McEnroe back in form

Press, 10 January 1986, Page 28

McEnroe back in form

NZPA-Reuter Atlanta It was the John McEnroe of old yesterday as he easily defeated Sweden’s Anders Jarryd 6-3, 6-2, in their Tennis Challenge exhibition match and shouted an obscenity at the umpire. McEnroe, seeded second in this eight-man roundrobin tournament, took only one hour and 21 minutes to eliminate Jarryd. The American began criticising line calls early in the match, and during the last game of the second set shouted at the umpire Leon Lipp, who gave McEnroe a warning for an audible obscenity. Warnings apply under Grand Prix Rules at tour

events but not at exhibitions. Several times during the match spectators rallied behind Lipp, with whom McEnroe has had trouble in the past. “He should be umpiring other people’s matches, not mine,” said McEnroe after the match. “This goes years and years back about umpires I don’t feel have a right to sit in the chair during my matches. I guess I have to be more formal about it and write a letter.” In an earlier match, Yannick Noah, of France, defeated Andres Gomez of Ecuador 6-3, 6-2, putting the match away with four aces in the last game.