TENNIS ROUNDUP : Seles Wins 14th Match in a Row in Straight Sets

Top-seeded Monica Seles of Yugoslavia reached her third consecutive tournament final Saturday with a 6-4, 6-0 victory over Conchita Martinez of Spain in a $225,000 tournament at Largo, Fla.

Seles, ranked third in the world, will face Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria in today’s championship match. Maleeva, seeded fourth, upset Spain’s Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 6-4, 6-2. Sanchez Vicario was seeded second.

Seles, who has won 14 consecutive matches in straight sets, kept the third-seeded Martinez on the defensive with deep groundstrokes. Martinez, who normally uses her forehand shots to win points, was off balance and unable to set up for winners.

Seles won the match’s last eight games. After Seles broke in the fourth game and assumed a 4-1 lead, Martinez rallied to tie it at 4. Seles then held and broke in the 10th game to win the set.

Rick Leach and Jim Pugh routed Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzmann, 6-4, 6-2, to advance to the finals of the $300,000 WCT World Doubles Championship at Dallas.

In today’s final, Leach and Pugh will meet Ken Flach and Robert Seguso, who saved five match points and rallied to beat Anders Jarryd of Sweden and David Pate of Australia, 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (7-1).

Leach and Pugh, ranked No. 1 and 2, respectively in men’s doubles, rebounded strongly from Friday night’s round-robin loss to Jim Grabb and Patrick McEnroe.

The Southern Californians, who replaced Flach and Seguso on the U.S. Davis Cup team, allowed the Australians only nine points against serve and hit 15 service winners and three aces.

Once they found the range on the Australians’ services, at 4-4 in the first set, the Leach-Pugh team broke serve three times running to take a 6-4, 4-0 lead.

Juan Aguilera of Spain and Guy Forget of France scored semifinal victories to move to the finals of a $260,000 tournament at Nice, France.

Aguilera defeated Marc Rosset of Switzerland, 6-3, 6-0. Forget came from behind to beat Andrei Cherkasov of the Soviet Union, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4.

All four players were unseeded, the first time that has happened in a Grand Prix tournament since November 1986.