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FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1987

Israelis Are Dismal
In U.S. Open Tennis

ANDREW MUCHIN

F

lushing Meadow, N.Y.-
Between the regular
low passes of passenger
airliners, it was easy to locate
the Israeli players among the
two dozen courts at the U.S.
Open tennis tournament.
You need only have listened
for cheers of "yofi" (beautiful).
Despite their unspectacular
play at the USTA National
Tennis Center Sept. 1-13, the
Israeli men attracted their
usual boisterous coterie of
fans.
"Everywhere we go, if it's a
big city there's some crowd of
Israelis," said Gilad Bloom,
Israel's second-ranked player.
"And always the Jewish com-
munity is taking care of us.
They're giving us housing, in-
viting us to all kinds of
things. It's really a special
feeling. The other players,
they always kid us about the
`Jewish connection? "
Bloom and compatriots
Shlomo Glickstein and Amos
Mansdorf arrived at the Open
in the descent of an up-and-
down year. They had surpris-
ed the tennis world by
reaching the quarterfinals of
the Davis Cup in March, the
annual competition among
national men's teams. That
also meant Israel can place a
full team in the 1988 Sum-
mer Olympics.
But their summer has been
disconcerting. In July, Israel
was trounced in the Davis
Cup by India, 4-0. Mansdorf,
at age 21 Israel's top player,
was not playing up to his
ranking that had reached
24th in the world this year
and included a tournament
win in South Africa.
And the Open, too, has to be
considered disappointing for
Israel.
Glickstein, 29 and Israel's
first tennis star, failed for the
first time in seven years to
make the tournaments main
draw of 128. He lost to Soviet
Andrei Olkowski, 6-4, 6-1, in
the qualifying rounds after
defeating Thierry Champion
of France, 6-3, 6-4. Once the
30th ranked player in the
world, Glickstein's standing
has fallen below 330.
Bloom, 20, who has improv-
ed his ranking about 20 spots
from the 152 that ended 1986,
defeated Alvaro Jordan of
Colombia in the qualifying
round, 6-3, 6-1, but lost to Jim
Gurfein of Atlanta, 6-1, 4-6,
6-0.
Bloom qualified outright for
doubles competition with
Mansdorf. However, they lost

Shlomo Glickstein
to the third-seeded team of
Spain's Sergio Casal and
Emilio Sanchez, 7-6 (9-7), 7-5,
in the first round.
Mansdorf also qualified for
the main singles draw, and
won his first two singles mat-
ches. He took Claudio
Pistolesi of Italy, ranked 100,
6-4, 6-2, 6-3, and 104th rank-
ed Marcel Freeman of Los
Angeles, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.
But as in last year's Open
when Henri Leconte of
France beat him in four sets,
Mansdorf lost to a highly-
ranked player in the third
round. Anders Jarryd of
Sweden, whose recent knee
injury lowered him from the
world's top 10 to the 16th seed
at the Open, seemed healed
as he bettered Mansdorf in
every facet of the game, 6-3,
6-3, 6-2.
"I hoped to give him a
tougher match," Mansdorf
said. "I wasn't playing great.
He was playing very well." In
addition, the Israeli was con-
cerned by a back muscle he
strained during the second
set, for which he twice receiv-
ed ointment.
This followed a month
weakened by sickness as well
as a volatile July. Following
his singles loss in the Davis
Cup match in New Delhi,
Mansdorf, a smooth hitter
with jagged emotions, was
disciplined for unruly
behavior and removed at the
last minute from the doubles
competition. Glickstein
substituted for him and
Mansdorf subsequently quit
the team.
Bloom recalls the competi-
tion with some regret. When
captain Joseph Stabholz ask-
ed eight hours before the
match if Bloom would play
with Glickstein instead of
Mansdorf, "I think I should
have insisted Amos would
play, for the sake of the team
and for everything," he said.
"We were by far the best
team."