This time he’s really out
Michael Schapers will be getting another telephone call from a Dutch news agency this morning to ascertain whether he is truly eliminated from the men’s singles at the Benson and Hedges tennis championships in Auckland. This time he will be able to place his band over his heart and declare, that, alas, he is out of the running.
A report from the New Zealand Press Association had Schapers losing to an American, Cary Stansbury, which was coyly described as “perhaps the upset of the
day.” Fed through international news channels, the report reached a startled Holland, and Schapers —
the man who won fame as the conqueror of Boris Becker — was phoned for his explanation. The N.Z.P.A. report had, however, presented the result the wrong way around, and Schapers was justifiably miffed. But the Auckland reporter must have had a touch of the clairvoyant about him. Yesterday Schapers was ousted by an Australian of modest accomplishment, Mark Woodforde, in “perhaps the upset of the day.”
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