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...Kevin Curren, the South-African born No. 8 seed, who now lives in the U.S., had a tough opening set against Larry Stefanki before winning...
...calendar one, was lost too. Still her grace in defeat was heroic, in contrast to the style of the defending men's champion and top seed Jimmy Connors, who fled in a fury after his fourth-round loss to a big server from South Africa, twelfth-seeded Kevin Curren...
Connors' departure brought attention to the less familiar skills of 16th-seeded American Tim Mayotte, unseeded New Zealander Chris Lewis and Curren on one side of the bracket, while John McEnroe (No. 2 seed) and Ivan Lendl (3) fought it out rather tamely on the other. Lendl has a slight allergy and tremendous aversion to grass and actually skipped Wimbledon last year. But at 23, he appears ready to confront McEnroe, 24, on every surface from here on out. This is the next great tennis argument and they should be years settling it. Each man likes the other about...
...second upset, unseeded Brad Gilbert eliminated fourth-seeded Kevin Curren of South Africa 6-4, 6-4. Gilbert, who will face No. 5 Vitas Gerulaitis in the quarterfinals, broke Curren's service in the 10th games of both sets to capture the victory...
...daily on world markets and pushed the price of oil from $12.50 to $34 per bbl. Veteran oil industry watchers are always nervous that a comparable upheaval in Saud Arabia would cause even more dramatic price increases, and have even more disastrous consequences for Western economies. Thus the curren oversupply of oil should be used by the West as an opportunity to decrease further its dependence upon OPEC rather than as an excuse to ignore an energy crisis that will not go away. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by Lawrence Malkin/Paris and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York