Lendl wastes no time in winning
NZPA-Reuter Paris The top seed and former champion, Ivan Lendl, moved smoothly into the third round of the French Open tennis championships with a straightsets win over American Derrick Rostagno yesterday. Lendl, who beat Rostagno for the loss of just four games in the quarterfinals of the United States Open --last year, wasted little time in knocking
him out 6-1, 6-3, 6-1. A calm and confident Andre Agassi also won .through to the third round, defeating the temperamental Italian, Paolo Cane. The 19-year-old Agassi, a popular semifinalist last year, won 6-2, r 6-2, 6-3 — recalling the score in his first-round meeting with Cane at Roland Garros last year when the Italian again took only seven gaihes. Seventeen - year - old
Americans Michael Chang and Pete Sampras, rivals and friends since boyhood, met again on the centre court and though Sampras, the elder by six months, saved two match-. points he was not strong enough for the fifteenths seed. Chang, a semi-final-ist in the Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills last month, won 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 in 97 minutes. The women’s twelfth seed, Lori McNeil, col-
lapsed against Dutchwoman Manon Bollegraf, a player she had beaten twice before. American McNeil won only three games. Mats Wilander returned to court No. 1 yesterday and finally found the motivation and desire to win which has been missing from his game for more than six months. Defending champion Wilahder, who won three of the four Grand Slam
titles last year but without any tournament victory this season, was back to his old self as he handed a 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 defeat to Diego Perez, of Uruguay. ® Australia’s Anne Minter and New Zealand’s Julie Richardson yesterday advanced through to the second round of the French Open tennis tournament. They downed Sandy Collins (U.S.) and Leila Meskhi (Soviet Union).
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