Women’s Adult 65 & Over 9.0A Team Tiburon Peninsula Club Wins National Invitational

Nine Bay Area women representing Northern California brought a rich tennis history to Surprise, Arizona for the 65 9.0 National Invitational February 3-5. Following this great accomplishment, we had the opportunity to be in contact with Co-Captain Amy Rennert who provided us with a background of their team and shed some light on their experience in this journey.

Three players recently represented NorCal at Intersectionals and won the title. Two of the three played for UC Cal Berkeley at the same time 47 years ago and didn’t play on the same team again until 2023. One of those two received the first women’s tennis scholarship given at Berkeley in her senior year when Title IX kicked in—a whopping $636, the annual tuition at the time-- . Having played in an exhibition match against Virginia Wade in 1975, since then she has won a combined 30 gold, silver and bronze balls.

The other grew up playing on the Golden Gate Park courts, played some junior tournaments and made six previous trips to Nationals. One teammate played on USC’s junior varsity team and won two bronze and one silver medals in the last few years. Another played at Cal Poly and received a college scholarship to return the following year. One won the Big 10 Regional for Kansas University, played professionally for a club in Berlin, Germany and won a bronze medal with her daughter. One won a NorCal sportsmanship award and at age 12 played two sets with Jack Kramer as her partner on grass.

One didn’t play at all or do anything athletic until her husband taught her when she was in her twenties--she’s since earned gold and silver balls. One never put the racquet down after her dad put it in her hands when she was in sixth grade.  She served on the Board of Directors for the USTA for eight years representing NorCal and taught a kids summer program at Stanford for 13 seasons. Another started young but then barely played from her mid-twenties until late fifties—in her debut at Nationals, she won a Nationals championship title in the 18+ division at age 61 and she’s played at Nationals seven times since then in all different age divisions.  

Here's what they had to say about their experience, winning the National Invitational.