Czechs Advance to World Cup Final With Help From Sweden

Czechoslovakia, aided by Sweden, qualified for Sunday’s final in the World Team Cup tennis matches Friday at Duesseldorf, West Germany.

The Czechs defeated India, 3-0, but had to wait for the outcome of the doubles match between Sweden and France before getting the berth.

In singles, Ivan Lendl beat Ramesh Krishnan, 6-2, 6-4, and Miroslav Mecir trounced Vijay Amritraj, 6-3, 6-1. Lendl and Tomas Smid beat Amritraj and his brother, Anand, 6-2, 6-3, in doubles.

But Czechoslovakia had lost earlier to France. And Henri Leconte’s 6-2, 6-4 win over Mats Wilander gave the French a 1-0 lead over Sweden, putting them within one victory of the final.

Henrik Sundstrom, however, kept Sweden’s hopes alive with a 6-0, 3-6, 7-6 win over Thierry Tulasne. Then Wilander teamed with Anders Jarryd to beat Leconte and Pascal Portes, 6-4, 6-4, paving the way for Czechoslovakia, which is expected to meet the United States Sunday.

The U.S. team, comprised of John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, has already beaten Australia and Spain, and plays winless West Germany today.

Top-seeded Mikael Pernfors of Georgia reached the semifinals of the NCAA individual championships at Athens, Ga., defeating Steve DeVries of California, 6-2, 6-2, and sixth-seeded Grant Connell of Texas A&M;, 6-4, 6-0.

Today, Pernfors will play third-seeded Jim Grabb of Stanford, who defeated Jorge Lozano of USC, 7-5, 6-4, and fifth-seeded John Ross of SMU, 6-4, 7-6.

Pernfors’ teammate, George Bezecny, upset second-seeded Dan Goldie of Stanford, 5-7, 7-6, 6-0, and will face fourth-seeded Todd Witsken of USC, who defeated Chris Kennedy of Trinity, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, and Richey Reneberg of SMU, 6-3, 7-5.

Linda Gates won the singles and doubles titles to give Stanford a sweep of the NCAA women’s individual championships at Oklahoma City.

Gates, the first player since 1969 to win both titles, upset top-seeded Gretchen Rush of Trinity, 7-6, 6-2, in singles, and teamed with Leigh Ann Eldredge to beat Rush and Lisa Sassano, 6-4, 6-3, in doubles.

The last woman to sweep the finals was Emilie Foster, who is now the Trinity coach.

At Lugano, Switzerland, top-seeded Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria beat Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina, 6-0, 6-7, 6-2, in 2 hours 10 minutes to advance to the semifinals of a $100,000 women’s tournament.