European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday thursday july 4/5,1990 the stars and stripes a Page 21 o a a a. Wimbledon England apr Zina Garrison snapped Monica Seles winning Streak at 36 matches tuesday and advanced to the Wimbledon semifinals with top seeded Steffi Graf who survived a scare. Garrison the fifth seed but overlooked by most when it came to naming the contenders for Graf s Crown beat the third seeded 16-year-old Seles 3-6,6-3,9-7. The Victory secured Garrison fourth berth in a grand slam semifinal and her second at Wimbledon. She also reached this stage in 1985. But it wiped out the Chance of another big matchup Between Seles and Graf who had lost to the yugoslav teen Ager the last two times they met in the finals of the German open and the French open. Graf made it to the semifinals of her 15th consecutive grand slam tournament with a 7-5, 6-2 Victory Over Jana Novotna of Czechoslovakia. A this match was so close it was difficult to be out there for three hours and just to lose it on a few Points a Seles said. A she had More Luck out there  Selest loss disappointed Graf. 1 was hoping to play against her Graf said of her teen age Tormentor. A if Zinas playing Well its hard because she is coming in and playing a lot of  Martina Navratilova seeking a record ninth Wimbledon singles title became the tournaments winning est player with a 6-1, 6-1 Victory Over Katerina male Eva. It was Navratilova a 97th singles Victory one More than Chris Evert won in 18 meets. The menus quarterfinal Field was completed with the top seed and a surprising american going through. Ivan Lendl the worlds top player came Back from an Early lapse to beat Alex Anto Nitsch of Austria 3-6,6-4,6-3,6-4. Unseeded Brad Pearce from Provo Utah will meet Lendl in the quarterfinals. He beat Mark Woodforde of Australia 6-4,6-4,6-4.Garrison a 26-year-old from Houston has had a Good year despite a first round loss at the French open. She won a grass court Warmup tournament in Birmingham England last month and then de dared a maybe i can win  not Many took her seriously even fewer when the Wimbledon draw put her in the same half As Graf Seles and 14-year-old challenger Jennifer Capriati. But Graf beat Capriati on monday and 24 hours later Garrison beat Seles. The woman who ended Chris Evert a grand slam career in the . Open quarterfinals last year had done it again a big win Over a Hig favorite in a a big match. Seles had a match Point on garrisons serve at 30-40 in the 14th game of the final set and backhand got up slowly and in some pain but waved off an umpires offer of an it jury time  i did no to want to give her momentum a Garrison said. Garrison saved that match Point with a forehand drive then won 10 of the next 11 Points breaking Seles at 15 on a netted forehand for an 8-7 Lead and closing die match at love on a backhand into the net a backhand drop shot a service Winner and a backhand Long off a big Garrison forehand. A i was pretty surprised a Seles said of the final shot. I kind of done to remember it. I done to remember exactly where it went Garrison let out a yell and pumped her fist in Triumph. She beat Seles by attacking and used drop shots beautifully throughout her comeback in the 2-hour, 22-minute match that attracted a capacity crowd of6,000 and for a few minutes Navratilova. She was waiting to go on once Graf was finished next door on Cert re court Graf took 1 13 to eliminate Novotna the 13th seed starting her match an hour after Seles Garrison and having to wait around to find out who she met next. She was broken in the opening game of the match but tied it 3-3 when a Novotna Volley behind her serve flew too Long. Games went with serve until Graf reached 6-5, and she took the set on her third set Point when Novotna volleyed out again. In the second set Graf hit a backhand return Down the line to break for 2-0, and she broke again in the sixth game when the czech volleyed into the net. Novotna broke Back for 5-2, but a Graf forehand past the czech brought Victory on her third match Point in the next game. The last time Garrison and Seles had played was in last years French open where Seles handed out Flowers to the crowd but was rebuffed angrily when she offered a Flower to Garrison. Seles then won 63, 6-2. But that was on Clay and Garrison entered tuesdays match saying she would take advantage of her grass court ability by attacking the net As often As possible. It did no to work out that Way in the opening set the first set Gamson had lost in the tournament. Garrison was passed whenever she tried to Rush the net and retreated to the Baseline where Seles waited for the american to make errors. Several Short returns by Garrison were put away for winners by Seles. Forced into Long rallies Garrison began having Success in the second set with drop shots. She scored the Only serv Wimbledon. Zina Garrison smashes backhand in 3-6,6-3,9-7 upset win Over Monica Seles. A ice break of the second set in the fourth game to go up 3-1 and then held serve the rest of the Way fighting off four breakpoints. Garrisons serve deserted her in the third set but Seles was having just As much difficulty on her serve. Seles lost her first three service games of the set winning Only two Points in those three games but then rebounded to score her third service break of the set in the eighth game to tie the score at 4-4 and set up the ensuing drama. Seventh seeded Brad Gilbert struggled past american compatriot David Wheaton 6-7, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 13-11 to make the final eight in a late monday  gets 10th straight Victory by the associated press Boston a Kevin Romine led off the ninth inning with his first Home run of the season and Mike Boddicker outlasted Nolan Ryan for his 10th straight Victory As the Boston red sox edged the Texas rangers 3-2. With seven strikeouts in mondays game Ryan became the Only Pitcher with 100 or More strikeouts for 22 seasons. That broke a tie with Don Sutton Romine hit a 3-2 pitch off Kenny Rogers 2-4. Into the left Field screen As the red sox finished their Home stand 9-2. Boddicker 11 -3 gave up 10 hits struck out nine and extended the longest in Streak of his career. He has not lost 13 starts since falling to California 31 on april 25th.Al Roundup in other games monday royals 11, Yankees 5 Kansas City to. A new York which lost a no hitter on four unearned runs sunday continued its Sloppy play committing three errors and issuing three bases loaded walks. Five Kansas City runs were unearned. Related stories on Page 23 no Roundup on Page 26. George Brett went 4 for 5, Gerald Perry homered and Kevin Appier 3-3 went six innings for his second Victory of the year Over the Yankees. White sox 5, tigers 4 Chicago a Chicago a vaunted bullpen blew a three run Lead in the eighth inning. But the White sox remained four percentage Points ahead of Oakland in the Al West As Carlton Fisk singled Home the winning run in the ninth. Robin Ventura opened the ninth with a single off Detroit Relief Ace Mike Hen Neman 4-5 and took second As Ivan Calderon grounded out. Craig Grebeck ran for Ventura and Ron Kittle was walked intentionally before Fisk singled to give White sox their 10th Victory in 11 games. Fisk also had a sacrifice Fly in Chicago a three run first inning. Bobby Thigpen 4-2who leads the majors with 26 saves but blew one in the 14th Homer helped Oakland keep Pace with Al West leading Chicago As the athletics dealt Toronto its seventh loss in eight games. Mike More 6-7 allowed four hits Over seven innings and Dennis Eckersley got the final six outs for his 25th save. Angels 2, indians 1 Cleveland a Chuck Finley pitched a four hitter Over 8 a innings and the Angels scored the tie breaking run As the result of an Outfield collision in the ninth inning. Finley 11-4 got help from Bryan Harvey who struck out the last two batters for his 1 us save. Majors eighth was the Winner. Athletics 3, Blue jays 2 Toronto a Rickey Henderson san sports radio baseball a Minnesota 9 30 . Wednesday at new York