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From: dascalos@eve.wright.edu (Andre Agassi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: RESULTS: 1st and 2nd round Thriftway ATP
Keywords: Results
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:13:47 GMT
Organization: Wright State University

Here are the results of the ATP from Tuesday, August 13.

First Round Men's singles
-------------------------

Derrick Rostagno def. Kevin Ulyett 3-6 6-1 7-6(7-5)
Jim Grabb def. Marc Rosset 6-3 6-4
Stefan Edberg def. Christian Bergstrom 7-6(7-4) 6-1
Sandon Stolle def. Christo Van Rensberg 6-4 6-2
David Wheaton def. Todd Witsken 6-2 5-7 6-3
Richard Krajicek def. Andrei Olhovskiy 6-3 6-2
Andrei Cherkasov def. Jason Stoltenberg 6-3 6-4
Gianluca Pozzi def. Jakob Hlasek 6-2 7-6(7-5)
Tierry Champion def. Wayne Ferreira 6-0 6-1
Alexander Volkov def. Wally Masur 6-4 7-5
Richard Schmidt def. Jeff Tarango 4-6 6-4 6-3
Mark Woodforde def. Jan Siemerink 6-2 7-6(7-4)
Cedric Pioline def. Grant Connell 6-2 3-6 6-3
David Nainkin def. Robbie Koenig 5-7 6-1 6-3
Francisco Montana def. Leonardo Lavalle 6-2 7-6(7-3)

2nd round men's singles
-----------------------

Andre Agassi def. Oliver Delaitre 6-4 6-0
Todd Woodbridge def. Guy Forget 7-5 5-7 6-3

1st round men's doubles
-----------------------

Briggs/Kronemann def. Curren/Nargiso 5-7 7-6(7-3) 6-4
Connell/Mitchibata def. Kratzmann/Masur 6-2 6-7(7-5) 6-3
D. Flach/Ho def. Garnett/Stoltenberg 7-6(7-5) 1-6 7-5
DeVries/MacPherson def. Pescosolido/Pozzi 7-5 7-6(9-7)
Galbraith/Visser def. Bathman/Bergh 6-3 7-6(7-5)
P. McEnroe/Stark def. Korda/Pugh 2-6 7-5 6-0
K. Flach/Witsken def Shelton/Washington 6-3 7-5
Cannon/Van Emburg def. Kinnear/Salumaa 6-1 6-2

notes
-----
Looks like Chesnokov pulled out and was replaced by Lucky Loser Grant
Connell who didn't get far.






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From: U58476@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: RE: Best Tennis Shots
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:12:23 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

GE.TEG@forsythe.stanford.edu.(Tito E. Gervacio) writes:

>Women:
   [stuff deleted]
>   Best all-court movement: MONICA SELES

How can Monica Seles have the best "all-court movement" if her "up & back
movement" is FAR from good.  I remember Steffi once had her whole back to the
net & still passed Monica with a backhand.  Monica covers the baseline well,
but it was very obvious in the Wimbledon final that Steffi is far better at
that too.  Besides Steffi, I think there a few other women whose "all-court"
movement is better than Monica's.


Natasha
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Subject: Re: When US Open start?
From: <BUSBH@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 1992 07:40:47 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

The U.S Open officially starts August 31, 1992 and continues for the next
two weeks. The qualifier rounds begin on August 26, 1992 and last through
August 29, 1992. At least, thats when they are open to the public for free.
The 30th is usually an exhibition day. Last year it was a match between
Jennifer Capriati and Gabriela Sabatini.

As for tickets, I don't believe many are available. You can try The U.S.
Open, they have an 800 number, or, Ticket Master, also at an 800 number.
Just call the 800 operator for those numbers.

Good luck and I hope to see you at the Open.
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From: page@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Thomas Page)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Best At One vs. Better Over-all
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:31:45 GMT
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department

Let's add another category:

	Best at constructing a point:

The complaints about the power of the current game would lead one to believe
that constructing a point is becoming a lost art.  Not surprisingly, the ones
who come to mind are not prominant in the game today.  Eg. Chris Evert, Borg,
Wilander and Connors.  These are primarily players who did not have one killer
shot to knock through for winners (ala Agassi's forehand or Sampras' serve), but
rather could think one or two strokes ahead, moving the opponent around, and
creating an openning you could drive a truck through.

So I ask, who is best at it today?
Tom
From: moisan@cicb.fr (Herve Moisan -  stagiaire CICB)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Connors tournaments titles ?
Date: 19 Aug 92 08:18:07 GMT
Organization: CICB, Universite' de Rennes I, FR


could someone post tournaments titles of Connors (like Lendl'ones)?

Thank you.
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From: huseby@saturn.nr.no (Ragnar Bang Huseby)
Subject: Re: Between-The-Legs Shot
Organization: /nr/pluto/u3/huseby/.organization
	<1992Aug14.193813.4175@dscomsf.desy.de>
	<1992Aug14.221636.16874@src.umd.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 09:35:42 GMT

Andres Gomez played a behind back shot 9 Nov 85 in the men's doubles' 
semifinal at Stockholm. He and Guy Forget played against Emilio Sanchez and
Sergio Casal. Gomez/Forget won the point and eventually the match and the
tournament.

Ragnar Bang Huseby 		

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From: page@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Thomas Page)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: TeamTennis playoffs?
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:15:06 GMT
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department

In article <1992Aug12.175713.10427@src.umd.edu>, clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
|>  There was an interesting strategy that
|> Martina took.   She seemed to have quite a weak doubles partner
|> and to compensate she would sometimes straddle right across the
|> center line, and bend low as her partner served over her.
|> The idea was to make it tough for the opponent to decide
|> whether to hit it down the line or crosscourt.   One of the
|> more bizarre strategies I've seen.   Martina also seems to
|> have cut her hair shorter these days.

This is not that uncommon a doubles strategy.  I see it in college matches quite
frequently.  The net player typically signals to the server with an open or
closed fist behid their back which side they will
break towards.  We used to call this "Australian" formation (did you Australians
call it "American"?).  With this strategy, 50% of the returns go to the net
player as opposed to the conventional formation where the in coming server has
to half volley 90% of the returns.  The trade off is the room left down both
lines.
Tom
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From: shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung)
Subject: Re: Tennis Speed and Court Coverage
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:17:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.033722.8903@morrow.stanford.edu> GE.TEG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Tito E. Gervacio) writes:
>Natasha writes:
>
>>How can Monica Seles have the best "all-court  movement"  if
>>her  "up  &  back  movement"  is  FAR from good.  I remember
>>Steffi once had her whole back to the  net  &  still  passed
>>Monica  with  a  backhand.  Monica covers the baseline well,
>>but it was very obvious in the Wimbledon final  that  Steffi
>>is  far better at that too.  Besides Steffi, I think there a
>>few other women whose "all-court" movement  is  better  than
>>Monica's.
>>
>>Natasha

>      Monica seems fast to me; I mean, if  she runs  to  the
> ball  and  still  hit  with enough pace, for a winner, then
> that shows tennis speed.

I think Natasha gave a excellent example. During the Wimbledon
final coverage, Chris Evert commented a few times that Seles'
movement was awkward, but she made it up by good anticipation.
On this particular point, IMHO Evert was exactly right.
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From: huseby@saturn.nr.no (Ragnar Bang Huseby)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: When US Open start?
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:34:58 GMT
Organization: /nr/pluto/u3/huseby/.organization

>When US Open start? thanks.
August 31.

Ragnar Bang Huseby 		

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From: clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman)
Subject: Re: Too much hype for Capriati
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:23:30 GMT

In article <8AUG199213504900@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
>In article <l87m95INNefe@news.bbn.com>, adolce@bbn.com (Anne Dolce) writes:
>>    I am sick and tired of being reminded that Sanchez/Chang 
>>    are the 1989 French Open champs, etc, etc.  
>
>Ha!  If you're sick of _that_, how about how Dick Enberg and Bud Collins keep
>grovelling to McEnroe and Chris Evert every time they're on the air?  And you
>can't pick up a tennis book without being reminded of Suzanne Lenglen or the
>four French Musketeers -- and that was...what...50?...70?...years ago!

I think you missed the point of the original comments (a point well made in
the context that was deleted.)

Suzanne Lenglen, the Four Musketeers, Chris Evert and John McEnroe all have
tremendous records in tennis. Michael Chang and the Chunky Brat (tm) won the
1989 French Open titles and have done very little else in their careers. Chang
has made it to the quarterfinals of the French in 1990 and 1991, but has never
made it as far as the quarterfinals at the other three grand slam events. If
Lendl had held on to win in the round of 16 in 1989, Chang would be almost
unknown today. The Chunky Brat (tm) has made it back to the final of the French
Open, but has been pretty miserable at the other grand slam events.

I don't mind hearing about tennis players who have earned their fame. If we
talked endlessly about every player who had one title in their careers, we
would really get into some obscure names in tennis history.

Add Pat Cash to the list of players who are lucky to not be in total obscurity.

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From: dchien@boole.seas.ucla.edu (David H. Chien)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Feel of CTS Synergy
Date: 16 Aug 92 00:15:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles


    I like the CTS Approach.  I want to know if any of the Synergies play
identically or better, or if Prince has tweeked the old into something
ugly:)

    david chien          dchien@boole.seas.ucla.edu

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From: moisan@cicb.fr (Herve Moisan -  stagiaire CICB)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: best shots in tennis
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:59:22 GMT
Organization: CICB, Universite' de Rennes I, FR


Among the men ---

   Serve:  Most dangerous -- Goran Ivanisevic
           Most versatile -- Henri Leconte

   Best volleys  : Cash (when he plays)-Edberg 

   Best forehand : Courier 

   Best backhand : Edberg

   Best lobber   : Wilander-Chang 

   Best overhead : Becker

   Best drop shot: Leconte 

   Best drop volley: Mc Enroe-Edberg 

   Fastest mover : Chang 

   Best return of serve : Agassi 
>

I think my choices are not bad ... what do you think about that ?
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From: oprwarx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Walter A. Rich)
Subject: How many touring pros are using wide body racquets?
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 03:46:33 GMT

Alright I've seen the hype.

Now, How many Pro's are really using wide bodies? And winning?
From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: WTA Women's Ranking: August 16th
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:51:22 GMT

The WTA top 50 ranked singles players
     (Through August 16th)
 1. Monica Seles, Yugoslavia, 282.4313
 2. Steffi Graf, Germany, 250.8379
 3. Martina Navratilova, United States, 202.3910
 4. Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, 199.2000
 5. Arantxa Sanchez, Spain, 152.3510
 6. Mary Joe Fernandez, United States, 104.2920
 7. Jennifer Capriati, United States, 102.2361
 8. Conchita Martinez, Spain, 96.9909
 9. Manuela Maleeva, Switzerland, 81.2232
10. Anke Huber, Germany, 78.3333

11. Jana Novotna, Czechoslovakia, 75.4283
12. Katerina Maleeva, Bulgaria, 70.6761
13. Nathalie Tauziat, France, 65.1447
14. Zina Garrison, United States, 62.0106
15. Helena Sukova, Czechoslovakia, 60.3033
16. Mary Pierce, France, 57.9167
17. Amy Frazier, United States, 56.9150
18. Sabine Appelmans, Belgium, 53.4882
19. Leila Meskhi, Georgia, 52.3533
20. Amanda Coetzer, South Africa, 51.6429
 
21. Judith Wiesner, Austria, 50.5294
22. Lori McNeil, United States, 49.8942
23. Julie Halard, France, 48.1911
24. Kimiko Date, Japan, 47.1154
25. Magdalena Maleeva, Bulgaria, 41.6733
26. Natalia Zvereva, Belarus, 41.3056
27. Radka Zrubakova, Czechoslovakia, 41.2957
28. Barbara Rittner, Germany, 38.3529
29. Brenda Schultz, Netherlands, 38.3000
30. Naoko Sawamatsu, Japan, 37.2917

31. Gigi Fernandez, United States, 36.3579
32. Laura Gildemeister, Peru, 34.9286
33. Pam Shriver, United States, 32.5278
34. Natalia Medvedeva, Ukraine, 30.8529
35. Sabine Hack, Germany, 30.4412
36. Nicole Provis, Australia, 29.3053
37. Karina Habsudova, Czechoslovakia, 29.1313
38. Andrea Strnadova, Czechoslovakia, 29.0500
39. Jo Durie, Britain, 28.8533
40. Patricia Hy, Canada, 26.2143

41. Rachel McQuillan, Australia, 26.1941
42. Ines Gorrochategui, Argentina, 26.1538
43. Linda Harvey-Wild, United States, 25.9250
44. Larissa Savchenko, Latvia, 25.6059
45. Yayuk Basuki, Indonesia, 25.2529
46. Alexia Dechaume, France, 24.8056
47. Manon Bollegraf, Netherlands, 24.6071
48. Emanuela Zardo, Switzerland, 23.6429
49. Barbara Paulus, Austria, 23.4417
50. Sandra Cecchini, Italy, 23.2941

==================
WTA RANKING METHOD
==================

Players are awarded round points for each round they win plus 
bonus points for each win over a player ranked in the Virginia Slims
Top 500. Total points (round + bonus) are divided by the number of
tournaments played (minimum divisor of 12) to arrive at an average.
Points stay valid for 52 weeks from the date of the tournament.
Players must have at least 3 tournament appearances to appear in the
rankings.

GeSS
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From: zeke@meadow.uucp (Samuel Lee)
Subject: Re: Best shots in tennis
Reply-To: zeke@meadow.UUCP (Samuel Lee)
Organization: Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 18:32:02 GMT

>>>   Serve:  Most dangerous -- Boris Becker
>>>           Most versatile -- Boris Becker
>>>   Best volleys  : Boris Becker
>>>   Best forehand : Boris Becker
>>>   Best backhand : Boris Becker
>>>   Best lobber   : Boris Becker
>>>   Best overhead : Boris Becker
>>>   Best drop shot: Boris Becker
>>>   Best drop volley: Boris Becker
>>>   Fastest mover : Boris Becker
>>>   Best return of serve : Boris Becker

>>Okay...now, who do you think is best all-around?

>Boris Becker of course!

SHADDUP.  This is a forum for discussion of tennis, not for a bunch of
whiney hero-worshippers who've got their nose so far up Becker's fat
ass they've been cum on by his numerous bum buddies and shit upon so
repeatedly they've got shit for brains now.  Go crawl back into your
favorite body cavity and spare us the drivel.

-- Zeke.
From: mmmirash@bearcat.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Best shots in tennis
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:04:09 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA


THE BECKER FAN RESPONSE :

In article <1992Aug12.035214.4736@src.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles C. Lin) writes:
>   Heck, we need to see this topic every once in a while.
>Who's got the best strokes in tennis?  Best may mean a lot
>of things so all are welcome to interpret it as they may.
>Let's try to keep it to current tennis.
>

Among the men ---

   Serve:  Most dangerous -- Boris Becker 
           Most versatile -- Boris Becker 

   Best volleys  : Boris Becker 

   Best forehand : Boris Becker 

   Best backhand : Boris Becker

   Best lobber   : Boris Becker 

   Best overhead : Boris Becker

   Best drop shot: Boris Becker 

   Best drop volley: Boris Becker 

   Fastest mover : Boris Becker 

   Best return of serve : Boris Becker 
>
>
>--
>Charles Lin
>clin@eng.umd.edu

                                                    From a diehard Becker fan.
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From: adusumel@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu (Nagendra Adusumelli)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Best shots in tennis
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:43:46 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: College Of Engg. & Tech., Ohio University. Athens

In article <1992Aug12.232427.5202@morrow.stanford.edu> AS.TLK@forsythe.stanford.edu (Timothy Kaufman) writes:
>mmmirash@bearcat.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi) writes:
>>
>>   Serve:  Most dangerous -- Boris Becker
>>           Most versatile -- Boris Becker
>>   Best volleys  : Boris Becker
>>   Best forehand : Boris Becker
>>   Best backhand : Boris Becker
>>   Best lobber   : Boris Becker
>>   Best overhead : Boris Becker
>>   Best drop shot: Boris Becker
>>   Best drop volley: Boris Becker
>>   Fastest mover : Boris Becker
>>   Best return of serve : Boris Becker
>
>
>Okay...now, who do you think is best all-around?
>
>;-) ;-) ;-)

Boris Becker of course!



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From: GE.TEG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Tito E. Gervacio)
Subject: Tennis Speed and Court Coverage
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:37:22 GMT

Natasha writes:

>How can Monica Seles have the best "all-court  movement"  if
>her  "up  &  back  movement"  is  FAR from good.  I remember
>Steffi once had her whole back to the  net  &  still  passed
>Monica  with  a  backhand.  Monica covers the baseline well,
>but it was very obvious in the Wimbledon final  that  Steffi
>is  far better at that too.  Besides Steffi, I think there a
>few other women whose "all-court" movement  is  better  than
>Monica's.
>
>Natasha

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Monica seems fast to me; I mean, if  she runs  to  the
 ball  and  still  hit  with enough pace, for a winner, then
 that shows tennis speed.

      I will yield to the proposition that there  are  other
 women who have better all-court movement, only if their use
 of  speed is more efficient.  Well, I guess I can fall back
 on Arantxa; she always has great all-court coverage.

      And Patty Fendick? Very feisty and she tracks the ball
 as hard as anybody else.

      Sounds like I'm groping for  more  candidates.   Let's
 say   that  Monica  and  Steffi  represent  what  all-court
 movement is all about.  I'll be happy with either choice.

                                            -TEG
From: conjurer@diku.dk (Morten Augustesen)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Strings
Date: 19 Aug 92 08:15:19 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

About tennis-strings.

I'm interested in buying tennis-strings (16 gauge or so). It is quite important
that they are very durable, because the ones I'm using right now : 
(Suffix Toplon I, 18 gauge) only lasts 6-8 hours. I'm playing with 
Wilson Pro Staff Classic.
Could anyone give me som tips about a suitable brand, the price and an address 
where I can buy it. I live in Denmark - so I'm looking for delivery by mail.

Greetings from
  Morten Augustesen,
  University of Copenhagen.
From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Agassi's racquet - powerful???
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:47:18 GMT
Reply-To: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles C. Lin)
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park

In article <1992Aug18.104434.4958@ohm.york.ac.uk>, weber@ohm.york.ac.uk (Weber Martins) writes:
> Unfortunatelly, I've lost Lin's post on 'Agassi's flashy racquet'...
> If someone has past posts on this subject, I'd be very grateful to
> receive them (weber@ohm.york.ac.uk) by the way.
> 
> I know that this racquet is considered very powerful but I would
> like to know:
> 
> 1- Does Agassi play with an oversize or a midsize?

    He uses the oversized model.   Strictly speaking there is
not a midsize model.   It's called a supermidsize because the
area is 95 sqaure inches (613 sq. cm :-) ) which is 10
sqaure inches larger than the standard midsize racquets.

> 
> 2- Which is more powerful between these two sizes? I believe an
>    oversize has more power. Am I right?

   Yes, this is typically true.  Given all other conditions
being the same (approx. the same racquet make, same tension).
Most people who prefer the oversized models do so because
there is also a lot of area to hit the ball over.

> 
> 3- Is this racquet a widebody? If not, why just a few people use
>    them? Are they not good to a high level player or the top ones
>    are not used to them (or don't need them to create power)?

   No, it's not a widebody.  It's one of the few new racquets
on the market that isn't a widebody.  It still is fairly
powerful for a non-widebody.  That may be due to a slightly
"thicker" frame (wide goes in one dimension, I am using thick
in the other).

    My opinion is that the better you get as a player the more
attuned you are to the racquet.  So, you see some players
who have a hard time switching racquets because it just
doesn't play like their old ones.  Even when midsize racquets
and oversized came out, some couldn't deal with the power
because they were already power hitters.  (Arias for one).
At some level, they need more in terms of control (without
sacrificing power).   

    Some do make the transition smoothly.  However, sometimes
that's because they get racquets made to their liking (Martina
and Lendl. e.g.).   Also, widebodies just feel different
from normal frames.  Some of them feel too "wide" and unwieldy.
Often, some of then are really stiff feeling.  Some people
don't like that.

--
Charles Lin
clin@eng.umd.edu