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The Post, Wednesday, December 19, 19M-D3 McEnroe Salvages Only Davis Cup Win Grosse Pointe, Mich. Navrtilova, winner of three Grand Slam events in 1984, is ranked No. 1 among the women by Tennis Magazine for the third straight year. She suffered losses only in her first and last tournaments of the year, falling to Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia in the final of the Virginia Slimss of California and to Helena Sukova in" the semifinals of the Australian Open. Chris Evert Lloyd, the Australian Open champion, maintained the No.

2 ranking, followed by Mandlikova; Pam Shriver of Lutherville, and Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria. Rounding out the top 10 are Sukova $2900 Nassau's newest and most lavish gambling resort, announces daily day or night charter flights from ix)th Miami and Ft. Lauderdale airrx)rts for iinivMifvnhlf nrirf SNj r-rfm, MI DELRAT SWAP SHOP 1 KJliAJLJI 5iIiVf 7 SHl us. i-uuriy diici yiwr ihpi( 'Ml I of Czechoslovakia; Kathy Jordan of King of Prussia, Wendy Turnbull of Australia; Carling Bassett of Canada and Zina Garrison of Houston. New to the women's top 10 are Maleeva, Sukova, Bassett and Garrison.

In the surface rankings, McEnroe was chosen No. 1 on grass, indoor and hard courts, but ranked No. 2 on clay behind Lendl. Lendl is ranked No. 3 on grass, indoor and hard courts, and No.

4 on grass. Connors is ranked No. 2 on grass, indoor and hard-court surfaces, but is not among the top five on clay. Navratilova and Evert are ranked 1-2 on all four surfaces. SALE Re9 Siie, Re? ASti 41 44 4I 11 tS T5 37 41 ti 41 JJt M35.7 ii i HI O'f everyday price MasterCare biand tarvice available at Firestone at Firestone stores and many Firestone en Daid as aqreea.

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After surviving two break points in the seventh game of the third set, McEnroe broke for a 5-3 lead as Wilander's backhand passing shot down the line was just wide. That was all the American needed, acing the Swede twice in the next game to easily hold his service. Volvo Masters Set NEW YORK Swedish Davis Cup teammates Henrik Sundstrom and Anders Jarryd will play the opening match in the 1400,000 Volvo Masters Tennis Championships at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 8. The second match on the opening day of the 12-man tournament will pit Ecuador's Andres Gomez against one of the two remaining players who have yet to qualify for the field.

On Jan. 9, the other qualifier will meet Sweden's Joakim Nystrom, followed by Tomas Smid of Czechoslovakia against Eliot Teltscher. Mats Wilander of Sweden, the No. 4 seed, will see his first action on the afternoon of Jan. 10, while the Sundstrom-Jarryd winner will play top-seeded John McEnroe that evening.

On Jan. 11, No. 2 seed Jimmy Conors and No. 3 Ivan Lendl will play their second-round matches. Year-End Rankings Out NORWALK, Conn.

John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova for the second straight year are the world's the top male and female tennis players of 1984, according to the annual year-end rankings of Tennis Magazine. An international panel of seven tennis journalists from six countries was polled for the rankings by Tennis, which also ranks players according to surface. McEnroe holds the No. I spot among men, having won 13 tournaments, including the U.S. Open and Wimbledon.

He lost only twice in tournament play, falling to Ivan Lendl in the French Open final and to Vijay Amritraj in the first round of the ATP Championships. Lendl, ranked No. 3 last year, moves up to No. 2, dropping Jimmy Connors to No. 3.

The remainder of the top 10 is dominated by Swedes, led by Mats Wilander, the two-time Australian Open champion, at No. 4. Henrik Sundstrom, Anders Jarryd and Joakim Nystrom are ranked sixth, seventh and ninth, respectively. Making the men's top 10 for the first time are No. 5 Andres Gomez of Ecuador, No.

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McEnroe, who was upset by Henrik Sundstrom in singles on Sunday and lost for the first time in Davis Cup doubles on Monday, gained a measure of revenge when he defeated Mats Wilander 6-3, 5-7, 6-3. Sundstrom then spoiled Jimmy Arias' Davis Cup debut with a 3-6, 8-6, 6-3 victory. Sweden had clinched the prestigious international tennis event on Monday when it took an insurmountable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five-matches competition. The defeat was the worst for the United States since 1973, when Australia won 5-0 at Cleveland, Ohio. It was also the first time McEnroe was on the losing side in a final.

Four times in the last six years, McEnroe led the U.S. to victory, the last time in 1982 on a similar but faster indoor clay-court surface. Arias replaced Jimmy Connors, who left Sweden earlier in the day to return home, where his wife is expecting their second child. The 32-year-old Connors only played one singles match and lost it in the first Davis Cup final of his long career. Yesterday's "reverse singles" matches were shortened to foest-of-three sets as Sweden already had clinched the victory.

McEnroe and Connors did not win a set Sunday in the first two singles matches, and only one set in the doubles. McEnroe's victory over Wilander ended the Swede's 14-match winning streak in Davis Cup play. And it was the first time McEnroe managed to prevail on clay, the favorite surface in Wilander's early career. "But this match wasn't that important for me," said Wilander, who defended his Australian Open title on the grass courts in Melbourne before coming here. "It doesn't matter if we win 5-0 or 3-2.

And losing the streak doesn't matter either." It was just like an exhibition, and it showed at times, both players making several unforced errors. "It's tough for both of us to play a match like this," said McEnroe. "But it does get into the record book. Maybe they shouldn't count it because it has no bearing." McEnroe, who now has a 4-3 career edge over Wilander, broke the Swede's serve twice in the first set. Wilander survived three match points, trailing 4-5 in the second set.

McEnroe hit the first one into the net to make it 30-40. Then Wilander connected with a forehand volley to save the second. On the third match point, after McEnroe had scored with a cross-court shot that hit the line, the American was wide with a forehand volley. Wilander finally held service to pull to 5-5 after a pair of unforced Hall of Fame Swim pedal to Tht Past FORT LAUDERDALE The 15th Annual Hall of Fame Ocean Mile Swim is set for Dec. 29 at 10 a.m., starting on the beach in front of the Jolly Roger Hotel.

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