All in all, the 1971 Masters was a rather uneven, mottled tournament.
Baseball, with 115 member nations, has produced uneven Olympic tournaments because Major League Baseball will not send players during the season or even shut down for a few weeks the way the N.H.L. has done during recent Winter Games.
Meanwhile, 12th-seeded Anna Kournikova, who has yet to win a pro tournament, won an uneven first-round match over Holly Parkinson, 6-2, 6-3, in the early night match.
So it's no wonder that his account of the Augusta National Golf Club and its annual Masters golf tournament is at times uneven, spotty and somewhat frustrating.
His tournament record, however, remained uneven, and rising young stars like Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, and Mikhail Botvinnik threatened his title.
It's an old strategy to save your Sunday punch for the most dangerous opponent, but Alexei Shirov had uneven results with that strategy in the Grandmasters Tournament in Merida, Mexico, June 13 to June 19.
According to both parties, they have split amicably, and only time and future tournaments will tell if Capriati's uneven, and ultimately unsuccessful, performance in the first round of the Italian Open was a coincidence.
On the surface it suggests not everyone is following the same development blueprint – that each country's approach to their youth teams means the tournament takes place on a self-created uneven playing field.
In the tournament's early years, different countries had vastly different playing styles, making for more uneven competitions (but a more entertaining spectacle).
But Palm said the uneven showing did not mean that any of the Big East's 11 teams should have been omitted from the tournament.
