Nov 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Racquet Club of Philadelphia was honored to host the 2010 US Women’s Open the weekend of November 5th through 7th. Women from several courts in the United States and a couple from across the pond competed for that title. The weekend was full of hard fought matches and camaraderie. The ladies from the UK, Claire Vigrass and Aldona Greenwood, came ready to play and showed the Americans how it’s done. They swept both draws. Claire only lost two games on the way to her third consecutive US Open Championship. Claire and Aldona cruised to their title in the doubles… Read the Full Story >
Nov 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Greg Van Schaack def. Charlie Johnstone 6/2,6/4 Van Schaack & Chris Cline def. Johnstone & Bob Hay 6/5,1/6,6/0 FULL RESULTS TO FOLLOW
Nov 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
AHA! – Larken/Johnstone def Devereux/Wilson 6/5 6/4 Bananarama – Coles/Sacks def Laukitis/Busterud 6/3 6/1 Culture Club – Swantner/Buettner def Spangler/Brooke 6/3 6/2 Duran Duran – Ewing/Ehrlich def Drane/Tavani 5/6 6/1 6/4
Nov 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Real Sport of Kings
Nov 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
The draws for the US Ladies’ Open – scheduled for November 5-7 in Philadelphia – can be found below.
Oct 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
Prince’s Court plays host to Prince Steven, Prince Camden and two brave Knights
Oct 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
NL – New York @ Tuxedo…Tuxedo takes it 2-1. Read on…
Oct 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
On September 15th the New York Racquet & Tennis Club was privileged to host the first match of the National League 2010-11 season. The match was between New York the defending champions against the runners-up of last season Philadelphia. The first match has between Mike Gooding (NY) against Robbie Whitehouse (Philly). Things started off very well for Mike as he hit many winning openings and kept the pressure on Robbie. He managed to win the first set convincingly 6/2 with relentless attacking of the tambour and keeping Robbie on the back foot. Things continued again in the second set… Read the Full Story >
Oct 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
The Jimmy Knott Singles Tournament was held in Newport on October 15-17. Pat Winthrop (Newport) defeated Shawn Herlihy (Boston) 6/1,6/0. In the back draw, Roberto Saralegui defeated David Boenning 8/5 Jimmy Knott Draw Back Draw
Sep 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
In what has become a sort of unofficial kick-off to the tennis pre-season, more than twenty rabid court tennis players descended on the sleepy hamlet of Lakewood, New Jersey for the second annual Lakewood Invitational (where everyone is invited). What started last year as an extremely informal get-together to bat the ball around the court that Gould built evolved this year into a better attended event where the players were begging for some more structure. So be it. Next year will be a bit more formalized. From the T&R we had Bill Connors, Chris Blier, John Edwards, Phil Stockton, Paul… Read the Full Story >
