Mallorca MT 1000 Singles Champion & Into Doubles Final
Draws/results are here. Today I warmed up early with Patricia Zerdan (no face plants this morning). We had an excellent warm up. I played Pauline Fisher at 10:30…it was our […]
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2026 USTA Level 1 Family Tournaments
Feld Am See Champion on a Gorgeous Austrian September Day
Draws/Results are here. It was a long day on the courts Friday…Vicki and I warmed up for just short of an hour at 7:45…it was a beautiful morning so I […]
First Round Success in Villach
Draws and results are here. Nini (Luisa), Reinhilde and I arrived yesterday from Nuremberg via Munich by train just a few minutes late to Villach, Austria. The train from Munich […]
Doubles Champion in Palm Beach Gardens; Waldman, Busby, Prechtl, Costa Bou Win Singles Titles on a Steamy Saturday
Draws and results are here. Saturday was another steamy hot day in South Florida and the final day of the 2025 ITF World Championships for the 60/65/70 divisions. Bunnie Jackson […]
ITF Masters World Championships Day 2, Palm Beach Gardens: Florida Heat and Humidity Attacks the Players
Draws are here. It was another hot and muggy day in Palm Beach Gardens…so hot that the heat rule had to be implemented and play stopped for an hour. There […]
ITF Individual Championships Day 1: Mixed Troubles for the Top Seeds
Draws are here. I had a welcome day off from tennis after a hard, hot week of tennis, but followed the action and actually watched a bit of the mixed […]
Settles, Thyssen/Robertson Win First Gold Balls at Pelham
Draws are here (USTA membership needed to view for reasons only USTA knows). There was a lot of good tennis and I had another airline snafu…thinking Charlotte is NOT the […]
Finals Set in Pelham in 55 Singles (Settles/Perez Gimenez); 65 Doubles (Boynton/Frautschi & Robertson/Thyssen); Seeds Advance in Remaining Divisions.
Draws are here. Lori Robertson spent around seven hours on court yesterday (if you count warm up). She and Erin Boynton played a 3.5 hour match under challenging conditions, as […]
USTA Level 1/ITF MT1000 Champions Crowned at Women’s 40/50/60/70/80 Clay Courts: Thu Dominates; Rens Wins Maiden Clay Titles; Nichols Runs Past 70s & Kimball Dominates 80s
Draws are here (must have USTA membership to view) Julie Thu, #1 in the USA and World 50 singles rankings, thrashed her opposition in Palm Beach Gardens this week, beating […]
USTA National Clay Courts, Palm Beach Gardens: Inoue (W40), Buholz/Rens & Jackson/Nichols Win Gold Balls; Finals Saturday for Remaining Divisions
Draws are here (USTA membership needed to view) Today was advertised to be windy and it was pretty breezy (though I have played at the Palm Beach Gardens Tennis Center […]
50/60/70/80 Singles Semis Set in Palm Beach Gardens at National Clay Courts
Draws are here (need USTA membership to view unfortunately). The 70s singles semis are set: I beat newcomer Kay Reed (a newly retired radiologist who was a good junior player); […]
USTA National Women’s 40-80 Clay Courts, Palm Beach Gardens Day 2
Draws are here. It was another warm and lovely day in Palm Beach Gardens and there were a lot of competitive matches. Susan Love outlasted Sylvia Kodsi in a hard […]
Cooper Cup: Kilburn, Nichols, Ward Win Singles Titles on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale
Draws are here (account required) Saturday was a warm, breezy day in Fort Lauderdale and the courts were quick green clay (with some suspect bounces…and very dry and slippery). In […]
Susan Boyer Defends 60s Title; Koksalova Wins 30s; Nichols/Purcell Reach 70s Final; Wachob/Kimball Face off in the 80s & More: Palm Beach Gardens Level 2/ITF MT700 Day 4
Draws are here (need account (free) to view) It was a slightly breezy, beautiful sunny day in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and there were a lot of excellent matches. The […]
Palm Beach Gardens Grandes Dames Day 3: Kaus/Boyer into 60s Final
Draws are here (need account (free) to view) The final of the 60s is set here after both semis went the distance. Top seeded/defending champion Susan Boyer outlasted Shelly Works […]
Successful Start in Palm Beach Gardens on a Gorgeous Tuesday
Draws are here. (Need an account with USTA to access draws). Today was a Florida Chamber of Commerce type of day, sunny, light breeze, mid-70s (around 24 Celsius). It was […]
2025 Grandes Dames Level 2/ITF MT 700 Day 1: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Draws are here (though you may need to create a USTA account to view them) The cold, wet weather of last week has turned to warm and sunny weather in […]
2025 USTA Level 1 Women’s Tournaments
The links should be added by October 1st. Click on the link above to check to see if links added (if they aren’t appearing here by early October…I will add […]
Villach Practice Day 1
Draws are here. Tuesday was another practice day. It was also a wet morning. I was to practice with MJ but the courts were wet, and as it turned out […]
Gmund, Carinthia, Austria
Today was a busy one…I packed up my car, MJ and I hit balls for an hour, and I did grocery shopping at Hofer and Billa while MJ and Rudy […]
2025 USTA Level 3 Tournament Schedule, Men & Women
The links will be added in October according to the USTA. Click here to see the USTA schedule as currently published. (The information will be updated by the USTA but […]
2025 Level 1 (Gold Ball) Mixed Schedule
Click here to view schedule on USTA.com. The links should be added by October 1st. Click on the link above to check to see if links added (if they aren’t […]
ITF Individual World Championship Roundup: Fritz-Krakow, Bourim, Correa Medal in Portugal
Draws are here. The 30/35/40 Individual World Championships were held last week in Lisbon, Portugal in singles/doubles/mixed. There were not many Americans who stayed to play the second week but […]
Monte Bre on a Steamy Friday
I had the day off from the tournament in Lugano, but we finished so late last night that I slept late and didn’t get started very early today. I first […]
Lugano Singles Champion; Midnight Madness Doubles
Draws are here. I played Carola Kluzer of Italy in the singles final and played very well…though she was not at her best, and won the 65 singles title. We […]
First Round Success in Lugano
Draws are here. Lugano, Switzerland, Tuesday Morning I had my first match yesterday in Lugano. I practiced around 3:15-4 with Leanne Swaysland, then waited for my “not before 5:30 (pm)” […]
Lugano
Draws are here. Today I started by leaving the hotel at 3:30, took a taxi to the airport, then a flight to Zurich then a train (2 trains to be […]
Barcelona Champion; Onto Lugano
Draws are here. Writing from the train from Zurich Airport to Lugano Yesterday involved a lot of tennis! Rosemary and I warmed up around 11:30…a late start because it actually […]
Lima Day 7: Doubles Champion, Into Singles Final
Draws are here. Friday June 21, 2024, Lima, Peru Weather report: No change to the weather but there wasn’t much misting this morning…lows in the upper 50’s and highs in […]