Edberg Battles Way to Finals

Stefan Edberg, showing “fire in his belly,” charged back from two sets down to beat Miloslav Mecir today and put a Swede back in a Wimbledon men’s championship match for the first time in seven years.

Edberg plays for the title Sunday against the winner of the second semifinal between top-seeded Ivan Lendl and two-time champion Boris Becker. Darkness forced suspension of play in that match with Becker winning the first two sets 6-4, 6-3 and Lendl taking the third, 7-6, on a 10-8 tiebreaker. Edberg, the No. 3 seed, earlier fought off the bullet service returns and delicate volleys of the Czechoslovak to win 4-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 and become the first Swedish men’s finalist since Bjorn Borg lost to John McEnroe in 1981.