2020 Category I Mixed Doubles Schedule
For official updates check USTA.com. Note that all Category I Mixed doubles tournaments except for the 30s are ITF Grade A tournaments as well as USTA Category I tournaments and […]
For official updates check USTA.com. Note that all Category I Mixed doubles tournaments except for the 30s are ITF Grade A tournaments as well as USTA Category I tournaments and […]
Santiago, Chile Today I played my first match, against Austria’s Shirley Friedl. She is a nice lefty player, but I played pretty well and the altitude helped my high balls […]
Santiago, Chile It was another warm (90ish) late spring day in Santiago. I practiced twice today, with a pro at the club and then with a Canadian I ran into. […]
Santiago, Chile The tournament I am playing next week is called the Alfredo Trullenque, an ITF Grade A. It’s been going on for a long time. It’s being played at […]
Santiago, Chile I’m on the bottom half of the world now, in the Las Condes part of Santiago. The flight from Houston was delayed…not because the plane was late (it […]
On a train near Lake Balaton, Hungary Janos Latura and I won the mixed doubles in Hungary today over Eva Bogar Szabo and Peter Sakovics from Hungary 64 31 retired. […]
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 […]
Keszthely, Balaton Lake, Hungary It was an early start today at the Hungarian International Grade A. I had a “not before 9:30” match and warmed up around 8:30 and we […]
Keszthely, Balaton Region, Hungary Today was very cool and windy, quite a change from the mid 90s on Sunday! There are two venues here, the Fonix venue and the Ady […]
Bordeaux, France Sue Bartlett and I played the 60s final today and finally played on Court 1, which was a good court! We were the 4th match after 9am (and […]
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 I played my second round robin match today against Carmen Lang, who just won the Spanish closed nationals in the 60s. We were the 2nd match after 11am […]
Bordeaux, France Today was a pretty relaxing one since I only had one doubles match, 2nd match on court 9 after 2pm. We started around 3:30 or so I think […]
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. […]
The Men’s 75 Grass has found at home in Rancho Mirage, CA at the Mission Hills Country Club. Steve Solomon, who runs the 60 Hard Courts will take over this […]
June 13, 2019, Poertschach, Austria The order of play here was posted pretty late yesterday (about 9:30pm), due to the thunderstorms which delayed play. I was scheduled for 9am which […]
Wednesday June 12, 2019, Poertschach am Worthersee, Austria This morning was beautiful and sunny here in Carinthia (the sun rises at 5am!). I hit midday with Laura DiVittorio (Italy, W55), […]
Today was a tale of two different weather patterns: in the morning and early afternoon it was quite warm and muggy, but by mid afternoon it was cloudy and thunder […]
While it’s raining in England….it was warm (upper 80s) and sunny on the “Austrian Riviera”, and it’s supposed to hit 90 by Friday. I had a hit set up today […]
Rafa, 12 French Opens; Dominic Thiem…fought so hard. I enjoyed listening the to the French Open final on Radio Roland Garros (Via Tuned In’s ATP Radio station, it’s great), while […]
I didn’t get to catch much of the French Open today because I had three matches…but did catch Thiem’s third (and final) match point and the first five games of […]
While in a rain delay during Thiem/Novack (and the Barty/Anisimova semi was…streaky). I won my singles semis against Gundi Wieland from Germany. She beat the #3 seed yesterday; I won […]
So the French Open ended early on a delayed quarterfinal day…so I’m writing without that distraction! Who will reach the final: Konta vs Vondrousova; Anisimova vs Barty; Fed vs Rafa; […]
While NOT watching the French Open…. Poertschach am Worthersee, Austria Unlike Paris, where it rained all day, it was a warm, sunny day in Poertschach, and even a bit humid. […]
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 […]
Poertschach am Worthersee, Austria Today I had a chance to hit with King Van Nostrand. King is aptly named…he’s a king of senior tennis, and is true tennis royalty. From […]
While everyone is glued to Tsitsipas/Wawrinka…practicing was going on here in Poertschach (Eurosport switched to cycling in the middle of the match but came back, only to go away to […]
Poertschach am Worthersee, Austria Thursday and Friday were travel days…I left California around 11:30am Thursday and two planes and three trains later ended up in Poertschach (with a nine hour […]
Jane Lutz, 90, played six sets of tennis today to win the USTA 90 hard court singles & doubles titles. Rita Price also played six sets of tennis today and […]
Friday was finals day at the USTA National Hard Courts at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. I didn’t get to see much tennis because I was on court […]