FRAMINGHAM, MA - One of New England's most talented tennis players and strongest advocates for the game will be going international.
Sheila Weinstock of Framingham, MA will represent the United States at the 34th ITF Super-Seniors World Team Championships.
The nation’s top tennis players in age groups from 60-80 will compete against 153 teams from 27 countries around the globe from Oct. 10 – 15 in Antalya, Turkey.
Weinstock, teammates include Suella Steel, Susanne Clark, and Charleen Hillebrand.
Weinstock has been named the captain of the Althea Gibson Cup Team and will be valuable in singles and doubles.
She won the 2011 National Grass Court Doubles Championship and was the finalist in the singles. She was the North East USPTA Senior Player of the Year from 2006 – 2010. Weinstock has experience with international competition as she represented the USA in 2003, 2004 and 2008 on national cup teams.
Weinstock is a member of the USTA National Adult Competitive Committee and was recently elected to the very prestigious position of President of the National Senior Women’s Tennis Association.
She presently is the manager and a teaching pro at Natick Racquet Club.
The United States will be defending championships in six of the nine divisions at the Men’s and Women’s Senior & Super-Senior Championships. The American teams finished first or second in nine of the nine divisions last year. This year a new Cup, the Doris Hart Cup has been introduced for women 80 and over.
The ITF Seniors/Super-Seniors World Team Championships is the most coveted team event on the ITF Seniors circuit. Since its inception, the number of competitors attracted to this event has increased year by year. In 1993, the ITF took the decision to divide the Seniors World Championships into two groups, Seniors for the younger veterans and Super-Seniors for the older players.