Tennis Roundup : Jarryd and Edberg Win Masters Doubles

Anders Jarryd and Stefan Edberg of Sweden, playing what they described as near-perfect tennis, retained their crown in the Masters Doubles Championship with a 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 victory over Yannick Noah and Guy Forget of France Sunday at London.

The victory was worth $72,000 to the winners, who registered the only two service breaks of the match and constantly frustrated their French foes.

In the process, they broke Noah’s concentration. The acrobatic Frenchman spent as much time complaining about line calls and cooking smells from the pantries in the opera boxes of the Royal Albert Hall as he was on his tennis.

Noah could be heard muttering about the clash of cutlery and the odor of “this cuisine” during the match, and who returned from one changeover holding his nose.

“I had to ask them to close the door to the kitchen,” he said.

But Noah and Forget acknowledged that it was more than questionable decisions by the chair and the sounds and smells of a British Sunday lunch that did them in.

“What was bothering me most was their game,” Noah said.

Boris Becker of West Germany won his third straight Young Masters title at Stuttgart, West Germany, defeating Sweden’s Jonas Svensson, 7-6, 7-6, 6-3, in the final of the $150,000 under-21 event.

“I was never as nervous as I was before this match,” the 19-year-old Becker said. “I was even more nervous than before the Wimbledon final this year.

“It was a super year for me, and I wanted it to end with a Young Masters victory, the way it began.”

Becker, the two-time Wimbledon champion, beat Mats Wilander of Sweden in West Berlin last January to claim his second Young Masters title. He won his first title at Birmingham, England, in January of 1985, defeating Edberg.

In Sunday’s match, he won the first and second sets on tiebreakers. In the third, he broke Svensson’s first service and never lost control of the set.

Svensson said his loss was due to his opponent’s superior game. “I cannot play better than I did today,” he said.

Becker won $30,000.