U.S. Captures 6 Titles at ITF Super-Seniors World Team Chps.

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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla., Could 3, 2022 – American groups received six of the ten titles on the Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) Tremendous-Seniors World Group Championships in Palm Seaside County, Florida final week. The ladies’s and males’s groups every received three titles whereas the 4 different groups completed as runners-up.

The match is the senior tennis equal of the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup competitions, with high American tennis gamers representing their nation within the 65-, 70-, 75-, 80- and 85- and-over age teams. The ITF Tremendous-Seniors World Group Championships is probably the most prestigious group occasion on the ITF Seniors circuit.

The U.S. introduced dwelling the Kitty Godfree Cup (ladies’s 65 & over), Althea Gibson Cup (ladies’s 70 & over), Angela Mortimer Cup (ladies’s 85 & over), Jack Crawford Cup (males’s 70 & over), Gardner Mulloy Cup (males’s 80 & over) and Lorne Essential Cup (males’s 85 & over). Following the ITF Tremendous-Seniors World Group Championships, the World Particular person Championships started on April 30 and run by means of Could 7.

Under is a listing of gamers who represented america in every division with outcomes:

Britannia Cup – Males’s 65 & over – Outcome: 2nd Place (Australia def USA 2-1)
1. David Waldman, Washington D.C., Captain
|2. Mark Vines, Naples, Fla.
3. Michael Magale, Backyard Metropolis, Idaho
4. Toby Crabel, Beverly Hills, Calif.

Jack Crawford Cup – Males’s 70 & over – Outcome: CHAMPION (USA def. Australia 2-1)
1. David Sivertson, La Quinta, Calif., Captain
2. Marc Mazo, Clearwater, Fla.
3. Paul Wulf, Salem, Ore.
4. Robert Litwin, Lafayette, Colo.

Bitsy Grant Cup – Males’s 75 & over – Outcome: 2nd Place (Spain def. USA 2-1)
1. Don Lengthy, Rochester, N.Y., Captain
2. Geoffrey Moore, Boynton Seaside, Fla.
3. Les Buck, Henderson, Nev.
4. Michael Beautyman, Lake Value, Fla.

Gardnar Mulloy Cup – Males’s 80 & over – Outcome: CHAMPION (USA def. Nice Britain 3-0)
1. Fred Drilling, Estero, Fla.
2. Ivo Barbic, Atlanta, Ga.
3. Robert Quall, Merced, Calif., Captain
4. Michael Stewart, Garner, N.C.

Lorne Essential Cup – Males’s 85 & over – Outcome: CHAMPION (USA def. Argentina 3-0)
1. George McCabe, Oxford, Ohio, Captain
2. Herman Ahlers, Las Vegas, Nev.
3. Jerald Hayes, Westfield, Ind.
4. King Van Nostrand, Vero Seaside, Fla.

Kitty Godfree Cup – Ladies’s 65 & over – Outcome: CHAMPION (USA def. Nice Britain 3-0)
1. Bunnie Jackson, Bluffton, S.C.
2. Carolyn Nichols, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., Captain
3. Diane Barker, Daniel Island, S.C.
4. Susan Wright, Orlando, Fla.

Althea Gibson Cup – Ladies’s 70 & over – Outcome: CHAMPION (USA def. Nice Britain 3-0)
1. Judy Dixon, Amherst, Mass., Captain
2. Tina Karwasky, Glendale, Calif.
3. Toni Novack, Naples, Fla.
4. Wendy McColskey, Durham, N.C.

Queens’ Cup – Ladies’s 75 & over – Outcome: 2nd Place (USA def. Nice Britain 2-1)
1. Betty Wachob, Panama Metropolis, Fla., Captain
2. Carolann Castell, Kirkland, Wash.
3. Carol Homosexual, San Diego, Calif.
4. Susan Kimball, Oak Bluffs, Mass.

Doris Hart Cup – Ladies’s 80 & over – Outcome: 2nd Place (Germany def. USA 2-1)
1. Cathie Anderson, Del Mar, Calif., Captain
2. Suella Metal, La Jolla, Calif.
3. Suzanne Clark, New Metropolis, N.Y.
4. Sheila Weinstock, Weston, Mass.

Angela Mortimer Cup – Ladies’s 85 & over – Outcome: CHAMPION (USA def. Nice Britain 3-0)
1. Carol Wooden, Rockville, Md., Captain
2. Doris DeVries, Palm Desert, Calif.
3. Dorothy Wasser, Palm Seaside Gardens, Fla.
4. Roz King, San Diego