Wednesday August 28, 1985/The Battalion/Page 11
i 1 Israeli pushes McEnroe
yto fifth set in U.S. Open
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Defending cham-
I pion John McEnroe tottered on the
1 brink of elimination Tuesday before
■ itpturing a fifth-set tiebreaker to
ffitlge Israel’s Shlomo Glickstein 6-1,
16-7, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 and advance into
; lie second round of the U.S. Open
^Tennis Championships.
With the victory, McEnroe nar-
»■ rowly escaped becoming the first
'^5'Bo. 1 seed since 1971 and only the
• sixth in die 104-year history of
:—--,1 America’s premier tennis event to
fall in the opening round. The vic
tory kept alive his bid lor a fifth title
‘ lore at the National Tennis Center
operati*
lariniu i, 111 seven y ears -
| Sa r''alijjB But Glickstein also walked off the
I 'lilTBiurt as a winner before the crowd
ol 21,008 as he battled McEnroe on
«' g\en terms throughout the three-
hour, 51-minute match.
’017 U Th e stocky Israeli matched McEn-
’ . Bie shot for shot, game for game
' set for set. In the final tie-
le tor ga
[0 jjj .iid set for set. In the final i
“Bu ,sCpker, the second of the match, he
w | ]t fought off four matcli points before
McEnroe cracked a backhand cross
court that Glickstein feebly put into
the net.
McEnroe won the tiebreaker 9-7,
then raised his hand high into the
air, obviously pleased with the result
— if not his play.
“It surprised me how flat I was to
day,’’ McEnroe said. “1 lost my con
centration quickly. He jerked me
around and had me on the de
fensive. I don’t remember when I
was ever that flat.
“I’ve never been so happy to win
an opening round match.”
Earlier, Wimbledon champion
Boris Becker easily captured his
first-round match, dispatching Peter
Doohan of Australia 6-4, 6-1, 6-2.
Also moving into the second
round of the men’s singles were No.
3 Mats Wilander of Sweden, a 6-2, 6-
4, 6-4 winner over India’s Vijay Am-
ritraj; No. 12 Johan Kriek and No.
13 Tim Mayotte.
Winners in the women’s field
Tuesday included No. 3 Hana
Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia, No.
5 Claudia Kohde-Kilsch of West
Germany, No. 12 Wendy Turnbull
of Australia, No. 14 Bonnie Gadusek
and No. 15 Carling Bassett of Can
ada.
The men’s No. 2 seed, I vain Lendl
of Czechoslovakia, and the two top
women, Chris Evert Lloyd and de
fending champion Martina Navrati
lova, are scheduled to play their first
matches on Wednesday, as will
fourth-seeded Jimmy Connors, a
five-time U.S. Open champion.
rioles’ Murray may be best in baseball
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Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Who is the
st player in baseball today?
Certainly, players like Rickey
Benderson, Dave Winfield, George
Brett, Cal Ripken, Ryne Sandberg,
Jedro Guerrero and Dale Murphy
uld get substantial support for
Lch an accolade.
But not from outfielder Reggie
ickson of the California Angels. He
Ikes first baseman Eddie Murray of
fie Baltimore Orioles.
“I said he was the best player in
ye game three, four years ago,”
ickson said after Murray destroyed
lie Angels by hitting three home
*nns and driving in nine runs Mon-
ay night. “I still say it.
“Who doesn’t? That’s why he gets
aid $2 l A> million a year.”
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17-3 destruction of the Angels — he
also held a single and drew a walk —
gave the 29-year-old switch hitter 24
home runs and 102 RBIs this season
and a .297 batting average.
One of his homers, off right-
handed California reliever Alan
Fowlkes, was a grand slam, his third
of the season and the 12th of his ca
reer.
Murray also blasted a three-run
shot and has now hit three homers in
a game three times as a big-leaguer.
Murray had done all of his dam
age by the fifth inning, causing the
crowd of 25,805 at Anaheim Sta
dium to temporarily shift their alle
giance from the Angels to the hero
of the night.
After the grand slam, the crowd
stood in appreciation and kept ap
plauding when Murray went into the
dugout. Murray then came back out
to acknowledge the cheers.
“It’s not every night you get to
knock in nine runs,” Murray said.
“Otherwise, it was just another
game. It was nice to be cheered by
the other fans and to have them
rooting for you to hit another.”
Murray had two chances to go for
four — a feat accomplished by only
10 players in major league history
and just seven times in a nine-inning
game. However, he flied to deep
center in the seventh inning and
walked in the ninth.
His drive to center against left
hander A1 Holland didn’t miss going
out of the park by much.
“I thought it had a chance at
going, but it just fell short,” Murray
said. “It would have been nice to hit
four home runs.”
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