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i . •' ’ i I' V ■ Tennis Bulls warm up with routine 7-2 defeat of Canisius by Carlo* VaUarino and Oneonta).” Miller has been bothered by a bliater on his right hand, and confessed (bat be ia playing '‘not to lose\ rather than te win. “Todd's strengths are Us speedon say that abo^oarafeeleMam. They're aM consistent tennis players, nose of them are real hitters.” Sport • Editor According to coach Tom LaPenna die men’s rimnia team is still a week away from what he calls “good shape.” But they seemed to be ready foe Canisius on Monday, handily defeating the Griffins, 7-2. V. . The highlight of the afternoon had to be the meriting, grueling three-set confrontation between the first singles players, UB’s Todd Miller and Canisius ’ Bill Pray. Having played against each other before, the two tennis standouts wasted no time getting to work on each other’s weaknesses. Pray has only been playing the sport about four years, but already he is ranked as one of the top players in the city. “He’s a big server. He has a very hard serve, plus it’s made stronger by his height (Pray is six-foot, six inches),” commented Miller after emerging victorious, 3-6,6-3,6-4. “Early In the match, he was getting trou v ' A good personification of LoFi»iiH>»Oidi> |MU Kaiser, who through We nsn tartly style handily outplayed Cardans’ See O’Neill ia second singles, 6-2. 6-1. O'Neill noted that his opponent’s Aot selection gave him the meat trouble, ”110 tee I good slice approach shot; it doesn’t rise very muck, so it’s hard to get set to return it.” Kaiser, mho coached over the summer—thus aWe to keep in playing shape—admitted that he was ait challenged by O’Neill, “it *as a pretty eacy match. He came to the net slot, and 1 forced him to mdcet lot of mistakes,” Kaiser commented. forehand, power, and' •t*i f.i •vf. : m