News & Results
* RCOC Restoration Making Progress
The court restoration is moving along very well at the Racquet Club of Chicago. Under the direction of Bill Bickford with help from John Cashman and Ally Bulley and other RCOC members, work has gone well all spring. Chris Ronaldson, Colin Lumley and Peter Lucke-Hille...
* Prince’s Court Reunion
On Tuesday May 22 there was a lunch/exhibition at Prince's Court in honor of Diana and Fred Prince, benefactors of Prince's Court. Haven Pell and Temple Grassi, old friends and tennis colleagues of Fred's were there to represent the early days of Prince's Court....
* Basque Visitor to Prince’s Court
Let's proceed with this story on the assumption that the average court tennis player probably doesn't speak much Basque. If so, most will stumble over at least the middle one of these three names: JOSEBA ETXEBESTE OTEGI. But what if you are given the...
* Jay Gould Doubles
Date: 5 May, 2012 Location: Georgian Court in Lakewood, NJ Event: The Jay Gould Cup Format: Handicap (40+) Novice Doubles The 2012 Jay Gould Cup was held on May 4th & 5th in Lakewood, NJ at the famed Georgian Court. As always, a lot of great tennis was played by...
*2012 Collegiate Challenge: GCU vs. RCOP
Date: 24 April, 2012 Location: RCOP, Philadelphia PA Event: 2012 Collegiate Challenge Match Format: Georgian Court University Women’s Team vs. RCOP Women’s Team On April 24th, 2012 five brave undergraduate women from Georgian Court University - women that have...
* Virgona to go to Chicago
The Board of Governors, professional staff and membership of the Racquet Club of Chicago are pleased to announce the addition of Steve Virgona as Head Tennis Professional beginning June 30th 2012. Steve comes to us via the Racquet Club of Philadelphia where he...
* US 60’s – Final Results
The US 60's Singles and Doubles were played in Tuxedo on the weekend of May 4-6 Greg Van Schaack defeated Charlie Johnstone in the singles final 6/0,6/2 and Van Schaack & Peter Clement defeated Johnstone & Chris Cline in the doubles, 6/3,6/3 The draws are below...
* World Championship – Fahey wins 7-3
Rob Fahey held on to his World Champion title by winning 2 sets on the final day of play, bringing the score to 7 sets, Rob and 3 sets to Steve. Rob Fahey retains World Championship - T&RA The second day of play ended up with Rob and Steve each winning two sets,...
* US Mixed and Anne Boleyn Results
The 2012 Anne Boleyn, ladies national handicap championship was held concurrently with the U.S. Mixed Doubles Championship at the International Tennis Club of Washington April 19th through 22nd. The Anne Boleyn featured players from Aiken, Boston, Newport and...
* US Junior Singles
On the 1st weekend in March 15, juniors descended on Washington DC for the 2012 National Championships. Surprisingly, the Under 12's had the most entries. Harry Simonds, Blanche Devine, and Arthur Browne started their Court Tennis tournament careers in fine fashion...
* Pro Squash Player Visits Prince’s Court
Jonathon Power, former world number one squash player, visited Prince's Court at the end of March 2012 to try his hand at court tennis. A Canadian, Power lives in Toronto now and runs a squash academy. The second former world number one squash player to pick up the...
* Court Tennis Anyone?|Hidden City Philadelphia
Below is a link to an interesting article on court tennis in Philadelphia... http://hiddencityphila.org/2012/04/court-tennis-anyone/
* An International Conference on Real Tennis
Tennis: History & Mysteries An International Conference on the History of Real Tennis Tuesday 24 & Thursday 26 April 2012 10am – 1pm The Centenary Committee Room,The Queen’s Club Palliser Road W14 9EQ An International Conference on the History of Real Tennis held on...
* Knox Results & Story
The Aiken Tennis Club hosted the Northrop Knox Memorial Tournament April 10-15. After spirited group play earlier in the week, the Quarterfinals began Saturday afternoon. The two-time defending champions and Pool B runners-up Ben Cook and Rakesh Jasani defeated...
* Cherry Blossom Results – UPDATED!
It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing… 2012 Cherry Blossom Recap By Ryan Carey The 2012 Cherry Blossom Doubles Tournament was held over Easter weekend at Prince’s Court. We welcomed out-of-town entrants from Boston, Philadelphia, Newport, New York,...
* Ten Questions for Challenger Steve Virgona
Steven Virgona, the senior professional at the Racquet Club of Philadelphia, will be challenging Rob Fahey at Queens Club in London on 24, 26 and 28 April in a best of thirteen set match for the world championship of tennis. 1. How did things go at Seacourt against...
* US Amateur Updated!
The US Amateur was played in New York during the weekend of March 2-4. Singles - Semifinals: Patrick Winthrop def. Ben Cook 6/2, 6/3 Jeremy Wintersteen def. Lex Miron 6/4, 6/4 Final: Winthrop def. Wintersteen 6/5, 6/2, 6/5 Doubles - Semifinals: Cook/Winthrop def....
* 2012 Percival Cup Updated!
The Lord Percival Cup, the higher handicapper’s version of the Whitney Cup, took to the court in Philadelphia over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Seven teams came to duke it out to try to end the reign of the mighty Boston Tennis & Racquet Club. Washington put...
* US 40’s & 50’s
The Court Tennis version of March Madness happened last weekend in Philadelphia as 21 veteran players competed to win national championships in the 40 and 50 singles and doubles tournaments. The age level tournaments were a war of attrition as veteran players...
* Virgona wins Final Eliminator
Eliminator - Day 3 Virgona takes it all with a 6/4 victory. The final score was: 6/4 6/2 6/4 6/5 6/4 5/6 6/3 3/6 6/4 For complete match information - go to IRTPA Coverage Next stop - World Championship! Eliminator - Day 2 The IRTPA reports "After the 2nd days...