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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1981
Sports
Men resume play Thursday
Shriver meets Lloyd in semis
United Press International
WIMBLEDON, England —
Pam Shriver hopes to end her
second jinx within a 48-hour span
today when the women’s semifin
als are played at the $650,000
Wimbledon Tennis Champion
ships.
Shriver scored her first victory
over American Tracy Austin Mon
day to reach the semifinals and
today, the No. 7 seed aims to over
come another player she has never
beaten, Chris Evert-Lloyd, and
reach Friday’s finals.
To offset that all-American
semifinal, the other matchup is an
almost all-Czechoslovakian clash;
second-seeded Hana Mandlikova,
who still lives in her native Pra
gue, meets self-exiled Czech Mar
tina Navratilova, the No. 4 seed
who says of her nationality, “I
don’t know what I am.”
Seventh-seeded Shriver’s task
is immense: she has played Evert,
the top seed and two-time cham
pion, seven times and has never
even won a set.
reached the last four in 1976 and
1980.
But Mandlikova currently holds
both the Australian and the
French titles. She scored a major
upset when she ended Evert’s re
markable run of 125 clay-court
games without defeat in the semi
finals in Paris — Evert’s only de
feat this year.
The men wait until Thursday to
challenge for places in the final.
Five-time champion Bjorn Borg
faces old adversary Jimmy Con
nors, the third seed from Bellevil
le, Ill., while last year’s beaten
finalist, John McEnroe, seeded
No. 2, takes on unseeded Austra
lian Rod Frawley.
Connors had the toughest fight
to reach the last four Tuesday,
having to rally from two sets down
to beat unseeded Indian Vijay
Amritraj in a SVahour Center
Court duel.
The 28-year-old American
needed his best passing shots to
beat the lithe Indian, 2-6, 5-7, 64,
6-3, 6-2.
Borg was troubled in the first
set, when Australian Peter McNa
mara’s serve and volley game was
at its best. But after taking that
opener in a tiebreak, the Swede
swept through the match in an
hour and 46 minutes, 7-6, 6-2, 6-3,
to preserve his record of not drop
ping a set at this year’s tourna
ment.
McEnroe was up and down dur
ing his match. The first set was
embarrassingly one-sided, with
the American taking it 6-1. But
after running up a 4-0 second-set
advantage, he allowed South Afri
can Johan Kriek to take the next
five games.
McEnroe regained his compo
sure and went on to a 6-1, 7-5, 6-1
triumph.
McEnroe’s opponent, Frawley,
ended a “dream” first Wimbledon
for current NCAA champion Tim
Mayotte, 20. The Springfield,
Mass., native aimed to emulate
McEnroe’s 1977 performance of
reaching the semifinals on his first
appearance.
But his young nerves could not
stand the strain of the big points
and he went down, 4-6, 76, 7-6,
6-3.
Carpenter still wants out
She surprised the third-seeded
Austin — whose baseline game is a
copy of Evert’s — by playing the
right game, and she will aim to
repeat it Wednesday.
“I played almost the perfect
match against Tracy,” she ex
plained.
However, Evert attributed
Shriver’s success to Austin’s ner
vousness and said she was looking
forward to playing the 18-year-old
from Baltimore.
United Press International
HOUSTON — For the first
time in four years, Rob Carpenter
has hired an agent. And for the
first time in four years, he feels
like he’s had to.
On Jan. 7 the Oiler halfback
demanded to be traded and what
has followed has been months of
bitter negotiations.
“I have never lost to Pam, and I
enjoy playing against a serve and
volley player,” she said.
Right-handed Mandlikova, 19,
meets the powerful 24-year-old
left-handed Navratilova, a power
ful serve and volley player.
Although seeded two places be
low her opponent at No.4, Navra
tilova has plenty of experience to
help her through. She won the
title in 1978 and 1979, and
For the past three years. Car
penter has played behind NFL
rushing king Earl Campbell. It
was a bitter experience for some
one who gained 652 yards in his
NFL rookie year of 1977, before
Campbell arrived.
“I just realized Rob Carpenter
is not going to accomplish a whole
lot talking to the Houston Oilers,”
Carpenter said. “I was getting no
where. I don’t know whether it
was me or them, but now someone
else is trying.”
He agreed earlier this month to
let Steve Earhart of Boulder,
Colo., do his bidding.
Carpenter refused to say
whether he would go to training
camp in San Angelo July 22 if no
deal was worked out.
So far his threatened jump from
pro football to private business in
his native Ohio has not happened.
Carpenter said Earhart was
talking to other NFL teams and
working up a deal which would be
offered to the Oilers.
“I hope that if Steve got a trade
worked up the Oilers would look
at it realistically,” he said. “But I
know that for the Houston Oilers
to consider it, it’s going to have to
be a great trade for them.”
Meanwhile, Oilers offensive
coordinator Jim Shofher said Car
penter’s situation “really doesn’t
affect my thinking. I feel like I
know what we need to do offen
sively. There are other guys on the
team who can do the job. ”
Last year Carpenter rushed 97
times for 359 yards, paltry sums in
comparison to Campbell’s 373 car
ries for 1,902 yards, and Carpen
ter complained that former head
coach Bum Phillips had failed for
two years to make good a promise
of more playing time.
Phillips was fired Dec. 31 and
replaced by defensive coordinator
Ed Biles.
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not Super Bowl contenders. I felt
the Oilers had the talent the last
three years to win the Super Bowl,
but financially I really don’t think
they were trying to.”
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