PINECREST, Fla. \u2014 Eighty five years young and still serving up wins, a woman in South Florida is showing everyone that age is no limit. <\/p>\n
Donna Fales is a decorated tennis player and while her name may be no secret, her mindset is a hard code to crack for someone her age.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you stop moving, you\u2019ll stop walking,\u201d Fales told Local 10 News. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Five thousand miles away in Bol, Croatia, super seniors from all over the world took to the red clay courts to see who is the best.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can arguably say I\u2019m the best 85-year-old in the world,\u201d Fales said. <\/p>\n
Fales earned those bragging rights<\/p>\n
Representing the USA at the International Tennis Federations Masters, she claimed three championships in categories 85+ singles, women\u2019s doubles and mixed doubles.<\/p>\n
She also earned a Grand Slam of her own.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been playing tennis since I was 10 years old,\u201d Fales said. <\/p>\n
She\u2019s a South Florida tennis legend, as a quick Google search will tell you. <\/p>\n
Fales was once a top 10 U.S. player in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
She won national clay and mixed doubles titles and was a quarter finalist at the French Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
In 1967, Fales made it to the then U.S. National Championships for doubles where she\u2019d share a court with tennis icon Billie Jean King — a name now in history for fighting for equal prize money.<\/p>\n
Almost 60 years later, Fales is still serving up victories at her home court at Pinecrest\u2019s Royal Palm Tennis Club, where there\u2019s a photo of her on the champions wall.<\/p>\n
If there was an untold strategy to Fales\u2019s pace, she says the answer is right in front of us all.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, the secret is movement, which is what I tell everyone — exercise, movement, sleep,\u201d she said. \u201cI keep moving, I take the stairs and I don\u2019t take elevators. I don\u2019t always park next to where I\u2019m going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fales is giving the young ones a run for their money.<\/p>\n
She says she doesn\u2019t plan on slowing down anytime soon and she may need a bigger trophy shelf!<\/p>\n
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