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Forget to face Stich in qtrs
MUNICH. Germany. Dec 12 : Todd Woodbridge of Australia advanced to a quarterfinal berth We-
dnesday by beating Aaron Krlckstcin 6-3. 6-3 in the opening round of the dlrs 6 million Grand Slam Cup. reports AP.
Guy Forget, one of the stars of the French Davis Cup victory. and Wimbledon winner Michael Stich moved Into a
quarterfinal meeting. Forget has a 3-0 lifetime mark against Stich.
Stich downed Goran Prpic. a droatian-born Yugoslav. 6-4. 6-3. in 62 minutes.
Forget beat Peru's Jamie Yzaga. 6-3, 6-3. Forget was down 0-3 then won six consecutive games to take the match.
Ten days ago Forget provided the clinching point In France's victory over the United States,
Also Wednesday, American David Wheaton moved on by defeating Dutchman Paul Haarhuis 1-6, 6-3. 6-2 in the first match of the afternoon. Wheaton plays Woodbridge on Friday for a spot in the semifinals.
Woodbridge almost doubled his 1991 earnings with a guaranteed dlrs 300,000 Just for reaching the second round. He had dlrs 358,679 in prize winnings this year from official tournament play and is the lowest ranked player of the 16 competing here, at No 78.
However, by making the round of 16 in the Australian Open and the third round of Wimbledon and the US Open, he gained enough points to rank 19th in the Grand Slam Cup's scoring system.
When Becker and US Open champion Stefan Edberg bowed out. and Andre Agassi declining the invitation. Woodbridge moved Into the ft nal draw. Just for showing up In Munich he would have won dlrs 50.000.
The tournament gathers the
top finishers from the four Grand Slam tournaments.
But of the four Grand Slam champions only Stich is still in competition.
On Tuesday. Australian Open winner Becker pulled out of the event when he failed to Improve enough from a virus which forced him to default the European Community Championship final on Sunday to Krtcksteln. *
It was the third rich tournament Becker has been forced to miss in the pass five weeks because of Illness.
Last month, he had to bow out of the Paris Open in the third round because of fever and the flu. He returned to compete in the ATP championship but failed to make It out of the preliminary round.
As for the other missing champions. Edberg, the No 1 ranked player in the world, has tendinitis in the knee and defending champion and ATP championship winner Pete Sampras did not qualify.
French Open winner Jim Courier quietly bowed oMt late Tuesday, a 6-4, 6-2 loser to Michael Chang.
Chang Is set to meet Patrick McEnroe on Thursday tn one quarterfinal for a chance in the final four. The other match Thursday Is Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland against Ivan Lendl.
Hlasek beat Jimmy Connors Tuesday night. Connors was later fined dirs 1.000 by the Grand Slam Cup committee for an audible obscenity in an argument in the third set of his 0^. 6-4. 6-4 loss to Hlasek.