European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. Septembers 1987 the stars and stripes Pago 17 Edberg cruises in open by Barry Wilner new York at1 second a coded Stefan Edberg of Sweden Cal american Derrick Rostagno 6-3. 7-6 i7-06-2 wednesday in an opening round match at the . Open. Edberg cruised to Victory in he in Iii set at inc National Tennis Center after breaking Rostagno s serve in the sixth game. Kos Lagno ranked 54th in inc world. Had a Chance 10 even the Malch in the second set but lost inc tiebreaker 7-0. I did t play Well but in was Good enough to win said Eilberg a two Lime australian open Champion ebb org who has won live tournaments this year said he was nervous at inc Start of the match la s always that Way in inc first round of a grand slam event he said. It lakes you a while to Settle in a first round women s match no. 12 Buttina Bunge of Monaco Defeated Mary Lou Piateck of Munster ind., 6-3, 7-5. Pinned to the ropes by a scrappy court fighter with most of the crowd rooting against him on tuesday night Boris Becker showed he can get Tough. I was going to make him Beal Becker said. Tim Wilkison could t. On tuesday s opening night Wilkison built a two set Lead Only to Sec Becker storm Back for a 4-6, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2 Victory. In is definitely a mental boost Becker said of inc 4-hour, 3-Minuie Vic tory. The Guys i play in the Cut rounds know if they re leading i m not dead Wilkison also knew Decker was t out of the match. Other Guys could come Back but he knew he had a Chance Wilkison said. He was not thinking he was out of the match and i knew in Barry Moir never was in his match with Ivan Lendl. Lindl inc two Lime defending Cham Pion blanked the South african 6-0. 6-0, 6-0, the first three set shutout in open history. Lindl said in was the first Lime he had done it As a pro. Martina Navratilova the women s de fending Champion and second seed routed Kate Gompert 6-1,6-1. John Mcenroe seeded eighth made it past the first round or a grand slam tournament for the first time since the 1985 australian open when he whipped Man anger 6-3, 6-2,6-2. Other men s seeds who advanced be fore an afternoon record attendance of 21,630 were no. 13 Brad Gilbert no. 14 Emilio Sanchez of Spain and no. 16 Anders Jarryd of Sweden. The seeded women who won included 1985 open Champion Hana Mandrikova of Czechoslovakia who is rated fourth no. 7 Zina Garrison eighth rated Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina no. 9 Clau Dia Kohide Kilsch of West Germany and no. 14 Calarina Lindqvist of Sweden. Laie wednesday matches featured Steffi Graf of West Germany inc top seeded woman against Bellina Fulco of Argentina six time Champion Chris Evert ranked third against Susan Sloane third seed Mats Wilander of Sweden against John Ross and no. 6 Jimmy Connors Laking on Joey rive. A Penoro american Edwin Moses refreshes himself after his Victory in the 400-meter hurdles in the a Flirl meet in Rome. World track records fall 25 finals still to come Rome up1 the world track and Field championships were Laking 0 breather wednesday after four Days of memorable Competition highlighted by Ben Johnson s 100 meters world record and Edwin Moses lust gasp 400-meter h or docs Victory. Only 18 of the 43 finals have been decided and the highlights for the rest of the week include the men s meters and 5,000 meters the pole vault sprint relays and Marathon while the women s 200 meters 400 meter hurdles Long jump javelin and relays Are All to come. Competition resumes Ai olympic stadium thursday with the men s 200 me ters 400 meters and 110-meter hurdles finals and the finals in the women s 200 meters and 400-meter hurdles. Defending 200 meter Champion Calvin Smith of the United Stales looked to be in his Best form in three Yean tuesday and qualified easily for thursday s semifinals but american Butch Reynolds heavily lipped to Cam a medal in the men s 400 meters ran a tactically poor semifinal and barely qualified for thursday s final. Innocci Egbu Nike of Nigeria who has had a Superb season looked much stronger thursday and Wilt make Rey nolds Battle All the Way for the Gold. Greg Foster of the United Sigil a Mark Mckoy of Canada and Jon Ridgon of Britain All look like con tenders for medals in the High hurdles. Two world records have been Bro Ken in four Days Johnson s devastating 9.83 second 100-meter sprint and Stefka Koila Dinova s 2.09-Mctcr 6-10 a High jump. Moroccan said Wouita who bids to add a world title to his olympic 5,000 meter Crown predicted a winning Lime of 12 minutes 36 seconds in thai event two seconds inside his own world Mark. The Bailie in the Long jump Between East German Hciks Orcen scr and american Jackie Joyner Kersee. Who jointly hold the world record at 7,45 meters 24-5 i could also produce his tory s longest jump by a woman. And soviet Sergei Bubka who has set 16 indoor and outdoor pole vault world records is capable of raising his Mark at any time. It looked for a Long Lime monday and tuesday thai Joyner Kersey was to join Johnson and Kostadinov in set Ting world Marks. She led he heptathlon from inc first event the 100-Mcier hurdles through to the 800 meters and was on world record Pace All the Way. But her 800-meter time of 2 16.29 her slowest for three years was 2.22 seconds Loo slow 10 enable her to improve her own world Mark of 7,158 Points it in Houston Texas in August 1986. The men s 400-Mclcr hurdles produced one of the greatest finals seen in a major championships with Moses comp riot Danny Harris and West German european Champion Harald Schmald finishing virtually together. Close examination of inc photo Fin ish gave Moses the Victory in 47,46 just two hundredths of a second ahead of Harris and Schmid. Between the time Schmid beat Moses in August 1977 in West Berlin and Harris Beal him in Madrid in june this year Moses won 122 straight races the Besl winning record in the history of the track. The men s 800-meter final failed to live up to its o peeled clash Between Britain s Tom Mckean and kenyan Billy Konchellah who won in 1 43,04 the year s fastest Lime Over Bra Zilian Jose Luis Barbosa and Britain s Peter Ellioit. Mckean tangled with another run Ner on the last Lap. And limped in last. Tatiana Samolenko of the soviet Union won the 3.000 meters with olympic Champion Marinica Pica of Romania second. Sergei Litvinov of the soviet Union defended his title in inc Hammer and Irina Strakhova gave the soviet Union its third Gold medal of inc Day
