Tennis Roundup : Mayotte Gets Past Annacone, 7-5, 6-4
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Tim Mayotte and Israel’s Amos Mansdorf won quarterfinal matches Friday in the $465,000 U.S. Pro Indoor tennis tournament at Philadelphia.
The fifth-seeded Mayotte defeated 14th-seeded Paul Annacone, 7-5, 6-4, while Mansdorf, seeded 16th, beat 10th-seeded Karel Novacek of Czechoslovakia, 6-7, 6-3, 6-4.
Mayotte, 26, ranked 14th in the world last year, takes on the winner of the Jimmy Connors-Milan Srejber quarterfinal in one of today’s semifinal matches.
Mansdorf, 21, who has won once in his two-year pro career, meets the winner of the John McEnroe-Jakob Hlasek quarterfinal.
Top-seeded Yannick Noah of France and second-seeded Joakim Nystrom of Sweden advanced to the semifinals of a $175,000 Grand Prix tournament at Lyon, France.
Noah, ranked fifth in the world, defeated Blaine Willenborg, 6-2, 6-3. Nystrom downed Jerome Potier of France, 6-3, 6-4.
Today, Noah will play Kelly Jones, ranked 163rd. Jones ousted fourth-seeded Guy Forget of France, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6, while Todd Nelson defeated Bud Cox, 7-6, 6-2, to earn the right to face Nystrom.
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