European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 a the stars and stripes saturday november 30, 1991 . Depending on Agassi for Lyon s share in France by Bucky Fox staff writer Andre Agassi is Back in a final. Only this is a final he knows How to win the Davis cup. Agassi led the United states past Australia in last years Davis cup final. What Progress from his other big finals namely in the 1990 and �?T91 French open and 1990 . Open All Agassi collapses. So Here s Agassi in another big time setting Lyon France for the 1991 Davis Davis cup final cup championship. The Best of five tourney was to Start Friday night and runs through sunday. Agassi opens for the defending Cham pions against Frances Guy forget. The second match pits american Pete Sampras against Frances Lively lefty Henri Leconte. Saturdays doubles features the . Duo of Ken Flach and Robert Seguso. They will play forget and another Frenchman maybe Arnaud Boetsch. French Captain Yannick Noah said thursday that Boetsch is his Man. Boetsch has a better looking face than forehand which Means Noah could still sneak in As forgets partner. The series ends sunday with Agassi scheduled to play Leconte and Sampras playing forget. Look easy for a repeat by the americans who beat France in the 1982 final perhaps but Agassi Points out that this is Sampras first Davis cup Competition. A Pete has had a great fall a Agassi referring to autumn said during the at finals which Sampras won two weeks ago in Frankfurt Germany. A but hell learn a lot in Davis cup. Jim courier Learned that no matter How High he was ranked he did no to do Well in Davis courier split his two Davis cup matches against Germany in september s Kansas City semifinals. Agassi swept Michael Stich and Carl Uwe Steeb to vault the . Into the final. A the grand slam is for yourself a a said Agassi recalling he lost two grand slam finals to Sampras and courier. A in the Davis cup you re doing it for so Many people. I can to explain the special feeling 1 had when i walked out for the fifth match against Steeb in Kansas City a a Sampras evidently got the message. A this is completely different a Sampras said in Frankfurt where he blitzed Agassi and courier. A you play for yourself in . No. 1 Andre Agassi carries a a special feeling into this weekends Davis cup final. This tournament. You Are playing for your country in Davis Agassi landed on the . Squad despite his no. 10 ranking is. Couriers no. 2 spot. Courier said of his snub a a in la be on the Beach. I done to did Agassi see an injustice keeping courier off the team a a it a Tough to go wrong with any team we put together a Agassi said. A we have four or five Guys who can win it and four or five Guys who can lose Agassi a failure to defend his at championship reflected on his season. When he Wasny to losing the French open final he was blowing a quarterfinal at Wimbledon bowing out in the first round of the . Open and avoiding the australian open. The hottest time of All for this 21-year-old from Las vegas came when John Feinstein a Best Selling hard courts blasted him for everything from Petty arrogance to serious tanking. Asked about the Book slams Agassi said a i wonder whether anybody looks Good when Feinstein writes about you. Sportswriters talk about responsibility. I wonder if sportswriters neglect their responsibility. I Haven t read it and i done to plan to. I done to know John and he does no to know me so that a Why it surprises now Agassi has a Chance to finish this Bleak year on a hopeful note. A if we win the Davis cup a he said �?o1 can reflect Back on this year and feel Good about flames blues r1 a a Triumph by the associated press Calgary Alberta Theo Ren Fleury scored a goal and added three assists As the Calgary flames beat los Angeles 5-3 thursday night handing the Kings their first loss in five games. Paul Ranheim Gary Roberts Robert Reichel and Mark Habscheid also scored for the flames 23-2 Over the last seven games. Habscheid and Reichel both scored on the Power play. Tony Granato scored two goals and Jari Kerri had a Power play goal for the Kings who out shot Calgary 26-23. Wayne Gretzky picked up three assists. Rick Wamsley making his first Start in goal for Calgary in almost a month notched his second win of the season against one loss. Before the game started a moment of silence was held in memory of Bob Johnson the former flame coach who died tuesday of brain cancer. Los Angeles played its first game without coach Tom Webster who was suspended for 12 games wednesday for throwing a stick at referee Kerry Fraser on nov. 16. In thursdays other game blues 5, Nordques 2 St. Louis a Brett Hull scored his 19th goal to pull into a tie with Quebec a Owen Nolan for the league Lead As St. Louis Defeated Quebec in front of a thanksgiving night sellout crowd of 17,960. The blues finally got tired of playing catch up taking the Lead for the first time in 11 games and taking a four goal Lead before the Nordques scored. Hull also assisted on a 2-on-0 breakaway goal by Dave Christian with 1 33 to go passing up a Chance to score. Brendan Shanahan added a goal and an assist for the blues. Curtis Joseph made 32 saves for St. Louis and also was credited with his fourth assist on Rich Sutter s shorthanded breakaway goal in the second period. He tied Mike Liutas team assist record for a season set in 1983-84.. Soccer moves to the Brin women Hooters seek 1st world title in China the new York times Guangzhou China the . Women a soccer team will make sports history Here saturday when it plays Norway for the first women a world championship. But the Bright Young americans done to seem intimidated by their Opportunity or their opponents. Tracey Bates a 4-foot-11-Inch midfielder from Dallas said that the team was a pioneering women a soccer a but conceded that simply playing in the first world championship match Wasny to enough. To make a tangible dil Ferenee to Plant americans soccer Flag firmly in the inter National Arena and give women a Scocci in the United slates More prestige and credibility she said a we have to a and 1 think we will a she added. A we re aggressive hard working and we have a lot of the team of is is made up largely of College students or recent graduates who have slogged their Way to this championship through four years of grueling training and travel. They have Given up jobs and missed career opportunities to stay in spare hotels washing their own uniforms after playing before crowds of barely a thousand people. A i think we feel we Are on a Mission now and no one will get in our Way no matter said Michelle Akers Stahl of Oviedo ida., one of three dazzling forwards on the United states team that the chinese press refers to collectively As the three edged the other two thuds of the Kolc Are i Arm Lennius of i alos Veics. Calit. And the team Captain april Heinrichs of Littleton Colo. Akers Stahl said that although Norway and the United states were closely matched teams a if we play Well we should Quot she said both teams were aggressive and liked to a go Forward Quot but added. A i think we have a few More dangerous Jennings who scored three of the five goals in the semifinal game against Germany on wednesday said that while the United states team Quot will be playing for our country we also will be playing for ourselves Lor All the sacrifices we be made to get officials of the International soccer federation. Fifa said thursday that 413,0011 c Hines have attended the tournament games held Over the past two weeks and that 75 percent of the tick for the final match in Guangzhou 60,000-seat stadium have already be sold. While some people have wonder whether fifa was giving Short shrift the first women s world cup by holding in China a a Remote country not kno for its enthusiasm for the game a pm officials said that China was hosting i games precisely because the federate wanted them taken seriously. Quot there is still a lot of cond Scenti when it Cornes to women s soccer even Europe a said Andreas Herren. A i spokesman. Quot we were afraid that if the games i held in Europe the crowds would be v Small the stadiums not the Best. It to he embarrassing and not the Best was promote the
