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From: shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung)
Subject: Re: Depth in women's tennis (was Re: IN DEFENSE OF STEFFI GRAF)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:15:42 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.150910.1358@news2.cis.umn.edu>, bose@deci.cs.umn.edu (Ashim Bose) writes:
> >   While one might say that the women's field is "deeper", the top five 
> 
> And how might one say that?  I haven't seen much evidence of that, other than
> in the recently concluded US Open, which appeared to be more of a fluke 
> considering the blowouts in the latter part of the tournament.

There are really two issues being discussed in these days.
Both men's and women's tennis are improving rapidly (or at
least changing for those who don't consider "power" tennis
an improvement). I was quite amazed that during ESPN's French
Open coverage this year, they showed a segment from the 1984?
final, which wasn't that long ago. It really looked like
they were showing it in slow motion to me. Just as I was
thinking about that, they said "This is not slow motion."

However, the men's field is by far deeper than the women's field.
A player ranked in the 100's has a chance to beat Edberg or Courier
in any day. On the women's side, there is a drop after the #1 and
possibly #2 player (considering ranking points and Grand Slam event
titles in recent years). It really goes down rapidly after the tail
end of the top 10. This year's US Open is a very good example.
Once Martina, Capriati, Sabatini and Graf were upset, Seles who was
sick in the second week virtually won the US Open unopposed.

Moreover, only five of the current women players have ever won
any Grand Slam event singles title. Sanchez-Vicario and Sabatini
have one each.
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From: mliu@aspen.ucsb.edu (Liu;Mei-Ling;L.;CS Grad Student;;COMS;Graduate;930630;;500)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Edberg's GrandSlams
Date: 28 Sep 92 00:58:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara

In article <1992Sep27.171722.15719@nmsu.edu> ssubrama@dante.nmsu.edu (SUBRAMANIAM) writes:
>Hi Netters,
>	I keep seeing these articles that say that Edberg won a grand slam
>tournament every year.  How many years in a row is it?  I know that Edberg won a
>couple of Australian opens many years ago, he won Wimbledon in 1988 and 1990, 
>U.S. open in 1991 and 1992.  This means that he did not win any grand slam 
>tournament in 1987, 89.  When did he win Australian open?
Yes, there's some confusion about this.  He didn't win any in 1989: that
was the year when he lost to Michael Chang at the French Open, and was
also a runner-up at Wimbledon.  His Autralian titles were won in 1986 and 87, I
believe, and he could have won again in 1990 if not for an injury that
caused him to stop playing against Landl in the final.

M. Liu
From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: WTA Women's Money Leaders: September 27
Date: 29 Sep 92 02:26:47 GMT

WOMEN'S TENNIS LEADING MONEY WINNERS 
     (THROUGH SEPTEMBER 27TH)
 
 1. Monica Seles          $1,802,352
 2. Arantxa Sanchez       $1,093,155
 3. Steffi Graf           $1,068,026
 4. Gabriela Sabatini       $855,565
 5. Natalia Zvereva         $519,144
 6. Mary Joe Fernandez      $509,533
 7. Martina Navratilova     $403,233
 8. Gigi Fernandez          $401,137
 9. Jana Novotna            $344,934
10. Conchita Martinez       $343,618
 
 
GeSS
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From: parvin1@husc10.harvard.edu (Douglas Parvin)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Davis-Cup vs. Jimbo-Martina-Spectacle
Date: 27 Sep 92 23:29:17 GMT

dcha@flex.com (Doug Cha) writes:
>MAN!!.. 
>        I can never understand the lifestyles of the rich and famous..  
>Despite any bad dealings that Martina has had, she is still a 
>millionaire.  99% of us can live a wonderful life off *1* million 
>dollars, (Hell, thats post-tax income of at least 75,000 a year in 
>interest) so WHY CAN'T THEY???

I don't think it's fair to assume that a millionaire star like Martina is being
greedy in her situation.  I don't know all the facts, but losing a large chunk
of one's estate can cause real problems.  What if there are people close to
her, family and friends, who thought they would be provided for?  While I'd
certainly be happy to have her kind of dough, it probably doesn't go nearly
far enough to cover those who she felt she could provide for at the height
of her career.  There may be charities, too, which she was explicitly or
implicitly supporting.  The relative loss is similar, IMO, to non-millionaires
who are reasonably well off.

I'm just making a general observation, and I don't know if this applies to
Martina or not.
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From: gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: WTA Women's Ranking: October 4
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:15:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: knex.gate.0BR7RB1w165w

The WTA top 50 ranked singles players
       (Through October 4th):
 
 1. Monica Seles, Yugoslavia, 277.5235
 2. Steffi Graf, Germany, 242.7225
 3. Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, 187.8235
 4. Arantxa Sanchez, Spain, 173.5917
 5. Martina Navratilova, United States, 157.2244
 6. Jennifer Capriati, United States, 110.6528
 7. Mary Joe Fernandez, United States, 109.3728
 8. Conchita Martinez, Spain, 87.7687
 9. Manuela Maleeva, Switzerland, 87.1083
10. Anke Huber, Germany, 83.5000

11. Nathalie Tauziat, France, 70.2950
12. Jana Novotna, Czechoslovakia, 70.0754
13. Helena Sukova, Czechoslovakia, 67.4147
14. Katerina Maleeva, Bulgaria, 63.6761
15. Mary Pierce, France, 60.8333
16. Zina Garrison, United States, 59.6768
17. Amanda Coetzer, South Africa, 55.3625
18. Lori McNeil, United States, 54.7579
19. Sabine Appelmans, Belgium, 54.3500
20. Magdalena Maleeva, Bulgaria, 52.1286
 
21. Amy Frazier, United States, 51.0650
22. Leila Meskhi, Georgia, 49.6385
23. Kimiko Date, Japan, 49.5357
24. Julie Halard, France, 45.1911
25. Judith Wiesner, Austria, 44.2778
26. Natalia Zvereva, Belarus, 41.4167
27. Naoko Sawamatsu, Japan, 41.3333
28. Radka Zrubakova, Czechoslovakia, 38.5143
29. Patricia Hy, Canada, 36.3571
30. Brenda Schultz, Netherlands, 36.3333

31. Barbara Rittner, Germany, 35.8125
32. Sabine Hack, Germany, 33.5882
33. Sandra Cecchini, Italy, 32.8750
34. Pam Shriver, United States, 31.7353
35. Laura Gildemeister, Peru, 31.0000
36. Ann Grossman, United States, 29.8667
37. Gigi Fernandez, United States, 29.1556
38. Emanuela Zardo, Switzerland, 28.9286
39. Andrea Strnadova, Czechoslovakia, 28.7111
40. Natalia Medvedeva, Ukraine, 28.6053

41. Manon Bollegraf, Netherlands, 27.3333
42. Karina Habsudova, Czechoslovakia, 26.4067
43. Nicole Provis, Australia, 26.2900
44. Pascal Paradis, France, 25.4438
45. Rachel McQuillan, Australia, 24.4875
46. Linda Harvey-Wild, United States, 23.6591
47. Ros Fairbank, United States, 23.6389
48. Yayuk Basuki, Indonesia, 22.8500
49. Robin White, United States, 22.5667
50. Wiltrud Probst, Germany, 22.3800

==================
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: rik@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Richard Beckett)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 09:31:14 GMT
Subject: Re: sneakers for tennis
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: rik@hplb.hpl.hp.com


In article <Bv6AvD.8Iz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ac@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
(ac) writes:
|> Hi, folks:
|> 
|> I'm going to buy a pair of sneakers for playing tennis. My problem is: 
|> I play on hard courts for twice a week and my shoes are worn out quite
|> soon, especially at the area under the big toes. Could someone 
|> recommend me a model/brand which is more durable. I prefer high-top.
|> Thanks!!
|> 
|> Alex Chou
|> EE, Purdue Univ.

	Personally, I don't think that you can beat Wilson Pro-Staff tennis
	shoes for performance. They're also cheaper than these flash looking
	Nikes and other stuff.


	Cheers,


		RIK


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From: markmc@sierra.com (Mark McWiggins)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Shoe recommendation
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:17:25 GMT
Organization: Sierra Geophysics Inc.,  Kirkland, Wa

I've been playing with Reebok Club C's the past few years. They seem to
hold up better than Nike (over 6 months 2-3 times a week on hard courts),
and aren't too expensive (about $48).

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From: Rodger_Madison@rand.ORG (Rodger Madison)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Spaghetti stringing/McEnroe's racket tension
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:58:58 GMT
Organization: The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California

Spaghetti stringing was a technique that put two strings through each
hole in the tennis racquet.  I'm not sure what tension was used.  The net
effect was to vasting increase the spin which was applied to the ball.
Ilie Nastase (in the twilight of his career) among others experimented with
such racquets.  No new rules were written to ban these racquets.  It was
simple ruled that two sets of strings constituted a double hit on every
stroke.

     Rodger

In article <1992Sep28.193746.23768@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, vinlai@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (vincent.lai) writes:
> When I was watching a brief history of the US Open, I heard of how Stan
> Smith was upset by some unknown who strung his racket in an unusual
> way.  Subsequently, "spaghetti stringing" was banned from all
> tournaments.  
>
From: katkere@crim.eecs.umich.edu (Arun L. Katkere)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Tennis mag Ph No.
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:43:40 GMT
Reply-To: katkere@engin.umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI

I need the 800 # to call for Tennis mag subscription. It looks like
I've lost the scrap of paper on which I wrote the # from the
commercial.
If any of you have the number, pls send to the katkere@engin.umich.edu.

Thanks,
-arun
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From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Numbers On the Balls
Keywords: Penn
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:23:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: eng.1992Sep28.172323.25087
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Originator: clin@periodic.eng.umd.edu


In article <mamohamm.717699818@vela>, mamohamm@pluto.acs.oakland.edu (SKEPTICAL) writes:
>I am a relative newcomer to tennis playing (not watching).
>I recently went to get some new tennis balls and what I 
>noticed on Penn tennis balls were numbers (8,7,4, etc).
>Appearently there was nothing mentioned about the numbers
>outside the box. 
>
>So, I was wondering are these numbers indicate the weight, 
>speed, bounce or any such thing.
>
>Any reply or post will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
 
   If we had a FAQ, this ought to be one of them.

   No, the tennis ball numbers have nothing to do with anything.   It's just
meant as a way of identifying your balls from your neighbor's.  Of course,
if you and someone playing in the adjacent court has the same make and same
number, then there's potential for confusion.   One way to prevent this
is to get some permanent marker, and draw something distinctive on the
ball, like a line or something.   That ought to make your balls stand out.

   I had been under the impression that regular and heavy-duty balls also
weighed the same though the felt was thicker on one than the other, but
people in the group say otherwise.   The heavy-duty balls are used for
hard courts since there is more felt and can take the abrasion of a
hard court.   The regular duty is mainly used for clay courts.  They
usually sell the heavy duty ones, but sometimes you see both.  I think
Penn labels them in black for heavy duty and red for regular duty.

--
Charles Lin
clin@eng.umd.edu
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From: ratte@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de (  Cordula Reineke  )
Subject: Re: who won...
Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:11:20 GMT

Shun wrote, both took along lots of $$.
Thought it was a winner-takes-all-match?
                                           Cordula

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From: kleung@terapin.com (Keith Leung Keith Leung)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Re: Modern Rackets
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:35:40 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <19869@ector.cs.purdue.edu>, knies@cs.purdue.EDU (Allan Knies)
writes:
>I've played with Head TXEs for many years
>and before that an old wooden Jack Kramer (I don't switch
>rackets too often).
>
>For example, I looked over some rackets at a sports store
>last year and couldn't find any rackets whose head was as
>small as my TXE. In fact, it was difficult to find a racket 
>with <= 90 square in.  I find that rackets with large rackets 
>to be too powerful and difficult to control (I don't need the
>racket to generate power for me).
>
>Any comments? Suggestions?
>
>Allan Knies

    Well, Head has come out with a new racket called the Prestige.  Which
is a conventional frame similar to the TXE, TXM, and the TXP's.  You might
want to look into that.

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From: eddie@chpc.utexas.edu (Eddie Hedges)
Subject: question
Keywords: Davis Cup
Organization: The University of Texas System CHPC
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 13:53:02 GMT

 Does anyone know when the Davis Cup final will be played in Fort Worth?
If you know would you please post it or send me e-mail. It is about a 5
hour drive or so from Austin and I am contemplating on going. Hope they
let Mac play.
 Gee...and I thought Austin was the center of the known universe. :-)

Eddie 
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From: pmv@bnr.co.uk (Paul M. Venkatesh)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Pros Stringing at Wimbledon
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:45:04 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, Harlow, GB

I seem to remember a discussion a while ago on string tensions
various Pros use so I thought some of you folks would be interested
in the following. I presume the tensions are average tensions but its
a little unclear due to the listing for Woodforde. I shall let some
of the more knowledgable folk identify the players (since I haven't
heard of a large number of these), racket and strings used. 

The information comes from a newsletter from Bow Brand (who
did most of the stringing at Wimbledon) so I claim no responsibility
for any inaccuracies in it (apart from typos anyway - its been a hard
day).

Hopefully, it might stop Charles (Lin) posting lots of Technical
trivia quizzes which I'm sure he'd get onto soon :-) :-) (sorry Charles -
couldn't resist). (Incidently, how is the new racket coming along now
you've had time to get used to it?)


Name		Racket		String Type		Tension (lbs)
=====================================================================
Agassi		Donnay		Kevlar/Gut		57
McEnroe J.	Dunlop		Gut			44
Forget		Lacoste		Gut			46
Becker		Puma		Gut			64
Stich		Fischer		Gut			57

Edberg		Wilson		Gut			62
Olhovskiy	Prince		Synthetic		66
Bates		Wilson		Gut			57
Ferreira	Slazengar	Synthetic		68
Saceanu		Head		Gut			51

Boetsch		Head		Gut			51
Lendl		Mizuno		Gut			62
Holm		Dunlop		Synthetic		70
Courier		Wilson		Synthetic		62
Wheaton		Head		Synthetic		55

Leconte		Donnay		Gut			53
Champion	Head		Synthetic		51
Shelton		Spalding	Synthetic		57
Herrera		Wilson		Gut			48
Hlasek		Fischer		Gut			53

Davis		Wilson		Gut			48
Gilbert		Fox		Synthetic		60
Larsson		Prince		Gut			62
Rosset		Head		Gut			53
Stolle		Prince		Synthetic		55

Stafford	Prince		Synthetic		58
Kinnear		Wilson		Synthetic		66
Karbacher	Head		Synthetic		62
Lavalle		Head		Synthetic		48
Delaitre	Head		Gut			52

Matsuoka	Yonnex		Gut			57
Van Rensberg	Prince		Gut			71
Yzaga		Yonnex		Gut			56
Pioline		Prince		Gut			52
Korda		Volkl		Gut			53

Woodbridge	Wilson		Gut			72
Haarhuis	Major		Gut			68
Youl		Head		Gut			61
Knowles		Prince		Synthetic		74
Mansdorf	Head		Gut			53

Woodforde	Snauwaert	Gut			92
Petchey		Dunlop		Gut			63
Wilkinson	Slazengar	Synthetic		50
Thoms		Prince		Synthetic		68
Stankovic	Volkl		Synthetic		52

McEnroe P.	Prince		Gut			63
Castle		Prince		Gut			62
Grabb		Wilson		Gut			48
Richardson	Slazengar	Gut			61
Nastase		Prince		Gut			57

Tanner		Head		Gut			60
Taylor		Wilson		Gut			57
Cowan		Yonex		Synthetic		48
Schofield	Mizuno		Synthetic		57
Wade		Dunlop		Gut			58

Salmon		Slazengar	Gut			58
Shriver		Yonnex		Synthetic		74

Lowest Tension of tournament: Sauamatsu (Japan) - Dunlop/Gut/32lbs
Highest Tension: Woodforde 92lbs - (Average 85lbs)

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From: ertunazi@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: <None>
Date: 29 Sep 92 11:56:25 -0600
Summary: test
Reply-To: self
Keywords: test
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

This is a test. Please ignore.

Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Subject: Re: Agassi vs. Courier??
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 03:06:17 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Reply-To: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles C. Lin)

In article <1992Oct6.142537.1@cmcvx1.claremont.edu>, ptsai@cmcvx1.claremont.edu writes:
> hello, i would like to raise a question about agassi here, it seems like he's
> unable to beat Jim Courier after his lost at the 91(?) french final, is it 
> simply because he's just not as good as Jim or are there some
>  mental/psychological factors behind it. Maybe you still remember, agassi 
> was playing quite ok and actually taking control over courier before the rain
> started, and all of a sudden after the came out of the locker room and agassi
> started to go down....They are both playing the similar power-baseline game
> except maybe jim has a bigger net game than agassi, but this doesn't seem to be
> the reason why agassi seems to have a shadow of courier over him....
> anyone out there would like to comment on this
> *please, i don't want postings like "agassi just sucks!" or "he's the biggest
> fag on this planet" or stuff like that, please discuss this rationally,
> thanks!*
> -personally, i'm a fan of Agassi....

   I think part of it is nerves.  It seems that Courier gets nervous
playing Sampras (Courier has only beaten him once, if I recall,
in the 1991 US Open).  Courier seems to feel he has to hit hard
and pressure Sampras to keep him from attacking, and yet Sampras,
when he plays well, can keep up with Courier at the baseline, and
attack him.

    Agassi's problem, as I see it, is that he goes for too many
winners.   Courier can hit pretty hard, but lately, Courier tries
to make Agassi hit a few more shots, and make it aggravating enough
to Agassi to make him go for winners when he shouldn't.  Most
other players can't deal with Agassi's power, and so even when
he makes mistakes, he hits enough winners, or pressing shots
that he usually wins.   I think Courier tries harder to beat Agassi
because the two used to train with Bollitieri and Bollitieri favored
Agassi more.

--
Charles Lin
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From: pakuin@cs.vu.nl (Kuin PA)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: Davis Cup: Holland beats Uruguay
Date: 28 Sep 92 11:52:26 GMT
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam

Holland -Uruguay 4-1
Krajicek		-Perez		6-2 6-4 7-6
Haarhuis		-Filippini	6-3 6-7 6-1 1-6 1-6
Koevermans/Haarhuis     -Perez/Filippini7-5 6-2 6-4
Krajicek		-Filippini	7-5 7-6 6-3
Haarhuis		-Cardarelli	6-4 3-6 6-3
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From: bose@pico.cs.umn.edu (Ashim Bose)
Subject: Re: Davis Cup Final USA - Switzerland
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:34:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.151536.10713@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> shun@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (shun.cheung) writes:
>
>Tom Gorman had already chosen Fort Worth, Texas, to be the site
>for the Davis Cup final a week BEFORE the semi (a little too confident
>IMO); that is, before he knew for sure who the other team was.
>I think that will be on hard courts. Anyone knows for sure?
>
>I agree that clay seems to be the logical choice. But then,
>Agassi won Wimbledon and Sampras was a semi-finalist; I guess
>you can argue it any way you want.
>-- 
>-- Shun Cheung,    electronic: shun.cheung@att.com    voice: (908) 615-5135
>     HR 1A-304, AT&T Bell Labs, 480 Red Hill Road, Middletown, NJ, 07748 USA

They are going to use hard courts for the Davis Cup Final if the players have
any say in the matter.  Both Courier and Agassi were unhappy with the clay at
Target Center.  They thought it was too slippery.

Ashim
From: jeff.kling@brent.uucp (Jeff Kling) 
Newsgroups: rec.sport.tennis
Subject: WANTED : DONNAY ALLWOOD R
Date: 28 Sep 92 02:39:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Brentwood BBS Harrison, NY  914-835-7898
Reply-To: jeff.kling@brent.uucp (Jeff Kling) 

-> I'm looking for a Donnay Allwood tennis racquet, in reasonable shape.
-> This is an old, old racquet.  I'm sure many of you have one lying
-> around and don't want it.  If you want to give it to someone who
-> values the sentimenta value of this racquet, then please consider
-> donating it to me and I'll give it a good home.

This may be of help to you.  Bjorn Borg had approximately 80 or so
remakes custom made for him when he tried his come-back.  He has since
switched over to a graphite as these woods were not adaquate in todays
game.  You could try writing his fan club (if he has one) or his
management company (he certainly has one of these) and put in your
request.  Or, alternately, he had all these racquets built by a small
company in Britain.  In one of the '91 issues of Tennis, it is named.
Try them too.  Good luck.
                                                          
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