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Wednesday • September 3,1997
Seles gets the boot at U.S. Open
Former champ joins growing list of ousted seeded players
NEW YORK (AP) — Monica Se
les is gone from the U.S. Open, the
latest big name to tumble from the
tournament.
The No. 2 seed seemed to be
getting her game back to the level
in which she once dominated
women’s tennis. But she was no
match for the sparkling play of
Irinia Spirlea.
The Romanian won 6-7 (5-7), 7-
“I see Andre Agassi or
Michael Chang winning it
now.
PETE SAMPRAS
DEFENDING CHAMPION
6 (10-8), 6-3 to reach the semifi
nals. Spirlea, the No. 11 seed,
fought off one match point in the
second-set tiebreak and is now in
the semis of Grand Slam tourna
ment for the first time.
Seles’ streak of reaching the final
at the National Tennis Center came
to an end. She won the year’s final
Grand Slam tournament in 1991
and ’92 and was runner-up to Steffi
Graf the last two years. She didn’t
play in 1993 and ’94 when she was
recovering from a stabbing.
Coupled with Petr Korda’s upset
win over two-time defending men’s
champion Pete Sampras and Graf’s
skipping the U.S. Open because of
surgery, Michael Chang is now the
only player still in this year’s field
who competed in last year’s title
matches.
“I see Andre Agassi or Michael
Chang winning it now,” said Sam
pras, who for the first time since
1994 will not be playing on the sec
ond Sunday of the U.S. Open.
Both Chang and Agassi hoped
to move a step closer to that goal
today in their fourth-round match
es. Chang met Frenchman Cedric
Pioline this afternoon, and Agassi
will face 13th-seeded Patrick Rafter
of Australia in tonight’s final match
in the new Arthur Ashe Stadium.
“Everybody has a chance,” Petr
Korda said during practice today.
Earlier today, No. 10 Marcelo
Rios pounded his way past No. 7
Sergi Bruguera 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 and
Sweden’s Magnus Larsson downed
South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira 6-3,
7-6 (7-5), 6-3 to gain quarterfinal
berths.
Spirlea excelled in every phase
of the game, hitting 75 winners to
just 41 for Seles. The smooth-
stroking Romanian had nine aces
and lost her serve just once, in the
sixth game of the opening set.
That put the two back on serve
since Spirlea had broken Seles’s
serve to begin the match.
Spirlea took a 5-3 lead in the first-
set tiebreak, but Seles, showing
flashes of the game that took her to
No. 1 in the world, ripped off the
next four points to take the lead.
All Spirlea did was raise her
game another level. Sometimes
she hit a backhand slice; once in a
while she would hit it with topspin.
Her forehand found the lines
with depth, keeping Seles pinned
behind the baseline. And while her
groundstrokes sparkled, Spirlea
was not afraid to volley, winning 31
points of her 45 forays to the net.
It was just another step up the
ladder of recognition for Spirlea.
Earlier, she had eliminated one of
the most talked-about youngsters,
Anna Kournikova, and fifth-seeded
Amanda Coetzer.
Now she is one step from Sun
day’s title match.
American hopeful Venus
Williams plays Sandrine Testud of
France at night.
Larsson reached the U.S. Open
for the second time in his career. In
1993, he beat Boris Becker in a
fourth-round match.
Against Ferreira, Larsson was
more steady and kept up the pres
sure by going to the net.
In what was essentially a clay-
court battle, Rios and Bruguera du
eled from the baseline with huge
groundstrokes. In the end, the
Chilean found more angles and
made fewer mistakes — 31 un
forced errors to 43 for his Spanish
opponent.
Rios has matched his best
Grand Slam tournament result.
The 21-year-old reached the quar
terfinals at the Australian Open in
January when he lost to Chang.
Sampras won the last two men’s
singles crowns at Louis Armstrong
U.S. Open: women’s singles
Results at the $11.82 million U.S. Open tennis
tournament at the USTA National Tennis Center:
Quarterfinal
Semifinal
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Seles
Stadium in the National Tennis
Center. Korda on Monday made
sure he didn’t make it three in a
row, this time in the new 23,000-
seat stadium.
The 15th-seeded left-hander
from the Czech Republic pulled off
one of the biggest upsets of the
year’s final Grand Slam tourna
ment, knocking off the top-seeded
and No. 1-ranked Sampras 6-7 (1-
7), 7-5, 7-6 (7-2), 3-6, 7-6 (7-3).
“I had my chances, but he’s al
ways played me tough,” Sampras
said of Korda, remembering a five-
setter the two played at Wimble
don. "I give him credit. I mean, he
raised his level when he had to.”
And Korda had to.
Sampras fired 58 winners, in
cluding 24 aces. And when he went
up 3-0 in the final set, he appeared
ready to capture his 18th consecu
tive U.S Open match.
Korda, however, had other plans.
“I’m trying to hit the ball over
the net and to the other side. That
was my only strategy,” Korda said.
“But when Pete is serving hard,
well, it’s very difficult to hit the ball
over the net. That is really what
happened in the fourth and the
beginning of the fifth set.”
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Playing hardball
Executive council discusses realignment
NEW YORK (AP) —With as many as 10 re
alignment plans still under consideration,
baseball’s executive council meets Wednesday
in Chicago to assess what teams want.
The radical realignment plan, in which 15
teams would switch leagues, is dead or close to
it, several officials said Tuesday on the condi
tion they not be identified. That plan would
have placed the New York Mets and Yankees in
the same division, and also would have placed
the Chicago Cubs and White Sox in the same
division.
However, there still is sentiment for realign
ment in order to keep Tampa Bay from wind
ing up in the AT West, to reduce the number of
early evening and late night televised games in
many markets and to avoid having 15 teams in
each league, which would necessitate an in
terleague game nearly every day.
According to the officials, Montreal, Florida
and Philadelphia have expressed a willingness
to shift to the American League, and Anaheim,
Kansas City, Oakland and Seattle have said
they would switch to the National League.
That would leave 16 teams in the NL and 14
in the AL, solving the interleague play sched
uling problem.
But there still doesn’t appear to be a con
sensus on whether each league should have
three divisions or two.
In addition, Texas would like to be in the
same division with Houston, but the Astros
don’t want to switch to the AL.
There appears to be widespread sentiment
for all the West Coast teams being in the NL.
While the Giants object to having Oakland in
the same division, nearly all other teams ap
pear to be in favor of such a plan.
Owners hope to vote on realignment when
they meet in Atlanta from Sept. 16-18. It then
would take approximately a month for officials
to develop a draft of the 1998 schedule.
Two schedules already have been created
for 1998, one with 15 teams in each league and
one with 16 teams in one league and 14 in the
other. However, both are basically balanced
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