Tennis Roundup : U.S. Youths Win World Doubles Title

Americans Ken Flach and Robert Seguso, both only 21, defeated two-time champions Heinz Gunthardt of Switzerland and Balasz Taroczy of Hungary, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0, Sunday to win the World Doubles Tennis Championship at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Flach, ranked 155th on the singles computer, and Seguso, ranked 209th, left little doubt about the outcome as they wrapped up the victory in just 1 hour 49 minutes.

They each won $36,000--by far their biggest paycheck--while Gunthardt and Taroczy, the 1982 and 1983 tournament champions, each picked up $18,000.

Boris Becker, a 17-year-old West German, became the first winner of the Belgian American Young Masters tennis tournament Sunday, outlasting favored Stefan Edberg of Sweden in five sets, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, at Birmingham England.

Becker earned $18,000 and Edberg $12,000.

Top-seeded Catarina Lindqvist successfully battled gusty winds to breeze past Terry Holladay, 6-3, 6-1, and win the $22,000 first prize in the Virginia Slims Ginny Championships at Sandpiper Bay Resort at Port St. Lucie, Fla.

Horst Skoff of Austria and Mariana Perez Roldan of Argentina Sunday won the men’s and women’s singles titles in the Ninth International Junior Tennis Championship of Venezuela, known as the Ford Cup at Caracas, Venezuela.