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By Hal L. Hammons
Assistant Sports Editor
Texas A&M tennis player Shaun
O’Donovan proved last weekend
that it doesn’t necessarily take prac
tice to be perfect.
O’Donovan and his partner, for
mer Texas Christian player Neil
Smith, wrapped up the men’s dou
ble’s championship Sunday at the
Texas A&M Open with a 7-5, 6-4
win over Austin’s William and Rich
ard Dopson at the Omar Smith Ten
nis Center.
O’Donovan and Smith, both na
tives of South Africa, were playing in
their first tournament as a team.
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played with each other before. We
just sefemed to hit it off well.”
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grueling semifinals match that tour
nament director and A&M women’s
tennis coach Bobby Kleineke coined
“World War III.”
O’Donovan also teamed up with
fellow Aggie Cindy Churchwell for
the mixed doubles championship,
the bin; Churchwell, a sophomore, was elimi
nated in the semifinal round of both
ingles and women’s doubles.
San Antonio’s Glenn Barton, a
former Southwest Texas State stand
out, ruined former A&M player
Dean Goldfine’s return to College
station by eliminating him 6-3, 7-6
n the quarterfinals on the way to the
men’s championship. Barton beat
Ravi Kumar of Dallas 6-2, 6-3 for the
title.
Austin’s Diana Dopson beat Deb
bie Wren of Dallas, who had
knocked out Churchwell. 6-4, 6-2
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captures undisputed title
ATLANTIC CITY (AP) — Mike Tyson knocked Mi
chael Spinks out in the first round with a crashing left-
right to the head and retained the undisputed heavy
weight championship Monday night at the Convention
Center.
It was no contest.
It was one of the shortest heavyweight championship
fights in history.
Only three title bouts have ended quicker. The time
was 1:31.
Shortly past the minute mark, Tyson put Spinks
down to the knee with a right to the body. Spinks got
him at the count of two and Tyson was on him like a
jungle cat. Then the left and right connected with
Spinks’jaw and he went down on his back.
Referee Frank Capuccino began to count and it was
obvious the stricken Spinks wouldn’t beat it.
“Whatever he does, I’m going to win,” Tyson had
said before the scheduled 12-round bout. Spinks never
got a chance to do anything.
“No one on the planet can come near me,” Tyson
had boasted.
Tyson, who will be 22 on Thursday, was a 4-1 favor
ite. It turned out the odds were way out of line.
Tyson swarmed over Spinks at the opening bell and
never gave the previously unbeaten challenger a
chance. Spinks landed only a left and right during the
short fight.
It was over before a sellout crowd of 21,785 really
had a chance to settle in.
There was speculation of squabbling in Tyson’s camp
and reports that marital problems might trouble him.
He answered that question swiftly and ruthlessly.
Spinks had said before the fight, “I don”t know what
kind of problems Mike Tyson will present. ... As soon as
the fight ends. I’ll be able to tell you.”
The 31-year-old Spinks was in no condition to tell
anyone anything at the end of this fight.
When Spinks did qome around, he said, “I finally
found someone who can beat me.”
It was the first defeat against 31 victories for Spinks,
the former undisputed light heavyweight champion
and former International Boxing Federation heavy
weight champ.
Tyson, who weighed 218 1 /4, six pounds more than
Spinks, now has a 35-0 record with 31 knockouts.
For his pain, Spinks got a guarantee of $ 13.5 million.
Tyson’s cut from the fight, which was televised on
closed-circuit and pay-per-view television, would be in
the neighborhood of $20 million.
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Photo by Jay Janner
A&M’s Shaun O’Donovan returns a shot Friday in the A&M Open.
for the women’s singles title.
O’Donovan thought that the sum
mer layoff hurt the Aggies’ showing.
“After playing the whole season,
you think, ‘The season is over,’ ”
O’Donovan said. “You take a little
break.
“I think we could have done a lot
better. I didn’t think we were into
the tournament. We were not psy
ched up enough.
“We didn’t see that manv big
names (on the schedule). Not many
of us worked out that hard, because
we were not expecting that many
good matches.”
The tournament was played in
August last year, but was moved to
June this year because of players’
problems coping with the heat.
A&M English professor Larry
Reynolds beat Skip Goody of Bryan
6-2, 6-3 for the men’s 45 single’s
crown.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) —
Ask Zina Garrison how she can sud
denly go from a player who loses big
matches to one who wins even bigger
ones and she’ll give a simple answer
— motherly advice.
“I never got down on myself.
That’s important,” the 12th seed
from Houston said after beating
fifth-seeded Gabriela Sabatini 6-1,3-
6, 6-2 Monday and reaching the
quarterfinals at Wimbledon.
“That’s my best win in a long
time,” said Garrison, who has a his
tory of losing matches when they be
gin to count the most.
She reached the semifinals at
Wimbledon in 1985 and the Austra
lian Open quarterfinals last year.
But she suffered big defeats in
her three most recent Grand Slam
appearances — in the fourth round
to Lori McNeil at the U.S. Open last
year, in the second round to an un
known at this year’s Australian
Open, and in the fourth round to
Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia at
the French Open this month.
Garrison’s last singles title came in
February 1987, and from a personal
high of fifth in the worldwide rank
ings, she has slipped to 13th.
Garrison heard the whispers.
“But it’s not important what other
people think,” she said. “My mother
has always told me, ‘It’s what you
think that matters.’ ”
Garrison’s game was developed
on American hardcourts and is best
suited to fast surfaces, such as the
grass at Wimbledon.
“I don’t think she was comfortable
with the court,” Garrison said. “The
difference in her confidence level
from clay to grass was unbelievable.”
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