Rockwall's Kathy Langer recently won two world titles: first, the Queens Cup with her 75-and-over U.S. team and then the age-group World Championships doubles crown (she also reached the singles semis). Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a great match one court over and realized just how shockingly good some amateurs can be should hear what Langer had to say about those back-to-back triumphs. I might add that this unstoppable woman is a great-grandmother.

Tracey Driver, 54, started playing tennis just eight years ago, and already she is making her second trip to Nationals. Driver, who works at Richland Tennis Center, was kind enough to tell TennisFortWorth.com about her team's great season as it leaves for Indian Wells, Calif., for the 2012 USTA League 3.5 Senior National Championships.

But first let me tell you that her husband Chip’s 8.0 mixed doubles team just won Sectionals this weekend, so he, too, is going to Nationals. “Both of us are captaining teams that are headed for Nationals five weeks apart!” she said in a last-minute email.

As our Facebook faithful know, when TennisFortWorth.com has a Junior Media Playday coming up, I hit them over the head with the details so they'll know about it and hopefully come.  It's hard to get young players to play in any given event, because we are blessed with so many seemingly all the time. It's nearly impossible to pick an open date--but that is a great problem to have; it means that tennis is thriving in the Greater Fort Worth area.

I first met Nancy Conner when we were teammates in a USTA 4.0 league seven or eight years ago, and she struck me as one of the most down-to-earth, caring people you could ever meet. She loved playing tennis so much that her husband built her a court at their Weatherford home, but she was not spoiled by such good fortune, nor was it lost on her.