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Top Seeds sail on
NEW YORK. Aug 28 Too seed Boris Becker led the top five men Into the second round of the US
Open Tennis championships on Tuesday. but Ivan Lendl was lucky to be among the survivors. reports Reuter.
The fifth-seeded Lendl was taken to the brink of first round elimination by hard-serving 19-ycar-old Dutchman Richard Krajicek, who had the three-tlmc champion on the ropes but could not deliver a
Stefan Edberg, eager to avoid the first round humiliation he suffered here last year, also had some tense moments before beating 124th-ranked American Bryan Shelton 6-4, 2-6, 7-6, 6-1.
The second-ranked Swede fought off three successive set points in the third set to force the tiebreak and gain control of the match.
"It sort of took me nearly two hours before I found any rhythm," a relieved Edberg said. " 1 didn't want to lose today after what happened last year-
All three of this year's Grand Slam winners kept alive their chance of adding a second major title.
A bearded Becker, who first became number one in the world after winning the Australian Open tn January, defeated Argentine Martin Jaitc 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 as a glowing orange ’ sun set behind the National Tennis Centre.
Becker, the 1989 champion who claims to have regained his motivation after suffering defeat in the Wimbledon final to fellow German Michael Stich, was sharp for a first round encounter.
French Open champion Jim Courier, seeded fourth, dropped his serve just once on the way io a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win over Niclas Multi of Sweden.
Stich was taken to a first set ticbreak'before rolling to a 7-6, 6-1, 6-0 win over Dutchman Jacco Eltingh. Stich, who has more aces than
anyone on the men's tour this year, blasted 18 past Eltingh.
Promising American David Wheaton, seeded 11th after reaching the Wimbledon semifinals, advanced with a 6-0, 4-6, 7-6, 6-3 win over Australian Davis Cupper Richard Fromberg and ninth seed Scrgi Bruguera rallied from two sets down to beat fellow Spaniard Tomas Carbonell.
Women's first round play went according to expected form with one minor upset when 14th seed Nathalie Tauziat of France fell to Argentine Florencia Labat 7-5, 6-4.
In a night match, four-lime champion Martina Navratilova, 34, and the No 4 seed, seemed to enjoy her 6-2 6-2 romp over Argentine Patricia
Tarabini.
"It was a real pleasure to be out there," said Navratilova, who had not played a tournament match since Wimbledon.
Earlier fourth seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain blew out Italian Katia Piccolini 6-0, 6-1. Fifth-seeded American Mary Joe Fernandez and eighth seed Conchita Martinez of Spain also easily advanced.
Most of the day's drama was provided by Lendl, whose superior conditioning, nerves of steel, vast Grand Slam experience and French foreign legion hat helped him to survive, while Krajicek wilted In the blistering hcaL
"I said to myself this is my court, if I go down, I go down kicking'," said Lendl, who reached eight consecutive finals here between 1982 and 1989. "I'm not going to roll over for anybody."
When Krajicek began to falter in the tiebreak after well over three hours in the stadium court heat, Ixndl knew the Dutch teenager, who wore no protective headgear, was on his last legs.
Krajicek, whose booming first serve was consistently clocked at over 115 MPH (185 KPH) could barely move in the final set.
T was dead. I felt the sun burning right through my head," Krajicek said. "I was rushing because I just wanted to get off court so badly.”
Jaite gamely tried to extend Becker, but was no match for the three- time Wimbledon champion on a last surface.
The Argentine broke Becker to level the third set 4-4, but the top seed broke right back fpr 5-4 and served out the match, ending it with an emphatic overhead smash.
Becker was pleased with his performance.
"From beginning to end I served always good. It was pretty good tennis for the first match."
But Becker knows there is a lot of hard work ahead.
"Of the four Grand Slam tournaments, this is the toughest one to win," he said.