World Tennis Masters Team Championships: Turkiye; USA Teams Go 6/0 on Day 2 (Monday)

Draws are here.

USA Teams all won their respective round robin matches today and all teams except the W60 won their group; W60 play their final group match tomorrow and is the only USA team in action tomorrow. The weather was great today.

The Althea Gibson Cup (W70) beat Germany 3/0. Betsy Kuhl won #2 singles 64 64 against Airane Lauenburg; I won 62 60 against Jutta Boekmann at #1 singles and Tina Karwasky/Andrea Barnes edged Sabine Schmitz/Susanne Roseneck-Peterson 46 62 10-8. Betsy won against a tricky player who had unusual strokes but knew how to use them. The match of the day was the doubles though…Tina and Andrea started slowly, dropping the first set 64 (after rallying from 52 down) but rebounded nicely to win the second set. It was not windy but the conditions were tough on one end due to the sun. Andrea barely made a misstep and Tina finished a lot of points well, but the Germans were a good and established team.

The W65 swept Switzerland pretty decisively, dropping only 2 games (one in each singles match) to win the tie.

The W60 beat Australia 2/1, winning both singles; Jenny Rens won 0,3; Jenny Klitch won 75 62 (rallying from 3/0 and 4/2 down in the first set; Christina Kaus and Kathy Archibald fell to the Aussies 64 64. The Aussies are great at doubles in general; also one of the Aussies was foot faulting egregiously (about 1/2 yard) into the court…while the Turkish “roving” umpire was a court away by an empty court reading on her phone. But to be fair, as soon as she was alerted to the situation, she came right over and immediately called a foot fault.