THE fortunes of Boris Becker and Jaime Yzaga were reversed at the
Tokyo indoor tennis tournament yesterday after their recent efforts in
Sydney.
Becker avenged his first-round defeat by Neil Borwick at the
Australian event with a 6-2, 6-2 win against the Aussie in the second
round in Japan. But Peruvian Yzaga, champion in Sydney, went out in the
first round of the #667,000 Japanese tournament, beaten 7-5, 7-6 by
Christo van Rensburg.
The German, who has been successful in just two tournaments so far
this season, showed no signs of the illness which upset his performance
in Sydney, and will now play either Mikael Pernfors, of Sweden, or the
American Patrick McEnroe.
Stefan Edberg, seeking his first tournament win since April, needed
two hours 11 minutes to beat American Chuck Adams 7-6 (11-9), 7-6
(8-6).
Edberg had great difficulty with his serve, hitting 10 double faults,
but eventually prevailed and now will face his Swedish compatriot Jonas
Svensson, who beat Japanese qualifier Ryuso Tsujino, in the next round.
Ivan Lendl starts the defence of the title today against American
Tommy Ho. Results:
First round -- P McEnroe (USA) beat S Iwabuchi (Japan) 6-0, 6-4; P
Haarhuis (Holland) beat L Wahlgren (Sweden) 6-3, 7-6 (7-2); J Eltingh
(Holland) beat D Flach (USA) 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (10-8), 7-5; C van Rensburg
(S Africa) beat J Yzaga (Peru) 7-5, 7-6 (7-2).
Second round -- R Krajicek (Holland) beat J Morgan (Australia) 7-6
(7-5), 6-3; T Martin (USA) beat A Jarryd (Sweden) 6-3, 6-4; M Woodforde
(Australia) beat C Pridham (Canada) 6-7 (10-12), 7-6 (7-5), 6-0; S
Edberg (Sweden) beat C Adams (USA) 7-6 (11-9), 7-6 (8-6); J Svensson
(Sweden) beat R Tsujino (Japan) 7-6 (8-6), 6-3; B Becker (Germany) beat
N Borwick (Australia) 6-2, 6-2.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article