Youth revolt continues in U.S. Open tennis

Press, 8 September 1982, Page 48

Youth revolt continues in U.S. Open tennis

NZPA New York Who is Gretchen Rush, and who is Bonnie Gadusek? And what are they doing in the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open tennis championships? Those questions are being asked at the United States National Tennis Centre where youth is again scoring upset victories. Rush, an 18-year-old amq-

teur from Pittsburgh who says she has no intention of turning professional until she graduates from university in 1986, produced her second major upset yesterday by eliminating sixth seed Wendy Turnbull, of Australia. She .beat llth-seeded Mima Jausovec, of Yugoslavia, in the second round. Then, after a brief rest, she posted a 6-0, 6-1 victory

in her opening match in the junior girls event in which she is top seed. Gadusek, also 18. has risen to 17th in the world rankings in her second year as a professional. And she became the 17th seed here after injury forced eighthseeded Sylvia Hanika, of West Germany, to withdraw. Gadusek is one of four teen-agers to reach the quar-ter-finals. The others are defending champion Tracy Austin, the third seed, 17-year-old Andrea Jaeger and Rush. Yesteray, top-seeded John McEnroe, bidding for his fourth straight open title, third seed Ivan Lendl, of Czechoslovakia, sixth-seeded Gene Mayer, of the United States, and unseeded Kim Warwick, of Australia, reached , the quarter-finals. McEnroe ousted Matt Doyle, of the United States, 6-3, 6-4, ■ 6-4; Lendl crushed the French Open champion, Mats Wilander, of Sweden (11), 6-2, 6-2, 6-2, and 30-year-old Warwick, ranked 55th in the world, upset ninth-seeded Yannick Noah, of France, 57, 6-3,'7-5, 6-4. In the women’s matches yesterday, Austin routed Virginia Ruzici, of Rumania (14), 6-1, 6-3; Mandlikova beat Vicki Nelson 6-4, 6-2; Jaeger beat 15-year-old Kathy Rinaldi (13), 6-1, 6-1; Shriver crushed Rosalyn Fairbank, of South Africa, 6-3, 6-1 and Gadusek trounced an amateur, Elise Burgin, 6-0, 6-0.