European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. January 22. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 17 sports Lendl Edberg coast into semis , Audi rain  l mending Cham Pion Stefan Educ re of Sweden and tip a cd a is an Lendl powered their nay wednesday into the men semifinals of the $1.65 million australian open Tennis Champion ships at Jooyong. Edberg 21, romped to a 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 Victory Over sixth seeded Miloslav Mccier of Czechoslovakia in a match that was interrupted by rain for almost an hour Early in the second set. Lendl seeking his first grass court grand slam title posted a 7-6. Fi-1, 6-3 Triumph Over no. 9 Anders Jar Ryd of Sweden. Also advancing to the men s semifinals was giant killer Wally Masur of Australia who stopped new zealand s Kelly Ever Ndon 6-3. 7-5, 6-4 in a Bailie of unseeded players. On tuesday Masur shocked two time Wimbledon Champion Boris Becker of West Ger Many. In the last quarterfinal pairing Ilia sced cd Pat Cash of Australia eliminated no. 3 Yannick Noah of France 6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 6-0, Cash next will meet Lindl with both Cash and Monsur posting victories it is the first time since 1980 that Australia has had two players reach the men s semifinals. In 1980, Kim War Wick and Peter Mcnamara were Sci finalists with Warwick advancing to inc final where he lost to Amer ican Brian teacher. Lend now has a 7-1 career record against Jarryd. I m winning and nol mating too Many errors so 1 have to be satisfied said the 26-year-old Lendl. Who makes his Home in Greenwich. Conn. "1 said a the Start of the tournament thai i had a Good Chance to win it and nothing has changed my  Edberg who Defeated fellow swede mais Wilander in he last australian open final held in december 1985, combined Power and placement in racing into the final four of the first grand slam event of the year he dropped just two Points on serve in the first set and Only six in the second Edberg got an Early break in third set but Mecir a finalist in inc . Open last september came right Back breaking the Champion to in vol the set 2-2. The swede however broke Back in the next game and was never again under pressure. Edburg s win seemed almost effortless. He has dropped Only one set in four matches in reaching the semifinals. The Victory was his first in three meetings with Mecir on grass and i s second in five career clashes. The match took just one hour 27 minutes. I played Well and served particularly Well and that is the key 10 my game Edberg said. At Wimbledon i inc to Hil winners off his serves All the time. Here i just tried to keep the Ball in court to Ftp Sevik divan Lendl lunges a backhand during his rout of Anders Jarryd at the australian open wednesday. And it worked. He has t got that great a serve Edburg said he was feeling particularly relaxed and confident. "1 have to be confident the Way i m playing he said. There is no reason not to be. I started to play Well at inc quarterfinals last year and i m certainly pleased with the Way 1 played  Edberg will face Masur in the semifinals on Friday ranked just 7lsiin the world Masu will be playing in his first grand slam semifinal. At the last austra Lian open Masur held two match Points against Edberg in the fourth round before losing. Led by defending Champion Martina Navratilova the women will play i hair semifinals on thursday. Navratilova the no. I seed will Battle no 10 Calanna land Viji of Sweden while no 2 Hans Mandrikova of Czechoslovakia the 1980 australian open win Ner will take on no. 5 Claudia Kohide Kilsch of West Germany. Lindqvist is the first swedish woman to reach the semifinals of a grand slam event while Kohide Kilsch has reached the semifinals at Jooyong for the second straight Lime. Becker draws $2,000 Fine for outbursts Melbourne Australia a two Lime Wimbledon Champion Boris Becker of Germany was fined $2,000 wednesday for a series of outbursts Dur ing his fourth round loss to Wally Masur in the .65 million australian open Tennis championships. An ill tempered Becker was Given Iwu warnings by Umpire Wayne Spencer in Roulo to his 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, 6-7, 6-2 loss tuesday 10 the unseeded australian Becker was fined ,000 for offensive behaviour. He also was fined 1500 for being coached from inc sidelines by Gunther Florich and a further s500 for breaking his Racket in the second Sci tie breaker. Trie offensive behaviour included twice throwing the Ball at the Umpire hitting the Umpire s chair on one Occa Sion spitting water in the direction of the Umpire and hitting three balls out of inc court. College basketball tigers Don t follow script and lib win unbeaten Clemson nips a. Tech Atlanta a Georgia tech coach Bobby Cremins knew wha to expect but Lois ranked Clemson did t follow the script. We triple teamed Horace Grant Cremins said. We knew they were going to  the tigers did go to Grant who quickly whipped a Paw to Michael Tail in the Righi Comer and Tail drilled an is fool or with four seconds left to give unbeaten Clemson a 67-66 Victor in an Atlantic coast Confer ence basketball game tuesday night. The game was the Only one involving a member of the top 20. It was the 17th consecutive Victory this season for the unbeaten tigers who went to 4-0 in the acc for the first time in their history. It s a Uin i la cherish for a Long Lime tigers coach Cliff Ellis said. This is Early in the acc season and it s still a Long ways logo. We re not made up of a Bunch of superstars but i think the chemistry on this club it  Tail s game Winner on the pass from Grant came after tech 9-5 Overall and 1-2 in the conference had taken a 66 65 Lead on Tom Hammonds Basket with 1 55 to play. Clemson tailed to score on its next Possession and tech had a Chance to build a three Point Lead but Bruce Dalrymple was called for charging with 49 seconds logo. The tigers ran Down the clock hit Grant on the inside and the Center found Tail alone in the right Corner. The play was designed to go to me Bui three Guys collapsed on me Grant said. "1 feel anybody with any Basket Ball knowledge in t going to Lake the shot with three Guys on him. Saw Michael and kicked it out to him i was looking to go backdoor to get the rebound Tail wid when i saw the three Guys on him i stepped Back out so he could have a passing Lane. I was wide  " 1 was a great win for Clemson Cremins said. It was a very Lough very disappointing loss for us. Now we really have our backs against the Wall because we have Vir Ginia thursday night and North car Olina saturday coming up. Now we re going to have to suck it  Grant who sat out ii minutes of the first half with two fouls led the tigers with 16 Poi Nii Jerry Pryor had 14 and Tail 12, Duane Farrell led tech with 21 and Hammonds had 20, including 10 in the final 6 05