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No favours for Stefan Edberg
MINNEAPOLIS.
Sept 25: "Great, isn t it?" Stefan Edberg said when he beard the news.
Edbergs worst surface is red clay, not coincidentally the surface the US Tennis Assocla Uon picked for this weekend s Davis Cup semifinal between the United States and Sweden at Target Centre, reports AP.
The first thing you've got to go with is what's best for your game, not necessarily what s not good for another person s game,' Andre Agassi said Thursday after learning he'll meet Edberg, the world's top-ranked player, In Friday s second singles match.
Jim Courier plays Nicklas Kultl in the opening match. The US doubles team of John McEnroe and Pete Sampras takes on Edberg and Anders Jarryd Saturday. Sunday features two more singles matches: Courier vs Edberg and Agassi vs Kultl.
The winner of the best-of-ftve event advances to the Dec 4-6 final against the winner of the Brazil-Switzerland semifinal. which is being played this weekend in Geneva.
"I feel Jim and I are, arguably, the best clay-couriers right now," Agassi said. "With that In mind, you've got to go with our strengths and hope that, along the way, It fits in a few of their weaknesses."
It does.
Edberg isn't exactly helpless on red clay. Although the only Grand Slam event he hasn't won, the French Open, is played on clay, he did reach the 1989 final before losing to Michael Chang and the 1991 quarterfinal before falling to Courier. He won this year's
tour event in Hamburg on clay "But he's not as comfortable on clay as he la on grass and hardcourt." Sweden s captain. John-Anders Sjogren, said So while they have two of the best clay-court players, I think they chose clay to bother Stefan."
It's ironic that clay is the American's choice against Sweden. Traditionally . Europeans have been better on clay than US players.
In fact, the last time these nations met, In the 1984 Davis Cup final in Sweden, the hosts chose red clay because Mats Wilander and Henrik Sund-storm were better on that surface than McEnroe and Jimmy Connors.
That year, the 18-year-old Edberg teamed with Jarryd to
hand McEnroe and Peter Fleming their first-ever Davis Cup doubles defeat, clinching Sweden's surprising victory.
As good us Edberg has become since his Davis Cup debut eight years ago. US team members say It would be foolish to focus solely on him.
"After the experience at Lyon, I don't think you ever can cut anybody out," said Agassi, who opened the 1991 Davis Cup final by beating Guy Forget before host France won the hdift thiee matches and the title.
"We went there and they were saying that Forget was the man to beat and. after I beat him. most likely we re gonna win the whole thing pretty easily.lt didn't turn out that way."
Kultt. who beat Agassi in a 1990 clay-court tournament, defeated McEnroe and Chang at this year's French Open. Since then, however, he has Cred poorly and his ranking dropped to 71st. He wasn't even chosen for Sweden's Davis Cup team until Magnus Gustafsson got hurt last week.
"I'm surprised that his results have been so uneven since the French Open," McEnroe said of the 21-year-old Kulti. "I think he's certainly capable of playing some very fine city-court tennis. But whether he's gonna beat Andre or Jim, no. I don't think he'll beat either of them.”
Which would put Sweden's fate squarely on the racquet of Edberg —in a US arena, on the US-selected surface, less than two weeks after he needed three five-set victories to win the US Open.
"It's going to be a tough weekend," he said. T feel we are very much the underdogs."