European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 21 Borg rips Lendl to cop masters new York up Bjorn pre paring for another assault on the worlds major methodically struck Down the bigger Ivan Lendl to make a successful de sense of his masters Tennis championship sunday with a 62 the worlds to ranking player earned for his Victory while the rising 20yearold czech collected following a tenuous when he had trouble with his first Borg found his path to accustomed Victory become easier As he went the opening set was marked by numer Ous Long and Lendl had an excellent Jaeger beats Navratilova for third time Kansas up Andrea continued her domination of Martina Navratilova the czechoslovakian Star for the third time with a 75 Victory in the finals of the Kansas City Stop on the women Tennis in the doubles final Barbara Potter and Sharon Walsh Defeated to seeded Rosie Casals and Wendy 76 before a crowd of Potter and Walsh split the winners purse and Casals and Turnbull split four rungs below Navratilova 3 ranking in the women Tennis Asso exhibited classic tactics of attacking an opponents backhand and waiting for but she also had to come up with the winners on her own to allow her Baseline game to overcome Navratilova More a re Sivc Serveant Volley the youngest woman Ever to win an Avon Jaeger lost three match Points before Navratilova blasted a fore hand Long and it was the first Avon championship for who reached the semifinals Only once in Navratilova was Trie defending Champion for this Avon Jaeger won the top leaving for Navratilova held service the first set and appeared in control of the but in the second game of the second Jaeger broke Navratilova at love and again broke service in the fourth game on her Way to a 50 top seed Navratilova refused to giving Jaeger no Points for the next two games and holding her serve in the eighth game before Jaeger took the set at 6 i began losing my Navratilova it took so much Effort to break her that basically where i lost the my the pressure was evident in the third set with both making mistakes so that neither could sustain a string of each held service once and traded Navratilova held and broke Jaeger to take a 42 but the 15yearold broke right barely won a two Deuce game and broke Navratilova to Lead the 10th game excited the with the chair Umpire forced to overrule three consecutive Calls one giving Jaeger an Jaeger lost her first match Point on the second with a topspin and Navratilova stretched Low to nub a soft shot Over for a Opportunity to take the advantage in the fourth after Borg double faulted at Lendl had three break Only to squander them those first four games required 23 min utes before Borg suddenly took he broke in the fifth game with the Aid of a Superb drop shot and forehand and managed to hold in the sixth when Lendl had another break but that was to be Only twice More in the entire which lasted an hour and 56 did Borg allow his service to go to the 24yearold swede broke in the third and fifth games to race through the second set in 31 minutes and he broke again in the opening game of the third set to end All by Borg avenged one of Only four losses dealt him last year in tournament excluding injury retire in Lendl had won their Previ Ous two with Borg having to withdraw in the final of a Toronto tournament last summer because of an Lendl had been accused of trying to avoid Borg in the semifinals when he made Little apparent Effort in a preliminary match with Jimmy Connors Friday but if he was to win the he would have inevitably had to face the five time Wimbledon Champion and he came up on the Short this tournament is known As the Volvo masters and the 1980 grand prix season with All records counting for with this Borg increased his to Tal earnings for 1980 to second to John Mcenroe who played far More and took in More than after losing All three of his sin Gles teamed with Peter Fleming to capture the doubles with a 63 Victory Over australians Peter Mcnamara and Paul Mcenroe and Fleming earned while the losers collected sets Fourney record Lietzke takes Hope classic Palm a Bruce the Leader All the turned Back Jerry Pate with a 3underpar 69 and won the Bob Hope desert Golf classic Sun Day with a tournament record Lietzke acquired the sixth title of his Ca reer with a 335 25 under Par and two shots better than the old record of 337 set by Rik Massengale in 1977 for the Only five Day event on the pea one of the games longer hitters and the most successful Cross handed Putter in collected from the total purse of and marked the fifth consecutive year in which he has won at least one a deeply frustrated Man who has won More than without taking a Victory since was the Only golfer who really had a shot at overtaking the front running Pate at one time pulled to within a single shot of the top but playing in the final threesome with Pate and Bill stretched his margin to two strokes with a 30foot Birdie putt on the 13th then put it away with a 15footer for Birdie on the that gave him a 3stroke advantage with Only two holes to play in the warm desert Pate also finished with a 69 on the Yard Bermuda dunes country club course and a 337 Matching the old David Edwards birdied the final Hole for a 71 and third place at the exceptionally Low scoring was aided by the Beautiful condition of the four desert used for the first four rounds of this unique event and five Days of near perfect golfing Weibring and Rogers were next at who birdied five of his first seven had a Weibring shot 68 and Lietzke College room matched Par Jack making his first Start of the closed with a 69 and a 349 Lee Trevino shot Arnold now a five time win Ner of this hit his first shot of the Day out of Bounds and struggled to a he finished at 361 and was the Only Man in the final Field Over Par for the a photo Bruce Lietzke wins 6th career title leads All the Way in 5day tournament celtics Ward off 9896 by United press International Jamaal Wilkes had hit the same 22foot jumper from the same spot on the Boston Garden floor so Many times before that los Angeles lakers coach Paul Westhead already was formulating his plans for Over but he forgot about the Boston celtics guardian some Leprechaun must have Corne by and blew it because that shot was Westhead said after watching Wilkes shot with three seconds left Bounce off the rim to preserve Bostons 9896 Victory sunday in a nationally televised to it May have been a Lepre Aba Roundup but to Boston coach Bill it was just his five redwoods playing Amaz ing defense All part of holding the lakers to just 37 Points in the second half and just 14 in the final i give All the credit to the said whose club has won All 17 games in which it has held opponents to less than 100 it saved us in the fourth on the last we thought it would either be Wilkes in the Corner or Jabbar in the Wilkes didst get the time he wanted and that was the be continued on Page 22