TENNIS ROUNDUP : France Wins Doubles, Advances to Cup Final
Guy Forget and Arnaud Boetsch routed a makeshift Yugoslav doubles team Saturday at Pau, France, to move France into the final of the Davis Cup, which it last won in 1932.
Forget teamed with Boetsch, a Davis Cup newcomer, for a 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Slobodan Zivojinovic and Srdjan Muskatirovic, ranked 439th and yet to qualify for a full-fledged pro tour event.
With two singles victories Friday, France took a 3-0 lead in the best-of-five semifinal.
“With our real team, we would have had a better chance than France,” said Zivojinovic, referring to Goran Ivanisevic and Goran Prpic, both top 20 players who quit the Davis Cup team because of the fighting between their breakaway republic of Croatia and the Serbian-dominated federal government.
Top-seeded Monica Seles defeated Mary Joe Fernandez, 6-1, 6-1, to win the Nichrei International tournament at Tokyo. Seles, No. 1 in the world, needed only 51 minutes to beat Fernandez, the defending champion.
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