Davis Cup : West Germany Sweeps to 2-0 Lead Against U.S.

Wimbledon champion Boris Becker and teammate Hansjoerg Schwaier gave West Germany a 2-0 lead over the United States Friday in a Davis Cup quarterfinal match at Hamburg.

Becker took only 1 hour 53 minutes to defeat Eliot Teltscher, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3, while Schwaier beat Aaron Krickstein, 2-6, 6-1, 2-6, 6-1, 8-6, in a match that lasted 3 hours 35 minutes.

Schwaier, a 22-year-old from Munich, ruined Krickstein’s 18th birthday on his sixth match point before 11,000 at Hamburg’s Red Tree Courts.

The match was interrupted early in the fifth set by a downpour and resumed about an hour later.

The U.S. squad is competing without America’s two best players--No. 1-ranked John McEnroe and No. 4 Jimmy Connors.

Today, Becker and Andreas Maurer meet Ken Flach and Robert Seguso in the doubles. The U.S. team must win the doubles and Sunday’s two remaining singles matches in order to advance.

At Bangalore, India, defending Davis Cup champion Sweden took a 2-0 lead over India in a World-Group quarterfinal as Anders Jarryd defeated Vijay Amritraj, 3-6, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, and Mats Wilander beat Ramesh Krishnan, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2.

Sweden, which defeated the U.S. in the final last year, is favored to meet the winner of the Australia-Paraguay match, which is tied, 1-1.

Ivan Lendl and Miloslav Mecir gave Czechoslovakia a 2-0 lead at Guayaquil, Ecuador, in another Davis Cup quarterfinal.

Lendl defeated Ecuador’s No. 1 player, Andres Gomez, in the first match. He was leading, 5-3, when Gomez was forced to withdraw after injuring his left leg.

In the second match, Mecir easily defeated Raul Viver, 6-0, 6-1, 6-3.

John Lloyd fought back to defeat Jacob Hlasek, 5-7, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 7-5, at Eastbourne, England, to give Britain a 1-0 lead over Switzerland in a European Zone B semifinal series.

The second match between Switzerland’s No. 1 player, Heinz Gunthardt, and Jeremy Bates was postponed by rain with the Englishman leading, 4-0.