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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Chandler, Smashey, Fales Win Singles at National Women’s 40-89 Clay: Palm Beach Gardens Day 5, The End
Draws are here Fran Chandler won another marathon battle today, this against Vicky Buholz, 57 61 75, rallying from 0-3 down in the third to win the 3-hour match. In […]
National 40-80 Clay: Practice Day
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida Draws are here. The women’s tournament season in the USA basically skipped most of the summer for higher level tournaments (only 2 from June-mid-September), but now […]
National Women’s Clay Courts Day 3: Jones/Kuckhahn Win 90 Doubles
Houston, Texas Click here to see the draws and results. Click here to see photos. The weather changed from torrid to delightful overnight and today it was breezy, sunny, warm […]
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 […]
Successful Tournament Start in Barcelona
Draws and order of play: https://itfseniorsbarcelona.com/en/cuadros. Yesterday, after I went to the club (via the tram) I went to El Cortez Ingles, a huge department store about a 10 minute […]
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 […]
Essen Singles/Doubles Champion
Draws are here. I played the singles final, and the doubles semis and final both today. I played Jutta Boekmann in the singles final and won 60 60, though she […]
Successful Start in Essen
Draws are here I started today by somehow getting lost on the way to the courts (I think my gps was set to the wrong address)…somehow I got to the […]
Last Practice Day in Essen
Draws are here. Today was another practice day in Essen. I hit quite a bit, first with Heide Orth (what a beautiful backhand and deadly drop shot), then with Heidi […]
Practice Day 2 in Essen
Monday was a second practice day for me and another rainy day. Draws and results I ran errands early, grocery stores and picked up my newly strung racquet. I went […]
Practice Day #1 in Essen
Sunday in Germany is mostly a rest day…few stores are open other than at airports and railway stations, or gas stations, and restaurants are open. I had a pretty relaxing […]
Practice Day 3, Monday, Santiago
Santiago, Chile The tournament started today in Santiago, but the women don’t begin play till tomorrow. I play I presume on Wednesday. There are three players in my round robin […]