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Orangeland Attracts
Tourists, Tennis Team

By Tom Sansonetti
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Florida is the land of fun, sun,
and oranges. Elderly fellows who
have retired, tourists, and honeymooners
all go to the Suntan
Peninsula for the good times,
particularly the latter. However,
there is nothing but tough conditioning
ahead for the Virginia
tennis team which leaves by car
next Friday to be whipped into
shape for the coming ACC wars.

Coach Gordon Burris has arranged
for a series of exhibitions to
be played against several of the best
netters in the south. The nine day
excursion has a gruelling beginning
with two matches, morning and
afternoon, scheduled for March
15th and another match the following
day.

The highlight of the trip should
be the Collegiate Invitational Tournament
which will run from Tuesday
through Friday. Along with
Virginia, Florida State, Kalamazoo
and a fourth entry will complete
the field. After a final match March
22nd the team will head for cold,
windy Charlottesville.

The team has a chance to head
south with a win under its belt if
Virginia can knock off William &
Mary in Williamsburg this Saturday.
The Indians have everyone returning
from last year's contingent
which posted the best record W&M
had seen in three years.

At the moment Coach Burris has
things lined up as follows:- No.
1-Mike Eikenberry, No.2-Jeff
Podesta, No. 3-Andy Scheinman,
No. 4-John Winter, No. 5-Biff
Cooper, No.6-Doug Waterman.
The first doubles team will be
composed of Eiknenberry and
Scheinman. The second spot is still
up for grabs between John Mertz-Cooper
and Winter-Podesta.

Stating that his goal this year
was to qualify for the NCAA
championships to be held at Princeton
University this summer, Coach
Burris believes that this year's team
has a good chance of succeeding
because of three key factors, "more
experience, more depth, and better
doubles combinations."

"There are, however, two things
that could derail us," Burris continued,
"injuries and rained out
matches with teams not in the
ACC." The rugged ACC reschedules
all of inter-conference matches that
were rained out, whereas a win
against a weaker outside foe could
go by the boards if Zeus, the
thunderbolt man decides to be
nasty.

According to Coach Burris, the
ACC should be better balanced this
year because of the comparatively
stronger teams that will be fielded
by Maryland and Wake Forest. The
perennially strong Clemson, South
Carolina, and North Carolina
squads should be the class of the
league again. Duke and N.C.State
will try to dislodge the Cavaliers
out of sixth place. The key matches
against those two foes will both be
on the Lady Astor Courts in late
April.