Top-seeded Chris Evert scored an impressive 6-3, 7-5 victory over Lori McNeil to win the singles title Sunday in the $150,000 Virginia Slims of New Orleans. McNeil, seeded third at this tournament, defeated Evert in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open last month. ”I knew if I played my game, if I played solid, I`d win,” Evert said. In the doubles final, top seeds Zina Garrison and McNeil beat Peanut Louie Harper and Heather Ludloff 6-3, 6-4.
Peter Lundgren of Sweden needed only 80 minutes to defeat Jim Pugh 6-1, 7-5 in the final of the $293,000 Transamerica Tennis Open in San Francisco. The victory was worth $44,400 for Lundgren, who reached the final of the tournament by downing No. 1 seed Ivan Lendl in the semifinals Saturday night. None of the other top eight seeds had even reached the quarterfinals.
Argentine Martin Jaite battled for 2 hours 47 minutes to defeat Karel Novacek of Czechoslovakia 7-6, 6-7, 6-4 and win the $100,000 Kim Top Line tennis tournament in Palermo, Sicily. Jaite took the first tiebreaker 7-5 and Novacek the second 9-7.
Wilfredo Vasquez (24-2-1) of Puerto Rico stopped champion Park Chan-yong
(25-4-2) of South Korea in the 10th round to capture the World Boxing Association bantamweight title in Seoul. Vasquez knocked Park down twice-in the fifth and seventh rounds-before the scheduled 15-round bout ended at 43 seconds of the 10th round. Referee Lou Morett stopped the bout as Park turned his back.
A meeting scheduled for Wednesday could determine whether Pato Margetic plays for the Sting this season. General Manager Kenny Stern says he has arranged to meet with Augustin Arbulu, Margetic`s agent, and, Stern hopes, Margetic.
”Pato would have to be there,” Stern said. ”We need to get this worked out as soon as possible.” Arbulu has reportedly lost contact with Margetic, who is in West Germany.
Sean Kelly clinched his third successive Nissan Classic cycling title in Dublin, beating Tour de France winner Steve Roche by 43 seconds in an Irish 1-2 finish. The fifth and final individual stage of the five-day event was won by England`s Malcolm Elliott. But Kelly`s second place, in the same time as Elliott, was easily enough to give him the overall title in 25:01:02.
An amputee training for his third Ironman Triathlon was killed when his bicycle was hit from behind by a cement truck during a training ride in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Patrick J. Griskus, 39, a freelance writer of Waterbury, Conn., was pronounced dead on arrival at Kona Hospital. Police are investigating, and no charges have been filed. Griskus, who had completed more than three dozen triathlons, was training for his third Ironman race, scheduled for next Saturday.
