Tennis Roundup : Mecir Routs Wilander in Record Time

Czechoslovakia’s Miloslav Mecir continued his mastery of Swedish players Thursday night with a 6-1, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Mats Wilander in the WCT Finals at Dallas.

The match took 1 hour 22 minutes, the shortest in tournament history. The record was 1 hour 25 minutes when Ivan Lendl defeated Vijay Amritraj in 1982.

Mecir routed Wilander, 6-0, 6-2, last week at Milan and has a career record of 28-15 against Swedish players who are ranked in the top 100. He is 5-2 against Wilander.

Tonight, Mecir will meet Andres Gomez, who beat Kevin Curren, 6-7, 7-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-2, in 3 hours 44 minutes Thursday night.

John McEnroe and Stefan Edberg will play in the other semifinal tonight.

Oddly enough, Gomez and Curren, who have been professionals for nine years, had never played each other before. But Gomez is a clay-court specialist, while Curren favors the faster services. The match on the fast Supreme Court carpet should have favored Curren.

Second-seeded Chris Evert Lloyd needed only 54 minutes to defeat Debbie Spence, 6-3, 6-0, seting up a quarterfinal match with Bettina Bunge in the $300,000 Family Circle Magazine Cup tournament at Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Bunge advanced with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Italy’s Sandra Cecchini.