PAGE 6, THE HERALD, Wednesday, August 31, 1977 U.S.OPEN TENNIS Connors defends title NEW YORK Reuter - The United States Open tennis championships, offering a record $462,420 in prize money, begins Wednesday at Forest Hills with men’s champion Jimmy Connors defending his title despite a chronic back ailment. Conners, who was bothered by a sore right thumb at Wimbledon when he was beaten in the final by _ Richards, Wade in historic duel By WILLGRIMSLEY NEW YORK AP - Virginia Wade said she saw Dr. Renee Richards in the. passageway at the West Side Tennis Club earlier this week and almost froze from the chill she got. “T said, hello,”’ com- mented Wade, the reigning Wimbledon champion. “She just brushed right on past me, not saying a word.”” © The label of hate match is being applied to the first- round match in the United States Open chamionships Thursday afternoon bet- ween Wade and the 43-year- old transsexual who had to play in the tournament. “I have nothing against Dr. Richards personally,” the 31 year old British woman said at a luncheon in her honor Tuesday. “I think she has conducted herself well in this situation. I simply am not comfortable with the whole idea. “T welcome the chance to play an important match on centre court so early in the tournament. With all the attention focused on her, she’s bound to be nervous. Me, I’m not concerned. I have had a lot of practice playing 40-year-old men.” Richards, 43, a leadin New York eye specialist an ranking 35 and over men’s player before undergoing a two years ago, told friends that she was rankled by a comment attributed to Wade when the U.S, Open draw was announced. The Wimbledon titleholder was reported to have said: “Ifshe beats me, She wasn’t alone . MIAMI AP - A woman was given a traffic ‘ticket for driving by herself in a lane reserved for car pools. But she beat the rap. County ‘Judge Dominic Koo said the woman showed up in court with her newborn baby. She argued she was eight months pregnant when | she wascited. ‘ Koo found her not guilty on the ground a fetus is considered a person. ‘Therefore, there were two people in the car,” he ruled. ‘1977, Reply with resume to: she ought to be checked out ” “Virginia has been against me from the start,’ Richards said. Wade denied it although she is a member of the Women’s Tennis Association which barred Richards from the pro tour. The U.S. Tennis Association also sought to ban her from the Open but was overruled by State Supreme Court Justice Alfred Ascione. ‘I never took a stand against her,” Wade said, ‘Really, | am happy for his chance to play on the centre court. It’s a challenge. I just am not sure in my mind about the precedent we may be setting.” The dark-haired vicar's daughter said she had a> premonition that she would meet Richards a week before the tounament draw was made. ; “T told my friends, I am going to draw Renee, I knew it. I watched her on television when she played Lindsay Beaven in. the women’s final at Orange N.J.,.’ Wade said. “‘She has a strong left-handed service and good strokes but I also predicted that Lindsay would beat her after losing the first set.’ That’s what happened. Dr. Richards won the first set and had a 5-3 lead in the second before suddently tiring and losing the.match, ‘Sweden’s Jorn Borg, pulled out of the U.S. Professional Tennis championships in Chestnut Hill, Mass., last Saturday because of the back injury, which he had aggravat the previous day. He returned to Los Angeles on Sunday for treatment by his own _ doator. Because of his Wimbledon victory, Borg was seeded No. 1 here ahead of Connors, The 124lay carnival at the Forest Hills facility is supposed toihe the last one _ held there before the Open is moved to a new location at nearby Flushing Meadow Park next year, . ' Top-seeded Chris Evert will be going for her third consecutive ‘women's crown, transsexual Dr. Rene Richards will make her major tournament debut in a first-round match against Britain’s third- seededVirginia Wade, and four-time U.S. Open champion Billie Jean King, 33, returns to singles play. Another is Australig’s John Newcombe, ¥J.S. champion in 1967 and 1973. 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