley Park. The […]
USA has nine teams in New Zealand. All are seeded; all but the women’s 60s are seeded 1 or 2 (the women’s 60s are seeded 4) Men’s 60s, […]