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SPORTS MEWS 15 Tennis wffews ffoir tithe HialbDoDdl-slh) Zvereva hopes for an encore THE GUARDIAN Thursday June 16 1988 Cricket iLK Dsvfd irwiiM at Mtbourrra Mlko Slvey take something extraordinary to make this anything other than a holding operation before the two sides meet on the result pitches at Old Trafford and Headingley. England, although Worcestershire's Tim Curtis has been brought in to sniff the air, will select from 12 players this morning, with DeFreitas the probable omission. With Marshall fit enough to play for West Indies, their only change could be the introduction of Benjamin for either Patterson or Walsh. The West Indies manager, Jackie Hendriks, said: "Malcolm has had twice-daily treatment and will have a workout just before the start If there is no reaction, I can promise England he will bowl flat out. After all, he is the greatest fast bowler in the world.

"We need him badly because the rest of our attack is a bit inexperienced." All tickets for the first three days of the Lord's Test have been sold and gross receipts to date total 916,000. There are tickets available for Monday's play. MOUND (from). A Gooch. Broad.

Moxon, I Gower, A Lamb, Prlngle, Downton (vtfckeUceeper), Emburey (capl), PA DeFreitas, Jarvis, GRDilley.GC Small. it tomorrow for the toss, he will be wearing a crown increasingly in need of the Duraglit. The England captaincy at present has all the appeal and life expectancy of a South American dictatorship, an indictment of the chairman more than anything. But however much he craves the job, Emburey knows that his position at the moment is more tenuous than most have been at the time of appointment. It is to be hoped he does well and keeps the job, for there has been much lobbying for a new broom.

But dust is rather easier to sweep up when it has been allowed to settle, and anyway, if his haircut is anything to go by, he has some bristles himself. There is in the man a shrewd, capable, organised professional with 15 seasons' experience. He has rarely captained a side, but his counselling as vice-captain is reputed to be intrinsically safe: as in his bowling, he does not take risks. Strangely, some see that as a point against him. He would be well advised to tread carefully in this match.

The pitch, never noted for producing anything stunning for the bowler other than a bit of seam, has received an over-dousing by the elements recently and, although crusty on top, will still have moisture in it. It is only likely to get better, and although England will start the game positively, in their hearts they know it will is no wonder that they call international matches Testis. The second in the Cornhill series, which begins at Lord's today, will have more things under the microscope than Pasteur ever did, not least the entire corporate England set-up. "Everyone is on trial," said Peter May, the chairman of the selectors, before the one-day series began last month. They came out of that with ear-to-ear smiles like slices of melons, and one point against the critics.

The first Test, too, was a creditable draw. But last week, the grins were wiped off in the time it takes to say Rothwell Court. Now, not for the first time, it will not only be how the players manage on the field that counts. Rightly or wrongly, they will be scrutinised by some elements from morning tea to cocoa, which has prompted the management to introduce a double curfew a time to be out of the public gaze, and a time to be tucked up. But they are not saying what the times are, in case the tabloid stop-watch is put on.

The latest regime, with John Emburey in the hot seat, is iroh-fisting it from the start, it seems, which makes a change from the establishment side ham-fisting it. But when he leaves the pavilion gloom and makes his way to the middle MrMrnhJ tplrS? wtmmm though their prize money will now go to the Soviet Tennis Federation. But for Zvereva, fellow Eastbourne quarter-finalist Larissa Savchenko and others now on the tour, it does seem that they can look forward to more than pocket money in the future. Morozova, now national coach for Soviet women's tennis, is not sure what the players' contracts will be worth, but she will argue that they should be able to live as well as other players. "Natalia should be able to buy what she wants because it will be better for her life and better for her tennis," she said.

"But our government have spent a lot to bring them to the level they can earn big money, and they should give something back." Are there more at home like Natalia? "It's not easy to find a Zvereva but I try," says Morozova. "I don't think it will be very soon. Maybe in five years we have another six girls." Zvereva says grass courts (and she saw her first at Surbi-ton two years ago) are now her favourites next to clay. As to her form, she was "very happy with my service It certainly carved up Potter. Ironically Savchenko, the 10th seed, presents Navratilova with her first Soviet challenge of the tournament in today's quarter-finals.

Savchenko beat Claudia Kohde-Kilsch the tall West German retired with an injured left knee while Navratilova beat Zvereva's half of the draw opened up before play started when Pam Shriver, the No.2 seed, withdrew with a strained groin. Lori McNeil, seventh, then lost 6-3, 6-2 to Australia's Minter. Sixteen-year-old Mary Joe Fernandez also confounded the seedings with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 victory over Zina Garrison, while France's Paradis beat Ann Henricksson 6-2, 6-3. SATURDAY could just turn into a Soviet festival at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne. In the evening, at the Congress Theatre, the Mazeppa Ukrainian Cossack dancers provide the entertainment.

All being well, the immaculately groomed lawns outside will be the setting for a re-run of that extraordinary match at the French Open in which a 17-year-old from Minsk beat Martina Navratilova. Natalia Zvereva, the Soviet heroine in question, still has two rounds to go before she can confirm the appointment, but her 6-3, 7-5 victory over Barbara Potter yesterday suggested she should beat Catarina Lindqvist and either Anne Minter or Pas-caleParadis. Zvereva chose the day President Reagan arrived for the Moscow summit to work her miracle. As Olga Morozova, a French and Wimbledon finalist in 1974, reported with pride: "On the television news it was Mr Reagan, Mr Gorbachev, and after that Natalia." Could lightning strike twice if the pair make Saturday's final of the 142,000 Pilkington Glass Championship? "Not bloody likely," says Navratilova. Or words to that effect.

"No. I don't think so," agrees Zvereva, who says she will put all her money on Navratilova to win Wimbledon. But how much is Until just two weeks ago, when Zvereva lost the French final, all Soviet women players were regarded as amateurs. Their prize money went not to them or their federation but to the Women's International Tennis Association. With Zvereva winning 68,434 in Paris, their status has now changed.

As from last week's Edgbaston event, they are now regarded as professionals, Hampshire Middlesex Mayhem or the batsmen Bent on a comeback John McEnroe warms up yesterday for the Wirral tournament and an imminent return to Wimbledon, where he last played in 1985 PHOTOGRAPH: PETER LOMAS Meet a new Quiet American Sure-fire Shaw David Foot at Basingstoke Mi I IKE GATTING is unlikely to have missed the irony implicit in the name of this convivial country-style ground. May's Bounty it is, perpetuating the memory of a philanthropic colonel who donated green fields and more to the people of Basingstoke. There was indeed a brimming bounty yesterday for the bowlers. Norman Cowans, Angus Eraser and Jon Ayling were all on hat-tricks as seventeen wickets fell in the parkland sunshine. Stephen Bierley sees McEnroe disappoint the sensation seekers at West Kirby Yorkshire Warwickshire Boyce awaits the verdict of defeat at 5-5 in the tiebreak, blocked a backhand return that elicited an uncharacteristic forehand volleying error from the Australian, and ended the set with another good serve and two thunderous smashes.

The final set hinged on one break in the penultimate game, Shaw's best of the match. He produced three superb top-spin backhands one a lob for an outright winner, the next a top-spin pass, the other a return of serve straight to the feet and completed the break with a forehand whipped across court Then he served out to love. Today he meets an unseeded American, Mark Dickson, who eliminated the second-seeded Michiel Schapers 7-6, 64 after saving two match points against Andrew Castle on Tuesday. The title-holder, Kelly Evern-den, of New Zealand, lost 3-6, 7-6, 7-5 to Argentina's Eduardo Masso, who was playing only his second game on grass. Richard Jago In Bristol STEPHEN SHAW followed Tuesday's victory over the British No.l Jeremy Bates by reaching the quarter finals of the Bristol Trophy with a 3-6.

7-6. 64 win over Peter Doohan, who beat Boris Becker at Wimbledon last year and since then has provided target practice for every gun in the West Shaw overcame a muscle strain in his ribs and the lack of confidence that had led the British No.3 to employ a sports psychologist. "Some time ago I naa aimcuity expressing my self in playing, but now I am starting to open out," he said. The 25-year-oid Middlesex man's most creative moments came in the crises. He had two break points against him at 5-5 in the second set, saving one with a gossamer stop volley and the other with an abrasive first serve.

He was within two points And so at 4.53 McEnroe went public with the British public once again. His opponent, Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union, a fellow left-hander, took guard. The first clouds of the week slipped across the Wirral skies and as the American prepared for his opening serve a baby cried. At 2.02 Glasnost was tested when Volkov's serve, a good eight inches long, received no call. If looks could have killed, the grass at McEnroe's feet would have withered.

Then at S.05 it came. "The ball was on the line," said the umpire, Bob Jenkins. "The ball was out," said McEnroe. It was not a huge argument and McEnroe was probably in the right. But suddenly the leopard had spots again and what had been described as the American's "heartwarming transformation" seemed a touch less certain.

Thereafter, apart from one polite request for a certain section of the crowd to "button all was sweetness and light. Game, set and match to McEnroe 7-5, 6-4. (from). Greenldae. Haynes, Richardson, Hooper, I A Richards (capl), A Logie, Du)on (wick-etkeeper), 0 Marshall, WKM Benjamin, Ambrose, A Walsh, Patterson.

Shepherd and Palmer. ship. Nicholas took a good catch at short leg to dismiss Slack, and dropped another in the final over. At the close Middlesex were 121 for seven. Gatting walked to the wicket to a hero's welcome, waves of warmth which must have made him contemplate a holiday home on the Hampshire coast for his old age.

Just as he had captained his side in the field with jaunty encouragement and held one slip catch, he now produced several positive strokes before falling himself to a splendid slip catch by Maru. Five wickets went for 29 until Hughes and Fraser took root before the close. wholly dissimilar to David Smith of Surrey, the 24-year-old opener stroked 57 sensible runs before Munton found his edge, Moles catching simply at second slip. In partnership with Sharp, who lived dangerously for 33, Byas put on 84 for the second wicket, riches indeed on such a day. Donald, the South African whose arrival this summer was delayed by national service, had final figures of five for 57, a tidy day's work on most regular days.

By half past six he was steaming in again after Warwickshire had fallen apart, all out for 81 inside 45 overs. KENT LANCASHIRE Tunbridge WaSst Kent (4pts) are 79 runs behind Lancashire (2) with seven first-Innings wickets standing. Today: 11.0 to 6.30. LANCASHIRE First Innings Mendis Cowdrey 38 Fowler Tavare Cowdrey 10 Jesty Pienssr Davis 47 Falrbrother Taylor Cowdrey 4 Watklnson Hlnks Penn 18 'D Hughes Tavare Pienaar IT Waslm Akram Marsh Pienaar 18 tW Hegg Marsh Cowdrey 25 Allott Taylor Pienaar 11 Simmons Ibw Pienssr 10 I Folley not out Extras (Ib2. nbl) 3 Total (57.1 overs) 199 FaH of wk 36, 67.

84. 120, 120. 152. 153. 175, 197.

Bowllngi Penn 21-6-68-1: Pienaar 21-6-77-4: Cowdrey 11.1-2-36-4: Davis 4-1-16-1. KENT Ffntlnnlnoa Benson retired hurt. 30 25 18 12 19 1 11 120 Taylor Hegg Elliott Hlnks Ibw Allott Tavare hot out- fl Pienaar Fowler Simmons. Davis not out Extras (Ib5, w1, nb5) Total (lor 3, 49 overs) FM Of WfOKeVI oo, Otf, 110. To bam Cowdrey, Cowdrey, fS A Marsh, Penn, Herman.

A A Jones ana Meyer. LUCESTERSMIRB OUMOMAN Glamorgan (Mis) are 301 runs behind Leicestershire (4) with nine flrst-ln-nlngs wickets standing, Today: 11.0 to 6.30. First Innings A Cobb Hopkins Thomas. Briers CoKey Thomas. Wllley Maynard Barwlck- IS 7 42 68 98 32 28 10 12 wniiaxer uerricn Poller and Ontong Hepworth Ontong Agnew at Metas'n Ontong.

tP Whittles not out Extras (b4, ID6. wl, nbl) Lewis not oui- Total (lor 7 dec, 99 overs). .313 of wMufat 13, 40, 88, 168, 251, 278, 290. dm not oat: i- rams, a Taylor. Bowllngi Thomas 19-3-73-2; Van Zyl 18-4-67-0; Berwick 24-8-58-1; Derrick 20-6-57-1: Ontong 17-4-41-3; Butcher 1-0-7-0.

OUUMfMAN A Butcher Ibw Agnew. A Hopkins not out tc Metson not out Extras (Ib1, nbl) 8 4 2 12 Total (for 1, 8 overs) Fan of wtcaefSJ 1 1. To bab Morris, Maynard, A Coney, Ontong, Thomas, Derrick, Van Zvl. Barwlck. Urns- Ostaar mm 4 mWnsTiltaa Cowans produced a lethal opening ball of the day, uncharitable in its movement, to dismiss Terry.

And the mood was established. By lunch, Cowans was four for 20; three of those wickets came within eight balls during which he did not concede a run. Fraser finished with five for 34 and Hampshire were rather miserably all out for 136 in the 58th over. Nicholas, who held out for two hours, and Robin Smith alone offered genuine resistance in the testing circumstances, with Turner and Maru also going first ball. The Middlesex reply was no more reassuring in its batsman- probable lead of 82, you could say the jury remains out.

Boyce is under club instructions to say nowt, but the unofficial view from the middle suggested that batsmen would prosper if they worked for their runs. It offered bounce most of it consistent, although Dennis, speared by Donald for a duck, might disagree and there was lateral movement, both off the seam and in the close conditions. The batting, however, was poor a general rule underlined by the exception provided by David Byas. By showing the bowler a resolute front pad, and playing in an upright manner not Scoreboard Britannic Assurance County Championship ESSEX aUMJCESTIMHIim Irfordi Gloucestershire (4pts) are 361 lor eight In their first Innings against Essex (3). Today: 11.0 to 6.30.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE First Innings A Stovold Lever 1 5 A Wright Miller Topley 42 Romalnes Stephenson Foster. 3 Athey Foster Miller TS Bainbridge Lever Foster 37 Curran East Foster 11 Lloyds Prichard Topley 3S tJ Russell not out 04 A Graveney Lever 47 Lawrence not 2 Extras (M, Ib12, w4, nb2) 32 Total ((or 8) 3S1 Fad of wicks 18, 21. 74, 152, 183, 208, 243, 359. 10O ovem 337. To bab Alderman.

Easaxi Hardle, Stephenson, Pricherd, 'A Border, A Lllley. Miller, tD East, A Foster, Topley, Lever, Chllds. Umplresi Balderstone and Lyons. HAMPSHIRE MIDDLESEX Basingstoke: Middlesex (4pls) are 15 runs behind Hampshire (3) with threa first-Innings wickets standing. Today: 11.0 to 6.30.

HAMPSHIRE Fires Irmlnga Terry Olley Cowans Smith Carr Fraser 8 Nicholas low Cowans 30 A Smith Carr Fraser S3 Turner Cowans Ayling Butcher Cowans James Fraser is tR Parks and Hughes 7 Mam Olley Fraser A Connor Getting Fraser 8 Andrew not out is Extras (b4, Ib6, nb7) 17 Total (57.4 overs) 138 Fait of wtaktUi 0, 28, 69, 69, 71, 110, 118, 115. 119. Bowllngi Cowans 14-6-33-4: Hughes 18-2-54-1: Fraser 21.4-8-34-5: Tufnell 4-1-5-0. MIDDLESEX First innings Slack Nicholas Connor IS 0 Carr Parks Andrew 8 Gatting Maru Ayling IB Butcher Ibw Connor 14 Brown Parks Andrew 10 Olley Ayling 4 Sykes Ibw Ayling Hughea not out SI ARC Fraser not out 7 Extras (Ib3, nb7) 10 Total (lor 7. 49 overs) 1S1 FaH of wickets) 20, 36, 67.

78, 86, 86, 96. To ban Cowans, PCn Tulnell. Umpire- Hampshire and White. Today's fixturaa CORNHIU. INSURANCE SECOND TEST (liawoov-iord1! England Weal Indies.

Cricketcall International 0898 121 134 Live ball-by-ball commentary on today's Test Match IN the Foulsham's Home Library Edition (wartime reprint) of Etiquette for All, the author emphasises that the golden rule for all games and for all players is to back up the umpires and officials and never question a decision, "Whether you approve of it or John McEnroe has not always applied this rule. Two years or so ago he scowled out of international tennis, exchanging tantrums for Tatum. But watch out, 01' Mac is back. And, we are given to believe, a wiser, kinder and altogether more considerate person. "People did not take time to understand me.

Maybe now I'm a father and a husband they can relate to me more." Maybe. Maybe not. A McEnroe never 'boils? It seems hard to believe. The Wirral tournament itself passed away in the early 70s. Now it has been resurrected with the Demon King as its plum attraction.

One YORKSHIRE WARWICKSHIRE Haadlnglain Yorkshire (5pts) lead Warwickshire (4) by 91 runs with all their second-Innings wickets Intact. Today: 11.0 to 6.30. YORKSHIRE First Innings A A Metcalfe Donald 4 Byas Moles Munton 57 Sharp Humpage Smith 33 Love Ibw Parsons 1 Robinson Smith 0 tD Bairstow Humpage Donald 27 Carrlck Ibw Munton 2 I Swallow not out 7 A Sidebottom Humpage Donald 5 Dennis Donald Shsw Aslf Din Donald 4 Extras (02, Ib4, nb8) 14 Total (56.4 overs) 183 FaS of wicket! 5. 89. 96.

109. 123, 143. 145, 152, 152. Bowllngi Oonald 19.4-2-57-5: Munton 13-5-26-2: Reeve 3-0-14-0; Pereons 12-5-26-1; Smith 9-1-34-2. WARWICKSHIRE First innings A Lloyd Ibw Dennis- 2 27 10 13 14 81 A Moles ibw Shaw.

Asif Din Bairstow Sidebottom A Storle Bairstow Dennis tG Humpage Ibw Shaw A Smith Robinson Shaw A Reeve Sharp Shaw parsons not out- A A Donald Bairstow Dennis A Munton Sharp Sidebottom. Glflord Ibw Sidebottom Extras (Ib4, nbl) Total Fa of ariokatai 3. 9, 14, 37. 37, 60. 63, 78, 79, 181.

owtngi Sidebottom 15.2-7-25-3; Dennis 17-3-35-3; Shaw 12-6-17-4. YORKSHIRE Second inning A A Metcalfe not out Byas not out Total (lor 9 Umpires: Blrkenshsw and Hassan. SOMERSET SUSSEX Bathi Sussex (2pts) are 286 for six In their first Innings against Somerset (2). Today: 11.0 lo 6.30. A I Alikhan Ibw Marks.

9S 7 1 84 31 47 21 17 A Green Ibw Jones. 'P Parker Prinole Rosa- A Wells Ibw Marks Wells Ibw Mallender Lenham run out tl Gould nol out Klmber not out Extras (Ib4, nbt3) Total (tar 6) 288 or wtontsi 17, zo, izo, 134, an, z. 100 ovors acorn 230 for 6. Sonwraob Wyatt. Hardy.

Bartlett, Waugh, Prlngle, tN Burns, 'V Marks. Rose, A Mallender, A Jones, A Scrivens. week West Kirby, next Wimbledon. "Did you speak to him?" asked the girlfriend of a security guard. The latter rattled his clutch of keys, flicked a switch on bis CB, and checked that his camera had had film in it.

"No. He was eating an apple." The long lens brigade poked their looming lenses against the court wire, muttering: "For God's sake, Fleming, get out of the way." Fleming was too far away to hear. McEnroe adjusted his scarlet bandana and got about his business. No visible emotion. The rat pack jostled, nudged, winked.

Wait until the real action. Finally the great moment arrived. "He'll go potty with some of these linesmen. There was one bloke on the service line yesterday who never gave a single call. Some of the serves were a foot out." The crowd hugged itself.

"The man on my right probably needs no introduc Other Matches SURREY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY The Ovab Cambridge ere 301 runs behind Surrey with all first-Innings wickets standing. Today: 11.30 to 6.30. SURREY First litnnmgs Blcknell Tremellen Perry 62 Atkins not out 114 Ward Perry 12 Zahid Sadiq Turner Perry 5 P.Thorpe not out 100 Extras (06, IbB, nb2) 18 Total (for 3 dec) 309 ran oi wieaetn 124, 2-100, 3-12. DM not bab 'C Sullen. Kendrick.

Peters, A Grsy, Blcknell, tG Brown. Bowllngi Fenton 22-8-45-0; Painter 17-1-70-0; Perry 25-4-72-3; Hart 12-1-71-0; Atherton 11-0-37-0. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY First Innings Turner not out 1 Noyes not out 2 Extras (IM, nb4) Total (for 0) 8 Umpires: Rhodes and Palmer. OXFORD UNIVERSITY NOTTS The Parks! Nottinghamshire are 350 for seven in their first Innings. Today: 11.30 to 6.30.

NOmNQHAMSHIRB Newell Ibw Henderson 16 Pollard Ibw Nuttall 16 Johnson Nuttall Weale 104 Martlndale Brown Weate 29 uircn not out Evans Ibw Sygrove Fraser -Darling Cope Sygrove. Evans run out 18 28 tg scon not out 3 29 Extras (b3, 106, w8, Total (for 7). .380 Fai of wlcketai 40, 64, 164, 193, 261, 293, 33B. Oxford Uithrataltyi A Almaer, A Crawley, Kilborn, A Hagan, GD A Polkingh-orne, Brown, 0 Weale, I Henderson, Nuttall, fJ Cope, Sygrove. wgm ano i eeie.

Minor CoutitJtM Clumploturiilp WtobscJu Northumberland 180 for 5 dec (Morri 59, Turner 4-51) and 229 (Younger 75, Turner 6-69). Cambridgeshlrs 179 for 4 dec (Redfarn 67no) and 231 for 7 (Gadsby 87, Lawrence SO). Cambridgeshire won by 3 wkls. Socond XI ChaurifMonshlp OorMlnom Glamorgan 338-5 dec (PGP Roebuck 139, ML Roberts 79) Leicestershire 8-0. bangs Middlesex 344-4 (I Hutchinson 158, MA floseberry 69, Pooley 53no) Essex.

gtwdMyi Yorkshire 325-5 dec (N Nicholson 139no, Kellelt 70, Parker SO). Warwickshire 41-0. Cantstbun" Kent 291 (P Farbrace 100, Fleming 58, Palmer 4-103). Somerset 55 for 0. Hoi 1 Sussex 2S1-8 doc (D Standing 65, Blcknell 56; Shine 549).

Hampshire' 11-1. CM Traffor Northamptonshire 179, Lsnoashlre 59 for 0. Michael Henderson at Hsadingloy DAYS like this must nudge Keith Boyce ever closer to the psychiatrist's chair. With the Headingley Test five weeks off, and the TCCB keeping an interim watch on the pitch during this game and next month's match against Leicestershire, Yorkshire's put-upon groundsman needs all the truthful witnesses he can find. As 20 wickets were distributed equally among the seam-ers yesterday, Yorkshire finishing the day 91 ahead after their first dig had brought an im- Round-up Backlash of the willow A TOTAL of 37 wickets fell at Basingstoke and Heading-ley, but elsewhere in the County Championship the batsmen had the better of it.

At Ilford, Jack Russell (64 not out) and David Graveney put on 116 as Gloucestershire amassed 361 for eight against Essex, after Bill Athey had steadied the ship with a spirited 76. At Bath, a career-best 98 by Rehan Alikhan and an attractive 64 from Alan Wells launched a recovery for Sussex, as they went from 26 for two to reach 286 for six. Somerset's new left-arm spinner, 22-year-old Tim Scriven, made a promising debut with 32 steady overs for 71 runs. At Grace Road, Leicestershire were put in to bat but were never put to the question in making 313 for seven declared, and rounded off the day with the wicket of Alan Butcher as Glamorgan finished on 12 for one. The green pitch proved no fertile field for the Welsh, with Laurie Potter (96) and James Whitaker (68) ensuring maximum batting points.

At Tunbridge Wells, second- laced Kent did their title opes no damage by dismissing Lancashire for 199. Captain Chris Cowdrey and Roy Pien-aar both took four wickets, with the main resistance being Trevor Jesty's entertaining 47. In reply Kent were 120 for three, with Mark Benson retired hurt with an injured neck. At The Oval, Paul Atkins marked his debut for Surrey with an unbeaten four-hour century as the Cambridge University attack went for 309 for three declared. 66Hter 30 Hunter bags a Wimbledon place KAREN HUNTER yesterday became the first British woman to qualify for Wimbledon since 1979, when she comfortably beat Karine Quentrec of France 6-3, 6-1 in the final round of the qualifying tournament.

Lesley Charles was the last woman to take the Roe-hampton road to the All England Championships and John Paish was the most recent man, in 1980. After beating Quentrec, ranked 205 places higher, the 19-year-old from Surrey was invited to make the draw for the women qualifiers and pulled out a match with the 21-year-old South African, Karen Schimper, who was beaten in the first round at Wimbledon Idst y6r. Hunter's performance yesterday has already earned her the biggest pay cheque of her career 1,715 is guaranteed for a first-round appearance and she received a special award of 1,000 from the Lawn Tennis Association for qualifying. Laurence Matthews, the only other British player to reach the final qualifying stage, lost to the Yugoslav, Goran Ivanisevic, 6-1, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1. WIMBLEDON DRAW PON QUALUniKS Women's afciaj.

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