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Show The Summer Chronicle, Thursday. July 21. 1977 Strings and Soviet team to play Salt Lake City match L.A. by BRUCE BAKER Chronicle Suff Next Tuesday night. Salt Lake City gets another exciting taste of World Team Tennis (WTT) when the Los Angeles Strings meet The Soviets at the Unversity's Special Events Center. The Strings are on a hot streak. 0 r having dumped the No. 1 Phoenix Racquets 28-1-9 last Friday in L.A. The Racquets, with ace Chris Evert, played the Sea Port Cascades at the Salt Palace last May 19. Ille Nastase joined the n in Strings at richest the with early July, mid-seaso- & i. contract in lennis The brilliant hut ttinjr-menta- l star is rejorted!y million, a receiving home in Bientwid (Calif.) and a pair of matching Corvettes for him and his wife, in trade for a contract. Considering if le WTT season is only ihiee and a half months long, that's quite a deal. One thing the ln-to- four-yearlon- g fans will be treated less to, is Nastase's thought, 'j obscene notoriously on the court. Written into his contract is a deportment clause which fines him. in the hundreds of dollars, for an obscene or gesture be-hai- remaik. or It appeared to be a very mellow Nastase who plaxed in the r July 9th WTT match in San Diego. He was n the center of a but controeisy, All-Sta- player-selectio- uncharacteristic ally refused to get embioiled or upset. I le just played sujxtb tennis. The Strings are noi just I here's ' Nastase, howem. also Charlie Pasarcll. a xuy effective doubles player, who d has teamed with Julie Anthony to take the last fixe doubles sets they've played since the all-stbreak. Rosie Casals, Billie Jean King's one-timalter-ego- , known for her imjKissible acrobatic shots, has also been teaming with newly-acquire- ar e Anthony for superior doubles play . Filling out the rosier is Dennis Ralston, the who's been the player-coacAmerican Davis Cup coach for the past sex en yeais; Dianne Fromholt, the No. ranked Australian woman in 1977; and Mark 0x. British h Am Ille Nastase EARTH is the ipqistered fademarK ot Kais 1 and currently veteran, ranked No. I in England. The WIT took a first step this year to put some truth in its wor ld concept by inviting the Russians to field a professional team, The Soviets. They're playing a gruelling ii road games this season. They've already To followers of professional tournament tennis, most of the Russian names will be familiar. Alex Metrixeli, the leading male Russian star, was runner-u- p in 1973 at Wimbledon, ninth-ranke- d in the wot Id in 1974 and a quarteifinalist in 1975 at the Australian and French Open singles finals, then teamed with Clu is Exeit to take the doubles championships at the French and Italian Opens. In 1975 she joined the Virginia Slims Circuit and was a finalist in the I'.S Open doubles. The firey Morooxa can be heard yelling, to "Zdaroxo" "well-done,- " her teammates duiing team play. Another talented lady is long. They also haxe an affinity for Big Macs, Arby's. Neil Diamond and Elton John. The Russians are when needed. The fans are encouraged to cheer and hoot and holler for the teams; the louder the better because the players love it! quoted as saying that traxelling is very demanding, but look forward to next year when they lake their place among fixe European WIT teams, on a continental circuit. For those of you not yet familiar with the team concept of tennis, briefly it's a match consisting of three sets of doubles with two sets of singles in between. The playing surface is rexolutionary four-colo- tiebreakers sudden-deat- h Professional Racquet Club, Canyon Special Exents Center or March of Dimes offices at Dan's Foods and F.G. Ferre & Sons. Tickets are $10 and $7, with students and kids getting in for half-pric- a r pattern with no line, and the score is a oimulatixe game total, with heartsiopping e. Natasha ld 0 Ch my leva, (pronounced Schmid-e-oxaShe debuted ). with quality tennis doesn't come very often to the Salt Lake Valley, and if you've nexer shared the excitement of a Team Tennis match, be sure you don't miss this one! Tic kets are available at the Moioova Of. in the Virginia Slims in 1975 and took the Wimbledon and Foiest HilU junior championships the same year. In I97(i she was named the female R(Mkie of the Year hy Trnnts magazine. She Inat in the W IT Chris Exert. Peanut Classic held in Plains, Ga, eat Iter this y ear, which loudly seaks for her Kakulia talent. Teirmna and Vadim Hoiisov, Ixith 5 f V Q V 7-- 5. cxperienc ed Kuropean players, round out the team. is Schmil coach Tardisc hiev. The Soxiet team members can hatdly Ik- called typical Russians. 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