Challenge expected, coach says
Losses could hurt tennis team at both ends
By Paul Domeier
Senior Reporter
Unexpected losses at the top and
bottom of the line-up for the Ne
braska men’s tennis team threaten to
push the Comhuskers into the middle
of the Big Eight standings.
Last spring Nebraska finished third
in the conference, with one senior,
No. 2 player Ken Feucr, and two top
recruits expected.
But recruit Kiyoshi Ueda, who was
transferring from Temple University
and was projected by Nebraska coach
Kerry McDermott for the second or
third spot, was late sending his tran
scripts. When the transcripts were
processed Thursday, McDermott found
out that his recruit didn’t have the 2.5
GPA needed to transfer to UNL.
“It was a last-minute thing,”
McDermott said. “There was noth
ing we could really do about it.”
The other recruit, Joseph Salerno
of Omaha, has yet to complete his
degree at Tyler (Texas) Junior Col
lege, and hopefully will join the team
next semester. Salerno is expected to
fit into the middle of the six-man line
up.
And junior Joseph Rahmc, the Big
Eight champion at No. 6 singles,
dropped out of school for a year of
mandatory military service in his home
country of South Africa.
After a few weeks of military train
ing, McDermott said, Rahme will be
travelling and playing tennis with an
army squad. Rahme may return to
Nebraska for his last two years,
McDermott said.
“I’d like to think we could benefit
from this,” he said.
Number-five player Anthony
Koratac probably will redshirt,
McDermott said, so the Huskers are
left with three players from last spring’s
line-up: No. 1 Matthias Mueller, No.
3 Steve Barley and No. 4 Scott Ran
dolph. Those three probably will take
the top-three spots, and Dave Moyer,
Karl Falkland and Todd Broaderick
are the leading candidates for the next
three spots.
“You’ve got a couple guys who
can see themselves in the limelight,”
McDermott said. “They’ve got a
chance to play and see some varsity
action.”
And Salerno or other recruits might
come join in January.
“I hope everybody accepts it as a
challenge,” McDermott said.
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Physical pain isn’t what hurts the most
for Huskers’ injured starting wingback
By Matt Herek
Senior Editor
Being injured entails more than
physical pain for junior wingback Nate
Turner.
It hurts to be unable to play and sit
on the sidelines while the team prac
tices, said Turner, who broke his col
larbone the second day of practice.
He is not expected to suit up for
another two weeks, missing the Bay
lor and Northern Illinois games.
He said he hasn’t gone to many
practices because it is hard to watch
his teammates play while he sits idly
by on the sidelines, unable to partici
pate.
“I’m a football player. I have to
play football,’’ he said.
Turner missed three regular-sea
son games last season with a pulled
leg muscle. He also sat out the Fiesta
Bowl because of a pulled quadricep
muscle.
Before fall workouts began, he told
the Daily Nebraskan, that “it would
be some kind of freak accident’’ if he
got hurt this season.
Turner was hurt while diving for a
pass without pads. He said it was an
“instinctive thing’’ to try to keep his
balance after catching the pass. He
said his feet got caught in the Astro
Turf and he landed on his shoulder.
The Comhuskcrs have an off-week
before the Minnesota game, which
will beneficial lo him, he said, be
cause “it will give me a chance to hit
again” before the season’s third game.
The Huskers have an open date
because the Baylor game was moved
to this Saturday to accommodate
ESPN’s televised coverage.
Coach Tom Osborne and receivers
coach Ron Brown are “in my cor
ner” and providing support, Turner
said.
It’s to the point, he said, where he
can’t woiTy about his history of inju
ries and just play football.
He said his attitude is improving,
but the first week after the injury was
“terrible.”
Turner said thoughts of giving up
football entered his mind, but soon
left.
The recurring injuries are “like
somebody letting the wind out of your
sail,” he said.
He also said that it will be “ter
rible’ ’ being on the sideline and not in
uniform during the first two games.
But, he said he will be on the
sidelines “yelling and screaming and
keeping people in the game.”
“I’ve gotta do what I can for the
team,” Turner said.
His part will not be as big as it was
before, “but it’s still a part,” he said.
He said he is staying in shape by
working out on the stair-stepper and
doing other exercises. Also he is
keeping up on the plays and attending
team meetings.
He said he expects his role on the
team to go back to where it was when
he left.
“Things can only get better.’’
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Time is now for Capriati,
Agassi to realize potential
As the world’s best tennis players
gather this week in New York City for
the U.S. Open, the time has come for
two super-hyped Americans to lake
their games off the magazine covers
and onto the hardcourts.
Andre Agassi and Jennifer Capri
ati - who both have boomed as the
American “future” in their respec
tive divisions of men’s and women’s
John
Adkisson
tennis -- now must prove to fans that
they arc as good as their reputations
say they arc.
Agassi, the flamboyant, long-haired
phenomenon from Las Vegas, has
been seeded high in the last three U.S.
Opens, but has failed to gel to the
finals each time.
There is no doubling Agassi’s big
first serve and extraordinary athletic
ability, but what may be lacking in his
game is the ability to hold up under
pressure.
In this year’s French Open, Agassi
had a seemingly clear path to victory.
Ivan Lendl skipped the tournament
and lop seeds Boris Becker and Stefan
Edbcrg were both upsci in the first
round.
So with all major competition out
of the way, Agassi made it to the
finals and was considered a lock over
Andres Gome/., a 35-ycar-old Ecua
dorian who had never won a major
tournament. Agassi crumbled, losing
in the finals in four sets.
After his loss in the French, Agassi
decided to skip Wimbledon, partly
because the All-England Club wouldn’t
allow him lo wear his colorful outfits
while playing.
Agassi needs to stop looking for
excuses and find a way to win a major
tournament like the U.S. Open, which
he considers the most important tour
nament in the world. A hard-fought
win over a lop player like Lendl or
Edbcrg may be what Agassi needs to
get him over the hump.
Capriati, who just joined the
women’s lour earlier this year, has
not yet had the chances Agassi has
had. But she, like Agassi, has been a
victim of media sensationalism, ap
pearing at every turn.
Capriati served notice that she is
on the rise when she defeated Zina
Garrison in straight sets and look Steffi
Graf to three sets in a tournament last
weekend.
But in her first two major tourna
ments, Capriati has been blown out of
the watei by Graf and Yugoslavian
teen Monica Seles. A display of con
fidence on the court could carry
Capriati over the lop.
If the two, or at least one of the
two, could pull out a win at the U.S.
Open, it could be a shot in the arm for
American tennis. With the likes ol
Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and
Chris Evert on their last legs, Ameri
can youngsters could use some new
role models.
And uy as they might, Agassi and
Capriati will never be known as ten
nis legends until they can win the big
one against the big ones.
Adkisson is a sophomore news-editorial
major and a Daily Nebraskan sports re
porter.
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