National Championships – Inaugural Junior Boy’s (under 20) and Men’s 50+ replaces Men’s 45+

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1964-Rev 1

The Men’s 45+ was discontinued and was later reinstated in 19721.

A Men’s Senior 50+ event was added as the new Senior Men’s event.

In the Men’s, David Jennings and Oliver Kimberly, the previous year’s finalists, emerged as the winners over Thomas Holmes and Michael O’Hearn.

Charlotte Lee and Buffy Briggs won their second straight Women’s.

The Fox Meadow pair of Zan Carver and Barbara Koegel won the Mixed (Zan had wanted to take a cigarette break after they had split two long sets, as was his way, but Bobbie would not let him, as was her way!).

Germain Glidden and William Park won the inaugural 50+.

William deSaussure IV and Geoffrey Nixon won the inaugural Boy’s Junior event [Also see APTA 1963 Annual Meeting Minutes], the first of three straight titles for the team.

Note 1: The reason for this was that the APTA concluded that their initial decision to use age 45 for the “senior” category was too young, since four men over 45 years of age had won the 45+senior event as well as the Men’s National Championship between 1964 and 1972. In 1964 the “senior” age became 50+. [Also see APTA 1963 Annual Meeting Minutes]

Source: Oliver H. Durrell The Official Guide to Platform Tennis, 1967; and APTA Platform Paddle Tennis 1963-1973: Rules and Records, 1973; Personal communication from William F. Koegel.