TENNIS ROUNDUP : McEnroe, Connors Win Again to Set Up Their 33rd Meeting
John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors will play for the 33rd time in their careers after winning semifinal matches Saturday in a $225,000 tournament at Toulouse, France.
McEnroe, the top-seeded player, breezed past No. 4-seeded Horst Skoff of Austria, 6-1, 6-3. The second-seeded Connors rebounded from a first-set loss to beat the Soviet Union’s Andrei Chesnokov, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Ivan Lendl easily defeated unseeded Niclas Kroon of Sweden, 6-1, 6-1, to advance to the final of the Australian Indoor championships at Sydney.
Lendl earned a meeting against another Swede, Lars Wahlgren, today. Wahlgren, who had not made it past the first round of any Grand Prix tournament this year, defeated Australian teen-ager Johan Anderson, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Mary Joe Fernandez upset second-seeded Zina Garrison, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, to reach the final of a $250,000 tournament at Filderstadt, West Germany, where she will meet Argentina’s Gabriela Sabatini.
The top-seeded Sabatini defeated Laura Gildemeister of Peru, 6-1, 6-2.
Natalia Zvereva and Gretchen Magers both won semifinal matches at Moscow to set up a Soviet Union-United States final in the first professional tournament to be staged in the Soviet Union.
Michael Chang upset top-seeded Stefan Edberg of Sweden, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, to advance to the final of an international tournament at Hong Kong.
The third-seeded Chang, who also beat Edberg in the final of the French Open, will meet defending champion Miloslav Mecir of Czechoslovakia in today’s final. Mecir defeated Richey Reneberg, 6-2, 6-4, in the other semifinal.
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