Surprise win to Shaefer
NZPA-Reuter Hartford An unseeded Kim Shaefer stunned the top-seeded Sylvia Hanika of West Germany in straight sets, 6-4, 63, on Saturday, to win the 330,000 top prize in the United States women’s indoor tennis championships at Hartford, Connecticut. For Shaefer, aged 26, who is ranked sixty-fourth in the world, it was the first big victory in four years on the women’s tennis tour.
She had reached the finals of the event by defeating Grace Kim in the first round, Rumania’s Virginia
Ruzici in the second, and upsetting two seeded players in the quarter-finals and semi-finals. She took three sets to defeat the fourth-seeded Zina Garrison in Thursday’s quarter-finals, then shocked the No. 2 seed, Pam Shriver, with a straight-sets victory in the semi-finals on Friday. On Saturday she nullified Hanika’s heavy top spin and ran the West German, the world’s fifth-ranked women’s tennis player, from corner to corner, often catching her going the wrong way.
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