University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 25. 1986
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Wilander ousted from U.S. Open
United Press International
NEW YORK — Second seed Mats Wilander joined some distinguished company on the sidelines when he bowed out of the U.S. Open yesterday after a four-set loss to Miloslav Mecir.
Wilander, a semifinialist last year,
was unable to survive the fourth
round this year. Miloslav Mecir,
a 16th seeded Czechoslovakian,
beat Wilander 6-7 (37), 6-3, 6-3, 6-4.
After squandering four break points in the seventh game of the fourth set, Wilander pulled back into contention with a break in the ninth game. But Mecir, who underwent knee surgery twice last fall and missed four months of competition, came right back with the decisive break on a crosscourt backhand off a service return.
"When he's playing very good, he's too good for me," said Wilander, who has dropped three of five decisions to the 6-foot-3 Meir. "I felt like I was playing and there was nothing I could do."
The elimination of Wilander opens the bottom half of the draw for Boris Becker. He qualified for the quarterfinal after a hard-fought 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 6-4 victory against qualifier Gary Donnelly.
Becker seemed on the way to a comfortable victory when he went up 3-1 in the third set and was serving at 40-15. But he followed with a pair of double faults, allowing Donnelly to break for the only time all day and setting up the tie-break.
Becker, the two-time Wimbledon champion, was out-acced for the first time, 12-11, and had to work for 2 hours and 41 minutes before subduing Donnelly, ranked No. 211 in the world.
Also qualifying for the quarterfinals was No. 7 Joakim Nystrom, who committed only three unforced errors in his match against Matt
Anger. Nystrom won the match 7-6 (7-3), 6-2, 6-2.
Nystrom, playing his best match of the tournament, allowed Anger to break his serve only once, in the second game of the second set. Nystrom came back with three consecutive breaks in the second set and had two more in the third.
Earlier, on a cool, overcast afternoon, Martina Navratilova qualified for the women's semifinals, beating Pam Shriver 6-2, 6-4.
This was the 26th time in 29 meetings Navratilova beat her doubles partner, and she said it was getting more and more difficult for her.
"I seen to enjoy less and less playing her because we are such good friends," the two-time Open champion said. "I seem to feel the strain more now than I did in the past. I don't know why."
Shriver almost handed the opening set to her friend. After drawing even at 2:2 with a break in the fourth game, Shriver double faulted on break point in the fifth game and then double faulted on the final two points of the seventh game, giving Navartilva a 5-2 margin.
The opening game of the second set lasted 14 minutes, going to deuce nine times. Navratlava had four break points before Shriver held serve.
However, Shriver continued to have trouble on her serve. Navratriva finally took advantage on her ninth break point of the set to break in the seventh game.
Navratilova will play either No. 3 Steffi Graf or No. 8 Bonnie Gadusek in the semifinals. Graf and Gadusek played last night.
John McEno, Jimmy Connors, Yannick Noah and Anders Jarryd were other top seeds who failed to reach the quarterfinals, and Hana Mandlikova, the 1985 women's champion, was ousted Monday.
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