10—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1980
Open proves even Borg can lose
NEW YORK (AP) Nine times he
has tried and nine times he has failed.
The U.S. Open • championship remains
the most prominent jewel that is missing
from tennis king Bjorn Borg's crown.
Borg, the five-time Wimbledon and
French Open champion, was denied his
first U.S. Open title by John McEnroe 7-
6, 6-1, 6-7, 5-7, 6-4 in a four-hour, 10-
minute thriller Sunday. But the disap
pointment did not end then.
"The next day when you wake up you
still think of the match," Borg said
yesterday during one of a series of en
dorsements and appearances at which
he appeared in the past two days.
• "You'd like to forget about it, to wipe it
from your mind," Borg said, "but people
keep reminding you about it wherever
you go. But the tournament is over. You
can only look ahead."
And what does Borg see?
"I will be back," he promised. "I will
keep trying. I have many years still on
the circuit. As long as I still have goals
and can give all I can into tennis, win
ning the U.S. Open will be my biggest
goal."
After losing the five-set thriller and
seeing his Grand Slam hopes fade into
the New York night for the third con-
secutive year, Borg went out to a late
dinner with his wife, Mariana, and his
coach, Lennart Bergelin.
"We didn't speak too much about the
match," he said. "I tried to put it out of
my mind."
But clearly, coming so close to his first
Open title, yet falling short, was very
much on his mind, even as he spoke with
newsmen after receiving a $lO,OOO check
as the 1979 winner of a computer-based
evaluation of all tennis events played
during the year.
The contest, the Seven Crowns of
Sports, is sponsored by Seagram's.
"You just feel very disappointed," he
said. "I lost because I was serving very
badly. . .But still it came down to the
fifth set, a couple of points either way.
For all the luck I've had at Wimbledon,
I've been very unlucky here. At Wim
bledon I win all the crucial points; here I
don't. I don't know why."
This was the third year in a row that
Borg; who first played the U.S. Open at
the age of 16, came here with the French
and Wimbledon titles in hand, needing
the U.S. and Australian crowns to join
Don Budge and Rod Laver as the only
men to win the Grand Slam. In 1978
Connors beat him in the finals, in 1979 it
was Roscoe Tanner in the quarterfinals,
and Sunday it was McEnroe.
Of the last seven U.S. Opens, three
have been won by Connors and the last
two by McEnroe. The presence of these
two tough Americans, particularly the
fiesty 21-year-old McEnroe, is clearly
the chief stumbling block Borg must
overcome if he is ever to win here.
McEnroe's victory ended a streak of 13
consecutive victories in five-set matches
for Borg, who thrives under pressure. It
also avenged 'a five-set loss to Borg in
their classic Wimbledon final two
months ago, and made him the first
repeat winner of this championship
since Australia's Neale Fraser in 1959-
60.
"After Wimbledon, I wondered what I
had to do to ever beat him," said
McEnroe. "Then when it got to 2-2 in sets
after being up 2-0, I figured I might
never beat him.
"But I had a lot of things going for me
here. This is my best surface and his
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beat him anywhere."
Sunday he proved he could.
"He's No. 1, he's the most satisfying to
beat," said McEnroe.
While McEnroe's victory was not a
popular one with the fans at the National
Tennis Center, who were solidly, behind
Borg, Chris Evert Lloyd's triumph in the
women's final Saturday was a most
popular one.
Lloyd won her fifth Open crown she
had captured four in a row before being
dethroned by Tracy Austin in 1979 by
beating Hana Mandlikova of
Czechoslovakia 5-7, 6-1, 6-1.
"I felt the most emotion in this tour
nament," she said: "I really wanted to
win it. The last two years I haven't been
No. 1 and a lot of the press was very
discouraging. It was all about Martina
(Navratilova) and Tracy (Austin) and
how Chris was no longer No. 1 and never
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..,Lady booters seek sptisfyi
By 808 GROVE
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
While the men's soccer team was
edging its way to an NCAA Final Four
berth last season, the women's soccer
club was also enjoying a rather
productive season, winning all eight...of
its regular season . games.
And this year, the Lady Lions will
probably experience much of the same
success. There are a number of reasons
to expect another good season from
,* second-year coach Tim Conley's 1980
1 1 squad. The Lady Lions:
• Lost only one starter from last
year's squad.
• Have a nucleus of nine returning
regulars, naturally more experienced
this year than last.
: • Feature a large and talented crop of
freshmen that Conley said probably will
it
• produce at least two starters im
mediately.
• Exude an optimistic and confident
attitude.
Carefully avoiding to establish a goal
which may be too high for his, team,
Conley talks not about another un
defeated season but rather a satisfying
season.
"We're not going to finish 8-0," he
said. "We won't be undefeated because
we play a much more difficult schedule.
But you don't have to be undefeated to
have a good year.
"We're going to be much better this
year than last year. Every year the
teams we play improve. I just don't
know if we've improved as much as the
other teams."
This season, unlike last year, the Lady
Lions will face a schedule composed
mostly of varsity teams, including
powerhouses Cortland State and St. John
Fisher. Add to that the fact that the team
will be traveling much more this year
(only four home games are scheduled),
and you have the potential for a less
than-satisfying season.
However, it doesn't seem to bother the
Lady Lion.
"We're more challenged," said Sheryl
Blumenthal, one of the leading scorers
on last year's squad. "And I like playing
in that kind of situation.
"Our playing potential is better this
year. We have more people with ex
perience and we've been playing with
each other for a while longer. Half the
game is knowing what your other
players can do."
Junior goalkeeper Patti Wisnewski
agrees with Blumenthal.
"We're definitelybetter this year," she
said. "Everyone's more intense because
we have a varsity schedule; we have to
show everyone we can play a varsity
schedule. Everyone wants to go out and
win."
Senior Paige Brown, last season's
MVP, won't argue with her teammates.
"We will improve simply because
we're playing better teams," she said.
"Some of us have been together for a
long time and we're playing a lot better
together this year. We've improved a
lot."
Blumenthal, Wisnewski and Brown
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aren't saying the Lady Lions didn't
encounter any challenges last season.
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Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
for Women tournament, the Lady Lions
won their own indoor tournament, took
second place in the eight-team Big Red
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completed a two-week tour of England
which saw them win all three games
they played.
"We were much quicker than the
English teams we played," Conley said.
"This year, we will have much better
team speed. Our defense has played
together now, too. All of the girls enjoy
playing and they learn very, quickly."
Conley said his team, now in its second
week of practice, has been working on
developing strong outside shooting and
support techniques in preparation for its
first game Saturday against Lock Haven
at Pollock Field. If the Lady Lions have
their way, it could be the start of a very
successful season.
The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1980-11
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Although the women's soccer team is rich in experience this season with Shawn
Ladda, right, and eight other starters returning, it will be difficult to equal last
year's 8-0 slate since the Lady Lions will face stiffer competition this season.
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