The IC of GB takes home the Gottfried von Cramm Trophy 2025

The Frankfurt Tennisclub 1914 Palmengarten was the venue at the end of August for the second Gottfried von Cramm Trophy, a team competition in which one women's singles, one men's singles and a mixed doubles are held in each match. While the two singles are played normally, the mixed doubles is a championship tiebreak. In each match between two teams, the winner can reach a maximum of 3 points. For example, if a team wins both singles but loses the championship tiebreak, 2 points go to the winner and 1 point to the loser.

In Frankfurt, five teams from six nations participated: Spain, Great Britain, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland in conjunction with Canada. Due to the odd number of teams, the format required all teams to play everyone else.

After three rounds, the teams from Spain and Great Britain were in the lead. In the last game of the tournament (against Germany), the British took the points to pass Spain and win the trophy. Below is the final ranking and the individual players:

1. Great Britain (Emily Arbuthnott, Pedro Ocana)
2. Spain (Isabel Fernandez, Carlos Garcia Villanieva)
3. Germany (Natali Gumbrecht, Tim Richter)
4. Luxembourg (Tatiana Silbereisen)
5. Switzerland / Canada (Kasia Poplawski)

Press Release - IC Website Management

New Company Takes Over IC Websites

From January 1^st 2018, a new company will take over the maintenance and updating of the IC suite of websites for the IC Council.

Vicky Swift of Westover Computing has been contracted to the IC for 14 years and is retiring for personal reasons. We would like to thank her for her tireless efforts in continuingly seeking to develop and upgrade our websites and wish her well for the future.

Her place will be taken by Karen Hutchings of Pure Systems who will do the same work as Vicky did and we welcome her to the International Club.

Natasha Starling will continue in her role, responsible for the look and feel of the IC Council site, eliciting stories from ICs throughout the world on events and matches which are of general interest, requesting articles to be posted on the Council site, as well as coordinating Karen’s workload.

Karen Hutchings - email: puresystems_ic@tasks.teamwork.com    Tel: 01363 777014     

Natasha Starling - email: ts@ictennis.net