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From: cccallan@ucdavis.UUCP (Allan McKillop)
Newsgroups: net.sport
Subject: playing for your country
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Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 14:20:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 12 14:20:40 1985
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Did anybody notice the results from the recent Davis Cup Semi-finals?
West Germany upset Czechoslovokia (who were sans Lendl in singles for
some reason).  The tie started off routinely enough with Boris Becker
beating Miroslav Mecir in straight sets, but the Michael Westphael (sp?)
upset Thomas Smid 14-12 in the fifth set.  Now what I find interesting
is that after Westphael beats the #15 (roughly) player in the world
in Davis Cup play, the very next week he turnes around and gets crushed
6-0 6-2 by Thierry Tuslane (sp? again) in some rinky dink tournament.

Why is it that some players seem to be top 20 material when they are
playing for their country, but put them on in a regular tournament, and
they are just average?  Raul Ramirez was another excellent example of
this.

And why did Lendl play doubles (with Smid) yet didn't play singles?
I hadn't heard anything about any injuries.  Any ideas?

Does anybody know if the Cup final is going to be played in Sweeden
or is it going to be played in West Germany?  I wish the West Germans
luck, because they are really going to need it!

-- 

Allan McKillop
(...ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!cccallan)

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