Stepping onto the court at the Palm Beach Gardens tennis tournament this January was like stepping back into a time machine. After 30 years of exclusively playing doubles, I decided it was time to retire the matching outfits…

What are the odds that an 83-year-old tennis player, teacher, always smiling, happy German who sings at the drop of a hat, could survive a tumor that was wrapped around her brain and probably should have killed her? Continue reading to find out…

What kind of support does the Section provide for the Women’s Intersectional Championships?

The Wilson World Tennis Classic was once again held at the Shadow Mountain Resort. There were nearly 60 events and over 750 players playing in the Level I Mixed and the Level II Men’s and Women’s singles and doubles…

In this brief article on doubles strategy, we will be sharing our thoughts on the offensive part of doubles. There are many other points which could be made about doubles: however, this article has been limited to cover only one aspect of the game.

We’d like to thank the following people for their donations to NWTO last year.

Christy Dale Foreman (November 23, 1962 - November 19, 2023)

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…