From: shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung)
Subject: VS Championship results and comments, Nov 21
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:19:55 GMT

Christopher Smith is having difficulties posting articles. He asked
me to post HIS comments on the quarter-final matches on Friday night.
These are NOT my comments, but I think Chris has lots of good points
as usual. Unfortunately, those of you have my name in the "kill" file
will miss Chris' fine comments. :-)

-- Shun Cheung

From: csmith@cc.gatech.edu (Christopher Smith)

> Shun, can I ask you for this once only to post an article for me
> about VS?   Hopefully I'm not repeating your thoughts.  I plan
> to stop posting for awhile because our news system is just too
> flaky right now (besides others are taking up the slack).  Thanks.
> 
> ---
> 
> Here are my comments on tonight's VS QF singles matches:
> 
> 1st match: McNeil d. Martinez 3-6 6-3 6-2
> 
> MSG started its broadcast early in the 2nd set of this match.  Martinez
> won the 1st set on a single break.  At the beginning of the 2nd set
> it looked like Martinez was hitting her topspin forehand well and keeping
> McNeil back.  
> 
> Gradually, however, McNeil began serving better and coming to the net
> more often (and winning about 2/3 of her net points).  At the same
> time Martinez became less aggressive and was having some problems with
> her serve (on her second serve she sometimes tosses her ball rather
> far to the left).
> 
> By the 3rd set Martinez began to get a bit frustrated as McNeil continued
> to apply pressure at the net and wasn't doing too badly from the baseline,
> either.  One key point in the match came in the fourth game of the 3rd
> set, when McNeil executed a great underspin lob to capture a second
> break in that set.
> 
> Overall, McNeil didn't look quite as sharp as in her match against Graf.
> 
> --
> 
> 2nd match: Sabatini d. Capriati 6-1 3-6 6-4
> 
> >From start to finish Capriati appeared to control the fate of this
> match.  Sabatini managed to win the first set 6-1 despite poor serving.
> She was playing the rest of her game well enough, and Capriati wasn't
> really into the match, committing a lot of errors and not getting
> much depth on either forehand or backhand.  The fourth game was
> the critical one in this set, with 9 deuces (lots of errors and
> missed opportunities, Sabatini finally grabbed this game with an
> excellent volley).
> 
> Capriat suddenly picked up her game at the very end of the first set
> and she dominated play throughout the 2nd set.  She hit close to 20
> winners in the 2nd set, and Sabatini hardly came into net.
> 
> The 3rd set was outstanding, with Sabatini picking up her game,
> coming into net and hitting some wonderful angle volleys, and
> Capriati kept up the pressure with lots of pace, depth, occasional
> forays to the net, and some *great* passing shots.  The match was
> very tight and becoming very tense up to 4-3 in the third.
> 
> At 4-3 in the third, 40-30 (Sabatini serving for 4-4), Sabatini
> benefitted from a net cord and won the game.  The very next point
> (on Capriati's serve), Sabatini won on *another* net cord!  And
> that's it -- the turning point of the match!  I'm trying to think
> of another match that so visibly turned on a couple of points.
> What luck!
> 
> Capriati was totally deflated after these points and committed a bunch
> of unforced errors, essentially handing Sabatini the match.  Still
> an excellent match, though.  I wonder how well Sabatini is going
> to be able to handle Seles.
> 
> ..Chris
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