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Enqvist Goes Distance to Beat Chang

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From Staff and Wire Reports

Unseeded Thomas Enqvist followed his upset of No. 2 Andre Agassi with a comeback victory Sunday over defending champion Michael Chang to win the U.S. Indoor tennis tournament in Philadelphia.

The 20-year-old Swede picked up $110,000 for his fourth career title, losing the first set 0-6 before coming back to win the final two, 6-4, 6-0.

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Richard Krajicek squandered a two-set lead and three match points before upsetting Michael Stich, 7-6, (7-4), 6-3, 6-7 (8-6), 1-6, 6-3, to win the Eurocard Open in Stuttgart, Germany. . . . Top-seeded Jana Novotna of the Czech Republic won the WTA tournament in Linz, Austria with a 6-7 (7-5), 6-3, 6-4 victory over unseeded Barbara Rittner. . . . Top-ranked Georgia defeated No. 7 UCLA, 5-4, to defend its title in the Women’s National Indoor Team Championships at Madison, Wis. Jane Reid and Lisa Salvatierra of Georgia defeated Paige Yaroshuk and Kelly Rudolph of UCLA, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5, in the third doubles match to clinch the team title.

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Jim Colbert and Jim Dent won the first two singles matches of the day and the United States went on to recapture the Chrysler Cup, 11-5, from an international team of seniors in Acapulco, Mexico.

Nick Price defeated Greg Norman to help Southern Africa top Australia in the inaugural Alfred Dunhill Challenge, the southern hemisphere version of the Ryder Cup, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Winter Sports

Italian skier Peter Runggaldier won a World Cup super giant slalom in Whistler, British Columbia, edging out AJ Kitt on a fast track at Whistler Mountain. . . . Emese Hunyady of Austria won the women’s 1,000-meter race at a World Cup speedskating meet that was hampered by freezing rain in Inzell, Germany. Olympic champion Bonnie Blair caught the slowest track conditions and finished 13th. . . . Andreas Goldberger of Austria missed a chance to set a record for victories in a World Cup ski jumping season when the final event in Oberstdorf, Germany, was called off because of a heavy snowfall.

Motor Sports

Jeff Gordon made a runaway of the Goodwrench 500 in Rockingham, N.C., starting on the pole and speeding to his third Winston Cup victory. Gordon led 329 of the 492 laps on the 1.017-mile oval, including the final 83.

Bobby Labonte, in his first season driving a Chevrolet for Joe Gibbs Racing, finished second.

Miscellany

Ed Jovanovski, the first player taken in last year’s NHL draft, and two other members of the Ontario Hockey League’s Windsor Spitfires were charged with two counts of sexual assault in Windsor, Ontario. . . . UC Santa Barbara won the men’s and women’s titles at the Big West Swimming and Diving Championships Saturday in Long Beach. The men’s team won its 17th consecutive title and the women their third consecutive. . . . Stanford won its ninth consecutive Pacific-10 Conference swimming title in Federal Way, Wash., Saturday. . . . Jockey Gary Stevens finished second aboard Electric Flash in the $1-million Hong Kong Derby at the Sha Tan Race Course. Makarpura Star won the 1 1/8-mile race, Hong Kong’s equivalent of the Kentucky Derby.

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