Sport: Tennis, Male & Female

Can a good male tennis player beat a topnotch female tennis player? This week the world's best woman player gave New York Times Sportswriter Allison Danzig a decidedly nonfeminist answer. Said U.S. and Wimbledon Champion Maureen Connolly: "He would simply annihilate her. I know. I was annihilated myself yesterday by a pro no one has ever heard of." Added Little Mo, the hardest hitter in the ladies' division: "Men hit so much harder and run so much faster than women that we don't have a ghost of a chance against them . . . They are so much stronger at the net, [and] even when they stay back, it doesn't make much difference. The pro I played . . . hardly volleyed once, and still he killed me."