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...Saturday, Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia won her second Australian Open women's singles title and earned the fourth Grand Slam crown of her career, upsetting Martina Navratilova, the world's top-ranked player...
...youthful players and 2,650 coaches, the program has brought the small (pop. 15.4 million) East European nation to the heights of international tennis: besides Navratilova, its alumni include Ivan Lendl, the world's No. l player, and such other top seeds as Miloslav Mecir, Helena Sukova and Hana Mandlikova -- who surprised the tennis world last week by marrying an Australian restaurateur between rounds of the Federation...
...case, Gaddafi survived the attack, apparently because he was not in his personal residence but, said a close associate, "underground"--presumably in a bunker where he often sleeps. His family was less fortunate: an 18-month-old girl, reportedly his adopted daughter Hana, was said to have been one of at least 37 civilian casualties of the raid. The dictator's two young sons, Saif al Arab, 4, and Hamis, 3, were injured and his wife Safia shell-shocked when bombs blew off the front walls of their living quarters...
...game was tennis, but the final score was Czechmate. No two Europeans had ever won the U.S. Open singles championships in the same year. But last week Czechoslovakia's Ivan Lendl, 25, and Hana Mandlikova, 23, hoisted the silver high after overcoming a shared reputation as temperamental talents who tend to choke in major matches. This time, despite a couple of 90 degrees -plus afternoons, they showed no signs of wilting against the best players in the U.S. Mandlikova outpowered Chris Evert Lloyd, 30, in the semis (4-6, 6-3, 6-3), then in the finals wrested the title...
Lendl's victory combined with Hana Mandlikova's upset of Martina Navratilova on Saturday produced a Czechoslovakian sweep of the two top events. In addition Czech Helena Sukova teamed up with West Germany's Claudia Kohde-Kilsch yesterday to dethrone Navratilova and Pam Shriver as the womens' doubles champs...