European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 26, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 27 French open sports wire courier Birmingham hits playoffs Rolls afterglow Start Paris apr chatting to the bal boys in French and unruffled by an Early lapse top ranked Jim courier opened defense of his French open title monday with a straight sets Victory Over Sweden a niclas Kroon. Courier blew a 5-2 Lead in the first set but won a tiebreaker and went on to a 7-6 7-26-4, 6-2 Triumph Over Kroon a qualifier ranked 216th in the world. Steffi Graf hoping to end Monica Selest two year reign As women a Champion kicked off the tournament earlier with a 6-3, 6-1 Victory Over rent Simpson alter of Canada. Graf the 1987 and 1988 Winner has been overtaken by Seles in the world rankings but remains the principal threat to the two time defending Champion. The second seeded German took an hour three minutes to beat Siipson alter ranked 84th in the world. Seles and couriers top rival second seeded Stefan Edberg begin play today. As the opening Day neared its close a thunderstorm halted play forcing postponement of 23 matches either in Progress or not yet started. That meant a night of suspense for two hard pressed american stars. No. 3 seed Pete Sampras led Marc Rosset of Switzerland 7-6 7-546, 6-4, 3-6,4-2 in a Battle of hard servers and no. 4 seed Jennifer Capriati led Beate Reinstadler a qualifier from Austria 6-1, 6-7 7-32-1. The rain postponed John Mcenroe a first round match against Sweden a Niklas Kulti on Center court. The Only seed to lose before the rain came was Jakob Hlasek the 16th seed from Switzerland. He fell to last years Junior Champion Here Andrei Medvedev of Ukraine 7-6 8-66-3,6-4. Aranta Sanchez Vicario seeded fourth breezed past Germany a Katja Oeljeklaus 6-0, 62 monday while no. 6 seed Mary Joe Fernandez beat Petra Langova of Czechoslovakia a late replacement for injured Gigi Fernandez. Three other women a seeds advanced Over american foes. No. 8 Manuela male Eva frag Niere beat Halle Cioffi 6-4, 7-6 7-1 no. 10 Jana Novota of Czechoslovakia beat Debbie Graham 6-3, 6-2, and no. 16 Sabina appelmans of Belgium beat Tami Whitlinger 6-4,6-3. In menus play no. 6 Guy forget needed five sets to beat brazils Luiz Mattar 5-7, 6-3, 3-5, 7-6 7-56-4. No. 8 Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia downed australians Simon Youl 6-7 8-66-3, 6-2, 6-1, while no. 9 Carlos Costa of Spain the Tours hottest Clay court player beat Germany Skarsten Braasch 6-1,6-0, 3-6, 6-3. From wire reports Columbus Ohio Philip Doyle a 30-Yard Field goal with 1 56 remaining gave Birmingham a 27-24 Victory Over Ohio sunday and the final world league playoff spot. Doyle a kick was set up by a muffed punt attempt by Ohio a Tom Rouen at Midfield with four minutes left. Birmingham 7-2-1 clinched a wild card berth by finishing second in the North american West division. Ohio closed its first season 1-9. Former Ohio state quarterback Greg Frey completed 20 of 35 passes for 288 Yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score in his first pro scratches Al deed new York a Al deed who turned in a Strong performance to finish second in the Preakness apparently will pass up the Belmont stakes because he be Able to run on the drug la six. La six a diuretic is used to control pulmonary bleeding in horses but it is illegal in new York. Al deed a Canadian bred who has bled in the past ran on la six in the Preakness at Pamlico on May 16.rangers Trade for Nunez new York a right hander Edwin Nunez was traded monday from the Milwaukee Brewers to the Texas rangers for a player to be named later. Nunez who will be 29 wednesday was 1-1 this season with a 2.63 Era and no saves in 10 Relief appearances covering 13% has 6-hour operation Inglewood Calif. A California Angels manager Buck Rodgers underwent six hours of surgery sunday to repair injuries sustained in a team bus Accident. Rodgers left knee right Elbow and a rib were broken in the crash Early thursday. He will not be Able to put weight on the knee for two sidelines Barfield new York a new York Yankees outfielder Jesse Barfield will miss two weeks following his slip in the Sauna. He was placed on the 15-Day disabled list monday retroactive to takes 2nd stage u i veto terme Italy a Endrin Luconi of Italy won the second stage of the tour of Italy Cycle race monday 120 Miles from Genoa to Uliveto terme near Pisa. Leoni edged out the main pack to win the final mass sprint with Mario Cipollini of Italy in second place. Thierry Marie of France who won sundays opening 5-mile individual time test retained the Pink Jersey As Overall makes Tennis history Athens a. A Alex of Brien Defeated Wade Mcguire 6-3, 6-2 sunday to win the Mcaa menus Tennis championship and helped make Stanford the first school to win the singles doubles and team championship since the tournament Era began in 1977. O Brien was already in the Mcaa record books with the most wins in team singles and doubles. His combined record improved to 40-5 when he teamed with c Hris co Cotos to defeat Stanford teammates Jason Yee and Vimal Patel 7-6 7-36-4 in the doubles final. Sports on the air basketball wednesday. Central european time an seb to and radio Aba playoffs Utah it Portland 3 . Games experience ticket glut by the associated press Barcelona Spain a swimming and judo Are sold out. The menus basketball final is fully booked. All tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies Are gone. But olympic organizers say More than half of the 4.2 million tickets have not yet been sold for the summer games which Start in two months. There still Are 2.4 million tickets available including More than a million for soccer. Plenty of seats remain for Early round basketball games As Well As for most track and Field events. A of the total of 4.2 million tickets More than 1.8 million have been sold a said Josep Maria Vila of the Barcelona olympic organizing committee Coob. A sixty percent of All finals and 14 percent of the preliminaries Are sold of the 25 medal sports and three demonstration events Only swimming and judo arc sold out. Organizers say 91 percent of the tickets Are gone for Tennis. Gymnastics boxing fencing diving shooting wrestling and canoeing Are at least 80 percent booked. Barcelona olympics the Only sold out session of the track and Field Competition is on the evening of aug. 8, when nine finals Are scheduled. 2,000 officials Cut from games olympic organizers have Cut half of the 4,000 surplus athletes and officials signed up for the summer games. Now they need another two weeks to make More reductions. Negotiations with 108 countries have resulted in promised reductions of 2,000 team members organizers said monday and discussions arc continuing with 64 other nations. Armand Calvo Deputy director general of operations for the Barcelona olympic organizing committee Coo said organizers need until Early june to Cut another 2,000 athletes and officials. Coob had been scheduled monday to reveal the final figure of athletes and team officials accredited for the july 25-aug. 9 Barcelona games. An to . Southern european broadcasting German to tuesday 6 . 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