Julie Thu of Austin, Texas in motion. Picture credit score: USTA Nationwide Ladies’s Senior Exhausting Court docket Tennis Championships
High seeds made robust statements in second-round motion of the 2026 USTA Nationwide Ladies’s Senior Exhausting Court docket Tennis Championships on Tuesday.
The match is staged at La Jolla Seashore & Tennis Membership with free admission for followers.
High-seed and defending champion Julie Thu of Austin, Texas, breezed into the 50 and over singles quarterfinals as she powered her well past unseeded Leora Grimshaw of Mill Valley, Calif., 6-0, 6-0.
The 50-year-old Thu, presently the No. 1 participant within the Worldwide Tennis Federation Singles 50+ Rankings, will face fifth-seeded Joanna Stewart of Bellevue, Wash., on Wednesday at 11 a.m.
“It feels nice. I’ve been wanting ahead to this match since final yr. I had a stunning opponent immediately. We had nice factors and hit plenty of balls. I’m able to hold rolling,” Thu mentioned after her opening-round victory. “It’s a robust discipline this yr. There are a number of good ladies.
“Each match is hard. I attempt to not look forward an excessive amount of. I’ve performed my opponent tomorrow a number of instances and he or she’s actually good. I’m simply taking it one match at a time.”
Within the lower-half of the 50 and over singles draw, second-seed and former two-time champion Amanda Parson Siegel of Santa Ana, Calif., was equally spectacular in her second-round match as she blanked unseeded Amy Thompson of Redondo Seashore, Calif., 6-0, 6-0. Parson Siegel, who captured the 50 and over singles title in 2023 and 2024, will play fifth-seeded Joanne Value of Pasadena, Calif., in a quarterfinal match slated for Wednesday at 11 a.m.
Vicki Buholz of Dallas, the top-seed within the 60 and over singles draw, additionally moved into the quarterfinals as she acquired previous unseeded Shelly Bartlett Sweeney of Woodside, Calif., 6-2, 7-6 (8). Buholz, the 60 and over singles champion in 2023, is scheduled to fulfill fifth-seeded Lindsay Montero of Redwood Metropolis, Calif., on Wednesday at 11 a.m.
High-seed Elizabeth Kuhle of Rancho Mirage, Calif., and second-seeded Una Davis of La Jolla, Calif., each superior to Wednesday’s 70 and over singles quarterfinals with out the lack of a recreation. Kuhle defeated Barbara Pinkerton of Mount Nice, S.C., 6-0, 6-0, whereas Davis dispatched Kathleen Culver of El Cajon, Calif., 6-0, 6-0.
Kuhle will face fifth-seeded Donna Drosner of Satellite tv for pc Seashore, Fla., at 10:30 a.m., and Davis will tackle fifth-seed Ginny Beneke of San Diego at 11:30 a.m.
Play within the 80 and over singles division acquired underway on Tuesday.
Elizabeth Barnhill of Madison, Wis., eradicated former 80 and over singles champion Catherine Anderson of Del Mar, Calif., 7-5, 7-5. Second-seeded Betty Wachob of Panama Metropolis, Fla., obtained a first-round bye and can play her second-round match on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. towards unseeded Diane Hyperlink of Los Angeles.
To view up to date match attracts of every division, click on right here.
The beginning instances for every day of the match are: Wednesday, Might 6 by means of Friday, Might 8 — 8 a.m., and Saturday, Might 9 and Sunday, Might 10 — 9 a.m. (All instances PDT)
The La Jolla Seashore & Tennis Membership welcomes tennis fanatics to view the match and can provide free admission to spectators every day of the occasion. Match attendees and spectators might dine on-site within the Membership Eating Room in addition to the Membership’s Snack Bar through the match. On-site parking is accessible for a nominal price.
Match matches on Court docket No. 1 and Court docket No. 2 at La Jolla Seashore & Tennis Membership are live-streamed through the USTA Nationwide Ladies’s Senior Exhausting Court docket Championships. To entry the stay stream, click on right here.
The USTA Nationwide Ladies’s Senior Exhausting Court docket Tennis Championships are a part of the Worldwide Tennis Federation’s World Tennis Masters Tour, which offers a worldwide aggressive circuit consisting of particular person singles, doubles and combined doubles occasions for every five-year age increment from 30+ to 90+.
The La Jolla Seashore & Tennis Membership’s 53rd Annual Males’s Senior Championships are additionally happening this week along side the ladies’s occasions, and can embody each singles and doubles for 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, and 85 and over age teams. Though the boys’s occasions will not be nationwide championships, they’ll function many senior gamers who often compete in nationwide tournaments.
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USTA Nationwide Ladies’s Senior Exhausting Court docket ChampionshipsLa Jolla Seashore & Tennis ClubLa Jolla, Calif.Tuesday’s Outcomes
Ladies’s 50 SinglesSecond RoundJulie Thu (1), Austin, Texas, def. Leora Grimshaw, Mill Valley, Calif., 6-0, 6-0Amanda Parson Siegel (2), Santa Ana., Calif., def. Amy Thompson, Redondo Seashore, Calif., 6-0, 6-0Kathryn Settles (3), Claremont, Calif., def. Anne Altamirano, Santa Barbara, Calif., 6-0, 6-0Dina McBride (4), Thousand Oaks, Calif., def. Leslie Wargo, Cleveland, 6-1, 6-1Joanna Stewart (5), Bellevue, Wash., def. Michele Mouttapa, Yorba Linda, Calif., 6-2, 6-0Laura Ruben (5), Visalia, Calif., def. Cynthia Delgado, La Jolla, Calif., 6-0, 6-0Joanne Value (5), Pasadena, Calif., def. Maria O’Connor, San Juan Capistrano, Calif. 6-1, 6-4Anja Clarke (5), Irvine, Calif., def. Gail Gibson, Tampa, Fla., 6-4, 5-7, 6-4
Ladies’s 60 SinglesSecond RoundVicki Buholz (1), Dallas, def. Shelly Bartlett Sweeney, Woodside, Calif., 6-2, 7-6 (8)Kathy Archibald (2), Dana Level, Calif., def. Jennifer Brawley, Upland, Calif., 6-1, 6-0Jennifer Rens (3), La Jolla, Calif. def. Kim Dean, Newnan, Ga., 6-0, 6-1Ellen Markowitz (5), Southampton, N.Y., def. Nancy Abler-Sanchez, San Diego, 6-0, 6-0Michele Saunders, Solvang, Calif., def. Dorian Sailer, La Jolla, Calif., 6-2, 6-4Lindsay Montero (5), Redwood Metropolis, Calif., def. Eleanor Hammargren, San Clemente, Calif., 6-3, 6-4Marianne Dundon (5), Martinez, Calif., def. Diane Ghiron, Encinitas, Calif., 6-0, 6-3Judy Newman, Felton, Calif., def. Stina Mosvold (4), Houston, walkover (damage)
Ladies’s 70 SinglesSecond RoundElizabeth Kuhle (1), Rancho Mirage, Calif., def. Barbara Pinkerton, Mount Nice, S.C., 6-0, 6-0Una Davis (2), La Jolla, Calif., def. Kathleen Culver, El Cajon, Calif., 6-0, 6-0Leslie Airola-Murveit (3), Portola Valley, Calif., def. Margaret MacHoian, Crownsville, Md., 6-3, 6-0Tina Karwasky (4), Glendale, Calif., def. Hiko Fritz-Krockow, Breckenridge, Colo., 6-1, 6-1Donna Drosner (5), Satellite tv for pc Seashore, Fla., def. Susan Davis, San Diego, 6-0, 6-3Andrea Barnes (5), Palo Alto, Calif., def. Kathleen Heinze, Oakland, Calif., 6-2, 6-2Deborah Burgess (5), Franklin, Wis., def. Sherri Bronson, Scottsdale, Ariz., 6-3, 6-3Ginny Beneke (5), San Diego, def., Anne Corsano, Seattle, 6-3, 6-3
Ladies’s 80 SinglesFirst RoundElizabeth Barnhill, Madison, Wis., def. Catherine Anderson, Del Mar, Calif., 7-5, 7-5
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