LOSING THE last two points in a
third set tie breaker could be
heartbreaking, especially if you're
Glenn Richards and you're trying
to give your world tennis ranking
the leg up necessary to get into
higher level tourneys.

By ELIZABETH COLLINGS
News Reporier

But B.C.’s No. | tennis player is
unperturbed about his first round
defeat last week at the $30,000
Smirnoff Challenger tournament
at the Blue Mountain Racquet
Club in Burnaby.

“It could’ve gone either way. I
had a lot of chances. It would have
beea a really big victory if I
could’ve won it,’’ Richards said of
his near three-hour 7-6(9-7), 2-6,
7-6(9-7} loss to James Schor of
Miami.

“IT was up 5-4 in the tie breaker
and had a chance there with two
cerves to win it basically and he
came up big again,’’ Richards said.

“Glenn came as close as he
could have without winning,”
Gary Winter, program coordinator
at Tennis B.C. said.

Richards said despite Schor be-
ing a more experienced player, the
intense match could have gone in
either player’s favor.

“When it gets down to a tie.

breaker in the third I think it’s a

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SPORTS
Richards puts tennis defeat behind him

3-50 chance. His (Schor’s) rank-
ing at that point doesn’t mean
much. We both want ‘o win pretty
bad.”’

At stake for the 24-year-old
North Vancouver native was a lot
more than just the Smirnoff
tourney.

Richards was the sole player
from B.C. to make it into the
Smirnoff main round. The other
B.C. players, including North
Vancouver’s Fabio and Stefano
Walker and Joseph Brabenec Sr.,
were knocked out in the qualifying
rounds.

Richards got straight into the
main draw via a much-coveted
wildcard awarded to him on the
basis of his performance last
summer.

His access to the main draw
earned him one ATP point, plac-
trv at HOS in the world.

i he won the match, Richards
woul’ have vaulted to somewhere
in the 900 range. That ranking
would’ve provided him with the
key to open the door directly to the
main draw of satellite circuit tour-
naments rather than having to go
through the pre-tourney qualifiers.

However, Richards isn’t crying
over spilled milk yet.

He is planning to head to
Evucope in January to try his luck
there. He said he’s still improving
but realizes his tennis years are

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