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The Michigan Daily-Sunday, September 10, 1978-Page 1
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wimbledon
champion Bjorn Borg will play runner-
up Jimmy Connors again and defending
champion Chris Evert will play 16-year-
old Pam Shriver today in the finals of
the U.S. Open tennis championships.
Playing in crisp, rain-freshened air
but a brilliant, baking sun, Borg, the
patient, versatile Swede, downed Vitas
Gerulaitis - 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 yesterday.
Connors came from behind in the third
set to down 19-year-old John McEnroe
in the other semifinal6-2, 6-2, 7-5.
Evert, who will be trying to winher
fourth consecutive U.S. Open crown,
downed Wendy Turnbull easily, 6-3, 6-0,
in a semifinal that was resumed
yesterday morning after heavy rains
Friday.
Shriver overthrew top seed Martina
Navratilova Friday, 7-6, 7-6, to become,
the youngest finalist ever in the
American championships.
If Evert beats her, she would be the
first woman to attain four in a row since
1935 when Helen Jacobs won her fourth.
Borg did not get nearly so tough a
match from Gerulaitis as both had
predicted he would. They had been
practicing together at Gerulaitis' home
nearby, and both had said they were
about even in practice matches.
Gerulaitis held service only in the
first and seventh games of the opening
set. He broke for 2-4 but was not steady
enough to ward off a final game break.
Borg built a 4-1 lead in the next set.
Gerulaitis held for 2-4, but got only
three more points as Borg ran out the
set.
Gerulaitis began to combine
accuracy with his quickness in the next
game, though, and broke for 1-0,
winning all four points. He stayed just a
step ahead through the seventh game,
in which Borg toughed out three deuces
to hold at 3-4.
But Borg evened it in the eighth
game, when Gerulaitis double-faulted.
Gerulaitis had break point at love in the
next game, but Borg held service,
hitting a good drop shot and waiting for
three errors by Gerulaitis.
Gerulaitis got another break for 6-5
when Borg's backhand went into the net
on the second point of a deuce. But he
blew his service game, forcing the
tiebreaker, on three errors from near
the net and one hit too long from the
baseline.
Borggot the first four points quickly.
Gerulaitis got two in a row, then
another for 3-5. But he fell hard after
leaping for and missing a volley. He
double-faulted on match point to give
Borg the tiebreaker 7-4 and the match.
Connors took the first two sets from
McEnroe with relative ease. But after
holding service in the second game of
the third set, he watched the 19-year-old
McEnroe become more aggressive and
run off four games in a row for a 5-1
lead.
But Connors, who is seeking to regain
the title he lost to Guillermo Vilas last
year, got fired up and won five in a row
himself, for 6-5. He danced at the
baseline after every winner.
Beginning to serve for the match,
Connors bounced and bobbed like a
boxer. Charging up after each serve, he
won the game at love, and was in
another U.S. Open final.
Evert, who has not dropped a single
set on her route to the final, took just 32
minutes to finish off Turnbull when they
returned Saturday morning. She had
built a 3-1 lead in the 16 minutes they
were able to play Friday.
Turnbull did not hold service once
Saturday, although she broke in the
fifth and seventh games of the first set.
The quick little Australian won only 10
points in the final set, and yielded the
last eight games to Evert.
Evert and Shriver never have played
each other before, and the 23-year-old
reigning champion was a little
apprehensive about the unknown
quantity.
"I just have to start out very quickly,
go for my shots and play my game. I
can't afford to experiment against
her," she said and recalled the tough
time she had in the third round at
Wimbledon last year from another
youngster, Tracy Austin, who was 14
then.
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BJORN BORG, winner over Vitas Gerulaitis, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 at the U.S. Open yester-
day in Flushing, New York, will face Jimmy Connors in the men's final today.
Connors defeated young John McEnroe 6-2, 6-2, 7-5 to gain the finals. A victory
for Borg would give him the third leg (French, Wimbledon, U.S. Open) towards
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NEW YORK (AP)-In the women's
doubles final of the U.S. Open, Billie
Jean king and Martina Navratilova of
the United States downed Australians
Turnbull and Kerry Reid 7-6, 6-4. It is
King's fourth women's doubles title in
the U.S. championships. She also has
won the mixed doubles title here four
times. It is the first U.S. doubles title
for Navratilova.
KING AND NAVRATILOVA split
$15,000 in prize money, the runners-up
get $7,750.
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