European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Top seeds win Sampras gets past Muster Paris apr top seeds Stefan Edberg and Monica Seles opened their quests for French open titles with easy victories tuesday and no. 8 Zina Garrison became the first seeded woman beaten. In the Best match of the Day sixth seeded Pete Sampras rallied against hard hitting austrian Thomas miss Ter Tor a 4-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 Victor. It was the first time Sampras Winner of last years . Open had won a match after dropping the first two sets. Edberg rolled Over Belgium a Bart Wuyts 6-2, 6-2, 63, while Boris Becker the no. 2 seed disposed of Spain a Jordi Arrese 6-2, 7-5, 6-2. A French championship would give Becker the Only French open grand slam title he has never won and another 1991 grand slam Victory to go with his australian open title in january. He has never won a Clay court tournament. Edberg like Becker is seeking his first French open title both were ousted in the first round last year. The menus no. 8 seed Goran Ivanisevic of Yugoslavia won his match Over Frances Frederic Fontaine but w As fined ,000 in his rivals direction. Seles seeking to defend not Only her French open title but also her no 1 ranking overpowered Czecho it slovak Radka a Bubakova 6-3, 6-0. A third seeded Gabriela Sabatini vrho along with Steffi Graf is hoping to replace Seles As no. 1, american Marianne Werdel 6-1/6-1. Garrison a serve and Volley player More a comfortable on fast courts than the Clay of Roland Garros lost 6-4, 6-0 to Naoko saw Matsu giving the japanese teenager her biggest Victory Ever. Quot Quot no 5 seed Arantha Sanchez Vicario demolished Lori Mcneil 6-2, 6-2 in exactly one hour rifling passing shots past the net Rushing american. Sanchez vicario19, won the tournament in 1989 but lost in the second round last year. A in the menus Field ninth seeded Jim courier fellow Rostagno 6-3, 63, ,6-0. No. 14 seed Karel Novacek of Czechoslovakia retired Midway through his match with Sweden a mag Nus Gustafson after twist Rig an ankle i a a l a saw Amatoru 18, is ranked 35th in the worm and is Japan Stop rated woman player. But she had Only two previous grand slam victories against unseeded opponents in first round matches last year at the French and . Opens when she was still an Amateur Seles was the Surprise Champion a year ago dominating Graf in the final. Now its the l>7-year-old Yugo slaves turn the target. A a t Quot but both Sabatini ranked third in the world and Graf wednesday May 29, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 25 seeded second at Paris and ranked no. 2, can supplant Seles As no. 1 by winning the years second grand slam tournament and gaining enough Bonus Points. Graf already is in the second round having Defeated bulgarians Magdalena male Eva on monday As the Gounder Way. Boris Becker volleys against Jordi Arrese during their French open match tuesday. The German won in straight sets. A on monday the two oldest players in the Field Cap a a in be had a couple of those instances where in be just tured the spotlight with contrasting results. Played terrible tie Breakers a. Jimmy Connors 38, overwhelmed Todd Witsken g-3, _ Connors us Only Over-30 player left in lie men s j,0jln Mcenroe a to Andrei Field has played few matches in the past two years and 0-4, 7-5, 7-6 7-0. A spent the Winter recovering from wrist surgery while a if i dont feel that i have a Chance when 1 walk out working part time As a to analyst currently 324th in there then pm rather do something else Quot Connors said the computer rankings he said his Short term goal is to. Get Back in the top 100. A his second round opponent in the Only grand slam tournament lie has never won will he Haiti a Ronald Agenor ranked 28thjn the world. _. The Only seed to lose monday aside1 from Mcenroe was menus no. 16 Brad Gilbert. Cenc Pio Linb of France ranked i05th, ousted him 6-4�?o, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4t Quot Mcenroe however was ousted in emphatic style losing the fourth set tie breaker 7-0. A i let the fatigue get to me a Little bit a said Mcenroe who recently became a father for the third time. Out of by Rob Staggenborg staff writer the Frankfurt Galaxy players rolled out of1 Germany in the same fashion they rolled into their temporary Homes More a a than two months ago a without players loaded a late night flight out of Germany As soon As they got the word that they were eliminated from the playoffs. A Barcelona s 20-17 Victory Over the world league of american footballs european division Champion London monarchs on monday sent Frankfurt packing. The Galaxy was the Only one of three european division teams that did no to make the playoffs. The Galaxy came close to adding extra Miles to Birmingham Ala for a playoff game to its Olaf itinerary but the 7-3 j Galaxy beat the 2-6 i Sacramento surge on saturday night. A Victory or a Barcelona loss would have wrapped up the Olaf s Lone wild card berth. Galaxy general manager Oliver Luck will stay Here and coach Jack Elway and his staff will remain behind for the rest of the week Galaxy Public relations director Alessandro Cine la said tuesday a after the whistles blown after that last game of the season the seasons Over a Luck said �?o1 know it seemed very abrupt but we were scheduled to leave anyway. We were hoping to catch the flight to Birmingham hut we were sent Bur Dona travels to Birmingham to play the fire on saturday. The monarchs play the new York new Jersey knights on sunday in East Rutherford . The winners of those two game will play in the inaugural world bowl set for june 9 in London a Wembley stadium. Olaf notes j the playoff rundown with predictions Barcelona at Birmingham the dragons enter the game Riding an emotional High after their playoff Hopes were resuscitated with mondays Victory. Dragon quarterback Scott Erney is the we aft a seconds Cading passer behind London a Stan Gelbaugh. Erney carries a quarterback rating of 83.3, Well behind Gelbaughh a 95,6 rating entering the final week of the regular season. I Paul Palmer who came into the final week As the leagues eighth leading rusher stabilizes a Backfield that also includes Tor Mer Oklahoma Buck Carr. Carry a eight touchdowns this sea son is fourth Best in the league. Birmingham 5-5 enters the playoffs after san Antonio fell to the knights on the final wee of the season. The fires offence is second worst in the league and its defense is no 6 of the 10 teams. Brent Pease a former Houston Sijer Reserve was the first. Quarterback taken in the position by position draft Tir february but has been a major disappointment. Only Montreal a Michael Proctor is Statis tidally worse. Dragons 24, fire 10. London at now York i he two teams have met twice this be a a a 11 d 1.0 n Don won them both. Why Stop now a. Hie monarchs 9-1 Are lops in nearly every statistical category. Gelbaugh is the leagues no. 1 passer the Monarch Olfonse is no. 1, its defense is no 3. Receiver Jon Horton leads the league in receiving Yards h63 Ana has pulled in eight touchdowns this year. London s defense shapes up with its a Nasty boy Quot front. Linebacker Danny Lockett nose tackle Roy Hart and linebacker Marlon Brown had 31.5> sacks going into the Barcelona game Good for first through third in that category respectively. New York 5-5 has the Home Field advantage mouse Davis on the sidelines and running Back Eric Wilkerson the league Rushing Leader with 717_yards 011 117 carries. Wilkerson also scored i touchdowns this year to take the scoring Quot title. He a second behind Frankfurt a Tony Baker in total Yards from scrimmage with 955 Yards to bakery a 1,068.defensive backs Carl Parker Newton Are first and second in interceptions and the ten in h to a re of u it h Over a 11 in hot h. Offence and defense monarchs 27, knights 17
