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The Battalion 4SPORTS g Battalion Classifieds Wednesday, May 30,1990 mop seeds Edberg, Becker eliminated in rench Open upsets r oMlf (AP) — Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker may be familiar sights or Center Court at Wimbledon, but J they did quick disappearing acts y Ifuesday in a historic pair of upsets ‘ at the French Open. U® Edberg and Becker, the top two ^■eds, were bounced in the first j^Bund by two European teen-agers, / showing once again that the slow red ! j day of Roland Garros is no place for / fast-court specialists. irB error 'P rone Edberg was swept Msily in straight sets by 19-year-old ®^Brgi Bruguera of Spain 6-4, 6-2, 6- , 1. Two matches later on center f ® urt ' B ec ker lost to 18-year-old Yu- j^^Jslav Goran Ivanisevic 5-7, 6-4, 7-5, It was the first time in history that He top two seeds, male or female, ,ni0 Hive lost in the first round of a 5 Grand Slam tournament. The losses also marked the first ln i time Edberg and Becker failed to Hach the second round of a Grand ate ' Slam event and derailed their hopes lf ; ol overtaking Ivan Lendl for the r v world’s top ranking. wt ®H “That’s what Grand Slam tour na- 1 jHents are all about,” Becker said. “Even if you’re one of the top seeds, P' there are many players who are un- who can beat you.” Between them, Becker and Ed- have won four of the last five “jHimbledons. And last year they “Htth reached the semifinals in Paris, Edberg beating Becker before • , jsing to Michael Chang in the final. n ‘ But both have struggled on clay this spring. “Last year Edberg and I proved we can play well on clay,” Becker said. “But it’s getting more difficult because there are so many good players right now. Even in the first round, you have to play 95 percent to win.” Bruguera and Ivanisevic seemed to sense the same thing. “When I saw that Bruguera beat Edberg, I thought, “Why can’t I beat Becker?’ ” said Ivanisevic, ranked 51st in the world. Becker is known as “Boom Boom” for his booming serve, but it was the 6-foot-4 Yugoslav who made the most noise with 19 aces. “Ele was just playing out of his mind,” Becker said. “He was playing better and better. He was serving aces and hitting and hitting. In the fourth set, nobody in this world could have stopped him.” While Becker said he played about as well as he expected, Edberg could do little right. “It wasn’t my day at all,” he said. “Whatever I did, I didn’t do it very well. When Edberg wasn’t hitting shaky serves and stray backhands, he tried to take the offensive by coming to net. But Bruguera was usually in po sition to whip a passing shot by him. The departure of Edberg and Becker leaves an already wide open men’s field even more uncertain. Andre Agassi, No. 3, is the highest seed remaining, but he struggled in his first-round match Monday. ya// Express runs offtrack /■dangers hope pitcher returns om disabled list quickly Just a hop, chip and putt away vim ^; ~Z" ir ^ ^ _ -SCaVt ''w-'Sh J |||i||i|i iiiiiiirir" ~ * V. ® ... a. .X J&iMMJr. fe;' ' iV a-i > ; *, m-J, % '-K' Wmm: JmmmMm&zaiii,,,....... Photo by Eric H. Roalson Kevin Briggs, a history major from Round Rock, takes advantage of free time before summer classes begin to perfect his golf game on the course at Texas A&M. The course is public and open to all. Ived ARLINGTON (AP) — The strug- lling Texas Rangers will have to Imp along at least ten more days Without Nolan Ryan, who officials say won’t be ready to return to the mound until June 8. p Ryan had been placed on the 15- day disabled list and the team origi nally planned to bring him off the list in time to start against the Cali fornia Angels Saturday, it But Ryan had more problems with his back spasms Monday while pitching during a 15-minute session at Arlington Stadium. |j So the Rangers said Ryan will be Ltransferred to the 21-day disabled list, making him eligible to return on June 8. R Gary Mielke, a reliever who is hav ing problems with a broken blister on the right middle finger, will re place Ryan. I Mielke will be replaced by left hander John Barfield from Class AAA Oklahoma City. He will be put in the bullpen. “When Nolan pitches again, I want him to feel confident this has been taken care of,” manager Bobby Valentine said. “I don’t want him to try to pitch through it and have it be a continuing situation. “Once he’s in the rotation, I can’t see where four days (of rest) will make it get better.” “When he feels all better, I’ll feel better,” Valentine said. A back injury is a new experience for him, Ryan said. He said the toughest thing is sitting on the bench, unable to help. Going into Tuesday’s contest against the Boston Red Sox, the Rangers had lost four straight and three of their last 10 games. “It’s disappointing to see us where we are,” Ryan said. Aggie golfers fail to qualify Despite the loss of junior Bobby Gee, the Texas A&M men’s golf team struggled to a 18th-place tie with Missouri at the NCAA Central Regional qualifier meet May 24-26. The Aggies combined for a three-day score of 924, led by sophomore Mike Janik with scores of 76-78-74 =*228. Janik tied for 42nd in individual stand- ings. Gee, who withdrew from the competition with tendonitis, is the SWC medalbt champion. Bulls talk tough, Pistons whimper i AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) —Suddenly, the Chi cago Bulls have become the “Bad Boys” and the Detroit Pistons are the ones playing timidly in the Eastern Con ference finals. B The Bulls, bidding to become only the fifth NBA team to overcome a 2-0 deficit and win a best-of-7 series, pulled even at 2-2 with a j>air of impressive victories over the week- |end. Now it’s the Bulls talking tough, like De- jhoit used to, as they prepare for Game 5 on ‘Vednesday at the Palace. “We have the momentum and the confi dence going into the Palace,” the Bulls’ Mi chael Jordan said. “We have to steal the game from them and win. We have a very positive attitude.” And you don’t have to look very far to see vhere Chicago got all that confidence. It was in all those hours of Detroit tapes the Bulls had to watch, trying to figure out how to stop the “Jordan rules” which the Pistons had used so effectively. The Bulls decided the best way to beat the ‘Pistons was to play like the Pistons. So the Bulls turned into Bad Boys. ‘I told the guys before (Game 4) they get six fouls in the NBA, use every one of them,” Bulls coach Phil Jackson said. “We didn’t use all of them, but we let them know we came to play. If we keep up this intensity, no one will be able to beat us.” TANK MCNAMARA Chicago had only one more personal foul than De troit, 33-32,in the fourth game, but boxscores can be misleading. Seven of Detroit’s fouls were intentional in the game’s final minute. Free throws accounted for the Bulls’ final 11 points. And those fouls weren’t slaps on the wrists. They were more like the body slam variety, the kind Bill Laimbeer is known for. Only this time it was Scottie Pippen, Bill Cartwright, Jordan and Ed Nealy dishing out the punishment. Each finished with five fouls. Detroit shot 49 free throws. “It’s like what we do to other teams but sometimes the table turns,” Detroit’s Isiah Thomas said. “Nine out of 10 times we do it to someone, but sometimes it happens to you.” The Pistons also were flustered by the Bulls’ half-court and baseline traps. They were forced out of their half-court offense, reduced instead to one-on-one drives and outside shots. It showed. Detroit hit only 4-of-16 shots in the first quarter and finished with a 37.2 percent shooting average. The Pistons turned the ball over 22 times, resulting in 23 Chicago points. “We have to keep that defensive intensity and we have to make our shots and control the boards,” Jordan said. “We had the faith the last two games.” by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds TAklK \jJiT\A Aki EXO-D^lVe /MTERVlElU UUlTM KVfE TURMER , UUHO'5> INJ MiPlkiG TO A VO Ip 7 gElNiO TRAPEP lO CiNC/MNJATl. THE 5FOT IS IE 'rbU IMERE £S£lki6> TRAPEC? TO ATLANTA, I COOLP UNPERETANP. &UT ClNClMNATI '3 A L-EOlTl MATE PENNANT CON TEMPER. EXACTLY. ClMClMKJATl LUOULP EXPECT ME TO PROPUCE. OllTH TME CAN PO& IT ANPMo&dPY NOTICED. HELP WANTED STREP THROAT STUDY’ Volunteers needed for streptococcal tonsillitis/pharyngitis study ★Fever (100.4 or more) ★Pharyngeal pain (Sore Throat) ★Difficulty swallowing Rapid strep test will be done to con firm. Volunteers will be compensated. G & S STUDIES, INC. (close tp campus) 846-5933 i2tttn SKIN INFECTION STUDY G&S Studies Inc. is participating in a study on acute skin infection. If you have one of the folowing conditions call G&S Studies. El igible volunteers will be compensated. ‘infected blisters ‘infected cuts ‘infected boils ‘infected scrapes ‘infected insect bites ‘infected earlobes G&S Studies, Inc. (close to campus) 846-5933 Lowly Mets fire Johnson CINCINNATI (AP) — Davey Johnson, who led the New York Mets to the 1986 World Series championship and was one of the winningest managers in baseball his tory, was fired Tuesday as his tal ented team struggled below .500. Bud Harrelson, the third base coach, replaced Johnson for the re mainder of the 1990 season. The announcement was made by General Manager Frank Cashen at a news conference prior to the Mets’ game with the Reds. “I thought the club was undera chieving and needed to go in a new direction,” Cashen said. “Part of the blame is certainly mine. It’s not all Davey’s.” “If I had to let Davey go, it’s great to have somebody of Bud Harrel- son’s stripe in the organization.” The Mets, projected by many to win the National League East, were 20-22 and six games behind Pitts burgh when Johnson became the first major league manager to be fired this season. Three hours before the start of Tuesday night’s game, Harrelson was sitting in the manager’s chair at Riverfront Stadium making out the lineup card, and was preparing to hold a team meeting. Johnson was said to be en route to his home near Orlando, Fla. Johnson was named Mets man ager during the 1983 World Series and led them longer than anyone else in team history. He inherited a club that had not finished above fifth-place for seven straight years and turned them around to average 96 victories a year. Johnson led the team to the 1986 World Series championship in seven games over Boston and to a division championship in 1988, where the Mets lost in seven games to Los An geles in the playoffs. But rumors of his dismissal began late last year when the favored Mets failed to win the division despite stars such as Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry and Howard Johnson. And there was speculation Johnson would be fired if the team did not get off to a hot start this season. Johnson was known, and often criticized, for being a laid-back man ager who pretty much left his play ers alone. But with the team not performing up to expectations the last two sea sons, there was talk that the Mets needed more of a hands-on, motiva tor. In Harrelson, the Mets get some one who is best known as the former player who fought with Pete Rose in the 1973 playoffs. He was a two-time All-Star and a spirited shortstop and the Mets hoped he could again spark the team. 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