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With six of the top seven players returning from last spring's 11-3 squad, the racquet-women are not to be lobbed over easily. Captain-elect Denise Thal returns to assume the number one post she so deftly held last spring, and super soph Sally Roberts should again hold down the second slot...
...Connors tantrum against a male opponent may be unseemly, but it is not ungallant or worse. However, mix sexes on a tennis court and all sorts of extra-tennis emotions are stirred: recall, for instance, the reverberations of the Bobby Riggs-Billie Jean King match. Something more than just racquet meeting ball all too often becomes involved, and that is what is making mixed-doubles play a fresh and fascinating battleground in the ancient war of the sexes...
...most major cities, swinging-singles tennis clubs have sprung up. If the object is marriage, sex or companionship, the immediate subject is tennis. At the Lakeshore Racquet Club in Chicago, for example, Friday and Saturday are Swingers Nights. Single players pay $7 apiece for drinks, use of the chalet-like lounge overlooking the courts and a chance to enjoy musical tennis, i.e., mixed doubles played by six-person teams?three men, three women?so that two can always be sidelined to encourage light conversation. A tennis pro makes sure everyone "mixes," and gives sporadic pointers on the play...
...Tennis may prove no bond but a curse." The best warning that exists is a Buchwald column about a tennis-blighted romance between Patty and Bob. Its message can be taken in two quotes from Bob. Premarital: "You look so cute when you miss." Postmarital: "Don't hold your racquet down, stupid...
...Zennis, as some people call it). From his Inner Game Institute above Malibu Beach, Calif., he has urged hundreds of thousands of students, TV viewers and readers to improve their game by shutting up that judgmental and frightened voice. Stop trying so hard, he argues. Let the body and racquet emulate "the unthinking spontaneity of the leopard" and do what comes naturally...