Rematch Turns Into a Mismatch in Women’s Hard Court Tourney : Tennis: With another victory over Neeld and Garrett, doubles team of Landtroop and Kohler adds a hard-court championship to its clay title.

For Dallas’ Peggy Landtroop, winning the 60s doubles final didn’t simply mean avenging last year’s loss. It meant a third victory over a former partner, another national title with her current partner andd the probability of holding onto the nation’s top ranking.

However, her partner, Marjorie Kohler of Carmel, didn’t even realize it was a rematch until the two walked off the court victorious.

“I asked her how we did against them last year,” Kohler said. “I remember wins and losses but not to whom.”

Landtroop and Kohler defeated Albuquerque’s Nancy Neeld and San Diego’s Jeanne Garrett, 6-0, 6-3, in the 60s doubles final Saturday of the USTA National Women’s 50 and 60 Hard Court Championships at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club.

“We played a good match (Friday), and it carried over to today,” Kohler said.

Landtroop and Garrett were partners for five years before switching to their current partners two years ago. As a doubles team they were top-ranked nationally every year but one. Last year, in their first year together, Landtroop and Kohler were ranked No. 1.

But when Neeld turned 60, Garrett chose to drop Landtroop as her partner, which caused some hard feelings. Since then, the two doubles teams have met four times. The last time was in March in the finals of the Clay Courts in Baton Rouge, La., which Landtroop and Kohler won.

“In the series we lead 3-1,” Landtroop said. “I didn’t want to make it 2-2. All those things went through my mind before the match.”

In the 50s doubles final, La Jolla’s Suella Bowden and Pasadena’s Dorothy Matthiessen defeated Pat Fraser of Palm Desert and Julie Hayward of Newport Beach, 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4. A year ago, Bowden and Matthiessen won their first tournament together in Arizona.

In both the second and third sets, the lead changed hands three times.

The tournament, which began Tuesday, concludes today with the singles championships beginning at 9 a.m. with a match between Kohler and San Francisco’s Helen Lum. Top-seeded Kohler, who lost in the finals last year, defeated Newport Beach’s Bev Winans, 7-6, 7-6, in the semifinals.

Lum, however, has been somewhat a surprise in the tournament. The eighth-seeded player knocked off Neeld, the defending champion and second-seeded player, in the quarterfinals Friday. Lum defeated fourth-seeded Elaine Mason of Fresno, 6-1, 6-1, in the semifinals.

In the women’s 50 singles, second-seeded Bowden will meet top-seeded Charleen Hillebrand, in a rematch of Febuary’s Indoor Championships in Chicago, which Hillebrand won. In the semifinals Hillebrand defeated Pat Fraser of Palm Desert, 6-3, 6-2. Bowden defeated Santa Barbara’s Sinclair Bill, 6-1, 7-5.

Kohler returned from Perth, Australia just two days before traveling to this tournament. Both Kohler and Neeld competed in the U.S. Alice Marble Cup, a team tournament made up last year’s top two ranked 60s singles and top doubles; and in the International Tennis Federation Veterans World Championships, an individual tournament.

In the ITFVWC, Kohler lost in the quarterfinals and Neeld in the semifinals. Kohler won the 55 doubles title, and Hillebrand won the 50s singles.