European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 9,1990 the stars and stripes a a Page 17 Agassi bounces Becker new York apr with Boris Becker bewildered and angered Over line Calls Andre Agassi used his Strong Baseline game to overpower the defending Champion saturday and Advance to the menus singles championship match at the . Open. Agassi a 6-7 10-126-3, 6-2, 6-3 Victory assured the menus singles . Open match will be an All american affair for the first time since John Mcenroe Defeated Vitas Gerulaitis in 1979. It will be Agassi a second grand slam final this year. He lost to Andres Gomez in the French open in june. Agassi a sunday opponent will be the Winner of the other semifinal later saturday Between a revitalized Mcenroe and Pete Sampras one of a Brace of Young talented americans. Sampras upset three time Champion Ivan Lendl in the quarterfinals. Also later saturday two time defending Champion Steffi Graf was to meet fifth seeded Gabriela Sabatini for the women a title. The Agassi Becker match was Power is. Power two howitzers for forehand engaged in Baseline to Baseline bombardment. Their backhands were almost As penetrating although they both seemed Content to let their backhands set up a Point winning blast from the forehand Side. On their infrequent sojourns to the net they risked being Cut Down with a pass although Becker who has won Wimbledon three times with his serve and Volley game fared better in the Forecourt than did Agassi. On the opening Point of the 11th game in the first set Becker hit an inside out forehand behind Agassi. But Agassi turned completely around and flicked out his Racket hitting a backhand deep to stay in the rally. When he eventually won the Point with a Cross court forehand passing shot Agassi went into a Crouch Andre Agassi pounds out a 6-7 10-126-3,6-2,6-3 Triumph Over Boris Becker. A and pumped his fist. It was to no Avail however As Becker fought off set Point for the second time to finally hold serve and Send the set into a tiebreaker. Agassi had three More set Points in the tiebreaker a making it five in All a but Becker was equal to the task. The West German finally took the Lead on his fourth set Point when he served wide to Agassi a backhand pulling him off the court then hit an easy Cross court forehand off the return. The tiebreaker took 17 minutes As the two battled one hour 12 minutes in the opening set. The second set took Only 35 minutes. Agassi unloaded his heavy Artil Lery breaking Becker in the third seventh and ninth games while dropping service in Only the sixth game. After one hour 47 minutes it was a Best of three sets match. Sabatini won her semifinal late Friday by beating Mary Joe Fernandez 75, 5-7, 6-3. The Argentine right hander fell behind 1-4 before coming Back in the opening set. The Only service break in the third set came in eighth game Sabatini moving to break Point with a Stop Volley then completing the service break with a difficult Low drop Volley taking the Ball before the net and carefully lifting it Over with Fernandez pinned As usual to Baseline. Nil opens today by the associated press will the phantom of the opera attend Atlanta a nil opener sunday now that Jerry Glanville is the Falcons head coach when he was coach of the Houston oilers Glanville who usually dresses in Black left a ticket in the name of the phantom. He also left tickets for Elvis Presley and James Dean. Should the phantom show he might be rooting for the visiting team which just happens to be Houston. The oilers now Are coached by Jack Pardee who had been at the University of Houston. The last time the National conference Falcons opened a season against an american conference team was in 1978 when they beat the oilers 20-14 at Atlanta. While Glanville and Pardee and three other coaches will be doing business at new stands this year Chuck Noll will be starting his 22nd season in charge of the Pittsburgh Steeles. You can be sure he Hasni to forgotten last seasons opener in which the Steeles lost to the Cleveland Browns 51-0 at Home. Although the Steeles rallied to make see nil on Page 22afn sports television pro football a los Angeles rams at Green Bay 7 . Sunday Philadelphia at new York giants 2 . Monday. Tennis a . Open menus final 10 . Sunday. Radio pro football a Minnesota at Kansas City 7 . Sunday Denver at los Angeles raiders 10 . Sunday Philadelphia at new York giants 2 . , blues blast oilers 10-1 by Rob Staggenborg staff writer d0sseldorf, West Germany a yes there was a fist fight. And when the gloves were cleared and both players had been sent off the defending Stanley cup Champion Edmonton oilers had been handed a 10-1 loss. A four goal explosion by the St. Louis blues Geoff Courtnell fonday night did the damage in the Pivotal game of the Epson cup series. On saturday the oilers eased past West German first division Champion Disseldorf leg 2-0 in the final game of the series. Mark Messier the no la a most valuable player last season scored in the second period and defender Chris Joseph added one in the third to Seal the Victory. The blues claimed the Epson cup with a 2-0 record. St. Louis Rich Sutter and the oilers Glenn Anderson etched their names in the nil history books when the two tangled in what was the first on ice fight Between two nil players in West Germany. Thursdays game went without incident. Courtnell notched his fourth tally of the contest in the five goal third period which set the nine goal differential. Courtnell blues general manager Ron Caronis newest acquisition drilled Rod Brindz amours feed past stunned Edmonton goaltender Bill Ranford who played for Grant Fuhr a first Stringer who did not make the trip. Brindz amour who finished the game with three assists banged in goal no. 7 on a ferocious snapshot from 20 feet out. Sutter got the assist. The 20-year-old Brindz amour downplayed the lopsided Victory. A everyone knows its their first game of the  he said. A it will be a totally different Story when the season  blues coach Brian Sutter agreed with Brindz amour in a Post game press conference. A a you la see the Edmonton oilers come out jumping tomorrow. In a glad our game is Over with. The score was not indicative of the  Edmonton coach John luckier disagreed. A i just want to thank coach Sutter for making this a Humble hockey club a he said. A the was right. The score was not indicative of the play. It was  Hull left the game after a first period appearance with an aggravated Groin muscle. A we took Brett out because it was an exhibition a Sutter said. A this is not the time of year to push somebody beyond their  Courtnell opened the scoring with a Back hand flip shot past Ranford just 2 51 into the first period. Brindz amour and Paul Cavallini assisted. Brindz amour was in Awe of Courtnell after the game. A the was on a Roll. Everything he a shooting was going in. We All expected that of Geoff a he said. A hopefully court Nally a acquisition from the Washington capitals is a Good sign for the future. You be got to give credit to blues  the soft spoken Courtnell saw it this Way a when you play for a team you always want to do Well a he said As his teammates opened a chorus of a Brett who a ribbing. A i enjoy it when in a scoring but its an exhibition game. In a not too  Hull was impressed with Courtnell. A hell of a game a he said from the warm sleek confines of his designer Slacks tie leather shoes and million Dollar smile. Hull who led the league in scoring last season with 72 goals expects big things out of Brindz amour and Courtnell who share a front line on the blues attack team. A a it a going to be hard to Stop a line like that but hey its Only the second game of the year a said Hull. Mark Lamb chalked the oilers Only tally with a behind the Back shovel shot past St. Louis goalie Guy Herbert to Cut the blues Lead to 4-1. Rich Sutter and Steve Tuttle had two goals each and Brindz amour and Jeff Brown rounded out the scoring with one goal each