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The closest match of the day was won by Radcliffe's Sally Roberts. Playing at number two against Ronni Yellin, who didn't lose a match all fall, Roberts lobbed her way to a 6-1 first-set victory.
In doubles, Muscatine and Thal lost the number one doubles match, 6-4, 6-2, Roberts and Furnaro took the number two doubles, 6-4, 6-4, and Okamura and Fulton took their doubles match, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
The onslaught began with Sally Roberts's impressive 6-3, 6-1, victory at second singles. Roberts's opponent, Julie McClure, started serving the match, and she proceded to double-fault the first two points and lose the game.
Roberts pounded the ball constantly, hitting deep cross-court shots which forced McClure to hit short shots, a situation Roberts took advantage of.
With Rollins College star Felicia Hatnick, Roberts received the number one 18-under New England Tennis Association doubles ranking in 1975. At the same time, Sally and another partner, Joy McManus of Penn, firmly established themselves as one of the top amateur doubles teams in the country. Ranked number one...