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-If MF Martina, do I nave me guy or you l-SORGET ABOUT Vitas Geru-" I 5 laitis' house. Forget about Mar-LJ tina Navratilova playing the lOOth-ranked male tennis player in the world, the immortal Derek Tarr, or John Patrick McEnroe, or Geru-laitis himself in one of those Battle of the Sexes matches from years gone by (Bobby Riggs vs. Margaret Court, Riggs vs. Billie Jean King). No one wants to see Navratilova vs.

Tarr. as possible. We are talking about maybe $50 a ticket. And we are definitely talking prime time on a network. We are talking about the most fun tennis match of the year.

We are quite serious. "Martina," said Nastase. "I want you." Because the idea was hatched in the office of Frank Chirkinian, executive producer of CBS' coverage of the Open, we are offering the match to CBS first; the No. 1-rated network deserves first crack at such an event. I have already begun negotitions with CBS to bring the match off (before any other promoters get any ideas, know this: Nastase and depth.

She has the chance to bring Mr. Nastase over to the Women's side of the draw. Tennis was always a lot more fun when Nastase was at the top of his game, making the sport part ballet, part burlesque hall, part Texas Chain-saw Massacre. No one smiles anymore; Nastase still smiles. Whatever happened with Nastase vs.

Navratilova, the sport would be a party for a night. Nastase would have the big spotlight for one more night. "The girl can be putting up or shutting up," said my man, Nastase. "Let them play the match, and then end all this talk once and for all," said Chris Evert Lloyd. The match is such a natural I can't stand it If it isn't a success, I'll carry Navratilova's rackets for every one of her matches at the 1985 U.S.

Open. The woman who is perhaps the greatest women's player of all time has the chance to make a big score, if she can beat Ol' No. 214. The gauntlet has been thrown down. The ball, as they say, is in Martina Navratilova's court.

If she says yes, the match will be made, I promise. If CBS doesn't want it, I'm sure a fellow like Ted Turner certainly would. Louis Armstrong Stadium. Ilie Nastase vs. Martina Navratilova.

A million bucks to the winner. Martina, have your people call my people. vs. McEnroe, or lova vs. Gerulaitis would have to be handicap matches, with the men ing only one serve and having to give Martina the alleys.

-There is only one Battle of the Sexes -match to be made in the year 1984. I am hereby chal I will, sue you back to SALE THIS WEEKONLY SAVE $14.10 lenging Martina Navra- hutilova and her people to help me I'm the promoter, kids make ivrit- JVlartina thinks she a chance against the "right" No. 100 court player, not a tjjbig serve-and-volley game) on the ATP com-, puter? Fine. I respect her even if and others Romania). "It is a very interesting idea to say the least," said Peter Lund, CBS Sports executive vice-president "I can already think of a million ideas why people would want to see this match," said Chirkinian.

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I'm offering a player who is getting married next Saturday but is willing to make this match part of his honeymoon. I am offering Ilie Nastase, No. 214 on the computer but still No. 1 in your heart. "I don't know if I can beat her, but I want to try," said Nastase Friday Afternoon, as we made our deal to go into parternship for this one match.

"I will do anything. I will wear a 7. dress. I will get a perm for my hair. I will wear a tiara.

This is so much bigger than Riggs and King. Tell her I will not train for a month before the match and eat like a pig. I'm telling you, this match will be like a movie." NASTASE AND I are flexible, t. since we now own the idea and will actually be co-promoters, but the deal uuwill have to be structured like this: t-Nastase and Navratilova each get for showing up, and the match itself will be $1 million, win- ner-take-all. There will be no tricky cj-'-stuff, no winner-take-most, like some of the challenge matches from the past.

We would like the match to be played in Louis Armstrong Stadium, at the National Tennis Center, as soon saSS9 saic Nastase, who is very much into the spirit of the game. There will be problems, of course. The Women's Tennis Assn. will beg Navratilova not to do it; so will her sister players. Navratilova's agents at International Management Group will not want her to gamble with the luster of her record from the past few years.

But Navratilova will have to make this call herself. She is the one who has the chance to make $1.25 million for one night's work against a 38-year old man whose best days are two football fields behind him. While everyone else has been giggling all week at the folly of a woman wanting to play tennis against a man, there is one person at the National Tennis Center who thinks the woman has a chance: Martina Navratilova. This would be the most perfect, the show-bizziest way for her to test her mettle. EVERYONE ALWAYS talks about Martina finding new challenges.

Everyone knows she has lost just one match in 1984, after losing just one in 1983. Everyone knows few players can keep her on the court for more than an hour. And everyone knows she has won the last five Grand Slam events in succession. There is great despair because of the Lack of Depth in Women's Tennis. Martina has the chance to provide some wonderful 14TH ANNUAL FOOTBALL CLASSIC VS.

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