USA Sends Four Teams Into Semis in Turkiye: World Tennis Masters Team Championships

Draws are here.

The Althea Gibson (W70) team had another day off today so we scouted and supported our other USA teams, all of whom were in action.

Play began at 10:30 today because of the late finish last night…the last World Tennis email was around 11:30 pm. It was cold and dark when the doubles was being played last night but the staff and players were troupers.

This morning I still woke up pretty early and was trying to retrieve the shoes I had ordered from Tennis Point Global. This turned out to be a mistake, both the ordering and trying to pick them up in Manavgat. They said to pick them up at the local post office, so I got a taxi to Manavgat and went to the post office, which seems beyond disorganized, but maybe it’s organized chaos. Apparently the shoes are in Antalya over an hour away and I have given up ever seeing them. However, I did see some of Manavgat and also spied a grocery store only a 15 min walk from Ali Bey so I will check that out on Saturday, weather permitting, it is the rainy season.

I returned to Ali Bey and we practiced for about 75-90 minutes and then watched some of the GBR/GER match which went on for a very long time, finally won 2/0 by GBR…both the singles went three sets but GBR won the doubles comfortably. We actually play Australia tomorrow. They beat Ireland without any trouble today.

As far as the USA teams went, the W65 beat Portugal comfortably 3/0.

The W60 beat GBR 3/0; Jenny Rens had a tough match 75 63 at #2 and Jenny Klitch was awesome at #1, dropping only a game; Christina Kaus and Kathy Archibald won the doubles in straight sets.

The M65 won 3/0; John Valestro won in three sets at #2 over Alec Allen; Bill Moss beat Paul Wingrove 2,0 and Ross Hessler/Jon Tyrell won the doubles point.