European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Al i am e r i c a n final Sampras stops courier Martin wins Melbourne Australia a. Pete Sampras never lost his serve As he out slugged Jim courier in the australian open semis Friday and moved into an All american final against Todd Martin. The top seeded Sampras ended Cou Rier s two year reign As australian Ope Champion with a surgically precise 6, 6 4, 6 Victory in which he lost Only 20points in 15 service games. He did not face a break Point until Midway through the final set. Sampras pinned Down courier wit powerful serves and followed them up with easy winners at the net. He was so dominant that he virtually negated one of australian open courier s main weapons courier had just four forehand winners in the match. That s one of the better matches i replayed so far in my career Sampras said. Everything really clicked today. I could t play any better. Sampras is trying to become the third Man Ever to win Wimbledon the .u.s. Open and the australian open consecutively. The last time it was accomplished was by Roy Emerson in 1964-65. Before that Don Budge did it in 1937-38. Courier was going for his third consecutive australian open title the most in a Row since Emerson won five straight from 1963-67. But he now has a 2 career re Cord against Sampras. He was pretty Tough. He did t make any mistakes really in this match Cou Rie said. In the earlier semifinal Martin under mined Stefan Edberg s serve and Volley game with his slashing backhand returns defeating the former Champion 3, 7 9-77 9-77 7 in 3 hours 50 minutes. Though the ninth seeded Martin converted Only four of his 17 break Point against Edberg he was at his Best in the tiebreakers. The stars and stripes january 29,1994 Page 32 i returned really Well especially i streaks he said. That s sometimes the Best Way to do Edberg whose right knee was treated Early in the match for a minor tendons train was overwhelmed at times by the Power of Martin s backhand returns. The super bowl More than a game Tymi Terabun Atlanta up the merging of sports business entertainment and old fashioned american ingenuity reaches its annual Peak sunday with the 28th play ing of the super bowl. For a few hours each january a Stag Gering percentage of the United states population stops and watches at least some portion of what is advertised to be a football game. It has of course become much More than that and will be so again this year even though this particular contest brings see Page 30 for Kornheiser s commentary together the same two teams who 12 months ago managed to produce the lat est in a series of less than memorable evenings. I think it s probably the most spectacular sports event in the world said Jim Kelly quarterback of the Buffalo Bills. I be been watching it since i was a Little kid i always dreamed of being in the big game. And Here i am. for the first time m the history of what has become the most watched regularly scheduled event of any kind in this coun try there will be a rematch in the super bowl. " the Dallas cowboys an enormously confident group that lives by the Credo of if Yau can do it you re not bragging will meet the Bills who have won More football games than any other team Over the past four years and yet carry the stigma of three straight losses in the biggest game of All. A year ago the cowboys humiliated the Bills by taking the Ball away a super bowl record nine times. That gluttony eventually caused a 52-17 result and Cli maxed an amazing four year reconstruction project by franchise owner Jerry Jones and Dallas often abrasive coach Jimmy Johnson who by his own admission can gloat with the Best of now they want More and they Are 10 Point favourites to get it. Almost half the television sets in the country were tuned to last year s game one that was watched by an estimated 133,400,000 people in the United states. Similar numbers Are forecast for sunday not to mention the 750 million others who will see it live or on tape in 141 countries from Thailand to Turkey and from Bolivia to Brunei. S companies wanting to advertise their products on the super bowl telecast have ? � or. � v 9ff v we jul a a i a ._., Dallas safety Brock Marion gets help with a stretching exercise from cowboys Trainer Eric Buckman at practice wednesday. Been allowed to do so in Exchange for $900,000 per 30 seconds of air time. The $1 million commercial is not far away. Super bowl xxviii will be played in the 70,000-seat Georgia dome the 13th stadium to Host the game and the first in Georgia. It will be the seventh super bowl played indoors. Each of the prize tickets has a face value of $175, but most of them will have changed hands once or More for a Price much higher than that even though ticket scalping is illegal in Georgia. In the stands will be captains of Indus try and their favored associates. There will be politicians anxious to be seen and celebrities from various branches of the performing arts. There will even be some real life football fans who have travelled Many Miles and spent Many dollars for the Opportunity to watch the spectacle i person. They will buy their expensive souvenirs from those taking full advantage of the free Enterprise system and watch a half time extravaganza featuring six country and Western singers and a cast of 2,000. There also will be a game to watch Al though that term is usually a relative one where the super bowl is concerned. Dur ing the last decade there have been Only two games decided by less than 13 Points. And the representative of the National football conference has won the Las nine contests by the combined score of 349-142. But even if this game carries the Sam Eaura As those that have gone before super bowl xxviii has an overriding theme. Can Buffalo end its losing Streak and finally gain the favourable recognition for which it yearns we be been a very Good team Sai Buffalo coach Marv be been at the top of the Heap in the upper Echelon. We be won More games 58 than another team. Probably for us to be consid ered a great team though we will have to win a super bowl. I think that s " by. " -.= of v ,. 0"246850ii000504
