The Michigan Daily-Thursday, July 23, 1981-Page 11 Solomon upset in Washington tourney WASHINGTON (AP) - France's Pascal Portes upset No. 5 seed Harold Solomon 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 yesterday to ad- vance to the semifinal round of the $200,000 Washington Star International Tennis Tournament. Both players agreed the turning point in the match came in the first game of the second set. Solomon was serving at 40-love when Portes rallied to take the game. "I DON'T know what happened. I didn't lose my confidence, I just stop- ped hitting," Solomon said. "When I came back to win that game I knew I could go all out and win the match," Portes said. Portes, who shocked the tennis world last year when he beat then top seed Jimmy Connors in the 1980 Washington Star Tournament, has played poorly more recently. "I'VE HAD back problems and played terribly since April," Portes noted. "My victories this week have been my first in four months." . The 22-year-old Frenchman said he is helped by the presence of countrymen Yannick Noah and Christophe Freyss in the tournament. "It is good to have people from your own country to talk to and practice with when you are far from home," Portes said. SOLOMON, A winner here in 1974, blamed his loss, in part, on a new over- sized racquet. "I've been using it for just three weeks. I guess I'm just not tournament tough," he said. In a second upset Wednesday, Diego Perez of Uruguay beat Paraguay's Vic- tor Pecci, the sixth seed, 7-5, 6-1. THE MATCH marked the first time the two Latin Americans have faced each other on the court. Pecci's coach, Tito Vazquez, said Pecci was surprised by the strength of his opponent's backhand and that had contributed to the loss. Vazquez noted, however, that it was Pecci's own play that led to his ouster. "He (Pecci) did not serve well. He has been playing too much and needs a couple of weeks away from the game," Vazquez said. In another match Wednesday, No. 4 seed Guillermo Vilas swept past Ferdi Taygan 6-0, 6-0. Vilas has won this tour- nament three times, most recently in 1979. Elliot Teltscher, seeded seventh, ousted Ben Testerman, 6-3, 6-1. EDDIE DIBBS, No. 10 seed, bested Spain's Jose Lopez-Maeso, 6-1, 6-1. Czechoslovakia's Stanislav Birner, who knocked off No. 2 seed Gene Mayer on Monday, won again, beating Chile's Pedro Rebolledo 6-3, 4-6, 7-5. Erik van Dillen beat Spain's Gabriel Urpi 7-5, 6-3. Yesterday evening, top-seed Ivan Lendl was scheduled to play his first match of the tournament against Italy's Corrado Barazzutti. AP Photo Kissin' cousins Two new Washington Redskins linemen, rookie Mark May, left, and veteran Fred Cook go head to head during a training session at the Redskins camp in Carlisle, Pa. yesterday. No Progress: Owners and players remain far apart WASHINGTON (AP)-After 41 days and 490 can- celed games, there were growing signs yesterday that major league players and club owners remained far apart in efforts to end the baseball strike. Kenneth Moffett, acting head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, said the two sides had failed to engage in any face-to-face bargaining during a five-hour session at the agency's headquarters. MOREOVER, MOFFETT, who has been the mediator in the two-year-old battle over the issue of free-agent compensation, said the sides would return to the building after a two-hour lunch break but not necessarily resume negotiations. "We'll probably have a statement for you at that time," Moffett said. He refused to discuss the im- plications of the lengthy lunch break and indefinite schedule for future talks. Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, who has spent the past three days attending the baseball negotiations, said "talks are continuing," but looked grim as he and Moffett entered a restaurant for lun- ch. MARVIN MILLER, executive director of the Major League Players Association, said that returning to the negotiating site even if talks did not resume was "not just a gesture." "There are a few substantial things in the air we have to check with each other," Miller said. "We're going to be back." But Miller appeared frustrated. Asked if the news blackout imposed Monday at Donovan's urging might be nearing an end, he replied: "It could be." RAYMOND GREBEY, director of the Player Relations Committee, the bargaining group for the owners, was unavailable for comment. The PRC's executive board, which sets negotiating policy, was in Washington and, presumably, was being briefed by Qre.bey ,. Also in town was Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who met with PRC officials Tuesday night. "I JUST TRY to keep up to date with them (the negotiations)," Kuhn said. "Whenever I think it's important I'm apt to be there from time to time." The-commissioner was unavailable for comment after the talks recessed. - D.J. Yount, spokeswoman for the Mediation and Conciliation Service, said she knew of no plans for Kuhn to meet with Moffett or Donovan. Meanwhile, the Washington Star reported that a "significant development" was expected in the strike, which has wiped out 24 percent of the 2,106 game season. "IT MIGHT NOT mean settlement, but from what I gather, it could be something major," the Star quoted an unidentified source close to the PRC negotiating team as saying. The newspaper, however, also quoted an uniden- tified club owner as saying that "the way the situation stands right now, there is no basis for op- timism." The owner also told the newspaper that the players' union had made a proposal Tuesday that it "knew would not be accepted." There was no word on what the proposal contained, and Miller refused to com- ment on the report. BEFORE WEDNESDAY'S talks began, Miller said he had not met with Kuhn and refused to compare the commissioner's surprising presence here with May 1980. At that time, Kuhn stepped into negotiations on the eve of a threatened players' strike, which was averted at the last minute. "I don't know if it will help," Miller said. The key issue in the strike is how teams losing premium free agents will be compensated. Until now, the only compensation has been an amateur draft choice from the signing team, but the ownerswant professional players in return. THE OWNERS PROPOSE direct compensation from the signing to the losing team. The players say they'll accept professional compensation but only from a talent pool filled by all the teams. Another issue, raised last week in New York as talks broke down, is that of service credit. The players want full credit for time lost during the strike, but the owners have said they are unwilling to give credit for any time lost before lastThursday. Service time is used to determine eligibility for such things as pensions, salary arbitration and free- agent draft. THE STRIKE IS bringing hard times to many businesses near major league ballparks, according to one of the nation's top financial analysis companies. Dun & Bradstreet said that 58 percent of those businesses located near strike-idled parks have been adversely affected by the lack of walkup trade usually associated with baseball crowds. In addition, D&B said, seven percent of the sample said their businesses could not successfully sustain the potential losses of a season-long strike and would be forced to close their operations. BUT THE SURVEY also showed that only five per- cent of those businesses would close if the strike were to last two months. The strike began June 12. The survey found the impact of the strike was especially severe in the neighborhoods where small businesses surround the stadiums. For example, a bowling alley near Yankee Stadium has been losing about $2,000 for each canceled home game, and a restaurant nearby has lost 80 percent of its trade, the survey said. Conversely, Shea Stadium, home of-the New York Mets, is not surrounded by hotels, restaurants or bars and there has beep no impact on the local economy there, D&B said.