Becker Nearly Defaults, Wins : Tennis: The No. 2 seed in the West German tournament came within one violation of being ousted in first-round play.

Boris Becker came within one code violation of defaulting but managed a 7-6, 6-4 first-round victory over Australian Brod Dyke today at the $1-million ATP tournament.

Becker, ranked second in the world and seeded second here after Ivan Lendl, was warned for ball abuse by Australian umpire Richard Ings at the end of the fifth game of the first set. In the ensuing argument, Ings issued a point penalty against Becker for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Under the rules of the ATP Tour, one more violation of the code of conduct would have meant default for Becker.

In other first-round matches, Israel’s Amos Mansdorf upset fourth-seeded Carl Uwe Steeb of West Germany 6-2, 6-1, and Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union beat Slobodan Zivojinovic of Yugoslavia 6-3, 7-5.

Becker was trailing 1-4 in the first set when he hit a ball into the back of the court at the end of the game. Ings warned him for ball abuse.

The West German then marched up to the umpire’s chair and shouted: “I didn’t hit the ball with an anger. There was no anger, didn’t you see?

“I didn’t do anything wrong. What are you trying to do to me? I just hit the ball away.”

Ings responded by issuing a point penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.

The crowd then began throwing tennis balls, and one struck Ings on the back.

Becker then settled down to win a close first set by taking the tiebreaker 7-2, but in the opening game of the second set he again lost his temper.

At 0-30, Becker claimed that his first serve was out. Dyke had already hit a winner, and Ings called the score as 0-40. Becker then slammed his racket onto the court in anger. But the umpire let the violation pass.

At the end of game change-over, however, Ings called ATP supervisor Ed Hardisty onto the court to talk to Becker.

“I am not bothering anyone, he (the umpire) is bothering everybody,” Becker said.

Becker, still struggling to find his form, then lost his serve for the third time in the set when leading 5-3.

He finally wrapped up the victory by breaking Dyke’s serve in the 10th game.

At Philadelphia, Petr Korda of Czechoslovakia upset sixth-seeded Andrei Chesnokov of the Soviet Union 6-2, 6-4 Tuesday in the second round of the U.S. Pro Indoor Tennis championship.

Korda, a 6-foot, 3-inch left-hander, used deep passing shots from the back court to defeat Chesnokov, whom he was playing for the first time.

“I had never met Chesnokov before. There was always a strong rivalry between Czechoslovakian and Russian players,” said Korda, who last year had considered retirement because of shoulder problems. “I played well last week in Toronto before losing to Brad Gilbert in the quarterfinals, and my confidence level was raised coming into this tournament.

“Chesnokov is a fast player. . . . I made a lot of winners (serves) . . .and didn’t make mistakes.”

Chesnokov was one of four seeds eliminated from the $1-million tournament. Twelfth-seeded David Wheaton of Lake Minnetonka, Minn., lost to Glenn Layendecker of Boston 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; No. 15 Scott Davis lost to Mark Kratzmann of Australia 7-5, 4-6, 6-1, and No. 16 seed Mikael Pernfors of Sweden fell to Paul Haarhuis of the Netherlands, 4-6, 7-6 (7-0), 7-5.