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Gary Weichman | March 2024
Have you ever attended a national super-senior tournament a year before you intend to play it for the first time? Gary Weichmann, a Wisconsinite who started playing the game in his 30s and quickly fell in love with it, did exactly that last year. Gary was “a man with a plan”: to learn as much as he could about elite players. What Gary learned proved quite interesting and instructive, as you will read in his personal story.
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By now you should have received your personal invitation to play the inaugural National Level 3 NMTA Masters Clay Court Championships in Columbus, GA April 10-14The registration closes on March 27th.  This will be an annual event striving to bring the players tournament experience on an equal plane like the now 2 premium events in the south, the Harry V Barton Bocage Clay Court Championships and the Atlanta Senior Invitational.
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Armistead Neely, born March 19, 1947 in Tampa, lost a lengthy battle with cancer on March 7, 2024. He is survived by Alice Pendergrast, his wife of forty some years. They lived in the Atlanta area for several decades.
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The spring national tournaments are just around the corner. Already the first two National Level 2 events in the NMTA Triple Crown Series had almost 300 players participate in each event. Part of our mission statement is to foster tennis competition among adult players on a nationwide basis.
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We are delighted to wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR! and to celebrate our 6th anniversary of enhancing the tennis environment for the highly competitive player. Our Board of Directors, with diverse expertise in legal, medical, digital, financial, marketing and tournament management, has been instrumental in our strategic planning process for setting our objectives for 2024. Our mission, since 2018, has been to improve the players' tournament experience.
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Jimmy Parker | January 2024
No, Brian is not yet a centenarian; we’re talking gold balls here! Another Cheney has reached triple digits. Only five other men in US tennis annals have accomplished that. But Brian Cheney is moving along a trail blazed in unmatched fashion by his mother, Dodo Cheney, who finished with a mind-boggling 394 gold balls!
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Steve Duffel | December 2023
Happy Holidays!  As we close out 2023, I again reflect on the accomplishments and commitments of our growing Association this year.  Our goals could not have been achieved without the support of our members and a very dedicated hard-working Board of Directors! One of our missions was to enhance the player experience of age- based tournaments.
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Jimmy Parker | Dec 2023
We’ve all heard the old platitude about how “old age is a ‘nother country.” Well, I’m here to tell you that being a geezer tennis player at least rates as “foreign territory.” We come with all sorts of straps, wraps, fake joints, liniments, potions, and huge racquets. Our backs go out more often than we do. We run like the winded. You’ll see us limp out to the courts….. where a miracle of sorts takes place!
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Question of the Season (Fall)

Paul Fein | November 2023
The Question of the Season is a quarterly NSMTA website feature that provides our members an opportunity to tell about themselves by means of their bios and through an interesting facet of their careers as senior and super-senior players.
”Who is the most interesting, important, inspiring, or even life-changing person you’ve met while playing senior sectional, national, or international tournaments or team events? And why?”
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Steve Duffel | October 2023
As the 2023 tournament season winds down with some major events still on the horizon, players and the NSMTA Board of Directors are getting ready for 2024.
The USTA Men’s National Intersectionals competing for the Donoff Cup has 151 registered players from 7 of the 17 USTA Sections.
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Misha Khishchenko | Sept 2023
It’s an early afternoon and the temperature is 90 degrees F or 32 C.
I am practicing with a ball machine. We are not partners. We are basically enemies.
A ball machine is an interesting creature. You put about 75-100 balls in the basin of the machine and then program this beast.
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Sept 2023
Senior men tennis players in the greater Pittsburgh area responded in force to the call to compete outdoors on clay during the third annual Senior Men’s Team Doubles Invitational held at the Oxford Athletic Club during September 12-14. A total of 70 players formed 8 teams which was twice the size of the original event two years ago.
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Jimmy Parker | May 2023
Ah, metaphysics. Something recondite, abstruse, hidden, difficult to explain, esoteric, even mystical. And yet we tennis players deal with it every time we step on the court. The game befuddles us with its complexity and astounds us with its simplicity. It all comes to a head in the instant when we contact the ball—where the intangible becomes manifest. Where our intention is played out in the physical world. It’s truly where the rubber meets the road.
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April 2023
At the Carl E. Sanders Family YMCA in Atlanta, GA, this past Friday, on April 21, a beautiful NSMTA commissioned plaque commemorating Ralph Grieco’s love of tennis and assistance to others was dedicated. The plaque will hang in an alcove dedicated to racquet sports, “Donors” and “Athletes” of which Ralph was both.
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Chip Travis | April 2023
As senior players, we all face similar problems with our tennis abilities. We have aging, aching and weakened joints and muscles. Some of which have been permanently injured, some of them surgically repaired. None of them are as good as they were in our prime 40 or 50 years ago. If only we could turn back the clock!
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