ITF Super Senior Winners, Finalists and Semifinalists
Winners MS65 1 Daniel WALDMAN [5] 2 Frits RAIJMAKERS [1] 3/4 Martin CORNISH [3] 3/4 Paolo MOSCELLI [26] MS70 1 Alfred BOECKL [2] 2 Bruno RENOULT [6] 3/4 Jorge CAMINA […]
Tag Archives: Spain
World Championships, Mallorca: The End: Waldman, Fales/Corley Win Gold on Saturday
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 […]
Silver Medalist (x2); Fales Dominates 80s in Mallorca; Dittmer/Grossman, Liana Bryson, Dorothy Wasser Also Win Gold
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 […]
Survived Doubles Semi; Finals Friday (Weather Permitting); Semis Results
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 […]
ITF Super Senior World Championships; Into the Semis; American Results Update
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 […]
Two Matches! Successful Start in World Championships
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 […]
Practice Day 7 & Castell de Capdepera
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 […]
Practice Day 6/World Team Championship Medal Ceremony
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 […]
Practice Day 5, Wednesday
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 […]
Draws Posted for Individual World Championships
The singles draws have been posted for the ITF Super Seniors Individual World Championships. View draws here. The doubles draws should be posted tomorrow. Play begins Saturday. Women’s draws begin […]
Practice Day 4 & Sineu & Petra
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 […]
Font de Sa Cala: Practice Day 3
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 […]
Alcudia, Formentor, Valdemossa, Soller, Deia
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 […]
Mallorca Super Senior Open 1000 Champion
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 […]
Mallorca 1000 Wednesday: Into the Final
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 […]
ITF S1000, Font de Sa Cala, Mallorca: Into the Semis
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 […]
Mallorca, Font de Sa Cala ITF Seniors 1000
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, […]
Travel Day: Palm Beach Gardens to Font de sa Cala Spain
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 […]
USTA Removes USA Super Senior Teams from ITF World Championships in Mallorca
Several people have asked why I didn’t write anything about the USTA removing the USA Super Senior teams from the ITF Super Seniors World Team Championships in Mallorca, Spain. So […]
Last Day in Spain
July 19, 2021 I started my day with the “new normal” for international travel…a covid test. I had an antigen test I brought with me…you connect online, and the proctor […]
Montserrat
Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain range not far from Barcelona. It’s known as the site of the Benedictine abbey, Santa Maria de Montserrat. Montserrat in Catalan means serrated mountain, and […]
Girona & Barcelona Gothic Quarter
Today I went to Girona, about 45 minutes NE from the Barcelona Sants station by fast train. I just missed the first subway train at Maria Christina, so had only […]
Barcelona Singles Champion
Saturday Morning July 17, 2021 I played my final tournament match in Barcelona last night. I had the “early” start time of 6pm, and we started right on time. I […]
Barcelona Doubles Success; Singles Final Tonight
Draws and order of play are here. Last night we were scheduled for doubles at 9pm but our match went on about 15 minutes early.. I was scouting my singles […]
Into the Singles Final; Doubles Final Under the Lights Tonight
Thursday July 15, 2021 Draws and order of play are here. Yesterday I practiced in the late morning (the earliest practice times are 11am) with Lisa B, then went back […]
Tennis Under the Lights in Barcelona
Wednesday July 14 (Happy Bastille Day), 2021 Draws, schedule of play and tournament information is available here. Last night I caught the tram just before midnight back to the hotel […]
Hola Espana
This morning I left rainy Essen, Germany for sunny Barcelona, Spain. I flew Vueling airlines (affiliated with Iberia), a discount airline that had the best nonstop flight today to Barcelona […]
Traveling to Germany
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 […]
Adios Mallorca
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 […]
Coves de Campanet & Alcudia Port
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. […]