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Harris Masterson recorded his first Ivy League victory in a three-set match against Mike Powers. After winning the first set, 6-2, Masterson missed a backhand passing shot on the ninth point of the second-set tie-breaker, but he took the final set convincingly...
...injury report has changed only a little. Ken Lindner, who played over the weekend with a pinched nerve in his shoulder, seems much improved. However, co-captain have Fish, sidelined with a bad elbow, seems out for the season. "He hit some today, and the minute he hit a backhand his arm hurt," coach John Barnaby said yesterday. "I think he's seriously injured. For his own good he should forget it for the season and give his arm a good cure," he added. A former number-two player, Fish and sophomore Gardie Rowbotham won the ECAC Division B doubles...
...first tournament since the U.S. Open, Little Miss Cool was hotter than ever. In a stunning upset, she blasted Billie Jean off the court. A fixture on the clay courts of Fort Lauderdale since she was six, Chris Evert was always slight and something of a hitless wonder. Her backhand was so weak that her tennis-pro father, Jim Evert, taught her to hit the shot with both hands. Though she goes far toward making up in precision what she lacks in power, her pitter-patter serves and lack of a strong volley proved her ultimate undoing at Forest Hills...
...serve in the very first game, she took the opening set handily, 6-1. The second set was more of the same, as Chris kept her older opponent running with a maddening array of pinpoint placements, drop shots and lobs and-when an opening came-a two-fisted backhand drive down the line. In the final game, when the tenacious Billie Jean fought back from match point five times, one excited fan yelled: "Get it over with!" Chris, who usually plays with a poker-faced poise that one of her opponents describes as "almost eerie," shouted back...
...ceremonies opening the new Japan House in New York City, Professor Jun Eto of the Tokyo Institute of Technology said: "It was almost as if the black ships had reappeared off the coast of Japan." The Japanese described Nixon's twin action as an ofuku binta?the forehand-backhand slap in the face that imperial army officers administered to erring soldiers before...