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''ir'ir-yTi'-ni'i'ii. "ty i w.rwu-wni.,,, y-yy rVV E6-The Post, Sunday, July 27, 1980 Rankings: Confusing, Complicated and Computed Peggy Gossett calculate the latest ranking and finish with a somewhat-accurate standing. A loss to a higher-ranked opponent will decrease their rankings by about .33 of a point. A loss to a lower-ranked opponent will further damage the ranking, dropping it by about .5 of a point. When Evert lost to Greer Stevenson in the Avon Classic of Fort Lauderdale two years ago, she suffered a larger setback than if she had lost to Navratilova.

It's the odds game working here: Stevens had the odds against her, and Evert had them in her favor. When the longshot triumphed, the favorite suffers even more. Also, a player gains more points for winning in a higher-rated tournament and vice versa. Upsetting Evert in Wimbledon will do a player's ranking more good that beating her in Bettendorf, Iowa. When players win or lose in a smaller tournament, therefore, their rankings will be less affected.

That is one reason why players seek to enter the big tournaments; they have more to gain. They system is a highly complex one, so much so that even the ATP and WTA officials get confused. That is why they let computers do the work for them. Lastly, the computers usually are behind the tournament schedule by two or three weeks. Wimbledon's results are just now being calculated on players' rankings and the tournamnt was three weeks ago.

It's enough to drive players to repressing thoughts of rankings altogether. PASSING SHOTS A Mixed Doubles Tournament has been scheduled at Howard Park in West Palm Beach for Aug. 9-10. The first 16 teams to send in their $11 per team entry fee will be accepted. Deadline is Aug.

7 at 4 p.m. Contact Jerry Harrell at 832-9229 at Howard Park, 833-9269 at Phipps Park or 659-4325 at home Sid Zuckerberg, pro at Old Port Cove, is seeking help for his summer clinics. Any pros wishing There is no question that Bjorn Borg is the No. 1 ranked men's tennis player in the world. The newly married Borg is rated far and above his nearest opponents John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors in the ratings game.

For the women pros, the No. 1 spot is another matter. Martina Navratilova, Tracy Austin and Chris Evert Lloyd are all within two computer points of each other, while the No. 1 Navratilova and the No. 2 Austin are separated by only .14 of a point.

For the tennis professionals, tennis rankings are tough enough to figure out. For the layman, the ranking system seems as complex as the theory of relativity. Quite surprisingly, many tennis professionals do not haggle over their rankings, especially if they are among the world's top players. Until they reach a showdown for the No. 1 spot, such as the case with Navratilova and Austin, they do not run back to notepads and compute what their victory or loss will do to their current rankings.

Many leave the mathematics to their agents or public relations directors or forget it entirely. However, a few pros especially the struggling ones do perform a bit of mathematical artistry each time they compete, to determine if their world rankings have plummeted or risen. Tracy Austin once said "I can't worry about it, whether I'm No. 1 today or No. 2 today.

It means so little in one sense because it's what 's in your mind, not what's in the computer, that counts. I have to think about my matches. Let the rankings take care of themselves." Yet, another pro, a Barbara Potter or a Lindsay Morse, might approach the matter with pen and paper. She might calculate her ranking, as a baseball player might determine his batting average after a good game, eager to figure it before the team statistician can get the facts together. to apply may contact him at 622-0491 The North County Tennis Association has scheduled its junior tournament for Wednesday through Friday at the Tennis Club of the Palm Beaches.

Play will be singles, with consolation matches. An extra consolation will be added providing there are enough players in each division, to enable all to gain plenty of play. Divisions are boys' and girls' 10, 12, 14 16 and 18. Entry fee is $6 for NCTA members. An NCTA membership may be purchased for an additional $4 for a single player and $7 for a family.

That enables all to compete in all NCTS events for the year. Entry fee for the junior tournament is due Monday. Mail to Chuck Campbell, 3927 Buttercup Circle South, Palm Beach Gardens 33410 or call 622-2921 Stan Smith and Tom Gullikson will compete in an exhibition Aug. 10 at Marco Island. Interested persons should contact Bonny Chrissman at (813) 394-2511 The Florida Tennis Association State Closed Seniors is scheduled for the Indian Spring Club Friday through Monday for men's and women's singles and doubles.

Richard Verzaal, tournament director, will oversee the matches, which are for the state's best adults All juniors are invited to compete in the Hollywood Championships at David Park Monday through Friday. Contact Harold C. Smolinski at 921-3422 Entries are being accepted for the Jewish Heritage Macabiah Games, an Olympic-type competition which includes tennis. The qualifying will take place Friday through Sunday at the Sans Souci Tennis Center in North Miami. Entries will close Wednesday.

Contact Hurley Ridgeway at 893-7130. All entrants should be of the Jewish heritage Renee Richards leads the USTA-Penn women's circuit segment points, while Nina Voydat of Sacramento, Calif, is second, three points back, and Bonnie Gadusek of Largo is third, six points back. Susan Gibson of Miami is 15th in singles and with Julie Filkoff is fourth in doubles. Here is how tennis pros determine their rankings: They take the current rankings, as determined for the men by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the men's union, or for the women by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The ranking reads in points, such as Navratilova's 16.687 points going into Wimbledon.

Those cover one-half of the current tennis season. By December, the beginning of the new tennis year, Navratilova will have accumulated about 32 points, providing she maintains a steady pace of tournaments. Next, they determine their most recent matches, and to whom they lost or who they beat. Also, take into account the class of the tournament. A Wimbledon or U.S.

Open is a Class Five, or Grand Class, event. Other tournaments are rated from Class-AAAA (next highest) to Class-A (lowest). Remember, the score of the match does not matter. If they lose in two sets or in five sets, it does not matter. Just that it was a loss matters in the rankings.

Given all the information, the pros sit-down and r.lTTJTl IHTI III I I I II I I immmmm 1 Gottfried Beats Mayers, Gains Finals vice winners which closed out the match. Ad uivraiuova vances i Jx 111 Martina Navratilova Top-seeded next game, but won the next three points and the game to lead 6-5, when Shriver's shot sailed long. Using a lob and a backhand cross court, Navratilova moved to a 15-40 in the 12th game and won the match at 30-40 when Shriver's net volley landed wide. Shriver, who had trouble with her first serves in the second set, found herself continually frustrated by Navratilova's backhand cross court service return that landed just outside her reach. Navratilova also avoided Shriver's forehand by hitting to her backhand, which Shriver rarely hits with topspin.

as the two battled for 1 hour, 20 minutes before Navratilova broke Shriver's serve in the second set's 12th game. Navratilova, who won the first set by also breaking Shriver in the 12th game for that set's only service break, was down 3-5 in the second set after Shriver broke Navratilova the only time she did and held. But the 23-year-old Charlottesville, Va. resident held service in the next game and broke Shriver in the 10th, using a forehand cross court passing shot to gain the advantage and tie the matching at 5-5, when Shriver's backhand shot landed wide. Navratilova faced break point herself in the next game at 30-40 in the continually hit to Pam Shriver's backhand to oust the fourth-seeded entry 7-5, 7-5 and advance to the final of the $100,000 Richmond International tennis tournament in Richmond, Va.

Navratilova, the defending champion, meets Mary Lou Piatek for the title at 1 p.m. today in the University of Richmond's Robins Center. Piatek needed only 40 minutes to whip Betsy Nagelsen 6-0, 6-0. Navratilova needed a little more time than that to dispose of Shriver JOSEIPIFDIO) THOMASdlTllAm CUEVAS vs EARNS WBA WORLD WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP WORLD WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP Pott Wirt StrvlcM Brian Gottfried, taking advantage of spotty play by Gene Mayer, moved into the finals of a $175,000 men's Grand Prix tennis tournament in Washington with a 6-3, 6-2 victory. Mayer, rated seventh in the world, hardly looked like the player who breezed past three opponents to reach the semifinals.

Nor, for that matter, did Gottfried produce his best tennis in the humid, hot weather. Unforced errors characterized the entire match with Gottfried committing more of them in the first two games of each set. Mayer could not take advantage of either of his 2-0 leads. His normally reliable two-fisted backhand deserted him, and soon he was futilely trying an assortment of lobs and drop shots. Gottfried, of Fort Lauderdale, sensing the weakness in Mayer, began following his serve to the net consistently, normally a dangerous practice on the slow artificial clay surface of this tournament.

But against Mayer it worked. Mayer, normally polite and unflappable on the court, was kicking balls and twirling his racquet in the air in frustration midway through the second set, but it did him no good. Finally, Gottfried produced three ser- Area Swimmers All-America SEE A FULL LENGTH ADULT FEATURE FILM with sound in the privacy and comfort of your own movie room or watch shorter films in our new quarter booths at MOVIE WORLD in the RANDY ERNIE COBB vs SHAVERS 10 ROUNDS HEAVYWEIGHT FIRST BOUT AT NINE PM PLUS TWO 0THEB CHAMPIONSHIP BOUTS Five area swimmers have been named to the All-America High School team selected by the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association and announced in Swimming World Magazine. Two others received honorable mention, as did Cardinal Newman's state champion girls' 200-yard medley relay team. Heading the All-America list was Newman's Patty Clark, who was named in two events 100 breast- stroke (1:05.23) and 200 individual medley She was third in both events at the state meet.

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Next time I won't make it so, so "Obvious?" someone suggested. "Yeah," he said. "Obvious." Overlooking the shove was easy for Shula. "I was really happy with Bailey," he said. "This kid's a jumper.

He went up and took it away." Now, Ronnie Lee, the second-year tight end from Baylor, has earned himself quite a reputation around the Dolphin camp for his prowess as a blocker. He "buries people" is what the players say. But yesterday, on the Dolphins' first possession, he beat the entire Saints' secondary deep and caught a 50-yard pass from Guy Benjamin to set up Uwe von Schamann's 25-yard field goal. Bruce Hardy, who will be fighting Lee for a starting spot at tight end, wasn't there to see the catch, but he'll undoubtedly hear about it. Soon.

"Lee showed good speed on that play," Shula said. "He got off the line quick and just beat people." And now for the Glass Slipper Award. The envelope, please. Nick, uh, Giaquinto. The public-address announcer mis-pronouced his name all day and they misspelled it on the stat sheet, but Giaquinto didn't mind.

He was the leading rusher, six carries for 36 yards, and caught a pass for 7 yards. But Giaquinto has been through all this before and didn't want to seem overly excited. "It's probably worth another week in camp for me," he said. He should know how that works. This is his fourth professional camp.

He made it to the first exhibition game with the Giants, the second exhibition game with the Jets and was cut 10 days into camp by the Ottawa Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. But at least Shula noticed him. "I thought Giaquinto had a solid scrimmage," Shula said, adding he might want to take a look at the 5-11, 204-pound running back at the fullback spot. "That would be nice," Giaquinto, a graduate of the University of Connecticut, said. "I might have a better shot there." Shula gave his tentative starting offensive line with the exception of Ed Newman a 20-play cameo appearance in the scrimmage, and came away with a fairly good impression.

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