Tennis Roundup : Lendl Falls to Gomez in Semifinals
Andres Gomez of Ecuador, ranked 30th in the world, upset Ivan Lendl, 1-6, 7-6 (7-5), 9-7, Saturday in the semifinals of a $500,000 tennis tournament at Barcelona, Spain.
Lendl, ranked No. 1, in the world, made several unforced errors in key games in the second and third sets.
Gomez will face Horst Skoff of Austria in today’s final. Skoff advanced by beating Argentin’s Alberto Mancini, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Top-seeded Martina Navratilova advanced to the final of a $250,000 tournament in Dallas, easily defeating third-seeded Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria, 6-2, 6-3. Navratilova will meet Monica Seles of Yugoslavia for the first time tonight in the final. Seles, 15, beat unseeded Anne Smith of Dallas in the other semifinal, 6-1, 6-2.
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