U.S. tennis Open
NZPA-Reuter New York The men’s No. 1 seed, John McEnroe, also will be seen in action on the first day of the United States Open championships at Flushing Meadow today.
McEnroe will take on Trey Waltke, an American who delighted Wimbledon fans earlier this summer when he played in 1930 s garb of long white pants and a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. The SUS2 million (SNZ3.OB million) tournament will
award ?U5120,000 ($NZ184,800) each to the men’s and women’s singles winners. The women’s final is scheduled to be held on September 10, with the men’s final being played the next day. Martina Navratilova is the top women’s seed, while the defending women’s champion, Chris Evert Lloyd, is seeded No. 2. The men’s defending champion, Jimmy Connors, is seeded third behind McEnroe and Czechoslovakia’s Ivan Lendl.
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Press, 31 August 1983, Page 52
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