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From: am5@cec2.wustl.edu (Avik  Mukherjee)
Subject: Arnaud Boetsch
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:23:25 GMT

Arnaud Boetsch is a clay-court style of player who I think reached the 4th
round of the French Open before. He has a heavy topspin game without much of a
huge serve. But his record against serve-and-volleyers is not to be totally
underestimated, since at last year's Wimbledon, he beat Krajicek 4-6 7-6 3-6
7-6 6-2. That win by Boetsch provoked Krajicek to call women fat, lazy pigs
moments later in the pressrooms.
From: mliu@garden.csc.calpoly.edu (Mei-Ling L. Liu)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Edberg-Mansdorf match
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:07:45 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Cal Poly SLO

Hello:
Happy Chinese New Year to all. 
There is, to my delight, a detailed report of the Edberg-Mansdorf
match in today's L.A. Times.  I am not sure I like the way this
match ended: Edberg had to overcome 7 breakpoints in the 4th set
to win it in a tight tie-breaker (7-5), after taking a drubbing
in the 3rd set (1-6).
Moreover, the AP story mentioned that
"Edberg grimmaced after (an overhead) shot (in the 4th set), 
as if he had irritated the adominal muscle that has bothered
him in the past and forced the Swede to quit in the fourth set
of the 1990 final here against Ivan Lendl."  I hope that observation
is just the AP writer's way of mentioning that past episode, and
doesn't really mean that Edberg is injured again.  
Folks in Australia: did you hear anything to that effect?  Write
me if you can.  Thanks in advance.

M. Liu
mliu@cs.ucsb.edu
From: solodov@monterey1.cs.wisc.edu (Mikhail V. Solodov)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Seles vs Graf
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:52:27 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.

In article <Jan.25.02.35.20.1993.1124@brushfire.rutgers.edu> probal@brushfire.rutgers.edu (Probal Kumar Bhattacharjya) writes:
>I wholeheartedly agree with Shun on this matter - it is more of a
>subjective discussion than an objective one ... hope this is the last
>follow-up on this :-)
>	--P.

    Let me point out that ANY discussion is subjective by definition.
    This is exactly what makes it interesting.
    And what is "objective", anyway ?! As we all agree, even computer
    rankings are not.
    Besides, the group doesn't have excessive traffic or anything
    close to that. There is no justification to shutting people up.
    Michael.
From: weber@ohm.york.ac.uk (Weber Martins)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: GrafxArantxa (SPOILERS)
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:42:34 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK

I have seen what RTL (german channel) decided to show and I have
good and bad news for Graf's fans. Everyone is a Graf-fan, don't
they?...

Good news: Graf defeated Arantxa, 7-5, 6-4
           Graf closed more points at the net than Arantxa did.

Bad news: the only Graf backhand topspin that I've seen was an error
          when Arantxa was coming to the net.

Anyway, saturday will be a great day!

			Weber

P.S.: I know that neighbours grass is always greener, but, boy, how
      Sabatini has made to the semi-finals??? Unbelievable! This 
      year, she will be 'cold' all year I think... 
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From: dyko@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Darren Yiu Ming KO)
Subject: some day8 results
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:18:22 GMT


    J Capriati (US) d K Maleeva (Bul) 6-7 6-3 6-1
    She now meets S Graf

    MJ Fernandez (US) d M Maleeva-Fragniere (Swi) 7-5 2-6 6-2
    She now meets A Sanchez-Vicario

    G Forget (Fr) d K Jones (US)

    P Sampras (US) d MV Washington (US) 6-3 6-4 6-4
    despite a toe-nail injury
    He now meets winner of R Fromberg vs B Steven
From: cs30@prism.gatech.EDU (Christopher Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Day 9 Doubles Report
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:58:51 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


Preliminary doubles results from Tuesday morning:

  + Men (QF)
    ---
    Kratzmann/Masur(8) d. Muller/J. Sanchez       6-0 6-3 6-7 6-2

  + Women (3rd round)
    -----
    G. Fernandez/Zvereva(1) d.
           Fairbank-Nideffer/Richardson(13)       6-4 6-0
    Heatherington/Rinaldi(6) d. Date/Jaggard-Lai  6-3 6-3
    Fendick/Strnadova(8) d. Labat/Tarabini(15)    6-4 6-4


Monday's doubles wrap-up:

   + Men (3rd round)
     ---
     Grabb/Reneberg(2) d. Briggs/Kronemann        6-4 6-4
     Visser/Warder(10) d. P. McEnroe/Stark(7)     7-6 7-6
     De Jager/Ondruska d. Ferreira/Norval(14)     6-2 7-6

   + Women (2nd round)
     -----
     Martinez/Sanchez V.(3) d. Bowes/Whittington  6-2 6-3
     M. Fernandez/Garrison-Jackson(4) d.
            M. Maleeva/Maleeva-Fragniere          6-4 6-2

   + Mixed (1st round unless otherwise indicated)
     -----
     Sanchez V./Woodbridge(1) d. Rinaldi/Connell  6-4 6-4      (2nd round)
     Miyagi/Kinnear d. Provis/Woodforde(5)        1-6 6-4 6-4  (2nd round)

     Zvereva/Jones(2) d. Faull/Salumaa            6-3 6-4
     Garrison/Leach(3) d. Stubbs/Van Emburgh      6-2 6-4
     Hetherington/Michibata d. Neiland/Suk(4)     6-3 5-7 7-5
     Smylie/Fitzgerald d. Reinach/Galbraith(7)    7-5 6-2
     McQuillan/MacPherson d. Collins/Kratzmann    6-3 6-1


Singles 4th round scores (for completeness):

     Korda(7) d. Garner           7-5 6-3 6-1
     Bergstrom d. Ferreira(10)    6-4 7-5 2-6 6-4


..Chris

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From: frank@austin.ibm.com (F. Karner)
Subject: Re: Wimbledon quote
Originator: frank@karner.austin.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:12:46 GMT
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division


In article <1993Jan24.003722.6055@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, dci@cs.washington.edu (Donald Chinn) writes:
> 
> I have a question concerning Wimbledon that I hope someone
> can answer.  I understand that just above the door that the
> players walk through before going on to Centre Court, there
> is a plaque that has a quote from either a poem or short story
> by Rudyard Kipling, whose last line goes something like, "If
> you can treat those two imposters just the same ..."  The two
> imposters are winning and losing.
> 
> The question:  What is the entire quote on the plaque and
> from what poem/short story/whatever is this from?
> 
> Please respond by e-mail (as well as posting, if you wish).
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Donald

I don't know the work, but think that the author is Rudyard Kipling. 
I'd be also interested in learning more on this quote.
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From: palmer@uvmark.uucp (Filaman)
Subject: Re: Hi
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:13:10 GMT
Organization: VMARK Software, Inc.
Keywords: Becker

In article <1993Jan28.004727.3518@cs.sfu.ca> apurva@cs.sfu.ca (Apurva Desai) writes:
>Can someone please let me know if Becker played in the AUS open. 
>If not why? And what about AGAssi?
>I started quite late this time and am totally out of touch 
>with the current happenings.
>
>Thanks in advance.

Yes, but not for long. He lost in the first round to Anders Jarryd (5 sets).
Becker complained about thigh problems after the match.
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From: shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung)
Subject: Re: Results: Women's QF Report (SPOILERS)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:54:15 GMT

In article <81863@hydra.gatech.EDU> cs30@prism.gatech.EDU (Christopher Smith) writes:
>
>Spoilers -- proceed with caution:

>
>     Seles(1) d. Halard               6-2 6-7 6-0
>     Graf(2) d. Capriati(7)           7-5 6-2
>     Sanchez Vic.(4) d. Fernandez(5)  7-5 6-4
>
>     Sabatini(3) vs. Pierce(10)       4-6 5-5
>
>The Sabatini/Pierce match result is updated as of the midnight hour,
>Melbourne time.  Sabatini is dangerously close to defeat.  Hopefully,
>more details soon.

That match has been completed:

Sabatini (3) d. Pierce (10)    4-6, 7-6 (14-12), 6-0

It took more than three hours. Mary Pierce had three match points in
the second set tie break but had nothing left in the final set, as in
the case of Halard.

Gaby's previous pattern is that after having a tough match, she has
little left in the next round. We'll see whether that pattern continues
or not when she plays Seles in the semi final.

Prediction: ESPN will spend a lot of time in today's tape delayed
coverage to show the Capriati-Graf match. :-)
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From: patano@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Scott Patano)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Receiving points from victories over ranked players
Date: 25 Jan 1993 03:21:44 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Distribution: world
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     Before I get to my main question, I have to respond to a previous
     article which criticized my posting of two articles about Seles/Graf.
     The writer was apparently complaining, in a rather unclear and
     rambling statement, that I was wasting too much of this newsgroup's
     time with articles on the above subject.  Well, excuse me, but I
     thought the entire purpose of this newsgroup was to provide news
     and commentary on the world of tennis.  If this is not the case,
     please inform me as quickly as possible.  And as for his comment about
     possibly needing another newsgroup called rec.sport.tennis.Seles-Graf,
     perhaps he could start a new one called rec.sport.tennis.whiner.

     Now on to my question:  I am aware that players receive additional
     points added to their computer score for defeating ranked players;
     however, I am not sure how the system works.  Does anyone know
     exactly how many points one would receive for, say, defeating the
     #1 or #2 player?  Does it depend on the particular player's ranking?
     Would the #3 player get points for defeating #5, even though he/she
     is ranked above them?  And how long do these points remain part of
     the player's score?

     As a final note, I would like to thank Mr. Vasu Kasubhota of the
     University of S. California for the lively discussion on Seles/Graf.
     I hope to be involved in more such commentary in the future.  I'll
     catch you all after the A.O. quarters!
From: mliu@garden.csc.calpoly.edu (Mei-Ling L. Liu)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Day 4 final report please ...
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:09:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Cal Poly SLO

Hello, hello, hello .....

Is there a Grand Slam event on or not?  Where's all the excitement?
Okay, so I understand that there was a rain delay and that the
place was teeming with flies the size of hummingbirds, but
could someone please post the scores of the seeded players from
last night?  The last I heard, Washington and Sampras advanced.
I haven't had a chance to look at this morning's papers yet,
as I am trapped in a lab.

Thanks.

M. Liu
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From: dmbriggs@vela.acs.oakland.edu (BRIGGS DENNIS M)
Subject: Re: Wimbledon quote
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:04:22 GMT

palmer@uvmark.uucp (Filaman) writes:

>In article <1993Jan24.003722.6055@beaver.cs.washington.edu> dci@cs.washington.edu (Donald Chinn) writes:
>>
>The poem is called "if", the quote:
>If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
>And treat those two imposters just the same:
>The poem begins with the lines:
>If you can keep your head when all about you
>Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
>and ends:
>Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
>And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
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I keep that poem in my wallet, as a reminder of the standards men must
live up to.

--mikey, who, at tennis, is more enthusiastic than he is good.
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From: haberm@vega.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Peter Habermehl(stagiaire Echahed))
Subject: Aussie Open Results (Spoiler)
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:14:17 GMT

Steffi Graf - Jenny Capriati 7-5 6-2
Aranxta Sanchez - M.J Fernandez 7-5 6-4

Hope Steffi will win tournament.

Peter
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From: sliew@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Selbyn Liew)
Subject: Re: Brett Steven
Organization: Electrical and Electronic - University of Melbourne 
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:50:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.174757.17453@wuecl.wustl.edu> am5@cec2.wustl.edu (Avik  Mukherjee) writes:
>can someone tell me about Brett Steven's game? I'm curious to know, since I've
>never seen him. I doubt too many others have seen him either. 
>
>-vic

I watched part of his match with Fromberg.  The impression is that he is
quite into serve and volley but also quite consistent from the baseline.
His serve is not much of a weapon though.  I don't know if he'll be able
to return Sampras' serve well enough also.  I'm not sure how much he's
really been tested in this tournament in terms of meeting levels of play
of the top players - since I think he's ranked 200++ and this is his
first grand slam.  However, he seems quite fit (compared to Fromberg, who
was clearly lethargic in the later part of the fifth set).

sliew
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From: cs30@prism.gatech.EDU (Christopher Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Results: Australian Open Day 5 Report (Jan 22)
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:22:32 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


Press `n' to skip results


The only seed to fall today is Zina Garrison-Jackson(16).  On the men's
side two qualifiers make it to the 4th round, Kelly Jones and Chris Garner,
both of the USA.

Todays' Results:

  + Men (3rd round)
    ---
    Courier(1) d. Raoux            6-4 6-3 6-4
    Korda(7) d. Medvedev           6-4 4-6 6-3 7-6
    Forget(11) d. Morgan           6-3 6-2 6-2
    Stich(14) d. Stoltenberg       5-7 6-4 7-6 4-6 6-3   
    Bruguera(15) d. Siemerink      7-6 4-6 6-3 3-6 9-7
    Jones d. Wheaton
    Garner d. Witsken

    Last match of the day still to be decided is between Todd
    Woodbridge and Ken Carlsen.

  + Women (3rd round)
    ------
    Seles(1) d. Fendick            6-1 6-0
    Sabatini(3) d. Po              6-1 6-3
    Martinez(6) d. Oremans         6-3 4-6 6-4
    Pierce(10) d. Davenport        6-3 6-0
    Tauziat(13) d. Dahlman         6-2 6-1
    Halard d. Garrison(16)         6-4 7-5
    G. Fernandez d. White          7-6 3-6 7-5
    Provis d. Demongeot            6-1 6-2

  + Men's Doubles (2nd round)
    -------------
    Camporese/Krajicek d. Nijssen/Suk(5)        7-6 6-3
    DeVries/MacPherson(6) d. Nelson/Svantesson  4-6 6-1 6-3
    Kinnear/Salumaa(16) d. Jensen/Jensen        3-6 7-6 9-7

  + Women's Doubles (2nd round)
    ---------------
    Hetherington/Rinaldi(6) d. Morton/Wood      7-6 6-2
    Adams/Bollegraf(7) d. Pratt/Sharpe          6-4 6-4


Round-of-16 matchups:

    Courier(1) vs. Bruguera(15)
    Korda(7) vs. Garner
    Stich(14) vs. Woodbridge or Carlsen
    Forget(11) vs. Jones

    Seles(1) vs. Tauziat(13)
    Martinez(6) vs. Halard
    Sabatini(3) vs. Provis
    Pierce(10) vs. G. Fernandez
    

..Chris

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College of Computing, Georgia Tech       404/853-0937
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From: pakuin@cs.vu.nl (Kuin PA)
Subject: Re: Results: Australian Open Day 1 Report
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:22:25 GMT

farrell@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au (John Farrell) writes:
: In <1993Jan19.162441.19203@cc.gatech.edu> csmith@cc.gatech.edu (Christopher Smith) writes:
: >I results I have list Oremans defeating Frazier 6-4 6-1 rather than the
: >other way around.  If so, this would be a pretty big upset for highly
: >ranked Amy Frazier, who I believe advanced to the round-of-16 or QF's
: >last year.
: 
:   "The Australian" insists that Frazier won. However in the schedule printed
: on the previous page Oremans is scheduled to play Elna Reinach today, so they
: must have made a mistake.
: 
: 
: John

Oremans won and has also beaten Reinach in the second round 6-1 6-1.
From: 5912ramasubr@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Timing
Date: 28 Jan 1993 18:13:12 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 5912ramasubr@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

Can anybody post the timing for the men's Semi-finals
on Friday (in Australia)
Thanks
From: patano@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Scott Patano)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Seles vs Graf
Date: 23 Jan 1993 22:56:46 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: huey.cc.utexas.edu

     I suppose I had better respond to the die-hard Seles (or is
     it anti-Graf) fan down there in Southern California.  Let me
     take the comments he made one by one:

     1)  He claims Seles' victory over Navratilova as proof of her
         ability to win Wimbledon.  Although I was very surprised
         at Seles' (narrow) victory, we must remember that Martina
         hasn't exactly been in her finest form this year, and that
         she did lose to a 15 year-old Capriati (who has no serve
         and volley game to speak of) at the previous Wimbledon.

     2)  He says Graf isn't that great of a grass court player
         because she mainly sticks to a baseline game.  I myself
         must admit to being surprised at Graf's hesitance to
         come to the net; her net play when she does attack is
         really very good.  And don't forget the Graf serve, one
         of the best and most powerful in the game.  A strong
         serve (which Seles lacks) is extremely important on grass.

     3)  He claims that Graf will panic and abandon her new top-spin
         backhand shots and more frequent net approaches whenever she
         has to face a tough opponent.  Well, that remains to be seen
         in this tournament; Graf seems to be having success so far
         at the A.O. with these new enhancements to her game.  I
         imagine she will at least keep the more aggressive net game
         as she enters the quarters and semis.

     4)  He expressed surprise that Graf has maintained her #2 ranking
         and predicted her falling further if she fails to defend her
         Wimbledon title.  I saw the computer point totals in the
         newspaper recently, and they showed Seles at #1 with roughly
         280 points, Graf #2 with around 250 points, and Sabatini a
         distant #3 with less than 200 points.  Even with a few
         embarrassing losses this past year, Graf has easily outdone
         #3 Sabatini and #4 Sanchez-Vicario.  I don't see her falling
         from her present ranking any time soon.

    
     By the way, I would like to thank this newsgroup for providing
     results from the A.O.; it has been difficult so far obtaining
     news/commentary on the A.O. up here in the U.S.
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From: dyko@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Darren Yiu Ming KO)
Subject: Completed Women's SF Results
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:27:48 GMT


   Women's Semi-final results:

   M Seles (Yug) d G Sabatini (Arg) 6-1 6-2
   S Graf (Ger) d A Sanchez-Vicario (Spn) 7-5 6-4

   So, for the umpteenth time, the top two women players are set to
   slug it out in the final (yawn!). With a scoreline of 6-1 6-2 against
   the Argentine, the top seed seems to be operating at full throttle.
   The QF match against the French girl Pierce must have taken a lot 
   out of the number three seed, for she is slow and sluggish against
   the energetic Seles. Her service were all broken in the first set and
   she only troubled the scoreboard late in the set by breaking Seles'
   serve.

   Fortunately, the other semi was a bit closer, with Graf triumphant in
   two tight sets. The little Spaniard had Graf on the back foot early,
   but the number two seed justified her ranking by arresting a 2-4
   deficit and winning the set 7-5. The momentum carried on to the 
   second set with the German hitting some powerful serve and "that"
   forehand. She quickly raced to a 5-3 lead and was set to serve for
   the match. Yet, the 4th seed, to her credit, rallied to break back
   for 4-5, only to losher own serve the next game, thereby losing
   the match.

   So, for the final, I would like the pretty German to win, mainly 
   because Seles has won too much. It would be a cliffhanger, down-
   to-the-wire contest, but Graf in three tight sets.
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From: drm002@acad.drake.edu (Dave R. Muhich)
Subject: Prediction
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:11:14 GMT



	My prediction for the AO is that Seles will easily win the women's
title and, being from Minnesota, I like David Wheaton as my sentimental men's
champion. Probably not likely, but who knows?
						Dave
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From: eddie@chpc.utexas.edu (G'day)
Subject: Tennis magazine article
Keywords: Manuela fights back
Organization: The University of Texas System CHPC
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 14:23:35 GMT

For us Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere fans there is an article in the Feb. 1993
Tennis magazine (thanks Cindy Hahn!) about her. She underwent knee surgery
and four months of physical therapy last year (to correct a congenital
condition-part of her knee cap was missing). Apparently everything went so
well she plans on a full schedule this year. Good news indeed. She looks
so determined in the picture of her but I also see a glamorous side, look
at the picture and see if you agree. I wish her good luck at the AO.

Eddie 




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