Recoven by the champion

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33869, 14 June 1975, Page 48

Recoven by the champion

' V F 4 K.'ofcr—C<>;> ;• PARIS The reigning champion, Bjorn Borg (Sweden) shook oil a lastminute neck in.iun io sweep aside America* Harold Solomon in the quarter-finals of the French international ten ni> championship* in Paris. ; Borg won 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 after ■cricking a neck muscle when taking a shower this morn ling. He stepped bravely er-, to court an hour later than .scheduled to give the dogged Solomon a lesson in skill anti I precision. ■ Borg said he had tak n I painkillers, which made him |so thirsty that he drank eight i bottles of water during the | match. ( A. Panatta (Italy) beat John Andrew’s (United States). [6-3, 5-7, 7-6, 6-2, in another 'quarter-final. THIRD BID The Soviet girl. Olga MoroIzova, runner-up to the American Chris Evert in the !Wimbledon and Paris finals 'last year, hopes to make it [third time lucky against the [American when they meet in the women’s single semi'finals today. After Wimbledon last year the Russian No. I was out for three weeks with kidney trouble and then was off another three and a half months with a twisted ankle. She jarred her finger in Paris earlier this week and has since been patriotically treating it in vodka and hot water. East Europe’s other surviv-

ing player in the women’s singles is the Czechoslovakian teen-ager Martina Navratilova, W’ho on her form throughout the Paris tournament should have little trouble in disposing of the American No. 12, Janet Newberry.