Lewis Races to Another Win

A week after beating world-record holder Maurice Greene, Brian Lewis added another impressive victory Friday in the first Golden League track meet of the season at Paris.

He won the 100 in 10.10, beating Olympic bronze medalist Ato Boldon of Trinidad and Tobago and Bruny Surin of Canada.

“The time wasn’t the fastest in the world, but it was enough to win, and that’s what I’m here for,” Lewis said.

Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco’s long-distance star, extended his winning streak to 23 races. El Guerrouj won the 1,500 meters in 3 minutes, 30.75 seconds, three seconds ahead of Bernard Lagat of Kenya. He is unbeaten at 1,500 meters since losing in the 1996 Olympic final.

Tennis

Martina Hingis of Switzerland rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the first set to beat Jennifer Capriati, 7-5, 6-2, to advance to the Heineken Trophy final at Den Bosch, Netherlands. The top-ranked Hingis will play Ruxandra Dragomir of Romania in the grass-court tuneup for Wimbledon. Dragomir beat Kristina Brandi, 6-2, 6-3.

Patrick Rafter overcame a rash of errors in the second set to beat Karim Alami of Morocco, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, in the men’s quarterfinals. In today’s semifinal, Rafter will play Magnus Gustafsson. In the other quarterfinals, Michael Chang beat Germany’s Karsten Braasch, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2), and France’s Nicolas Escude edged Spain’s Francisco Clavet, 7-5, 6-4.

Dominique Van Roost of Belgium reached the final of the Eastbourne tournament at Eastbourne, England, beating Anne Kremer of Luxembourg, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. In the other semifinal, Julie Halard-Decugis of France defeated Chanda Rubin, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.

Spanish trio Alex Corretja, Albert Costa and Juan Carlos Ferrero have threatened to boycott Wimbledon next week because they have not been seeded.

The three have written to the ATP Tour complaining that the All England Club had ignored their world rankings and excluded them from the seedings.

Also Friday, Sweden’s Magnus Larsson withdrew from Wimbledon because of a knee injury. Canada’s Sebastien Lareau will replace Larsson.

Motor Sports

Ford driver Rusty Wallace took the pole for Sunday’s Save Mart/Kragen 350 Winston Cup race at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., turning a fast lap of 99.309 mph over the 10-turn, 1.949-mile road circuit. . . . Gil de Ferran was fastest in provisional qualifying for the Freightliner/G.I. Joe’s 200 at Portland, Ore. De Ferran drove his Honda-powered Reynard around the 1.969-mile circuit in 58.586 seconds, an average of 120.991 mph.

Jim Roper, winner of NASCAR’s first “strictly stock” car race in 1949, died Friday. He was 83. Roper, a native of Halstead, Neb., drove his Lincoln off the showroom floor in Great Bend to North Carolina and on to victory in the June 19, 1949, race at Charlotte Speedway. Friends said Roper had been ill with cancer and suffered from heart and liver ailments. He died at a retirement home in Newton, Neb.

Miscellany

A crowd of at least 40,000 is expected tonight in Glasgow, Scotland, to watch Mike Tyson face Lou Savarese in a 10-round heavyweight bout. . . . Boxing promoter Wilfrid Sauerland, testifying at Newark, N.J., in the racketeering trial of International Boxing Federation founder Robert W. Lee, said he funneled $100,000 to the IBF on behalf of heavyweight Axel Schulz so the sanctioning body would mandate a lucrative rematch with champion George Foreman.

Former Green Bay Packer tight end Mark Chmura pleaded not guilty at Waukesha, Wis., to a charge that he had sex with his 17-year-old baby sitter at a party after a high school prom. . . . Former Orlando Magic assistant coach George Scholz lost an eight-year discrimination lawsuit against the team. Scholz, who is white, was seeking $10.5 million for economic damages, accusing the Magic of firing him solely for the purpose of hiring a black assistant coach. . . . UCLA freshman Caroline Soong set a national junior record in the hammer throw with a toss of 194 feet 10 inches in the U.S. junior championships (age 14-19) at Denton, Texas.