Masters Championships Recap 2025
Catherine Morgan
After an initial noontime rain-delay on Thursday, Dec. 18, the Inaugural USTA Level 2 Closed Women’s Masters Singles and Doubles Championship at the USTA National Campus at Lake Nona in Orlando ran smoothly with good weather, very good court conditions and some great matches.
A total of 30 women competed in the 30, 40, 45, 50, 55 and 60 ages categories with the largest draw size of 7 players in the Women’s 60 Singles. The 30-55s were held on hard courts with the 60-95s on the green Har-Tru.
An exciting USTA Level 2 event, there were unfortunately several withdrawals as the timing of December 18-21 may have been too close to the holidays for some and the entry fee, though heavily offset by a generous daily $20 food voucher, may initially have seemed a little steep.
With the separate USTA Player Development Center as well as USTA Florida headquarters just next door to the USTA National Campus, an extra bonus was watching the fabulous practice match between Ben Shelton and Sebastian Korda!!
All in all, it was an honor to participate in the inaugural Closed USTA Women’s Level 2 event that will only gain in attendance and popularity. (Men played a concurrent tournament which produced a larger draw as well as some excellent matches, but there were no Mixed Doubles draws.)
Finally, many thanks to Tournament Director Michael Bumgarner, Assistant TD Adam Hutchinson, excellent USTA officials, court maintenance personnel and the Net Post Grill staff for running a very enjoyable four-day USTA Masters event in Orlando.
Women’s Singles Results:
WOMEN’S 30s
🥇 Tess Munoz
🥈 Yujue Wu
WOMEN’S 40s
🥇 Laura Naramore
🥈 Rebecca Long
WOMEN’S 45s
🥇 Julia Dimitrov
🥈 Allison Rovner
WOMEN’S 50s
🥇 Kimberly Allen
🥈 Sarah Maneikis
WOMEN’S 55s
🥇 Jennifer Cullum
🥈 Catherine Morgan
WOMEN’S 60s
🥇 Catherine Morgan
🥈 Tiina Bougas-Smith
Women’s Doubles results:
WOMEN’S 45s
🥇 Sarah Maneikis and Kimberly Allen
🥈 Jennifer Fiers and Tumeka Harris