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The Kents:
Like father,
like son
One of A&M’s best kept secrets
is its head tennis coach, David
Kent.
He’s not a tall man or extremely
muscular. But he’s always smiling.
His wide-brimmed hat and sun
glasses are almost a trademark on
his round smiling face.
His entire demeanor reminds
one a little of a grandfather-type
figure. He knows his tennis and is
willing to teach it to anyone willing
to listen. You could call him A&M’s
tennis guru.
During the Texas A&M Tennis
Camp he would walk around, talk
ing with each camper, making sure
each had some attention and were
enjoying the work they were doing.
Nothing you could ask him is
too insignificant or unworthy of
discussion. He always has time
for you when you need to ask him
questions, even if they’re about
this seasons recruits or how the
team played in last weekend’s
tournament.
One of the things that makes
him special, is his ability to teach
tennis. He just finished his 26th
season as a head coach at the colle
giate level and has amassed a
record of 482-206.
This past season the team fin
ished 17th nationally with a 23-4
record and won the Southwest Con
ference Championship for the first
time in the school’s history. The
1985 team finished with a 21-10
record.
Seems like the Aggies should
have been ranked a little higher.
Well, it wouldn’t be the first time
A&M was looked over in the rank
ings.
Kent exemplifies the best that
most of us could hope to be. He is
extremely successful at his chosen
profession, but he still manages to
be a nice guy.
He has gained the respect of his
' TTteek-s from M atrdsS'thte state and
? .country, but he’s still the sam,e old
Tqxa'^ boy who grew up in Amarillo.
But perhaps the best way to see
Kent is through his children. Much
like any father, you can see Kent’s
ways in his son, Todd.
Todd Kent maybe stands a lit
tle taller than his father, but he
looks like a younger version of the
original.
He moves through the tennis
courts at the Omar Smith Tennis
Complex, much the same way as
his father. He stops and offers ad
vice to the students gathered there.
Both even listen to irrelevant
questions with the same patience
and attentive ear.
Some say that professional ten
nis has an image problem today.
They say the players and coaches
are rude and won’t talk to re
porters.
Luckily, here at A&M, that’s not
a problem.
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Mens tennis confident about new recruits
By Mark Smith
The Battalion
After finishing ranked No. 17 in the
nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis As
sociation, the Texas A&M men’s tennis
team is looking to continue its success
on the court.
To do that, A&M has signed some
top-notch Texas recruits as well as a
strong player from Peru.
Jonathon Creath from Austin West-
lake High School and Satyen Patel from
Canyon High School signed letters of in
tent to play at A&M during the spring
signing period.
Creath finished as runner-up in Class
4A singles play during his junior and se
nior years at Westlake. In his senior
year, he finished with over 30 wins.
“Jonathon is a Texas boy who I think
will help us in the future,” head coach
David Kent said. “Like many freshman,
he needs collegiate experience. Once he
gets that, he’ll be a tough player.”
Creath’s high school coach Elsa Hi
nojosa thought he could bring a number
of positive qualities to the Aggie team.
“Jonathon’s most important quality
is his leadership in team tennis and I
think that will help him fit right in with
Texas A&M and their emphasis on
team play,” Hinojosa said.
Patel is also a strong player, Kent
said. Patel won the Class 3A Doubles
competition as a freshman at Canyon
H.S. and won the singles competition
during his junior year.
“Satyen is a great tennis player, and
with his work ethic he could become an
outstanding tennis player at Texas
A&M,” Kent said.
Kent was perhaps most impressed
with Carlos Tori of Peru. Tori signed
with A&M during the fall signing period.
He came to A&M to visit a friend on
the tennis team, senior business major
Bernardo Martinez of Mexico City, and
felt comfortable with A&M, Kent said.
Kent was impressed with Tori’s repu
tation.
“From what I’ve heard of him, he’s
an all-court player,” Kent said. “He can
do everything.
“The last I heard, he was in the semi
finals of the French Open junior compe
tition,” he said.
Kent is hoping that the recruits can
help fill the spot of the only departing
senior, Mark Weaver. Weaver was the
team’s top singles player and finished
the 1994 season nationally ranked No.
30 in singles. Kent said losing Weaver
was a big loss.
“Mark Weaver has been a catalyst for
our team for four years now,” Kent said.
The three top prospects to replace
Weaver are Martinez, Robbie Krause
and Blake Arrant, Kent said.
Despite the loss of Weaver, Kent is
optimistic about the team’s chances for
the upcoming 1994-95 season.
“I’m excited,” Kent said. “This team
has a knack for winning. The winning
has become a habit. This team expects
to win.”
Top seeds advance at Wimbledon
Navratilova enters Wimbledon for
22nd and last time; Becker,
Sampras advance in straight sets
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Martina Navratilova
patted her thumping heart, applause cascading down Mon
day from the packed Wimbledon crowd standing in a long,
sentimental and unprecedented tribute.
She smiled, winked, seemed embarrassed by all the fuss.
All she had done was walk onto Centre Court, the grass
lush and unblemished on the cool, cloudy evening of the
first day. No one ever got cheered like that before a match
at Wimbledon.
Rarely do players get that kind of warm, sustained ova
tion even when they win the tournament.
But this is Navratilova’s 22nd and final Wimbledon, her
last chance to add a 10th silver salver to her record collec
tion for singles titles.
Every walk onto Centre Court could be her last, and the
fans knew it. For a full minute, they stood and clapped.
Navratilova, 37, had worried that the emotion might be
too much for her, but she got down to business quickly and
dispatched 19-year-old Briton Claire Taylor, 6-2, 6-3.
‘T’ve definitely been thinking about it,” Navratilova said.
“This is what I thought about just before I went out. This is
what I wanted a year ago when I walked off the court. I
said, Til be back one more time.’ This is what I wanted, one
more chance, while I’m healthy and playing well. So here’s
my chance, go to it.”
Pete Sampras, the defending men’s champ, followed tra
dition by opening play on Centre Court at 2 p.m., moments
after his boyhood idol, Rod Laver, was honored in the Royal
Box on the 25th anniversary of his Grand Slam.
Sampras lost his bid for a Grand Slam when he fell in the
French Open, but he celebrated Laver’s No. 25 with 25 aces
in a 7-6 (7-4), 7-5, 6-3 victory over Jared Palmer.
“I think this is probahly tny highest qce totqj,’’ said, Sam
pras, who made a fashion statement of sorts with his new
baggy shorts, and a tennis declaration with his 128 mph
serves.
“I was really serving as well as I could. He didn’t have a
clue where they were going,” he said.
Sampras was in trouble only in the first set. Palmer had
two set points at 15-40 with Sampras serving and down 5-6.
Palmer thought he won the set with a forehand at 30-40,
but the ball drifted barely wide.
“I was two inches away from losing that first set,” said
Sampras, who then closed out the set with an ace.
Andre Agassi, 1992 champ, had a slightly tougher
match against Andrea Gaudenzi before winning 6-2, 6-7
(7-3), 6-3, 6-2.
“He picked up the serve in the second set, and I couldn’t
really make clean contact with a lot of his second serves,
and that’s where I tend to hurt people,” Agassi said.
“That posed some difficulty, and I made a couple of dou
ble faults in the tiebreaker that I’m disappointed about. But
I felt like I served tremendous.”
Three-time champion Boris Becker continued his domi
nance of David Wheaton, beating him 6-2, 6-4, 6-3.
AP Photo
Boris Becker of Germany fires a backhand return to
Stephane Simian of France during a singles match at the
Japan Open in ApriT
Stefan Edberg, two-time Wimbledon champion, beat Ellis
Ferreira 6-2, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4. Fourth-seeded Goran Ivanisevic
eased past Fernando Meligeni 6-1, 6-3, 6-4, while No. 6
Todd Martin needed five sets to get past Grant Stafford 6-4,
6-2, 6-7 (8-6), 6-7 (7-5), 6-1.
French Open champion and No. 8 seed Sergi Bruguera,
beat British wild-card Barry Cowan 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. No. 10
Michael Chang beat Alberto Costa 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, 6-2, and
No. 11 Petr Korda downed John Fitzgerald of Australia 6-2,
6-1, 6-4.
In women’s matches, No. 6 Kimiko Date beat Ai Sugiya-
ma 6-3, 7-6 (7-0); No. 11 Mary Joe Fernandez defeated Kari
na Habsudova 6-4, 6-2; and No. 14 Amanda Coetzer posted
a 6-4, 6-0 win over Yelena Likhovtseva.
Lady Aggies
continue search
for new coach
Constance Parten
The Battalion
The Lady Aggie basketball team is
still without a head coach with less
than two weeks until the player recruit
ing process begins.
The initial application deadline for
the head coaching position was June 3.
The reviewing committee extended the
deadline indefinitely, hoping to obtain a
more diversified field of applicants.
“We were not satisfied with the ap
plications we had by June 3,” Commit
tee Chair and Associate Athletic Direc
tor Penny King said Monday. “The ap
plicants were very good, but we have to
concern ourselves with a good affirma
tive action field, and the applications
we had just didn’t cut it.”
The committee is currently review
ing 36 applications. They are looking
for someone with four or five years head
coaching experience at a successful Di
vision I program.
“We are talking to other athletic ad
ministrators around the country to see
who they would consider, and we are
doing background checks,” King said.
The Lady Aggies will begin recruit
ing new players for the 1994-95 season
on July 1. King said the lack of a head
coach will not hamper recruiting ef
forts. Assistant coaches Eileen Feeney
and Cathy McDonald will handle the
recruiting process if a head coach is not
found in time.
“Eileen and Cathy are capable of
handling all the recruiting,” King said.
“And Lynn Hickey is still here if they
need any assistance.”
Feeney is among the applicants for
head coach. She is a strong contender
even though she has no head coaching
experience. She said the coaches will
spend a large amount of time recruit
ing.
“The evaluation process begins on
July 1,” she said. “We’ll spend the
month of July out recruiting.”
Feeney’s responsibilities for the past
eight seasons at A&M have included co
ordinating recruiting efforts and coach
ing during practices as well as games.
The committee will review the appli
cations and select the finalists. Athletic
director Wally Groff and senior associ
ate athletic director Lynn Hickey will
then make the final selection.
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Els breaks tie to win U.S. Open with sudden-death play
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Ernie Els
calmed his jangled nerves and got what
he wanted sooner than he expected: A
major championship.
The lanky South African showed
poise beyond his 24 years when he re
grouped after a bogey, triple-bogey start
to play the last 18 holes of Monday’s
U.S. Open playoff at treacherous Oak-
mont Country Club one under par and
defeat Loren Roberts on the second sud
den-death hole.
Colin Montgomerie, the other mem
ber of the first three-way playoff at the
Open since 1963, was eliminated after
shooting 78 to the 74s posted by Els and
Roberts.
“I’ve always wanted to win a major,”
Els said. “It’s come pretty quick with me.
I’m 24. People have to be patient with
me. I have a long stretch ahead of me.”
It could be a longer stretch for the
golfers who will have to contend with
him for the years to come.
After a rocky round in which all
three players saved their best for last,
it ended with a two-putt par on No. 11
after Roberts found first the rough and
then the sand, making bogey when a
twisting 35-foot par putt spun out of
the hole.
Els, the first foreign player to win
the Open since 1981 and only the fourth
since 1927, was all over the course,
missing the fairway on 10 of the 16 dri
ving holes.
But he scrambled brilliantly and
showed the resourcefulness needed to
win a major championship.
“It’s just a dream come true for me,”
Els said. “I started out kind of bad. I
guess we were all kind of nervous.”
It sure looked that way. For a while
it seemed as if no one would win the
tournament. If this had been a basket
ball game, all three players would have
been benched by the fifth hole.
At that point, Els had two 5s and a 7
on his card. Roberts had two 5s and a 6.
And Montgomerie had two 6s and a 5.
Ugly golf.
After the 21-minute second hole, on
which Els made his 7, the six-stroke
limit used at miniature golf courses
looked like a good idea.
“You’re gearing to play four rounds
and then all of a sudden you have to
play a fifth,” Roberts said. “You’re going
to be tight. All three of us were too tight
and we just didn’t get started too good.”
Els fell a stroke behind right off the
bat when he bogeyed the first hole after
missing the fairway with a wild hook
left, much like the drive on Sunday that
led to the incorrect free drop.
Then came No. 2. He made triple bo
gey on the short 342-yard hole when his
second shot flew the green and landed
in a bush, costing him a one-stroke
penalty.
“I guess I was kind of nervous,” he
said about the approach shot. “I took a
wedge. The ball just went over the
green. I couldn’t believe it.”
Els was three strokes behind Roberts
after the triple bogey. He cut it to two
with a birdie on the next hole and they
were deadlocked after Roberts made a
double-bogey six on No. 5.
From there on they were never sepa
rated by more than one stroke.
Montgomerie, who looked lost, scuff
ing two chips and leaving several putts
embarrassingly short, fell three strokes
behind on the seventh hole and never
got closer, turning the front nine in a
fat 42.
“Obviously I’m disappointed,” the
Scotsman said. “I’m even more disap
pointed” knowing that 74 was the best
score of the playoff.
Even he settled down, playing the
last six holes one under par.
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