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MELBOURNK, Australia (AP) —
Hometown hero 1’at Clash was hop
ing to turn the the Australian Open
I tennis championships into a national
I celebration.
But Mats Wilander spoiled the
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The 23-year-old Swede downed
ICash in a marathon five-set final
Sunday to win his third Australian
[Open.
Wilander said he has worked hard
j to improve his game since losing the
French and U.S. Open finals to Ivan
I Lendl last year.
“I couldn’t have won this match
six or seven months ago,” he said fol
lowing his 6-3, 6-7 (3-7), 3-6, 6-1,8-6
victory in the rain-interrupted
match. “I feel a lot stronger, partic
ularly with my serve."
It was the fifth Grand Slam title
for Wilander, who has also won tw'o
French Opens. And it was the fifth
straight time the Swedes have won
the Australian Open.
“It is a long time since I’ve seen
the top four players in the world so
intense to win a tournament,’* said
Wilander, who was seeded third.
“All four of us felt we could win it
and that’s why it feels so good to suc
ceed.”
Fourth-seeded Cash, who lost to
Stefan Edberg in last year’s final, was
backed by a vocal crowd 15,000 at
the new National Tennis Center.
“I’m not greatly disappointed, al
though I obviously wanted to win,”
the 1987 Wimbledon champion said.
“You cannot play the best tennis of
your life every day. There are only a
few points between the top players
in the world and one day it will go
one way, another day the other.”
Wilander, who had lost his pre
vious four Grand Slam matches
against Cash, was leading 4-1 in the
No. 1-ranked Graf defeats Evert
for 2nd Grand Slam tourney title
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) —
Steffi Graf downed veteran Chris
Evert 6-1, 7-6 Saturday to win the
women’s singles title at the Austra
lian Open Tennis (Championships.
The world’s top-ranked player
outplayed Evert when play resumed
following a 90-minute rain delay in
the first set, and then rallied after a
superb Evert comeback in the sec
ond set.
Graf, 18, led 2-1 when rain began
to fall. And after the rain delay at
the new National Tennis Center, of
ficials decided to utilize the retracta
ble sliding roof over Centei Court,
the first time a Grand Slam f inal has
been played indoors.
The third-seeded Evert managed
to win only five more points in the
first set and crumpled in the second
to trail l-5 before l ipping off the
next five games to take a 6-5 lead.
After Graf pulled even at 6-6, she
won the tiebreak 7-3.
Graf unleashed a barrage of pen
etrating groundstrokes to which the
33-year-old American had no an
swer until late in the second set.
Graf, playing in the fourth con
secutive Grand Slam final of her ca
reer, collected her second Grand
Slam tournament title. She won the
French (Open last year.
Evert, one of the dominant fig
ures in the game for the last decade
and a half, was playing her 34th
Grand Slam final and had been aim
ing for her 19th title.
Graf now has won her last five
meetings with Evert, all in straight
sets, although she still trails 5-6 in
their career meetings.
Graf collected $110,000 for her
victory with FCvert earning $55,000.
The West German teen-ager now is
riding a 21-match winning streak
and sailed through the year’s first
Grand Slam tournament without
dropping a set.
Evert was appearing in her sixth
Australian Open final. She has won
the title twice.
T he veteran played patient tennis
before the enforced break, but ap
peared rushed and uncomfortable
after the match was restarted. Her
game was error-riddled.
But at 5-1 in the second set, it was
Grafs turn to become nervous, al
lowing Evert to win five straight
games. But Graf regained her com
posure.
At 6-5, Evert looked as if she had
a strong chance of forcing a third
set, but Graf held serve and then un
leashed more booming grounds
trokes to take the tiebreak.
Evert, playing her her first Grand
Slam final since the 1986 French
Open, took an indirect swipe at the
decision to play under the roof in
her post-match news conference.
“Steffi is a much better indoor
player than I am,” she said. “It took
time to get used to the conditions.
It’s a lot different to outdoors.”
Evert conceded conditions were
the same for both players.
“She just handled it better,” Evert
said.
Graf said her victory was ex
tremely pleasing.
“I’m very proud to be the first
winner of this tournament in the
new stadium,” Graf said.
Redskins GM trades top draft picks
for proven veterans with success
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The day af-
terThe Trade, Bobby Beathard was
asked what he would do if he had
the half-dozen top draft choices the
Los Angeles Rams obtained in the
deal with Buffalo and Indianapolis
that sent Eric Dickerson to the Colts.
“What would I do with them?”
laughed the general manager of the
Washington Redskins.
“1 probably wouldn’t have them
very long.”
I Contrary to the NFL’s conventio
nal wisdom that good teams build
through the draft, the Washington
Redskins have, had only three first-
round draft picks in the last 18
years. Yet, they have been to the Su
per Bowl three times in the last six
years. Their Super Bowl opponents,
the Denver Broncos, are not afraid
to wheel and deal although they
have been much less extravagant
with their top draft picks.
The Redskins have just-six first-
round picks on their roster — otdy
three of whom were drafted by
Washington, wide receiver Art
Monk, cornerback Darrell Green
and offensive tackle Mark May.
Quarterback Doug Williams,
Tampa Bay’s top pick in 1978, was
signed as a free agent after the
USFL folded; running back George
Rogers was the first pick in the 1981
draft, taken by New Orleans and he
cost Washington, naturally, its top
pick in 1985.
Defensive tackle Dave Butz, St.
Louis’ first pick in 1974, was ob
tained in a typical George Allen deal
for two No. Is and a No. 2 when Al
len was coach and general manager.
The Redskins are basically the
creation of the 51-year-old Bea
thard, who quarterbacked Cal Poly-
San Luis Obispo to two 9-1 seasons
in the 1950s.
But he was cut by the Redskins in
1959, played five games with San
Diego in 1960 and started his front
office career in 1963 as a scout for
the Kansas City Chiefs, for whom his
younger brother Pete was a quar
terback. From 1972 until 1978, he
was director of personnel for the Mi
ami Dolphins.
Then he took over a Washington
teams left bereft of almost any draft
choices by Allen, whose motto, “the
f uture is now” left the future looking
bleak.
But Beathard’s philosophy isn’t
that different. He would just as soon
stockpile lower picks or bid for a
proven blue-chipper by surren
dering high picks. Four years after
he took over, Washington won the
Super Bowl with 26 free agents and
1 1 players drafted below the fifth
round.
More recently, he has done what
Allen did — trade away high picks.
He got Rogers for a No. 1, and he
was in the bidding for both Dicker-
son and linebacker Cornelius Ben
nett, but, typically, he didn’t have,
enough high draft choices to give up
for them.
But no one cares as long as the
Redskins win. And they do — they
have had just one losing season — 6-
10 in 1980 — and have been 84-33
since Beathard hired Joe Gibbs the
next year.
“I just worry about coaching and
let Bobby go out and get me play
ers,” Gibbs says. “I don’t know where
he gets them, but he never fails.”
True enough.
Joe Jacoby, a fixture at left tackle
this decade and a three-time Pro
Bowler, was signed as a free agent
out of Louisville.
The three starting linebackers are
Mel Kaufman and Neal Olkewicz,
both free agents, and Monte Cole
man, an 1 Ith-round draft pick.
Barry Wilburn, who led the
league in interceptions this season
was an eighth-rounder in 1985;
starting defensive tackle Darryl
Grant a ninth-rounder in 1981, the
same year Dexter Manley was taken
on the fifth round.
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second set when the match was
halted by rain.
After play resumed, Cash rallied
to win the set in a tiebreaker.
Wilander took a 2-0 lead in the fi
nal set before the 22-year-old Cash
rallied to even it at 6-all.
Wilander broke Cash in the next
game and then held serve to close
out the 4-hour, 28-minute match.
The Swede said his serve was a
key to victory.
“I served well when I needed it,
which is unusual for me because I
don’t usually go for it on the first
serve,” he said.
Wilander earned a total of
$155,000 in prize money and bo
nuses for winning the $19 million
tournament. Cash received $77,500
as runner-up.
This year’s tournament was
played on a cushioned hardcourt
surface. It used to be played on grass
in nearby Kooyong.
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