European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22b the stars and stripes monday August 12, 1991 Sampras 1 cd Loci a colds us so in at final Mason Ohio apr . Open Champion Pete Sampras won a Battle of grand slam winners saturday night by knocking off French open Champ Jim courier 6-2, 7-5 to Advance to the finals of the $1.3 million at championship Sampras the seventh seed was to take on Frances Guy forget in sundays final. Forget enjoying the Best season of his 10-Ycar pro career surprised top seeded Boris Becker 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 in the first semifinal. A my game is pretty Good right now. I m playing with a lot of Confidence a Sampras said after beating courier the no. 4 seed. Sampras made the semifinals by eliminating second seeded Stefan world Tennis Edberg the defending Champion 6-3, 6-3. Forget seeking his first . Title frequently has played doubles with Becker until saturday Becker was the senior partner. A the last couple of matches we played were getting closer. It Wasny to like i was beating him easily a said Becker the top rated player on the menus tour. Forget 26, has been a Winner this year at Sydney and Brussels. Prior to that he had won just three tournaments All in France including Toulouse in 1986 a 20 years after his father Pierre and 40 years after his Grandfather Paul also won , k. Male Eva Advance Toronto up Jennifer Capriati and Katerina male Eva were to meet in the final of the $600,000 players Challenge each advancing saturday when her semifinal opponent retired in the second set. Top seeded Gabriela Sabatini was forced to withdraw against no. 3 seed Capriati because of a blistered foot. Sabatini had dropped the opening set 6-4 and was leading 3-2 in the second. Male Eva solder sister and second seed Manueln male Eva frag Niere was trailing 6-4, 1-0 when her inflamed right shoulder became too painful for her to blitzes swede Prague Czechoslovakia apr Karel Novacek of Czechoslovakia Defeated top seeded Magnus Gustafsson of Sweden 7-6 7-56-2 to win the czechoslovak open on sunday 2nd loss by John Nelson Havana apr Cuba delivered a 1-2 punch to . Gold medal aspirations in women a basketball and diving saturday while an american Boxer found that fighting cubans Wasny to the Only Way to lose at the pan american games. The cubans eliminated the United states 86-81 in the semifinals of the basketball tournament and the Long faces of the . Women told the Story. A i was just trying to soak up the moment a said Teresa Edwards who sat on the Bench with her head in her hands pan am games after it was Over. A just As you soak up the victories you have to soak up the losses and that a what i was trying to do a for the first time since the 1982 world championships the american women went Home without the Gold. They had won eight straight International titles since then including two olympics. Cuba plays Brazil for the title on sunday while the United states faces Canada for the Bronze. A cuban Roger Ramirez also won the menus 10-meter platform diving end it ing 16 years of . Pan am domination in the sport and . Boxer John Herrera was stopped by Little known Luis Fleitas of Brazil at 1 11 of the third round of their 1 l2-Pound tight. . Boxers Are 4-4 in the games the other three having lost to cubans. It was a big Day for the Host country of the pan am games As Cuba built on its Gold medal Lead Over the United states in almost every Quarter. In track and Field Javier Sotomayor of Cuba won his Duel with american Hollis Conway in the High jump although he failed to surpass his world record of 8 feet. The basketball loss was the second Here for the . Women. They lost in the first round to Brazil ending a Streak of 42 straight major International victories but this loss ended the Streak. Afterwards coach Vivian Stringer tried to console her players. �?o1 told them we. Played hard and we tried and said some personal things a she said. A i was proud to be associated with this Cuba took the Lead for Good with 8 42 to play inspired by 15,000 screaming cubans who were joined in their Celebration by cuban president Fidel Castro. The United states problem was its shooting the . Women went 5 42 of the first half without a Field goal As Cuba took the Lead. Cuba led 37-34 at halftime and 51-44 with 14 24 to play. The United states went on a 9-2 run for a 53-53 tie with 11 27 to play but that was the last Hurrah for the americans. Edwards led the team with 22 Points. Mexican and . Divers complained of crowd noise at the Pool Complex but they Hadnot heard anything yet. When Cuba cubans Regia Hernandez puts pressure on Venus Lacy of the . In pan am semifinal. Won its first pan am diving Gold medal the steel girders Shook with jubilation. The Victory by 17-year-old Ramirez ended a . Domination of pan am diving that had dated Back to 1975. When he sliced into the water on his 10th and final dive of the platform Competition the scoreboard flashed a score of 63, giving him 560.79 total. Jesus Mena of Mexico won the Silver with 544.08, and Patrick Jeffrey of Madison n.j., won the Bronze with 539.73. Both Meta and Jeffrey asked and were granted re dives when crowd noise interrupted their concentration. Matt Scoggin the olympic festival Champion from Austin Texas messed up each of his six optional dives and finished fifth in a Field of eight. The Good news for the . Boxing team is that Revea Springs the other american fighter in action saturday earned a berth in the 156-Pound semifinals with a decision Over Jose Martinez of Venezuela. The bad news is hell face cuban Juan Lemus. A a he a one of the biggest punchers Here Quot Springs captures iroc race series Crown Watkins Glen. . A record setting Rusty Wallace won it All saturday taking the race at Watkins Glen International and wrapping up his first International race of champions title and the $175,000 that goes with it. The Lascar Stock cur Star started from the pole and led All the Way in the 30-Lap race on the 2.42k-mile, seven turn Road circuit after a crash by a1 Unser or. Aborted the initial Start Wallace became the first Driver in the history of iroc to win three straight races and joined the late Mark Donohue As the Only Drivers to have won three of the four races in a single iroc season. Donohue did it in 1973, the first year of the All Star series. Mark Martin another Winston cup racer tried to Knock Wallace off his Perch on the last turn of the last Lap but was blocked effectively and came up 15-hundredths of a second Short. Quot Mark got a big bite off that last turn and that a what makes this pretty Wallace said. Quot it was a great he added. Quot i had to drive a real defensive race 1 Learned a lot on that first Start about what not to the first time the race w As started indy car regular Scott Pruett jumped from third to the Lead before Unser Slid off the track in turn five As he battled with Wallace for second on the first Lap. Unser did a spin and a half before the passenger Side slammed into the firewall. Unser who said he simply lost control escaped injury. Because yellow Flag laps do not count in iroc the race was restarted with the two time iroc Champion moving to the series backup car and starting last the backup car had the name Kendall stencilled on it referring to Road racing Star Tommy Kendall who is recuperating irom injuries sustained in a sports car crash Here in june. Kendall at his Home in California gave the command to Start engines sunday by Telephone. Unser who had won three of four previous iroc events Here sliced through the 11-car Field moving All the Way to third by Lap 11, but get any closer As Wallace and Martin easily held the top two spots
