When playing tournaments, we hope you’ll follow these best practices to make the event better for all participants. 

There is a clear association between intense, extremely long-duration, high-intensity exercise and more skeletal muscle cramps. Also, there is a possible association between lack of training and/or training in a hot, humid environment and muscle fatigue and muscle cramping…

There is an entire circuit of ITF Masters Tournaments, including one in the USA (all of our Level 1/Gold Ball tournaments, most Level 2 and some Level 3 events). There are ITF tournaments on every continent except Antarctica. Here’s how to get started…

Bidding is now open for 2024 NWTO tournament entries

My friend, Julie Thu (who has played the National Senior Women’s Clay Court Championships in Houston MANY times), asked me to write an article about running that tournament.

As we think over which tournaments we are going to play in 2024 and how we will build our playing schedule, we’d like to introduce you to NWTO member Vickki Schlappi, who has spent her career as a licensed general contractor, building and remodeling homes…

How does the Section view the relationship of league play with age-based tournament play for women? Any thoughts on how this can be organized to the benefit of both league and tournament play?

Breathing is an automatic process. Outside of the occasional yoga class, panic, or asthma attack, rarely do any of us give any conscious thought to our breath. We also give very little thought to the physical mechanics of breathing…

Every year, the picturesque La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club in La Jolla, California, hosts one of the most prestigious events on our tennis calendar: the 40s National Hardcourt Championships, held from November 27 to December 3.

Eventually, she started to play again and began competing in a local league…A gold ball and competing for the USA sounded pretty cool to Kristen so she began seeking out tournaments to play in 2023…

How does the Section view the relationship of league play with age-based tournament play for women? Any thoughts on how this can be organized to the benefit of both league and tournament play?

NWTO Life Member Lee Hall Delfausse has written a sequel to her well-received first book published in 2018. It continues to follow Lia, an Olympic-caliber skier, set in the 70s with the turmoil surrounding the baby boomer generation and the war in Vietnam…

The 2023 Women’s Team Intersectional Event is in the books! Over 350 women tennis competitors descended on the courts of Phoenix Tennis Center November 6-12…

The National Hard Court Championships for the odd divisions were held October 23-29 at the Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, CA.

November is the best month to look over what has happened with your income and expenses for the current year. This way, you have a month to make decisions about how you want to have the best income tax outcome for the year, as well as decisions about charitable choices you want to make. Most decisions that will be reported on your 2023 income tax return need to be implemented before December 31, 2023.

We’ll get to the improbable story of Birds Barbershop in Austin, Texas, in a moment, y’all (as its website says). But first, we’ll tell y’all about Erin Portman’s pandemic bicycle accident because, after all, Erin is the tennis player we’re spotlighting and the accident has everything to do with her spiraling tennis game…

We all love to play competitive tennis, and while doing so, the display of gratitude and sportsmanship is an invaluable component that goes beyond merely winning or losing. Whether you find yourself on the victorious side or experience the sting of defeat, showing thankfulness in a tennis match will enhance not only your own experience, but also that of your opponent.

Location: Capdepera, Mallorca, Spain

Dates: October 8-12, 2023

What does the Section do to promote adult tennis in general? How does the Section promote adult age-based tournaments—both in the Section and Nationally?

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and this article is intended to increase your awareness of the health risks posed by Diabetes Mellitus, aka diabetes. Diabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease characterized by elevated blood glucose (or blood sugar)…