IN BRIEF : Yugoslav Scores Tennis Victory
Slobodan Zivojinovic of Yugoslavia defeated Senegal’s Yahiya Doumbia 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 today in the first round of the $492,500 Stella Artois indoor tennis championships.
In the absence of the main attractions, top-seeded Boris Becker and No. 3 John McEnroe, Zivojinovic was the highest-ranked player in daytime action at the opening of the Nabisco Grand Prix tournament.
The hard-hitting Yugoslav, who reached the final four at Wimbledon three years ago and is now ranked 35th in the world, had to fight for almost two hours before overcoming Doumbia.
In other action, Christian Bergstrom of Sweden beat West German Patrick Kuhnen 6-4, 6-4. Another Swede, Joakim Nystrom, a former top 10 player now ranked 80th, was ousted 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 by 48th-ranked Wally Masur of Australia.
Becker was scheduled to face Ronald Agenor of Haiti and McEnroe was slated to meet West German Carl-Uwe Steeb later in the tournament.
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