THE SEOUL GAMES / DAY 14 : Shriver-Garrison Win Gold in 3 Sets

By BILL DWYRE

Sept. 30, 1988 12 AM PT

SEOUL —

The United States took its time but won its first gold medal in Olympic tennis since Paris in 1924 and the good old days of Helen Wills Moody here Friday, when Pam Shriver and Zina Garrison defeated Jana Novotna and Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8.

Shriver and Garrison finally broke Sukova’s serve to go up 9-8, and then Garrison served out the match, but not easily. She and Shriver finally won on their sixth match point of the game, after Garrison had double-faulted twice on match point.

The United States has a solid chance for another gold medal Saturday when top-seeded Robert Seguso and Ken Flach play the Spanish team of Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez.

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Bill Dwyre

Bill Dwyre was a three-times-weekly sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2006-15. Before that, he was sports editor of the paper for 25 years. Dwyre was named national editor of the year by the National Press Foundation in 1985 for the paper’s coverage of the ’84 Olympics and winner of the Red Smith Award in 1996 by the Associated Press Sports Editors for sustained excellence in sports journalism. He was sports editor of the Milwaukee Journal from 1973 to 1981, when he joined The Times. Dwyre was named National Headliner Award winner in 1985, sportswriter of the year in Wisconsin in 1980 and sportswriter of the year in California in 2009.

THE SEOUL GAMES / DAY 14 : Shriver-Garrison Win Gold in 3 Sets

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