Tennis : Nystrom, Kriek Eliminated; 13-Year-Old Beats Gadusek

Top-seeded Ivan Lendl and Martina Navratilova and second-seeded Chris Evert Lloyd won, as expected, Saturday to reach the fourth round of the $1.8-million Lipton International Players Championships.

But that wasn’t the story.

Three seeded players didn’t make it--Johan Kriek, Sweden’s Joakim Nystrom and Bonnie Gadusek.

Navratilova took just 45 minutes to oust Catherine Suire of France, 6-1, 6-2. Lendl beat Victor Pecci of Paraguay, 6-2, 6-4, in 69 minutes. And Lloyd defeated Alycia Moulton, 6-3, 6-2.

But Marc Flur stunned the crowd with a 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over the eighth-seeded Nystrom; Sammy Giammalva shocked the sixth-seeded Kriek, 6-2, 7-6, and 13-year-old Mary Jo Fernandez upset the 11th-seeded Gadusek, 7-6, 7-6.

Two other youngsters, 14-year-old Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina and 15-year-old Steffi Graf of West Germany also won. Sabatini eliminated Kim Shaefer, 6-3, 6-1, and Graf stopped Catherine Tanvier of France, 6-3, 7-5.

But the biggest surprise of the day was Flur’s victory over Nystrom, who is ranked in the world’s top 10. Flur, of Durham, N.C., was ranked 162nd on the ATP computer at the end of 1984 and has won only two tournament titles in his professional career--a $25,000 tournament in 1984 and a Portuguese satellite event in 1983.

“I’m not a power player,” said Flur, who was an All-American at Duke in 1981. “I use the other guy’s pace.

“When I got out of college, I thought I’d give tennis a year. Then I decided I couldn’t stop.”

Fernandez, an amateur from Miami playing in her fourth Virginia Slims tournament, said she was “getting tired” and was hoping the match wouldn’t go three sets.

“I would rather not play tiebreakers. The key is to get a good start,” said the eighth-grade student who plays on her school’s tennis team.

Asked if she had plans to turn professional, she said no. “Three wins doesn’t change my plans,” she said. “School is more important.”