Professional Player and now Stone Creeks Tennis Trainner
Gail Falkenberg is an American professional tennis player. Possibly the oldest tournament tennis player of all time, she has competed in ITF Women's World Tennis Tour tournaments as recently as 2023, aged 76.Raised in Westfield, New Jersey, Falkenberg attended University of California, Los Angeles in the 1960s, where she played on the basketball, tennis and volleyball varsity teams and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in filmmaking. After graduation she worked as a documentary filmmaker and didn't join the professional tour until she was 38 years of age. She made her Virginia Slims main draw debut at the 1986 Brazilian Open and featured in qualifying at the 1988 Australian Open. Retiring from full-time tennis in 1990, she achieved a career high singles world ranking of 360. During the 1990s she was the men's and women's tennis head coach at the University of Central Florida and even had a season in charge of the women's basketball team as an acting coach. Falkenberg has continued to compete on and off in ITF tournaments since the 1990s. In 2013, as a 66-year-old, she came up against Naomi Osaka in the qualifying draw for the Rock Hill ITF event. Osaka, 50 years her junior, won 6–0, 6–0. Stone Creek Tennis club is fortunate to have Gail Falkenberg as a resident and our professional trainer.
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