2021 Adult Tournament Changes: Indoor Level 1 (gold ball) Nationals are Eliminated

The following information is courtesy of and reprinted with permission of the NWTO (National Women’s Tennis Organization (click here to go its website). Summary: The USTA Adult Competition Committee (ACC) […]

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Designated Open Sectional Championship Schedule 2020

From USTA.com (read here). 2020 Tournament Recategorizations due to Covid-19  In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the USTA family would like to encourage local play as opposed to traveling […]

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2020 Tournament Recategorizations due to Covid-19

Press Release from the USTA: Designated Open Sectional Championship  In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the USTA family would like to encourage local play as opposed to traveling to […]

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2020 Women’s Category II Schedule (Partial, Tentative)

The USTA will publish the 2020 Cat II Schedule here. Or check on tennislink.usta.com. The table below has a list of Cat II tournaments; only the ones which have links […]

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Miami Regional Championship: Sunday Wrap

Saturday afternoon and Sunday there was still quite a bit of tennis to play in Miami Beach at the ITF Regional Championship. I’m relying on the scores from the website, […]

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Miami Beach RC: Friday Vibes; Works Wins a Saturday Marathon

March 9, 2019 Friday in Miami Beach…is noisy! Bands tuning up, motorcycles racing, rush hour traffic, high season energy. I played Dagmar Sperneder from Austria in the de facto 60s […]

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Miami Beach: North American Regional Tennis Tournament

March 7, 2019 Miami Beach…March…what a nice place to be while the North is freezing and the West is raining! Even though the weather has been variable this week, from […]

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Kraujina, Klitch, Novack, Weber Win Singles Titles Saturday

Kristin Kraujina of Florida won the 30 singles on a sunny, breezy Saturday. Kraujina lives in a town called Sunny Isles Beach, which sounds awfully pleasant! She won the four […]

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Les Grandes Dames Palm Beach Gardens: Super Cat II/ITF Grade 1

Happy New Year everyone…the first tournament of the year for me anyway is this week in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. (Venus has a place for sale if you are interested). […]

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2019 USTA Men’s Category II Schedule

Click here to view schedule on USTA.com (and check for updates) Click here to return to carolynnichols.com. 

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New Category 2 in Massachusetts: Clem Easton Tournament

The USTA has added a Category 2 tournament to the national schedule. It will be held June 21-24 at the Field Club of Longmeadow in East Longmeadow, MA. This tournament […]

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2018 National Schedule Now Posting on Carolynnichols.com

2018 Schedule with links has started posting on carolynnichols.com Click here to see schedule. This will be updated periodically. The date of the last update will appear on the site. […]

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2018 USTA National Schedule 

Scroll down PAST 2017 schedule to see 2018 Schedule. Links to tournaments are not yet available. Update: Some links now listed here: Carolynnichols.com/18Schedule Links to all tournaments Cat 1 Women’s […]

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Russell Grandes Dames, A Category II USTA Tournament

There is a new Category II tournament in Naples, for women age 40-80, even divisions for singles and odd and even for 50-80, plus 40 doubles. I am playing 60 […]

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Into the Final at BallenIsles on a Warm and Windy Saturday

It was a warm and windy day in Palm Beach Gardens. I played Wendy McColskey from NC today, our third meeting in a year. It was a tough match with […]

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BallenIsles Grandes Dames Starts Today: Note Parking Alert!

BallenIsles,  Palm Beach Gardens, Florida From Tournament Director Trish Faulkner: PARKING ALERT!! THIS YEAR YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO PARK AT THE SPORTS COMPLEX HOWEVER YOU MUST USE VALET PARKING […]

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Crawford Cup Day 4, Sunny Saturday in the “Sunshine” State

No rain today at Crawford Cup! I’m sure the staff, tournament director, referee and volunteers were as happy as the players about that weather outcome. There were a lot of […]

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Crawford Cup, Rainy Start leads to Finish Under the Lights

The Crawford Cup began yesterday and the weather was fine, but the forecast for today was ominous…100% chance of rain according to weather.com this morning. By 8:15 it was raining, […]

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2015 USTA Adult/Senior Seeding Assistants

Women 30s: Trish Riddell (trish10s@aol.com) & Mary Dailey (daileymd@gmail.com)  35s: Judy Louie (ad2louie@aol.com) & Carolyn Nichols (carolynanichols@gmail.com) 40s: Ellen Goodman (mummsey@aol.com) & Gee Gee Garvin (speed3g@aol.com) 45s: Gail Murayama (gailmvan@yahoo.com) […]

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Saturday Tennis at Crawford Cup: Semis and Finals

On another warm (80s) sunny day in Fort Lauderdale, the semis of the 45s, 65s and 75s and finals of the 55s were played. I won the 55 singles final […]

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Final Day at BallenIsles

I played Fran Chandler in the final and she outplayed me…64 64. She moved great as always! But it was a 2 hour plus match…in fact we were at 1/0 […]

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