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Graf lost only 13 points and took just 32 minutes to administer the worst drubbing in French Open history to the young Soviet, who last year won the junior championship here along with the junior titles at the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. “I was in my best form today,” Graf said. “I was hitting great shots.” But she said she was surpsied the victory came with so little trouble. “I didn't expect it to be so easy,” the 18-year-old West German said. “Everybody said it would be an easy final so 1 said I better look out.” The previous most lopsided women's final at the French Open was American veteran Chris Evert's 6-2, 6-0 victory over Australian Wendy Turnbull in 1979. The only other Grand Slam women's final to end without the loser winning a game was at Wimbledon in 1911, when Lambert Chambers defeated Penelope Boothby 6-0, 6-0. Zvereva only once reached game point, at 40-30 when serving in the second game of the match. But Graf then reeled off three straight points to break her, and the Soviet never again won more than two points in a game. WON TWO LEGS Graf, this year's Australian Open champion, now has won the first two legs of the four Grand Slam tournaments in the same year, a feat last accomplished by Margaret Court Smith of Australia in 1970. In the men's final on Sunday, Henri Leconte can count on the Parisian fans when he goes into the French Open finals, but two-time thampion Mats Wilander should feel right at home on the red clay at Roland Garros stadium. “I know I have the public behind me,” the 1lth-seeded Leconte said Friday after beating Jonas Svensson of Sweden 7.6, 6-2, 6-3 to become the first Frenchmen in the final since Yannick Noah won the title five years ago. Wilander improved his record to 11-1 in Grand Slam five-set matches by wearing down Andre Agassi, 18, of the United States, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5, 5-7, 6-0 in the other men's semifinal. Leconte, 24, said he hopes the French fans will be out rooting for him Sunday, but in the meantime he is not letting the excitement over his success go to his head. ‘I'm concentrating completely on the tournament and not thinking about things outside,” he said. “I'm not even paying much attention to what's written about me in the press.” Svensson, who had upset top-ranked Ivan Lendl in straight sets, said Leconte didn't let him play his serve-and-volley style. “It’s very difficult to play him,” Svensson said. “He goes for everything. He makes a lot of unbelievable shots. I couldn't play my game.” Wilander, 23, won the French Open in 1982 and ‘85 and the Australian Open in '83, '84 and again this year. A clay court master who is not as strong on faster surfaces, he says he doesn't think he has a serious chance at winning all four Grand Slam events this year. “I've never won two Grand Slam tournaments in the same year, and that's a big step,” he said. Wilander said he was surprised by how tough his match against Agassi was. “I didn’t think he'd be this good,” said Wilander, who was just 17 when he first won the French Open. “I've never played against a player who hits the ball so hard on his forehand.” Agassi mixed his hard baseline shots with some on-court clowning, grabbing an umbrella from a fan when a rain shower passed and pointing his racket handle at Wilander as if to shoot him after the Swede made a series of amazing recoveries to win a point. Jays bounce Boston BOSTON (AP) — Jim Clancy shut out Boston for 7 2-3 innings and Kelly Gruber highlighted a seven-run ninth with a three-run homer as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Red Sox 10-2 in American League baseball Saturday Clancy, 3-6, posted his first win over Boston since 1984. He's 6-16 lieftime against Boston. He left after consecutive homers by Ellis Burks and Dwight Evans -with two outs in the eighth — the first off Toronto pitching in 68 innings — cut his lead to 3-2. Duane Ward, who got his fourth save, came on to retire the side. Then came the ninth. Gruber homered off Lee Smith into the screen in left with George Bell and Fred McGriff on base to make it 6-2. Nelson Liriano, who had four hits, drove in another with a single and Silvestre Campusano had a bases-loaded double against Zach Crouch, making his first major-league appearance. Roger Clemens, 8-3, struck out nine and allowed just four hits and one earned run in seven innings for Boston. He dropped his league-leading ERA to 1.78 and increased his strikeout total to a major-league leading 125. Toronto took a 1-0 lead in the first on Lloyd Moseby's triple and Rance Mulliniks’s sacrifice fly. They made it 3-0 with two unearned runs in the sixth. Jesse Barfield opened the inning with a fly ball to centre that was dropped by Burks, who appeared to be pulling up to avoid a collision with Evans. Liriano singled Barfield to third, Tony Fernandez doubled home one run and Bell's sacrifice fly scored the other. BRIAN PINTER Sales BRAD ASHTON Service Writer DALE WATSON Service Technician @ 90 Days no Payments ox @ We Finance |.C.B.C. Premiums @ B.C.’s No. 1 Service Call Collect 365-7241 Or Toll Free 1-800-332-7087 SWINGING AWAY... One of the many players who is taking part in the Sunfest slo pitch tour- nament this weekend takes a cut during a game Saturday ot Kinnaird Park CasNewsPhoto by Brendan Nogle Canucks trying to improve The latest round of the Canuck-revolving- dressing room-door sweeps has Steve Tambellini and Jean-Mare Lan. thier wondering the streets in search of work. The stream of hot prospects, turned bums, con tinues as the team with the Halloween uniforms signs two more unsuspecting juniors to contracts to fill the spots vaca. ted by Tambellini and Lanthier who will be free agents this summer. The two newcomers are 20. year-old Jeff Noble — a centre — and 19-year-old Steve Herniman — a defenceman. Noble was the Canucks’ seventh-round draft pick in the 1986 amateur draft He scored 37 goals and 64 asbists for the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League this season’ Herniman is described by Canuck scouts as a defensive defenceman. That's just what the Canucks need - another defenceman who doesn’t score goals. It’s going to be tough to finish above 19th place in the NHL — the Canucks were 19th after the regular season with 59 points — if the team is banking on players who don't seore goals. But it seems the players are just passing time while skating for the Vancouver franchise. Cam Neely got dealt to the Boston Bruins and went from a mugger and plugger to a goal scoring, team-leading monster. It appears to be the same with Patrick Sunstrom. His last sea son with the Canucks before going to New Jersey was flat at best. Now the speedy Swede is scoring in bunches and playing for a team that \will be a con- tender for at least the next two seasons. Sporting Views By Brendan Nagle It makes me wonder just how the Canucks are coached or how they respond to coaching. “They work hard,” says Steve Tambellini of the players he worked with while playing for the Canucks. “It’s a tough situa. tion.” Tambellini has had his eye on European hockey for the last two years he says. Not only is the money good but he also gets achance to play a different style of hockey on a much larger ice surface. “I made a decision that I was going to play out my option here and play in Europe,” he says. “T've been talking to teams for the last couple of years. The financial part of it was just too good to pass up.” Tambellini can’t be labelled as a bum ora slacker because of the leadership role he played while on the Canucks and because of his continuing desire to play the game even on another continent. He managed to rack up 32 points in 41 games for the Canucks last season. “One of the roles I played was to try and help the other young: er guys stay positive,” he says adding it was hard at times for the younger Canuck charges to keep a positive attitude when the wins weren't coming. “They played as best as they could.” He says the coaching situation is not a problem in Vancouver. It's just that the Smythe Divi sion is very competitive at the moment and the Canucks need more time to gel as a unit. He also cautions it won't get easier for the Smythe Division cellar dwellers to get ahead. “They're in a pretty tough spot right now,” he says of the Canucks. “They're going to be battling for evey win.” Tambellini went on to say it's easy to sit in the stands and criticize a team without knowing just how hard it is to go out and perform. To the fan it's just a game. To most players it’s a job they enjoy doing, but have to work hard at to keep. “People are playing for their jobs too,” he says. “You'd better play positive or you might lose your spot on the roster.” He says he’s looking forward to playing in Europe. He'll be leaving in August and will play for a team in Zurich, Switzer- land. The style of play will be much differnt from the NHL, but Tambellini is well versed in European hockey because of his Olympic experience. “There's no question it's going to be a more wide open kind of game,” he says. “There's more room to skate and there won't be as many big players trying to knock you around as there are in the NHL.” Tambellini, who was a first round draft choice of the New York Islanders, finished his 10th season in the NHL with the Canucks. He says the team will get better but will have to work a lot harder because the com petition in the team’s division and the rest of the league is more intense than ever. Is there life after the NHL? “Obviously,” he exclaims. “I signed a contract for two to three years and after that if I want to continue to play I will.” Pistons make final PONTIQC, MICH. (AP) — For most of their players and all of their fans, the Detroit Pistons’ first trip to “the NBA final ends years of frus tration. “It's indescribable; all the min. utes and hours of hard work finally paid off,” Isiah Thomas said after the Pistons beat the Boston Celtics 95-90 Friday night to earn their first trip to the championship series in 31 years in Detroit. “I've been trying for seven years t get to the championships,” Thom as said. “If there's anyone who de serves to be in the finals, it's Adrian Dantley. I've been trying ‘for seven years, but he's been trying for 12.” Reserve guard Vinnie Johnson had 24 points and Dantley added 22 in the final game. Detroit's 4-2 win in the Eastern Conference final marked the end of the Boston coaching career of K.C. Jones, who announced in April he would retire at the end of the season Detroit's depth overwhelmed the Celtics in the final game and in the series. Boston's chances dimmed when centre Robert Parish missed all but six minutes with a knee injury. The Pistons’ bench outscored the Celtics’ 46-20 in the game and 190-58 in the series. With a slump afflicting all the Boston starters except Kevin McHale, who had 33 points Friday, the Celtics couldn't overcome the difference. Larry Bird had 16 points and 14 rebounds, but was 4-for-17 from the field. He shot 35.1 per cent for the series. The Celtics as a team made only 41.1 percent. The Pistons will face the winner of the Western Conference final be tween Dallas and the Los Angeles Lakers, who play their seventh game today. “We don't care who we play,” Dantley said. “We're going to cele- brate.” Boston, winner of 16 NBA titles, was trying for its fifth consecutive trip to the championship round. But despite winning Game 2 in double overtime and Game 4 by one point, the Celtics couldn't overcome their shooting woes. Checkers on top Gary Fleming of Checkers contin. ues to léad the Castlegar Commercial Fastball League in the hitting department with a steady .517 aver. age. Fleming has gone 15 for 29 at the plate so far this season. Team mate Terry Taranoff is 14 for 32 at the plate with a .438 average. Tied with Taranoff is Labatt slugger Don Savinkoff who is also 14 for 32 at the plate. John Obetkoff is fourth in league batting with a .385 average after 26 plate appearances. Rounding out the top five is Clay Liber of Checkers with a .375 average. Checkers leads the league with 11 wins and one loss for 22 points. Labatt's is second with 14 points. The brew crew has seven wins and four losses. Hi Arrow is third with 11 points after winning five games and losing four. Tudor Sports is fourth with seven points and K and A Tire has yet to win one in 10 starts. Pete Evdokimoff singled in the game-winning run in bottom of the seventh inning as Labatt’s handed Checkers its first loss of the season earlier this week. Rod Gritchen scored the winning run after hitting a single to get on base. Ed Plotnikoff and Evdokimoff were two for three at the plate. Eli Sookeroff took the loss on the mound for Cleckers. Spu- keroff leads the league in pitching with nine wins and one loss and Evdokimoff is closing in with six wins and one loss on the mound for Labatt’s. In the other game this week, Pete Kabatoff went two for two at the plate and scored once in Checkers’ 7-0 victory over Tudor Sports. DJ Wah contributed two RBIs and scored twice in the game. Soukeroff pitched a two-hitter and struck out six Tudor batters. Elmer Williams hit the only home run of the game. It was a solo shot. OFF TO GAMES . . . Kolesnikoff Lumber is off to Victoria next month to compete in the B.C. Sum- mer Games girl's softball competition. The team is (from left) Jenniter Mair, Aria Goolieff, Jenny Rezansoff, Jen Voykin, Paige Sloan, Sherri, Pi . Mayo Kalmakov, Corrie Gorkotf, Tomi O'Conner, Sheri Chernenkoff, Lona Zaytsoff, Michelle Bayes, ‘assistant coach Bill Gorkoff and coach Alex Chernenkoft.