European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday septembers 1989 the stars and stripes Page 23 Connors Agassi Chang Advance new York a Jimmy Connors the oldest player at the . Open showed thursday he has plenty of fight while Andre Agassi and Michael Chang kept up the March of America s teen brigade. Connors who turns 37 saturday avoided the upsets that had tripped two other former champions. He disposed of hard serving but erratic 23-year-old qualifier Bryan Shelton 6-7, 6-2,6-2,6-2 in a second round match. Shelton. An All America from Georgia tech who lost to Boris Becker in the first round at Wimbledon in his first grand slam event blasted 12 aces without being broken in the first set. He polished off an 8-6 win in the tiebreaker with his eighth service Winner. But Shellon s serve failed him As he double faulted at game Point at the Star of the second set. And the steady wily Connors took his measure with blazing returns deft lobs and passing shots. Shelton managed Only five aces in the last three sets and never threatened the i3th-Sccdcd Connors in any of them. Meanwhile Agassi. 19. Chang 17, and Pete Sampras 18, who took out defend ing Champion Mats Wilander wednes Day showed they Are part of a new generation of . Players on the verge of taking Over the game. The sixth seeded Agassi with flowing locks and a throng of screaming female admirers beat South african Neil Broad in winning 6-3,6-2,6-3 to Advance to the third round. Chang the seventh seed and French open Champion handled the swirling Breeze on the stadium court As easily As he did Sweden s Thomas Hogstedt in a 6-1,6-3,6-3 Victory. There were no big upsets for a change. Top seeded Ivan Len third seeded Ste fan Edberg and ninth seeded Tim May Otto also advanced to the third round without dropping a set. Lendl did t Strain himself much in a Snappy 78-minute, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1 Victory against John Fitzgerald a doubles specialist from Australia who charged the net futilely while Lindl stayed Back and hammered forehand and backhands past him. Lendl was t Supri cd at the second round upsets of Wilander by Sampras and of four time Champion John Mcenroe by newcomer Paul Laarhuis or the near upset of Becker by Derrick Rostagno. Tyson Ruddock title bout now set for Canada Toronto a Mike Tyson next heavy weight title defense against Canadian razor Ruddock will be held in Canada on nov. 18, a group of Ca Nadian promoters said thursday. Sonny Mcpace who Heads the group said he has agreed to pay $3 million to Don King Tyson s promoter for the rights to the fight. He said the preliminary documents were signed wednesday night. We paid a considerable amount of Money but we think we be got a consid Erable package for what we paid my Pace said. King had been searching for a site for the bout since a Las vegas hotel said it was not Worth what King was asking. The Date was confirmed by Home Box office which holds the television rights to All of Tyson s championship fights. Still undecided is the location. Venue being considered Are the . Place in Vancouver the Calgary saddled me the North lands coliseum in Edmonton and olympic stadium in Montreal. The promoters would prefer the to Ronto sky dome but it is currently booked for Canada s College football championship game. . Open Tennis Ivan Lendl the lop seed in the is. Open concentrates on the Ballen route to an easy win Over John Fitzgerald thursday. The game has gotten better he said. A new generation of players has come in and a lot of them arc Good. Some of them arc Good on a consistent basis but not on the top level. Some of them arc very up and Down and when they re up they re very Chang said the Young americans Are so Good because they grew up playing together and pushing each other to the if you did t work hard you d be at the Bottom of the group and nobody wanted to be Down there he said. Everybody pushed everybody and now that pushing is starting to pay Chang said he was pleased Sampras beat Wilander in the second round be cause he will Start believing in himself that he can play great Tennis against the top players. Agassi saw the Sampras Victory As confirmation of the Rise of Young Ameri can Talent. Chang to say the least has proved himself to be a great Agassi have to be a great player to win a grand slam tournament so you Don t really need to defend him. Sampras last night proved he can play top players and Jim courier an other second round Winner has already proven that Agassi said. I think next year americans will be really dominating in Tennis. No doubt about Edberg who beat Peter Lundgren 6-2,6-2, 6-2, was particularly surprised Mcenroe lost after the Way he had Bee playing this year coming Back from Sev eral years of injuries and layoffs to reach no. 4. Mayotte struggled Only in the third set in beating Christo Van Rensburg 6-2, 6 2, 7-6. Mayotte 29, is having his bes year and looms As a dark horse to win the open. He won a tournament in washing ton in july beating a hot Brad Gilbert in the finals and reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon before losing to Edberg. Among the women the open has been relatively upset free. No. 3 Gabriela Sabatini beat Cathy Caverzasio 6-3, 6-2 thursday no. 6 Arantha Sanchcz vicar to beat Cammy Macgregor 6-1, 6-3, and no. 8 Helena Sutkova beat Gretchen Magrs 6-2,6-7,6-2. Comstock sets record in 10,000, Harp takes Gold in the High jump by Tim Boivin staff writer Homburg Saar West Germany Mica Comstock saved the Best for last at the opening of the Susareu track and Field championships Friday. Comstock set a blistering Pace in breaking the Usa eur record for the 10,000 meters with a 31 minute 3 Sec Ond Effort. It was really Nice weather Cool what you need to run the 10,000," Comstock said. And Cool is the kind of time corns lock posted. He knocked almost 20 seconds off the Usa eur Mark set by another Vii corps runner de Mark scr who had a 31 21.97 in 1981. Records Are nothing new to corns lock a West Point Grad who holds the record in the 1,500-Mctcrs at the acad Emy. But this Effort helped pull v corps John Ectro to a 31 20 Lime also beating Merkler s Mark. I think i pulled other runners along Usa eur track and Field when i took off in the second half said Comstock 24, an Albuquerque . Native. The men s sub masters a new age group for runners 28-34, had v corps Mark Carper winning the 10,000-Mc lers with a 31 20, which also beats Merkler s record. The men s masters title went to 21 is Talcom s Hoyt Brown with a 33 24 time. In other events Clyde the Glide had nowhere to hide. My wife told me not to come Home with no Silver or Bronze v corps Clyde Harp said after the men s High jump. Cons Harp was right to worry Back Home in Baum older for she knew Clyde s teammate Hanau s Rod Ney Morgan would make him work to mint that Gold. Morgan tied Harp at 6-foot-s, but Harp made his on the first jump while Morgan made in on his third attempt. When both missed on All three tries at 6-9, Harp had regained the title he took in 1985 and 1986. Clyde and 1 have been competing against each other for five years and it always comes Down to a matter of who misses Morgan said. We both know we can get the in the men s Long jump Darryl Davis of 21st Talcom beat out corps Tommy Boozer for the title. Zweir Ilcken s Davis leaped 24 feet t % inches to beat out Boozer s 23-4. 21st Talcom s Linda Tennant easily outdistanced the rest of the Field in the women s 5,000-Mctcrs, taking the Crown in 18 57. Vii corps Kath Rine Wiegel was second in 19 38. In the women s High jump Lilly Gordon of v corps won with a jump of 5-2%. The Only other competitor Vii corps Yolanda Woodson finished Sec Ond with a jump of 5-1 /. The championships continue through sunday at the Woldstad Bonnear Zweir Lickun
