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From: bfrohman@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Bradley Frohman)
Subject: Re: Jennifer Capriati
Organization: Motorola Inc., Ft. Worth, Tx
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:17:57 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.192448.28618@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung) writes:
>In article <1992Apr06.153330.440@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com> bfrohman@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Bradley Frohman) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Apr3.165125.17290@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung) writes:
>
>>>It would be interesting to hear what Chris Evert has to say about all this.
>>>Her brother John is Capriati's agent. Evert may be covering the Hilton Head
>>>tournament for NBC this weekend.
>>	I believe I heard it annouced this weekend that Capriati would stop
>>	playing exhibitions.  (or greatly reduce them).  This sounds like
>>	a good idea.
>I think the decision was made a few weeks back; Bud Collins and
>Dick Emberg mentioned it again during NBC's Hilton Head coverage
>and said that was an excellent idea, which I too agree completely.
>Chirs Evert was noticeably quiet on that topic and only said a little
>later that Capriati will be back. Evert's brother is (was?) probably 
>very responsible for arranging those exhibition appearances.

	Not to character assassinate, but from what I remember of John
	on our college tennis team he did not seem to have a good
	grasp of planning for the future.  He was a nice enough guy.
	Of course I am sure Capriati's parents had more to do with this
	then John.  It would just be to bad if John did not try to
	limit Capriati's exhibition schedule.  Of course for all I know
	he did, but this would not match what I remember of John.

	If Capriati survives time, I believe there will be big things
	to come from her.  I do believe she is talented.  As for her
	just hitting hard, I believe this is youth and inexperience.
	As she matures over the years, she will learn finesse.

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From: yhartojo@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Francis Hartojo)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Women's tennis.
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:07:18 GMT
Organization: Arizona State University


	After watching tennis matches last weekend, a question popped up in
my mind: why the widebody rackets cause different results in men's tennis
and women's tennis?  I mean, in men's tennis, the widebodies cause more
players to really hammer the serves and move up to the net, thus serve-and-
volley type of playing, but in women's tennis, they cause more players to
sit back on the baseline and just hammer the baseline shots, well, except
for Ms. Brenda Schultz.  Technically speaking, why is that?  I would expect
that more women players to play like Martina or, at least, Gaby, but instead,
players like Seles, Capriati, Graf are the dominant ones nowadays.

	I am really curious...

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From: adolce@bbn.com (Anne Dolce)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Sabatini #1?
Date: 15 Apr 1992 12:28:14 GMT
Organization: Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc.
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Here's an attempt to clear-up the confusion about this issue.

Women's tennis has two computer ranking systems.  The first is
the WTA's system which determines a player's ranking as the
average number of points received per tournament for all tournaments
played within the past 12 months.  These are the rankings that you
see myself (and others, thank you) post to this newsgroup every week
or so.  These are the rankings which are used to determine the seedings
at tournaments.  Currently, Seles is #1, Graf #2, Sabatini #3, etc.

The other ranking system is the Kraft Foods Point Standings.  These
rankings are computed based on the sum total of computer points
accumulated in the current calendar year.  So far this year, Sabatini
is #1 in total points.  These rankings serve two main purposes:
   
   (1) The top 16 at the end of the year get to play in the Virginia
       Slims Championships.
   
   (2) The player who finishes first with most total points I think
       wins $500,000 and a jaguar.

The first system described above is almost always used to indicate
who is #1 in women's tennis (since they reflect the players' performance
for a whole year.


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From: shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung)
Subject: Re: Mary Pierce
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 19:49:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr17.180137.22838@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bd344@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael N Bastedo) writes:
>Does anyone know anything about the women's player Mary Pierce? I've
>heard her name around lately but I haven't heard anything about her. Is
>she a new young player? What country is she from?

Pierce's father Jim is American but her mother is from France originally.
I think the family lived in Quebec for a while too. According to reports, 
Jim Pierce is yet another "tennis father" who is not exactly very easy
to work with. The USTA didn't pay much attention to Pierce (i.e. little
support in coaching, etc.). I heard various reasons, such as the USTA
focusing too much on other young American players, Pierce's father ....
Finally, Mary Pierce "turned French" last year and is now representing
France at the Olympics and the Federation Cup. She is improving very fast
and is now around #14 in the world.

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From: shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Jennifer Capriati
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:24:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Apr06.153330.440@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com> bfrohman@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Bradley Frohman) writes:

>In article <1992Apr3.165125.17290@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung) writes:

>>It would be interesting to hear what Chris Evert has to say about all this.
>>Her brother John is Capriati's agent. Evert may be covering the Hilton Head
>>tournament for NBC this weekend.

>	I believe I heard it annouced this weekend that Capriati would stop
>	playing exhibitions.  (or greatly reduce them).  This sounds like
>	a good idea.

I think the decision was made a few weeks back; Bud Collins and
Dick Emberg mentioned it again during NBC's Hilton Head coverage
and said that was an excellent idea, which I too agree completely.
Chirs Evert was noticeably quiet on that topic and only said a little
later that Capriati will be back. Evert's brother is (was?) probably 
very responsible for arranging those exhibition appearances.
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From: franblan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Francois Marcel Blanc)
Subject: Re: AIDS, HIV
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 22:15:14 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.174904.19137@acsu.buffalo.edu> v071rw4p@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (EMIL MARCUS) writes:
>
>		Non-tennis but tennis-related...
>		Speaking of AIDS and HIV...
>
>	HIV  - Human Immunodeficiency Virus:
>				      ~~~~~
>		  Luc Montagnier (France) and, independently,  
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  						  BULLSHIT!!!

>		  Robert Gallo (USA);
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                Escroc de la pire espece!

>	AIDS - Acquired Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
> 					       ~~~~~~~~
>
>		It has not yet been unequivocally proven that HIV causes 
>		AIDS... Gallo is among those not absolutely convinced that
>		AIDS is caused by HIV !...  

	It teaches us more on how serious Gallo can be considered!


>			
>
>	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~~~    Emil Marcus    ~~~~~    V071RW4P@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu    ~~~~~~~
>	Dept. of Biophysics 
>	School of Medicine
>	University at Bull


	Francois
From: olson@plains.NoDak.edu (Rob Olson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: TESTING ONLY!
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:39:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.16750
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo

From: olson@plains.NoDak.edu (Rob Olson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: TESTING ONLY!
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
Keywords: 

This is just a test!
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From: Anne Bilek <anne@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Sabatini #1?
Organization: University of Minnesota
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:03:22 GMT

>No.  Sabatini is not number one, nor is she anywhere close to being
>number one.  Seles is number one with about 270 points, Graf is number
>two with about 237 points, and Sabatini is number three with about
>200 points.  Martina is only about 8 points behind her, and is becoming
>a threat to take away number three, especially if Gaby loses early at
>Amelia Island this week.
>
>Perhaps the N.Y. Times said she was the number one seed at a
>tournament?  

No, they said "Sabatini, ranked #1 in the world, is seeded second at this
tournament behind Steffi Graf..."  Right.  I was confused because I also
had heard it said during the Hilton Head broadcast that Sabatini was in
danger of slipping to #4.

Oh well.  No one said the N.Y. Times was infalliable.  (Except maybe the
N.Y. Times).  Thanks for the info.

anne
From: jcm@cfm.brown.edu (Javier Cruz-Mena)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Arthur Ashe
Date: 9 Apr 1992 20:43:31 GMT
Organization: Brown University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sticky.cfm.brown.edu

In article <11128@borg.cs.unc.edu>, ponamgi@franck.cs.unc.edu (ponamgi) writes:
|> 
|>   A friend of mine told me Arthur Ashe declared he has the
|>   AIDS virus.  He "claims" it was from the heart surgery he
                      ^^^^^^
|>   had 15 years ago...


	He claims?!?  Good Heavens!, is he answerable to you, or do you just
work for USAToday in your spare time?
	He has no obligation to "claim", or "prove" anything, and most certainly
nothing to explain to the general public. As he said, he's not running for 
office and he has commited no crime. Consequently, it should make no difference
to us whether he got it from a transfussion or by sleeping around with whatever
he might have chosen to, as far as judging him goes, simply because we DO NOT
have the right to pass judgement on him in this regard. Period.

	javier cruz mena.


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From: shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung)
Subject: Re: Sabatini #1?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 01:26:13 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.213108.3573@news2.cis.umn.edu> gina@boombox.micro.umn.edu (Gina Scalze) writes:
>I read today in the NY Times that Gabriela Sabatini is the new number
>one.

>Anyway... I just wanted to know if Sabatini is now #1 and when she became
>#1.  I hope she stays there for a while - I always liked her.

Sorry to disappoint you, but Sabatini is NOT currently #1.
Actually, she has never been higher than her current #3 ranking
and is nowhere near #1 pointwise at this moment. Players' rankings
are determined from "average" results in the past 52 week. However,
Sabatini leads in points accumulated in the calendar year 1992.
But IMHO she is ahead of Seles and Graf (actually way ahead of
Graf) mainly because she has played more tournaments (6 before
this week) in 1992 than the other two (Seles 4 and Graf 3).
Both Seles and Graf had to skipped tournaments because of injury
or illness.
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From: nadeema@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Becker in Conde Godo tournament
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:58:39 GMT

.....Jeez, what happened to Becker in that match. He hardly losses the way he
did. I mean did he start his baseline game again??? Com'on go back to serve and
volley....i mean he is so good at it. I think this is the second time he lost
recently ( falling to Mancini in Lipton, being up a set!! ) 
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From: nancyc@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (Nancy Chan)
Subject: Re: Tournament Results
Organization: Department of Physiology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 05:04:38 GMT

Who did Borg play in Nice?
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From: bfrohman@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Bradley Frohman)
Subject: Re: Edberg vs. Chang
Organization: Motorola Inc., Ft. Worth, Tx
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 13:22:20 GMT

In article <62300005@teecs.UUCP> szeto@teecs.UUCP (Tat-Man(A.) Szeto) writes:
>Recently, there has been a lot of talk on whether Michael Chang can beat Stephen Edberg, Jim Courier,
>Becker or Sampras, etc; on whether he can win another Grand Slam title; on if he can ever become world's 
>no.1 or 2.....
>For me, it doesn't matter if Michael beats Stefan or Stefan beats Michael.  Each of them has already
>had drastically different contribution to the men's tour and to tennis as a whole.  While Chang adds
>unexpected excitement and suspense to the men's game, Edberg reminds us of how graceful and fluid sport
>can be, even in a game like tennis where power plays a big part.
>Chang doesn't have as a big a serve as other male players do, but he has beaten the top players recently.  
>When I watch him play, I always wonder: Can he do it again this time?  How is he going to counter-punch
>those big serves?  I care less on whether he can eventually win than on how and what he'll do to try
>to win.  When Michael plays, you never know what the outcome will be.  With his short and small frame,
>it's like watching David fight Goliath.  But he seems to be able to win unwinnable matches.
>While Michael brings suspense, Stefan brings class and style.  Knowing he is inconsistent, I don't
>expect him to win all the time and I don't care.  His game by itself is just beautiful to watch.
>So clean, so graceful and so fluid.  Edberg is like a modern day tennis version of an ancient Greek
>olympic athlete.  The way he serves, moves to the net, and stretches for high volleys displays
>classic athleticism.

	Good observations.  I agree 110%.

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From: m14430@mwunix.mitre.org (Lawrence Larson)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Overgrips
Date: 2 Apr 92 21:03:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: mwunix.m14430.702248597
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

matt@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Matt Tidgewell) writes:

>I used to use Tournagrip, until I tried Prince Primere(SP?).  They are so 
>good that I trough out my old Tornagrips.
> 
> Matt

Seconded -- I switched to the Prince overgrip last summer. They seem to hold
up better than either the Tournagrip or the Bard overgrip.

--
Larry
From: x90quah@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: re: gif?????????
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:07:23 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

tennis buffs........
                   can anyone tell me   what is ' GIF '? .okay, okay maybe i'm 
ignorant.....so sue. me!!!!!!! ( just kidding ! )
   i still would like to know............

fritz..........

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From: bd344@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael N Bastedo)
Subject: Re: French Open & Ivan Lendl
Reply-To: bd344@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael N Bastedo)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 22:37:20 GMT


In a previous article, sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian) says:

>Hi,
>     Is Ivan Lendl participating in this year's French Open ?
> What is his current seed number ? I believe that he is among the top 5 seeds.
>     

It is very unlikely that Lendl will be one of the top seeds. The last rankings
I saw put Lendl at Number 9, and that would probably be his seed, unless 
someone above him decides not to play. Can anyone confirm this?
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wednesday, 8 Apr 1992 13:46:24 EDT
From: <LWH@psuvm.psu.edu>
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Subject: ARTHUR ASHE

JUST HEARD NEWS REPORT THAT ARTHUR HAS REPORTINGLY TESTED POSITIVE
FOR AIDS
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From: shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung)
Subject: Re: Edberg and Courier (spoilers)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 09:03:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.033123.27295@eng.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:

>being number 2 and Courier becomes number 1.   Edberg has the shortest
>reign for a number one (three weeks) since Courier (month and a half).
>I guess they mean the shortest consecutive weeks as number one since
>Edberg has been number one before.

ESPN said something like that in their Sports Center. Perhaps I
misunderstood them, but the shortest regin of (consecutive weeks)
being number 1 was Borg: one week in August, 1977.

>   On a side note I was watching Sanchez and Graf.   I still think
>Graf play one of the most agressive games (if not the most) man
>or woman.  Most men -- even Agassi -- aren't trying to pound winners
>on every shot.  Some try for a nice rally.  Not Graf.  However,
>Sanchez was scurrying around tossing up semi-lobs to keep herself
>in the match.   It's probably this kind of tenacity that players
>are trying to have when facing Graf these days since I could
>see Graf pummeling Sanchez.  Sanchez knows how to keep herself
>in the points until Graf herself makes mistakes.

Graf was in complete control of most of the points but had a hard time
putting them away. Sanchez-Vicario's tenacity was clearly the main
reason. However, Graf's backhand is still not strong enough. I agree
with the ESPN crew; Graf floated too many backhand passing shots and
let Sanchez right back into the points. Clearly that is something
Graf has to learn if she doesn't want those baseline rallies.

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From: giri@sun1.Berkeley.EDU (Giridhar Rao)
Subject: Re: Wilander
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Reply-To: giri@sun1.Berkeley.EDU (Giridhar Rao)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:24:06 GMT

One thing I seem to have noticed about most (if not all) Swedish tennis players is that they
are all very classy, sporting individuals. It is very rare to find someone like Wilander or
Edberg make excuses after losing, and they always are the first one to give credit to
their opponents for a good match. Also, they tend to be the quietest players on the court.
In fact, during the Aust. OPen this year, when Cliff Drysdale mentioned that Edberg had
once again one the ATP most sporting player award, he dryly added that maybe the ATP should
just retire that award to him (Edberg) since no one else probably stood a chance of winning
it while he is around. 

I was curious a little bit to know if this kind of thing is actually taught to the players
as they are learning tennis, or is it just something inbred into the nature of the Swedes??
If it is taught and coached, then I would whole-heartedly recommend other nations starting
to do the same.

Giri (a good sport, but a lousy athlete) Rao
Organization: Freshman, Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 14:03:22 -0400 
From: Dylan Sawyer-Villers <ds8t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: gaby.gif, part 12/12 Gabriela Sabatini

that's a lot of bandwidth...
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From: torito@IASTATE.EDU (Jaime Santiago)
Subject: Re: Becker in Conde Godo tournament
Reply-To: torito@IASTATE.EDU (Jaime Santiago)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 16:31:51 GMT

  
In article <1992Apr10.135839.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, nadeema@woods.ulowell.edu
writes:
> .....Jeez, what happened to Becker in that match. He hardly losses the way he
> did. I mean did he start his baseline game again??? Com'on go back to serve
and
> volley....i mean he is so good at it. I think this is the second time he lost
> recently ( falling to Mancini in Lipton, being up a set!! ) 

Conde Godo tournament is played in slooooooooooow clay courts (slower than the
ones on Roland Garros). It is very hard to play serve and volley in Barcelona.
By the way, does any one know what courts are they gonna use for the olympics?
Are they gonna play in "Club de tenis de Barcelona", "Club de Polo", or where?

Jaime Santiago Roure
Iowa State University 
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