Navratilova Gains Finals at Sydney With Victories in Singles and Doubles

Martina Navratilova, tuning up for this week’s Australian Open, advanced to the finals in singles and doubles in the New South Wales Open tennis tournament on Saturday.

The top-seeded Navratilova, of Ft. Worth, Tex., defeated No. 9 Hana Mandlikova of Australia, 6-3, 6-2, and will play Sweden’s Catarina Lindqvist in today’s final.

Lindqvist advanced by defeating Terry Phelps of Larchmont, N.Y., in the other semifinal, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6.

In doubles, Navratilova and regular partner Pam Shriver, the No. 1-seeded team, defeated the unseeded team of Iwona Kuczynska of Poland and Judith Weisner of Austria, 6-3, 6-0.

Navratilova and Shriver will face Liz Smylie and Wendy Turnbull of Australia, who advanced past Ann Henricksson and Gretchen Magers of the United States, 6-2, 6-3.

In the men’s singles semifinals, Andrei Cherkasov of the Soviet Union defeated Olivier Delaitre of France, 7-5, 6-1, and third-seeded Aaron Krickstein of Grosse Pointe, Mich., defeated Bruno Oresar of Yugoslavia, 6-0, 2-6, 6-4.