I finally played singles today and it was a tough match, though I won 61 62 it took nearly 2 hours, she was really steady and ran well....and it's red clay...hard to put the ball away except by dropshotting I think. It could have been closer, she was up game point in a lot of games I won. She was cramping though by the end nad it was warm but not hot. It wasn't so windy today either. Here's a link to the 50 singles draw.

Vesna and I won our doubles yesterday, so we are in the semis of singles and doubles tomorrow. Here's a link to the 40 doubles draw.

Vesna plays the defending champion and top seed, Vasconcellas, tomorrow.She's a very good player but has a calf injury, but is good enough to control the court so far even without 100% movement. She also has a good serve so starts the points out well. Vesna is playing well and should have a great match tomorrow.  Here's a link to the 40s singles draw.

I'll take some photos tomorrow or more likely on Saturday of the Club Nautico San Isidro...it's a golf, yacht and tennis club and is on the Rio de la Plata, the widest river in the world. It goes between Argentina and Uruguay. It also looks very choppy this time of year (don't go boating on it if you get seasick...means I won't be sailing on it). To see photos, click here.

After not playing much the first 3 days, only one doubles match, they now have me scheduled for noon and three tomorrow...after saying it would be a ten am match. The scheduling is interesting here.

Hello from San Isisdro in the state of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. I'm here for the San Isisdro tournament, a Grade I ITF tournament.

I arrived here yesterday from San Antonio, and walked to the club (about a 30 min walk) to meet with Vesna McKenna with whom I'm playing doubles. She had already played and won her first round match. We booked a practice court and saw that the players on it were Heide Orth and Isabelle Gemmel (from the ITF) who were playing in the tournament, so we shared the court. The space behind the baseline was short on the practice courts and Vesna (and I) were pushing each other into the fence when hitting downwind. The courts here have less topping then Turkey, so are a bit faster and the balls are Prince heavy duty so are lighter than Volkl balls. It's still slow though.

Vesna won her 2nd round today and is in the semis...to be played on Friday. Plenty of time to rest up. She beat a good lefty today from Argentina 76 64 under very windy (it is spring) conditions.

I finally figured out how to get the draws and looked at my draw...the seedings seem very random, not based on ITF rankings and definitely not based on head to head results, since Gregario has wins over the #2 seed (3,1) and other seeds in the draw.

We play doubles tomorrow at high noon. I play singles Thursday, but my opponent played a 3 set match today and then has a day off...interesting (and not very fair) scheduling.

Here is a link to the draws and results.

Remember that in other countries, the date is day/month/year (eg November 18th is 18/11/08)

Click on "cuadros" to find the draws and on "programacion/reultados" for the results and the next day's time of play.

Update: Southern California beat Southern to win the 35s. Southern 45s held on to beat Texas 32.
 

35s: Southern Cal d. Southern
45s: Southern beat Texas
55s: Southern d. Texas
65s: Southern Cal d. Eastern
75s, 80s: Florida
Click to see all results.

Home team Texas 45s smoked NorCal 5-0, not losing a set and going 2-0 in tiebreakers to beat the #2 seeds. They take on Southern tomorrow. NorCal plays SoCal in an intrastate battle.

NorCal 35s beat New England 4-1 to put them in a 5/6 playoff with Florida.

Southern 35s upset #2 seeds Texas, who were playing without their #1 player Julie Cass. Texas still took 2 of the 3 singles matches, but Southern won both doubles points. They play SoCal for the title tomorrow.

More tomorrow, too late tonight.