Tennis tourney opens Friday
Griggs improving on
By R03YN NORWOOD
Staff Writer
Sitting off to the side on aluminum
bleachers down at Hinton James Courts,
John Grigg has just finished disposing of
his opponent at No. 4 singles in straight
sets, and now he's saying something
about not really having set any goals.
But don't believe him for a second,
because Grigg is, above all, a competitor.
Ask his coach, Allen Morris, what the
strengths of Grigg's game are.
His serve? "He's a real fighter," Mor
ris said. Oh. But what about his
forehand? "A great competitor." Must
be his baseline game. "He's a coach's
dream."
OK, so maybe he didn't set any goals
like winning almost 20 singles matches or
going undefeated in the ACC though
he did both anyway. But you can bet he
set a bigger goal than any of those, and
that's to find his potential and to reach
it.
Grigg came to the North Carolina ten
nis program as a freshman in 1979 but
didn't start off well that fall. "I think I
was good enough to compete but I didn't
believe that I was," Grigg said. "Once I
started losing confidence I stopped hit
ting the ball as well." And that loss of
confidence became a self-perpetuating
situation. Less confidence, worse tennis,
less confidence ....
But Coach Morris, supporting and pa
tient, stuck with him. As a junior, Grigg
. went to the finals of the ACC in the sixth
flight. This year he's 22-6 and 6-1 in the
ACC at No. 4.
On the court, Grigg is tough. By his
own admission he's not going to blast
anybody off the court with sheer power,
but he relies a good bit on running down
balls and playing intelligently. Grigg, a
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and his play shows why.
One opponent, after being caught go
ing the other way on a Grigg return,
came away mumbling something about
"the most intense mind ever to play the
game." Maybe a bit strong, but he made
his point.
Grigg's athletic ability and good all
around tennis game, coupled with his
easy oncourtoffcourt demeanor, make
him a natural leader for a team with
astonishingly little difference between the
first and last positions. UNC lost its No.
1 seed from last year's lineup and
brought in freshman Eddie Stewart to fill
the vacated sixth position.
Theoretically, the Tar Heels should
have had basically the same team and
same record, but something clicked and
they finished the regular season Tuesday
with a 5-4 upset of 16th-ranked Duke to
chart a 22-6 mark, the best since 1978
when North Carolina split the ACC title
with N.C. State.
Much of the praise for this season's
success goes to Coach Morris and his
assistant, Ron Pharr. The top-to-bottom
balance may have something to do with
it, too.
"We don't have a great player that
everybody looks to and says 'I'd like to
be as good as him,' " Grigg said. But the
even talent makes for a lot of match
wins.
North Carolina finished second in the
conference to undefeated Clemson, los
ing 5-4 to the Tigers in regular-season
play after dropping all three doubles
matches.
Morris takes his UNC team into this
weekend's ACC tournament in Atlanta
with three of his players still unscathed in
conference play. Ron Erskine at No. 2,
Ken Ludwig at No. 5 and Stewart at No.
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6 all went 7-0 in the ACC.
Ludwig has had to bear the brunt of
UNC's well-balanced team by playing in
the first slot against the ACCs finest.
His record is 1-6. Josh Sarner at No. 3 is
4-3.
In doubles play, Erskine and Ludwig
are 6-1 while both Grigg-Whitaker and
Bach-Sarner are 5-2.
The teams posing the biggest obstacles
for North Carolina are Clemson and
Duke.
By virtue of its 22-6 record, the 1983
men's tennis team gave Morris his first
20-win season at UNC.
'.'We've had a great year," said Grigg.
"But we've been within a fraction of
having an unbelieveable year.'
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Valvano still silent on
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North Carolina State basketball coach
. Jim Valvano is apparently keeping his op
tions open on a possible job offer from
the New Jersey Nets of the National Bas
ketball Association.
State Athletic Director Willis Casey
said Wednesday any discussion about the
Nets' job and Valvano is speculation.
"All I know is what I've read in the
newspapers," Casey said. "But from
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Racquet ball
By LEE ROBERTS
Staff Writer
This will be a big weekend for UNC racquetball club president
Howard Gross. After months of hard work scraping up sponsors
and finding willing competitors, Gross and his fellow clubmates
will be hosting the second annual Eastern Seaboard Conference
Racquetball Invitational in Fetzer Gym. Beginning Friday at 4
p.m., the tournament will span the weekend, climaxing with the
championship rounds on Sunday afternoon.
The tournament, which debuted last year, boasts teams from
eight schools that range in location from Atlanta to College Park,
Md. A field of 80 will be matching up at five different competitive
levels, three for men and two for women.
Clubs
Gross and clubmate Jeff Shulman have made certain this year
that each and every tournament competitor is treated like a win
ner: For their $ 10 entry fee, entrants will be eligible for door prizes
and trophies, receive a T-shirt commemorating the tourney and
'attend a party at Mr. Gatti's, complete with kegs of beer.
Teams to look out for during the tourney are those representing
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Monday he would not comment on
rumors linking him to the NBA job. He
said he would "have something to say
later."
Casey said he was not aware of any
contact between Valvano and the Nets
but thought the coach would entertain an
offer from the NBA club if the offer was
an attractive one.
"Jim has told me, in the past, that he
has every intention of staying at N.C.
State indefinitely and that he is very hap- "
py here," Casey said. Valvano this spring
signed a 10-year contract with State.
"But it is just human nature for some
one to change his mind, and I'd" be
foolish to say that Jim Valvano or anyone
else couldn't change his opinion," Casey.,
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Casey said there were no negotiations
in progress on Valvano's contract, which
calls for a base salary of about $45,000 a
year. V
"There were no negotiations with the
original agreement," Casey said. "We
made an offer and he accepted. That
agreement was good when it was written,
and we see no reason why it shouldn't be
good now," Casey, said.
Casey said the agreement is not a con
tract in the usual sense.
"It is a letter of appointment from the
chancellor of the university, and there is
nothing to prevent him from going else
where should he decide to do so," Casey
said.
Maryland, which won' the championship last year, South
Carolina, Appalachian State and N.C. State. Schools bringing
smaller clubs are Emory University, UNC-Wilmington and
Virginia Tech. .
"I'm a little disappointed with the field," Gross said last week,
"because we were supposed to have 14 teams, and six dropped
out over the past few days.
"But this is still a big tourney; The NCAAs in Memphis drew a
field of 200, and we've got 80 with just these eight teams."
Considering that Gross took over the reins of the UNC rac
quetball club last February, a tournament of this size is quite an
accomplishment. And what will next year bring?
''Hopefully, we'll be able to get a larger tourney, because I'll
have a lot more time to organize it," Gross said.
Admission to the tournament is free to the public and Gross
urged all interested persons to come by and see some quality rac
quetball. Those interested in joining the UNC racquetball club should
contact Gross or attend a club meeting on any Tuesday , or
Wednesday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Fetzer Gym courts.
Dues are $10 per semester. The club is open to all levels of play;
players of all levels are welcome. "The main thing," Gross said,
"is to have a good time."
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