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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1981)
McEnroe opens Davis Cup play today United States team is heavily favored to turn back Australians PORTLAND (AP) - John McEnroe will play Mark Ed mondson in Friday's first singles match in the Davis Cup tennis semifinals between the United States and Australia. Edmondson is ranked No. 55 in the world. The second singles match Friday will feature Roscoe Tanner of the United States against McNamara. Tanner is ranked eighth in the world McNamara is rated 11th. On Sunday. McEnroe will face McNamara in the first match and Tanner will play Edmond son in the second The pairings were drawn duming an outdoor ceremony Thursday in down town Portland. Great Britain is meeting Argentina in the other semifinal in Buenos Aires Mark Edmondson and his Australian teammates say they F are very aware of their under dog status against the United States. But Edmondson said that it's not impossible for him to beat John McEnroe in Friday's first singles match of the best of-five series "He lost last week," Edmondson said, referring to McEnroe's quarterfinal defeat in last weekend's Transamerica Open "He might have an off day again." In Saturday's doubles match, McEnroe will team with Peter Fleming against the Australian duo of McNamara and Phil Dent McEnroe and Fleming are the top-ranked doubles team in the world McNamara and his usual doubles partner, Paul McNamee, are the No.2-ranked team But McNamee missed this weekend's competition with an injury "On paper, we have a 1 German a UTO St ftVICE VWs-MERCEDES-BMWs DATSUN-TOYOTA-AUDI Reliable service for your foreign car 342-2912 2025 Franklin Blvd Eugene, Oregon If you want a place in Euqene to enjoy. • Full Bar Service & Imported Beers • Video Games Chess • Backgammon • Checkers • Cards • Dice • Pool • Big Screen TV for Sports Soup, Salad and Sandwich Bar (11:30 am to 3 pm Mon.-Fri.) 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We also base the beat broaslod chicken, burgers and saiads. 10 stronger team," McEnroe said after Thursday's draw, “but in Davis Cup, you never know what's going to happen.” Many of the top players in the world don't participate in Davis Cup competition Sweden's Bjorn Borg skipped his country's quarterfinal match against Australia and Jimmy Connors, who helped the United States to its quarterfinal victory over Czechoslovakia, will be missing from this weekend's matches. But the 22-year-old McEnroe is an exception. "When I was younger. I wanted to play for my country." he said. "This is my fourth year of playing (Davis Cup) and I still feel that way.” Winner of the semifinal match will play the winner of the Great Britain-Argentina matchup, be ing held this weekend in Buenos Aires The site of the finals has not been determined, but it is expected to be announced before the semifinals are over Edmondson, 27. said he had played McEnroe twice and had never beaten him "If he plays his best, I don’t think anybody can do anything about it." Edmondson said The United States last won the cup in 1979 Australia last took it in 1977 Each match in the Davis Cup is a best-of-five sets, with no tie-breakers. The competition has been sold out for weeks at the 12.000-seat Memorial Coli seum "1 think we re the under dogs." Edmondson said, "but that doesn't mean we can't win The pressure's on them We've got nothing to lose " Classifieds Continued from Pag* 13 MAKE MONEY! 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