The Michigan Daily - SportsMonday - April 10, 2000 - 3B
One point the difference for women's tennis
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By Joe Smith
Daily Sports Writer
One point.
How important could one measly
point be?
This past weekend, it meant every-
thing to the Michigan women's tennis
team. The Wolverines (1-5 Big Ten, 7-
9 overall) lost two crucial matches to
conference foes Purdue and Indiana -
both by the heartbreaking score of 4-3.
One point.
In these conference matches, three
doubles contests are played first, with
the team that wins two out of three
receiving one point.
On both days, the Wolverines came
up short in the doubles competition,
which put them behind 1-0 going into
singles play.
One point.
This point not only set the momen-
tum for each match, but it also forced
the Wolverines to have to win four out
of the six singles matches - virtually
eliminating any margin for error.
But that's not all. Two key
Wolverines, senior Erryn Weggenman
and sophomore Jen Vaughn -- who
have been contributors to both the sin-
gles and doubles lineups - were
forced to watch from the sidelines.
Weggenman just returned to practice
this week after being with her family
in Portland, Ore. following her broth-
er's death and Vaughn is still hampered
by a nagging hip injury which has kept
her out of the lineup since early
March.
So freshman Jen Duprez and junior
Alison Sinclair replaced them at the
No. 5 and No. 6 singles slots to help
pick up the slack.
And one point.
On Sunday against. Indiana, senior
co-captain Brooke Hart continued her
stellar play, recording her 20th victory
at No. I singles, with junior Szandra
Fuzesi and freshman Joanne Musgrove
following suit with wins of their own
at spots three and four.
The Hoosiers (5-2, 12-7) bounced
back with a victory at the No. 2 slot,
handing Michigan senior co-captain
Danielle Lund her first loss in her last
six matches. The Wolverines were up
3-2 in the seven point dual, needing
one more point to clinch victory.
One point.
Meanwhile, Duprez and Sinclair
were immersed in grueling three-set
matches of their own, matching volley
for volley with their opponents.
In the end, the Hoosiers came out on
top in both contests, winning the
match, 4-3.
This was like a recurring nightmare
for the Wolverines, who lost on
Saturday to Purdue in similar fashion.
One point was the difference.
The Boilermakers (8-10, 2-4) won
the doubles point by taking two out of
three contests, forcing the Wolverines
to make an uphill climb to victory.
The two conference foes split the
singles, but it was not enough as
Michigan was one point short once
again, 4-3.
This is a familiar problem for the
Wolverines, who have found out the
hard way how pivotal the doubles point
can be.
It's not just one point.
Doubles jeopardy
The Michigan women's tennis team has found out the hard way this year how important
doubles competition is. In the eight matches where the Wolverines used the conference
format - three doubles matches are played, with the team who wins two out of three
receiving a point - the doubles point has been indicative of the outcome.
Opponent Doubles outcome Team Result
DEPAUL WON TWO OF THREE W, 5-2
WESTERN MICHIGAN WON TWO OF THREE W, 5-2
NORTHWESTERN LOST TWO OF THREE L, 2-5
ILLINOIS LOST ALL THREE L, 2-5
MINNESOTA LOST TWO OF THREE L, 2-5
MICHIGAN STATE WON TWO OF THREE W, 7-0
PURDUE LOST TWO OF THREE L, 3-4
INDIANA LOST TWO OF THREE L, 3-4
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But the other five times it has used this
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point - it's 0-5 in those matches.
One point.
These losses couldn't have come at a
worse time for the Wolverines.
Michigan is looking to improve its
position in the conference standings in
order to receive a better seed for the
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Vijay
Singh once found refuge in the
remote rain forests of Borneo. On
Sunday at the Masters, he took his
place among the stars.
First came an early charge from
Tiger Woods, then a relentless chal-
lenge from David Duval. In the end,
Singh calmly held off Ernie Els to
complete an improbable journey that
brought him his second major cham-
pionship in three years.
"This is something I think you
can't beat," Singh said shortly after
slipping a size 46 green jacket over
his broad shoulders.
No one knows better than Singh.
Banished from two tours, he start-
ed his comeback in 1985 by taking a
club pro job at Keningau Club,
where he toiled for S160 a month
and pounded balls in every free
moment. He lived in a one-bedroom
-apartment and had no idea how he
was going to make his way back to
big-time golf, let alone Augusta
National.
"It was a struggle, but it was a
peaceful struggle," said the 37-year-
old Fiji native. "I wouldn't swap that
for now."
Now, he has as many majors as
Woods and Els. He carved out a
place alongside Ben Hogan, Arnold
Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, names he
knew only from the videotapes he
watched of past Masters.
"We didn't have live TV in Fiji,"
he said.
The tiny South Pacific country
has a reason to celebrate now.
Singh rolled in an 18-foot birdie
putt on the last hole for a 3-under
69, kissed the ball as he removed it
from the cup and embraced his fam-
ily. 1-is 9-year-old son, Qass, had
taped a message to his bag that said,
"Papa, Trust Your Swing!"
He did, following those directions
better than anyone else.
Singh finished with a three-stroke
victory over Els, $828,000 for his
eighth career victory and another
major that validates him as one of
the game's top players.
"Winning this one gives me confi-
dence that I can win a lot more,"
Singh said.
Els, a two-time U.S. Open cham-
pion, couldn't get a birdie putt to
fall on the last three holes and was at
281.
The biggest threat came from
Duval, in contention on the back
nine Sunday at Augusta for the third
straight year. His dreams died with a
risky shot that wound up in Rae's
Creek for a bogey on the par-5 13th,
the easiest hole at Augusta.
Duval had a 70 and finished third
along with Loren Roberts.
Woods, trying to pull off the
greatest 36-hole comeback in
Masters history, got within three of
the lead but played even-par on the
back and finished fifth, six strokes
back.
"I was so focused on what I was
doing," Singh said. "It meant a lot."
And it showed when last year's
winner, Jose Maria Olazabal, helped
him slip into the coveted green jack-
et.
"It feels great," a beaming Singh
said.
Singh played tours on five conti-
nents and was banned from two of
them, one because of allegations
that he doctored his scorecard to
miss the cut. He has long denied the
charge, but it has haunt him since.
"I don't think anyone should be
surprised that Vijay Singh won this
golf tournament," Duval said. "He's
a wonderful player."
He proved it on the back nine at
Augusta, where so many Masters are
decided. For Singh, Sunday morning
was just as critical as Sunday after-
noon.
With frost melting into dew, he
returned to the course to complete
his third round and made two critical
par putts that enabled him to main-
tain his three-stroke cushion over
Duval.
That paid dividends later in the
day, when Singh managed to escape
danger twice without losing his
lead.
Big Ten Tournament, which it hosts on
April 27-30.
Getting a better seed could possibly
lead to a first-round bye, so for the 1-5
Wolverines, these two one-point losses
to beatable conference foes are like
stabs in the heart - making the last
four matches even more vital to the
team's season.
"These next four matches are huge,"
Lund said. "Hopefully we can get better
prepared mentally so that we can do some
damage in the (Big Ten) Tournament."
'M'tennis
at home
PURDUE
Continued from Page 1B
After he split the first two sets with
Purdue's Andrew Wakefield at the No. 3
spot, sophomore Danny McCain redis-
covered his fire and took the final set in
a tiebreaker.
Finally, at the No. 6 position, fresh-
man Zach Held stepped into the singles
lineup and performed like a veteran by
dominating the third set to claim a 6-4,
4-6, 6-2 victory.
Although the Wolverines ended up 0-
2 for the weekend, head coach Mark
Mees was not overly disappointed with
his team's performance.
"Any time you play in a conference
like the Big Ten, every match is going to
be a dog fight," Mees said. "We just
need to start stepping up on the big
points and playing tougher tennis"
One point of concern for -the
Wolverines is a back injury suffered by
No. I singles player Matt Wright. After
hurting it last weekend in the
Northwestern match, Wright continued
to play through the pain against
Michigan State and Indiana.
But, after limping at the end of his
singles win against the Hoosiers, he was
sidelined for the Purdue match and is
still questionable for this Thursday's
showdown with No. 30 Notre Dame.
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DAVID KATZ/Daily
The Wolverines haven't congratulated each other often enough lately. They
dropped two Big Ten matches in a row this past weekend, to Indiana and Purdue.
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