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Wimbledon begins today: Courier, Seles must justify top billing
LONDON. June 21: it would be difficult to Imagine Jim Courier s 'American Marine' face wearing
a grin any larger than the one which flashed around the world when he pocketed this year's Australian and French Open titles to reach the half way stage of the Grand Slam, reports AFP
But with Wimbledon, the third of the season's major championships, looming on Monday, the 21-year-old world number-one Is having a pretty good stab at IL *
And the reason is that most of his major rivals are having problems.
Three-times champion Boris Becker has lost the only match he has played since his month-long convalescence after a hamstring injury.
And he opens his ninth ' campaign at the All England Club without a coach after splitting with former Czech Davis Cup player Tomas Smid. Smid. Smid was Becker's third coach in 17 moths.
However, the 24-year-old, who staged the nearest thing to a nervous breakdown In public when he argued and cursed himself to defeat against compatriot Michael I Stich In last year’s final, was I happy to be back
I "Each time 1 come back k here 1 feel something special Ins like coming back home. Vrhts is where 1 was born in
terms of tennis.’ said Becker who won his first Wimbledon as a 17-year-old In 1985.
Stefan Edberg, who has triumphed twice at the world’s most famous tournament, appears to have lost the killer touch and has got into the habit of failing to finish off groggy opponents. It happened at the French Open... and it happened again at Queen's, where he crashed to Japan's unheralded Shuzo Matsuoka in three sets after failing to convert six match points.
Tony Pickard, the 26-ycar-old London-based Swedes British coach of nine years, admitted: "These past few months have provided Stefan and me with our biggest challenge."
Stich has spent most of the year since winning the most-coveted crown in tennis refusing to speak to the German press because they "hounded" his girlfriend.
He has won only one event — a warm-up grass-court tournament at Rosmalen tn the Netherlands last week.
It was a meagre harvest for the serious 6 ft 4 in German after a relatively disappointing season. But at least he should have an easy first-round clash on Monday.
His Italian opponent Stefano Pescosolido has played only one match at Wimbledon, losing a five-setter to Aaron Krlcksteln in the first round last year.
Andre Agassi was able to
keep the fans on the edge of their seats even before he hit the ball 12 months — thanks lo the rain and the spun-out unveiling of his ’all white" strip after threats of disqualification If he wore his usual garish colours.
But the 12th seed, who charged through to the quarter-finals in 1991, needs to throw-off the lingering doubts after his humiliating straight-sets execution by Courier tn
the semi-final in Paris earlier this month.
Pete Sampras, seeded fifth, has the strokes and style lo be a problem but not always the stamina to survive early-round clashes.
Goran Ivanisevic, the fastserving Croat who stormed into the semi-finals here in 1990 and flashy Frenchman Henri Leconte, whose semi-final run thrilled the Parisians,
and tuned up his game In re cent months and is player who is never beatep until the final point is lost.
Ferreira, who stopped Bjorn Borg's second come-back at this year's Monte Carlo Open dead tn its tracks, produced a more serious warning to the elite with his stunning victory at Queen's last weekend
Ivan Lendl has not been seeded in the top four for the first time since 1983. Despite
can always be dangerous. However. a big question mark hangs over their stamina and consistency.
Edberg, is 9-4 on to win the 265.000 round first prize with Courier and Stich at 11-2 but two of the best bets to cause upsets could be the 1989 French Open champion Michael Chang or South Africa's Wayne Ferreira.
Chang, the 20-year-old Chinese-American, has tightened
fc^ng twice a runncr-up and a ting semi-finalist six-times.
the 32-year-old 10th seed Is no longer considered a serious contender for the only major title missing from his collection.
John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors fall into the same category.
But they should give value for money lo nostalgic fans 1 who have cheered and booed them through their glittering careers.
McEnroe-, three times champion and the winner of 77 singles titles overall. Is definitely bowing out at the end of his 33rd year.
Connors, fast approaching 40, will not confirm for certain that he will not be back in 1993.
_ Connors, whose record 109 , victories Include eight Grand
Slam titles, will face Mexican Davis Cup player Luis Herrera. It will be no pushover.
The 20-year-old Herrera has lost in the first round of his two previous visits to the All England Club bul has beaten both Courier and McEnroe In the past.
McEnroe will play Brazilian clay-court specialist Luiz Matter. 28.
Pat Cash, Australia's 27-old 1987 champion, fits in his tennis playing between babysitting and guitar-playing these days
He may also give the impression he has no pretensions on the title. But he remains
super-fit and his wild-card presence will make several players In his portion of the draw more than a little apprehensive.
Courier, who dropped only one set on his way to his French title. Is riding the crest of the wave and his confidence is sky-high.
Criticism that his grinding game based on hard-hit groundstrokes is not effective on grass brings another smile to Courier's lips.
"I'm not regarded as a specialist on grass and I accept that. But a grass court has the same dimensions as the rest and I don't think it requires a different psychology." He said ominously.
"But the more I think about my game and how 1 feel right now the more 1 believe that ft's going to take a really spe cial effort to beat me. I really do feel confident."
Courier, a workholic who follows Lendl's dedicated ap proach to the game, has become a complete player since teaming up with wily Spaniard Jose Higueras and compatriot Brad Stine in Palm Springs.
Underneath it all the American probably ignores all the Jibes about his style and effectiveness on grass
If last year's quarter finalist wins — he will do it his way. And why not:
Bjorn Borg confounded the purists by triumphing against
• the serve-and-volley brigade five years running a