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U.S. Senior Tennis Stars Score Big in International
Competition
Nov. 1, 2005 – American senior tennis plays
dominated the International Tennis Federation’s Super-Seniors World Team
Championships in Antalya, Turkey, according to a story by Carol Wood
reported on the U.S. Tennis Association’s Website.
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Queens Cup
Winners: Lutz, Diane Hoffman, Mahaney and Louise Russ. Photo by
Carol Wood. |
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Wood reports the U.S. won five of nine cups and
finished second it two. The competition, Oct. 17-22, was in several age
categories for tennis players age 60 and over.
The USTA theme for the American team was “Tennis –
the sport for a lifetime.” The U.S. sent nine teams for four players
each. The competition featured 126 teams from 25 countries
Following is Wood’s description of the winners.
“Our winning teams included two of the four women’s
cups the Althea Gibson (70’s) and the Queens (75’s). This was the fourth
World Championship in a row for the US Queen’s Cup. The men won three of
their five cups - Von Cramm (60s), Jack Crawford (70s) and Gardner
Mulloy (80s). These three US teams were all defending their titles.
“For the Von Cramm Cup it was the second in a row,
for the Crawford Cup it was the third straight victory, and for the
Mulloy, it was the ninth out of ten. The men’s Britannia Cup (65s) and
Bitsy Grant Cup (75s) teams lost in the finals and the women’s Alice
Marble Cup (60s) placed fourth while the Kitty Godfree Cup( 65s) was
fifth.
“Unique among the teams was a married couple who
not only played for the US but both played on a winning team - Boots
Van Nostrand played #2 singles on the Althea Gibson Cup and King Van
Nostrand was the #1 player for the Jack Crawford Cup.
“During the week following the World Team
Championships (Oct 23-29) the US players continued to be “best in show”
by winning 14 of 21 World Individual Championships - singles and
doubles.
“The women’s singles titles went to Donna Fales
of Coral Gables, FL (65s), Louise Russ of Boca Raton, FL (75s) and
Dorothy Knode of Huntington Beach, CA(80s). This was the first year that
the women’s 80+ was an official ITF age division.
“The US also had three champions in the men’s
singles - Jimmy Parker of Houston, TX ( 60s), King Van Nostrand of Vero
Beach, FL (70s) and Grayton Nichols of Hanford, CA (80s).
“The women’s doubles titles went to Charleen
Hillebrand of San Pedro, CA and Frances MacLennan of Great Britain
(60s), Doris DeVries of Reno, NV and Susanne Clark of New City, NJ (
65s), Belmar Gunderson of River Fall, WI and Mary Boswell of Damascus,
MD (70s), Louise Russ and Diane Hoffman of Chestnut Hill, MA (75s).
“The men also came up with four doubles
championships: Jimmy Parker and Ken Robinson of San Carlos, CA (60s),
George Sarantos of Fresno, CA and Hank Leichfried of Laguna Woods, CA (
65s), Richard Doss of Rancho Mirage, CA and Gordon Davis of Encino, CA
(70s), and Grayton Nichols and Tony Franco of Briarcliff, NY ( 80s).”
For the complete story by Carol Wood -
click here.
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