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THE SEOUL GAMES : Flach, Seguso Take Five Long Sets to Win Second U.S. Gold in Doubles

By BILL DWYRE
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SEOUL — 

It took them about 2 hours longer than they wanted it to, but Ken Flach and Robert Seguso won the second gold medal for the United States in Olympic tennis here Saturday.

The top-seeded American team was cruising long after winning the first two sets, 6-3, 6-4, against Emilio Sanchez and Sergio Casal of Spain. And they had a 5-3 lead in a third-set tie-breaker with Flach serving. But they lost the tie-breaker, 7-5, lost the next set in a tie-breaker, and lost two opportunities in the fifth set with Flach serving for the match.

They finally broke Sanchez’s serve at 7-7 and Seguso served out the match in a love game.

That meant the U.S. won gold medals in both doubles, with Pam Shriver and Zina Garrison winning the women’s title Friday.

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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.

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