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The Red and Black
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Lloyd rebounds after a year of struggling
Lloyd and former doubles partner Tom Foster
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"He's not at a low point
and he's not at a peak, but
he's moving back up. And if
he could get that attitude
back, which he is getting
back, I think he'll be right
back in it," Rogers says.
"Just because he's playing
No. 6 doesn't mean he's a
bad player, because that’s
just not true He could beat
anybody on the team on a
given day. He could beat any
No 1 player on a given day,
probably."
That he could "beat
anybody on the team on a
given day" may be why
Lloyd doesn't seem to mind
playing No. 6 Both coaches
and teammates alike agree
that there is little difference
in the capabilities of the top
eight players on this team.
“Our team is very close
and it's Just a matter of who
can finagle his way through
all the challenge matches to
No. 1," says senior No. 1
player John Mangan, who
along with Lloyd serves as
captain of the team.
The Georgia lineup is
determined by a double
round-robin challenge
system that takes place
during fall and winter
quarters According to the
players, it is more of a
mental discipline than
anything — the one who can
maintain his confidence and
concentration has the best
chance of coming out on top.
"Our players are all about
the same and being so close
it’s a toss up, sort of like
Russian Roulette, to see who
plays No. 1 and who plays
No. 6," Magill says.
“Somebody's got to be on the
top and somebody's got to be
on the bottom.”
Lloyd’s record (he has lost
only once in team matches
this spring) also shows that
he is a markedly different
player, and person, than he
was during his junior year
After injuring his thumb
during the summer before
his junior year, he continued
to have problems with the
thumb when he played fall
quarter As a result, his play
suffered and other interests
took priority. His problems
continued into winter
quarter when he was
declared academically
ineligible. "I had to pass 28
hours, so I really didn't
worry about tennis," he
says
When he returned to the
team spring quarter, Lloyd
was told by Magill that he
could play either No 6
singles or No. 3 doubles He
chose to play singles, but
after losing a few matches,
the slot was given to senior
Kelly Thurman.
It was obvious that Lloyd
was still not playing tennis
like he had the year before,
Word at the time was that
Lloyd had still not decided
that he wanted to play tennis
— that it was worth the hard
work it takes to be com
petitive at the college level.
There was also talk, among
fans and teammates, that
Lloyd had found other ac
tivities, or "distractions," to
occupy his time.
Neither Lloyd nor Magill
likes to talk about this
period. Lloyd shrugs it off as
an "attitude problem,”
while Magill simply says he
knows nothing about it.
"He probably didn’t care
that much about tennis,
because he just got tired of
it Also, like I said, there are
a lot of distractions here and
he got distracted. Maybe he
overdid it," Rogers says.
"My feeling is, you can do
whatever you want to, as
long as you perform. If the
way you get up for matches
is staying out all night, that's
all right. But that usually
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Lloyd: ‘1 just got out of touch’
doesn't happen. He may
have thought he could mix
the two more than he could
He found out it didn’t work. "
"I think maybe he did go
out a little bit too much one
quarter I really don't know
what happened," says
Foster, adding that Lloyd is
a very private person. “I
don't think that could have
had that much to do with it,
though I think it's just
confidence. If he had the
confidence now that he had
then, I think he would be as
good a player."
Lloyd blames part of his
problems that year on his
moving off campus, after
living with Mangan for two
years on campus. "I was
really too young," he says,
“I just got out of touch,
really, with what I was
really supposed to be doing
— playing tennis. I just sort
of lost touch with tennis and
some of the boys playing
tennis. I didn’t really
socialize with them that
much,” Lloyd says. “But
this year, everybody's sort
of socializing together. And
we always talk about ten
nis.”
Lloyd's route to Georgia
was an interesting one. He
was the Australian Boys
Champion when the
American Ambassador to
Australia, Phillip Alston
(also a former president of
the Georgia Alumni
Society), wrote to Magill
about a hot-shot player he
should take a look at. "He
didn't even mention Lloyd's
name. I wrote him back and
told him I would like to get
his name and record,"
Magill says. After he
received the information
from Alston, Magill called
Lloyd and offered him a
scholarship.
“I told him I'd give him a
scholarship sight unseen.
But anybody that is
Australian Boys Champion
is quite a good player; I
knew that," Magill says.
Lloyd likes to tell about the
first time he met Magill,
whom he now regards as a
friend as well as coach. "He
met us at the airport at about
six in the morning. He was
wearing his trousers that
have all the tennis rackets on
them He had on a checkered
shirt and was wearing his
white, floppy hat. We didn't
know what was going on. We
thought this guy was really a
clown.
“Then he took us
somewhere to eat, I think it
was a Waffle House or
something, and just before
we got there they got robbed.
All the people in there had
gotten their purses and
wallets taken. So that was
our first impression of the
states," Lloyd says.
The young Australian, who
likes to listen to Simon and
Garfunkel or the Hollies
before he plays a match, also
made quite an impression on
his new teammates and
coach.
"He was a real funny guy,
you know, kind of pigeon-
toed," says Foster, who will
head to Europe with Lloyd
this summer to play in a few
tournaments.
"The first time I saw him
play tennis I thought he was
Ken Rosewall rein
carnated," says Mangan,
referring to the great tennis
f iro from Australia. "He
ooked like a Ken Rosewall
prototype, with his beautiful
backhand, speed and
smarts."
Magill, with whom Lloyd
admits he had differences
during his junior year, now
seems to have a special
affection for Lloyd — par
tially evidenced by his
continual cheering for Lloyd
during team matches. “He's
just such a personable
fellow," Magill says. "He's a
cute little fellow. He's got a
wonderful personality I'm
very close to him."
Lloyd knows that he will
not be playing any Mel
Purcells this year, nor will
he be asked to play in the
NCAA Singles Cham
pionship. His goals are
different now — he is looking
for the team to have a good
year and he is hoping for a
possible professional career
Lloyd realizes that if he
continues to win while
playing in "the ghetto," a
nickname for the lower
courts where players four
through six play, he can
contribute to the team as
much as when he was the No.
1 player.
"This year, I think the
team's going to do really
well, I really do And if I can
help out at No. 6, that's what
I want to do," he says "At
six, I don't think I should lose
to many people this year."
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