UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, August 29, 1996
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Top-ranked Sampras advances at U.S. Open
By Bob Greene
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Lindsay Davenport's magical summer tour has vet to end.
- East, west, north, south; it hasn't mattered for the 6-foot-2.1/right-hander.
It began with a gold-medal performance at the Atlanta Olympics, where she beat Spain's Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in the title match. It continued in Manhattan Beach, Calif, where Davenport surprised Steffi Graf en route to winning that WTA Tour tournament.
In the second round of the U.S. Open yesterday, the eighth-seeded Davenport beat Henrieta Nagyova of Slovakia 6-0, 6-4, taking just 16 minutes to complete the opening set.
Earlier, 15th seed Gabriela Sabati advanced to the third round by defeating Ann Grossman 6-2, 6-3.
Davenport pounded out 21 winners, compared to seven by Nagyova. The American won 56 of the 91 points and broke Nagyova's serve six times.
Still a crowd favorite, Sabatiwn won this tournament in 1990 with a penetrating all-court game. Against Grossman, she preferred to stay on the baseline, hitting her looping.
Pete Sampras
topspin groundstrokes, waiting for her opponent to make errors. Grossman, a right-hander from Grove City, Ohio, did just that.
Because of an injured stomach muscle, Sabatini was forced to skip the last two Grand Slam tournaments.
"It felt very strange not to be at Wimbledon and the French Open," she said. "Now at the U.S. Open, I'm here, I am not watching it on TV."
"It feels good. I love New York. I love to come here. It feels good to be playing on center court, very special."
In early second-round matches, Romania's Irena
Spirila defeated Maria Jose Gaidano of Argentina 6-1, 6-2; Sandrine Testud of France beat Spain's Cristina Torre-n Valero 6-2, 6-1, and Anne-Gaelle Sidot of France defeated Taiwan's Wang Shi-Ting 6-4, 3-6, 3-1.
In first-round men's matches, ninth-seeded Wayne Ferreira lost to fellow South African David Nainkin 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5; No. 12 Todd Martin defeated Younai El Amour of Morocco 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; Andrei Medvedev of the Ukraine defeated Frenchman Jean-Philip Fleurian 6-2, 6-0, 6-1; David Rikd of the Czech Republic beat Morocco's Hicham Arazi 6-4, 7-5, 6-2; and Italy's Andrea Gaudenzi eliminated Japan's Shuzo Matsuoka 6-7/4, 6-2, 6-1.
After being involved in a controversy about the seedings for a week, the players now just want to play tennis.
"At this point in time, we just have to go out and play," defending champion Pete Sampras said Tuesday after earning his way into the second round with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 victory against Jimy Szymanski.
"It's a past issue," said Thomas Muster, whose comments about the way the players were seeded helped spark the confrontation between the ATP Tour and the U.S. Tennis Association. "I think the tournament should go on now."
For the top four women's seeds, it did. No. 1 Steffi Graf, No. 2 Monica Seles, No. 3 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and No. 4 Conchita Martinez all won in straight sets.
Grabbing second-round spots in the men's draw were the top-seeded Sampras, No. 3 Muster and No. 4 Goran Ivanisevic.
Say good-bye, though, to both No. 5 seeds.
Stefan Edberg, a two-time U.S. Open champion playing in his final Grand Slam tournament before retirement, beat fifth-seeded Richard Krajicek, the reigning Wimbledon champion, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, and Austrian Judith Wiesner shocked the women's No. 5 seed, Iva Majoli of Croatia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Also ousted on the hardcourts of the National Tennis Center were No. 14 Alberto Costa of Spain and No. 15 Marc Rosset of Switzerland, along with Japan's Kimiko Date, the women's No. 10 seed.
Jets' No.1 choice feels confident
The Associated Press
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — The No. 1 pick in the NFL draft is ready to become the No. 1 receiver for the New York Jets. And Keyshawn Johnson seems to think that's just the first step toward stardom.
Johnson won't be in the starting lineup Sunday when the Jets open their season at Denver, but that hardly matters to the rookie from Southern California — for now.
"I won't start, but I'll play most of the game," Johnson said yesterday. "I will be on the field a lot. Starting is important, and eventually it will become more important, when I get used to the entire offensive unit."
Johnson said that he understands why he was not placed on the starting lineup in the first game of his first professional season.
At the beginning of the season, Johnson asked for more money than the team was prepared to pay. He held out for more than half of training camp and missed the first two exhibition games.
"I came in late," he said. "Had I been here on time, it may have presented a problem. I expect to start in the future. My talents will allow me to do that."
Those talents made the 6-foot-3, 215-pound Johnson an All-America receiver and the Jets' clear choice as the best pro prospect in the nation.
Johnson said that he was already close to mastering the offensive system.
"I think I'm pretty far. I know the offense well," he said. "I struggled a little to get some things down in practices, but it's not like it's the real season. I expect to do well and to win. Confident? That's just me. I don't worry about those things."
Nor is Johnson concerned about the pressure of being the top draft pick and a projected savior for a franchise that hasn't known glory since the 1960s with Joe Namath. After five receptions for 69 yards and one touchdown in exhibition games, Johnson feels prepared for life in the NFL, he said.
"Regardless if I'm the No. 1 pick, there are a lot of expectations on me," he said. "I know I won't carry the load on my shoulders, but we'll do it as a group."
Johnson said that a lot of those expectations came from himself and his peers.
"It's not so much I have to set a tone, but one of the reasons I was picked is to show some leadership here. It's about time for me to do that," he said.
Johnson said that when he first started working with his teammates,he did not feel comfortable. But now he has adjusted.
"Now I feel I belong in this situation," he said. "When you're new, you lay back to get a feel for what's going on."
Not that Johnson lays back very far or too long. He's simply too outgoing, too fun-loving, or too relaxed.
Coach Rich Kotite said that he thought his teammates were very comfortable with him.
"He is a football player, he loves football, takes a lot of pride, and they know he is going to help the team," Kotite said. "He is a hard worker, jumps in there when we need somebody."
That's the kind of life Johnson dreamed about as a kid in California and as a standout at USC.
"I should know at this point in time what to do and what the job is," he said. "My time has come."
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