A 69-year-old tennis player has incredibly beaten a woman 47 years her junior at an ITF25k tournament in Pelham, Alabama.

Gail Falkenberg secured her first win since making a comeback in 2011 - then aged just 64 - to set up an unbelievable tie with Taylor Townsend in the next round.

Townsend - an up-and-coming 19-year-old who reached the third round of the US Open singles in 2014 and who was ranked 94th in the world just over a year ago - already has four ITF titles to her name.

What little action is available of Falkenberg's historic win captures an admittedly slow-paced game - but it's certainly more than this writer will ever achieve on the ITF circuit.

The footage shows Falkenberg's opponent, Rosalyn Small, struggling to live with Falkenberg's underarm serve and precise net shots.