Page 12 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1980
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Reflections
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by Richard Oliver
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Hot days bring great tennis
Playing tennis in 100-degree heat is not most people’s idea of a good
time.
And for the hundreds of participants in this past weekend’s 1st
Annual Bryan-College Station Tennis Tournament on the Texas A&M
University courts, the battle for those little silver gold trophies became
less and less worth it as the afternoon wore on.
I remember particularly one lady playing in the doubles competition
Saturday at four in the afternoon. A short, but powerful woman, she
pounded one ball after another into the top of the net, much to the
obvious dismay of her partner, an equally short woman.
“What are you doing?” the exasperated partner whispered to the
net-popper. “Just lob it or something. Just get it over.”
The other lady just grinned.
“Honey, we re one set and four games down. You ought to appreci
ate that I’m working this hard just to fan you.”
The heat wasn’t the only thing scorching the courts that afternoon.
On the court next to the women, a tall, blond teenager cursed
repeatedly and threw his racquet. At one point, he threw his racquet
over the chain link fence bordering the courts, causing an obvious
delay in the match.
His opponent glanced quizzically at him as he sulked after his
racquet, and then looked me as I laughed from the comer by the
practice wall. He walked over to me and smiled.
“Would you believe he’s wiping me out?”
Every court presented a different character display — from the John
McEnroes screaming bloody murder at a close call to the solid quiet
play of the Bjorn Borgs.
Despite the wilting heat, the competitive edge was constantly there.
I had to admire the player who silently eyed his opponent, judging
inadequacies and adjusting his game appropriately. There were, of
course, many obvious “hacks” peppering balls all over the place, but
the serious tennis player could be spotted instantly.
Walking back to the parking lot, I was surprised to see the casualties
of the day’s heat milling around watching the other action.
After three sets of tennis in 100-degree heat with almost no breeze,
there were still dozens of ragged, worn players hanging on to the fence
watching the play of their “compadres in sunburn.
One female who stood gasping for breath by her battered pinto said
she was hanging around waiting for her boyfriend. When I remarked
that she must have had a tough match because she was breathing so
hard, she said, “No, I won 6-0, 6-0. You ought to see me when I lose in
this kind of heat.”
As I got in my small, unventilated, un-air conditioned car — a sauna
of sorts — I took one last glance at the war on the courts.
The man with the flying racquet stalked out of the court area again,
apparently tracking down the thrown racquet. His opponent followed
him out of the area, and walked by my car.
“Guess what?" he shrugged. “I won."
What fun.
Wimbledon facing
massive backlog
United Press International
WIMBLEDON, England — It’s rained so much for the first two
days of the 94th Wimbledon tennis championships the tournament is
only halfway through the first round and the electronic service fault
detector is threatening to gurgle instead of bleep.
Only 18 of Tuesday’s 72 scheduled matches were completed and the
organizers face a massive backlog.
In between showers, Martina Navratilova cleared the first hurdle in
her chase for three successive titles by crushing South African liana
Kloss, 6-0, 6-3, and second-seeded Tracy Austin outgunned fellow
Californian teen-ager Alycia Moulton, 6-1, 6-2.
On the men’s front, 13th-seeded Poland’s Wojtek Fibak, who had
saved three match points before rain halted play Monday, finally made
it into the second round, completing a narrow 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6, 10-8
victory over Australian Mark Edmondson 30 hours after the match
started.
If the forecast for more rain today holds true, 16th-seeded Jose Luis
Clerc of Argentina and India’s Vijay Amritraj may be involved in a
similar marathon.
Clerc fought back after losing the first two sets to even the match
before rain stopped the 2-hour contest with the score deadlocked at
1-6, 3-6, 7-5, 7-5, 2-2.
Amritraj let Clerc off the hook — serving for victory at 5-4 in the
third and fourth sets when he was leading, 40-0 and 40-15, respec
tively.
There were no other problems for the two other men’s seeds who
beat the rain Tuesday. Fifth-seeded Roscoe Tanner, runner-up to
four-time Wimbledon champion Bjorn Borg in last year’s final, overpo
wered Jiri Hrebec of Czechoslovakia, 6-2, 6-0, 6-4, and No. 7 Peter
Fleming carved a 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Zimbabwe’s Colin Dowdes-
well.
Weather permitting today, Wimbledon will feature its youngest
seed ever when 15-year-old Andrea Jaeger, ranked 14th, meets Bri
tain’s Anthea Cooper.
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Tim Scott and Leslie Kerr both advanced Tuesday at the Olympic
Trials in Eugene, Ore., becoming the first Texas A&M University
athletes to advance in the week-long event.
Although the field events are not yet fully underway, the discus and
440-meter dash qualifying heats were held Tuesday.
Scott, who won the Southwest Conference outdoor discus cham
pionship May 17, threw the discus 191-11 to take eighth place going
into the second round of the competition, which begins today.
Kerr, the SWC 400-meter champion, took fourth place in his heat in
that event with a 47.31 time, and also advances to today’s second
round, the fifth day of the Olympic Trials.
The remaining qualifying heats for other field events will begin
today and Thursday.
Other Texas A&M athletes attending the trials are NCAA champion
Randy Hall, pole vault; Jim Howard and Chuck Perry, high jump;
Chuck Perry, long jump; and Billy Busch, high hurdles.
Mike Glaspie and Curtis Dickey had already qualified for the meet
in the high hurdles and 100-meter dash, respectively, but neither
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is finished competing.
In early competition at the meet, Edwin Moses, 24, sped to a 47.90
400-meter intermediate hurdle victory, the best time of the year in the
event.
Moses, who hasn’t lost a race since 1977, hadn’t run a race since
September of last year because of an ankle injury. James Walker was
second with a 49.04 time.
Moses holds the world record in the event, a 47.45 time set in Los
Angeles in 1977.
In women’s track, Alice Brown, 20, became the first track athlete
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Men’s decathalete Bob Coffman, 29, ranked number one in the
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800-meter run with a 1:44:53 time, the best time in the event this year.
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