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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]