Jarryd tumbles out of U.S. Open tennis

Press, 2 September 1986, Page 33

Jarryd tumbles out of U.S. Open tennis

NZPA-Reuter New York Boris Becker breezed to victory but the thirteenth seed, Anders Jarryd, of Sweden, was beaten in the third-round action yesterday at the United States Open tennis championships in New York.

The third-seeded Becker beat Sergio Casal, of Spain, 75, 6-4, 6-2, in the opening stadium court match on a hot, sunny day at the National Tennis Centre to advance to the round of 16. There, the two-time Wimbledon champion from West Germany will encounter the unheralded American, Gary Donnelly, a surprise 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-3 winner over Jarryd.

The defending women’s champion, Hana Mandlikova, of Czechoslovakia, and the six-time winner, Chris Evert Lloyd, also advanced to the fourth round. Mandlikova beat the South African, Elna Reinach, 6-4, 62, and Lloyd beat her fellowAmerican, Mary Joe Fernandez, aged 15, by the same score.

Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, of West Germany, was also a straight-sets winner, beating Jo Durie, of Britain, 6-2, 6-3. The Czechoslovaks, Miloslav Mecir and Milan Srejber, also gained. Mecir, the sixteenth seed, beat Eddie Ed-

wards, of South Africa, 6-0, 63, 6-3, and Srejber beat Jaime Yzaga, of Peru, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2.

Others advancing during the sixth day of play at the SUS3.S million ($7.17 million) championships included the women’s seeds Helena Sukova, of Czechoslovakia (7); Manuela Maleeva, of Bulgaria (9); the American, Zina Garrison (12), and Catarina Lindqvist, of Sweden.

Sukova overwhelmed the American, Lisa Bonder, 6-2, 6-0, to progress to a fourthround meeting with Garrison, a 6-3, 6-2 winner against her compatriot, Melissa Gurney.

Maleeva beat the American, Camille Benjamin, 7-6, 73, 6-3, and Lindqvist overcame Tine Scheuer-Larsen, of Denmark, 3-6, 6-2, 6-0, to advance.

Donnelly, best known for his success in doubles and rated the world’s 211th best singles player, played a strong serve and volley game to beat the Swede, who was making his first tournament appearance since undergoing minor knee surgery.

The strapping 6ft 3in (1.90 m Donnelly, the only qualifier remaining in the 128-man singles draw, wore the groundstroking Swede down with his big serve and took control in the third set, which he won in just 25

minutes. Jarryd, whose troublesome knee buckled under him during the second set, held five break-points during the fifth game of the last set before Donnelly finally held for 3-2. Donnelly broke in the eighth game after Jarryd double faulted to give him double breakpoint at 15-40. A long backhand approach by the Swede, aged 25, then gave the American a 5-3 lead. After double faulting on his first match point in the next, game, Donnelly, aged 24, hammered in a service winner to clinch the upset.

"I can’t explain why I’m doing so well,” said Donnelly, who was a doubles finalist at Wimbledon this year and reached the United States doubles semi-finals last year. "I guess I just came in with a good attitude and said to myself that I was going to fight,” he said. "My goal was maybe unrealistic but I set out to reach the quarter-finals.”

To do so, he will have to beat his sometimes practice partner, Becker. “He’s a nice guy,” Becker said of Donnelly after the West German teen-ager came in after his 2h 22min victory. "I practise with him and I always ask him if he’s going to win. I hope he stops now.”