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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Saturday June 8 1991 3C nt to No 1 Se les win para BASEB CARD SHOW the 1989 and 1990 finals Now Se les has taken over the No 1 spot She won the Australian Open in January and a victory would put her halfway on the road to a Grand Slam sweep "For me it is important to win each match and play my best tennis" Se les said "It is important to win as many Grand Slams as I can "Being No 1 is not a great excitement like Associated Press PARIS Perhaps Arantxa Sanchez Vicario is right where she wants to be back in a French 9pen final looking to break a winless streak against the defending champion and No 1- ranked player Top-seed Monica Se les would seem to have the edge today (taped 3 pm NBC WCNCTV dhannel 36 in Charlotte) She is 40 against Sanchez Vicario and beat Gabriela Sabatini the year's hottest player in the semifinals The situation resembles 1989 when Sanchez Vicario was a heavy underdog to Steffi Graf then ranked No 1 and sporting a 3-0 lifetime mark against Sanchez Vicario That day San Chez Vicario stunned Oral to win the French at 17 ending a string of five consecutive Grand Slam victories for Graf Another astounding victory over Graf on Thursday put Sanchez Vicario in the final for the second time and ended Graf's string of four straight French Open finals Graf had won in 1987 and 1988 and lost in which said Thursday that Se les No I even if she lost the final has itself It now says a loss to Sanchez would make Graf the No I Sanchez Vicario isn't worried about played her four times but never in a Slam" she said "I have nothing to lose" Picnic) said the victory over Graf on match gave her confidence but the against Se les "will be a different try to stay concentrated" Vicario who was in contention for in Paris was eliminated in both of semifinals Friday as she fell short attempted triple crown doubles she and Helena Sukova Czechoslovakia lost to the top seeds Gigi Fernandez and Jana Novotna of 7-5 5-7 6-4 the afternoon in the mixed doubles Vicario and Jorge Lozano of Mexico the losing end of the score against paired with her brother Cyril Suk I I French Open results Immo r- PARIS Results trent Fridays matches In the French Open (seed in parentheses): Men Semifinal singles Andre Agassi (4) Boris Becker (2) 7-5 6-3 3-6 6-1 Jim Courier (9) Michael Stich (12) 6-2 6-7 6-2 6-4 Somifinal doublos John Fitzgerald-Anders Jarryd (9) Grant Connell-Glenn Michibata (6) 6-0 6-4 Women Semifinal doubles Gigi Fernandez-Jana Novotna (1) Czechoslovakia Arantza Sanchez Vicarto Spain-Helena Sukova (3) 7-5 5-7 6-4 Mercedes Paz-Gabriela Sabatini (8) tied with Larissa Savchenko and Natasha Zvereva (2) 3-6 7-5 6-6 suspended due to darkness the moment when you win a Grand Slam" Se les said "Both are great but 1 am not going to put all that pressure on myself for either of them 1 want both but 1 don't want all that pressure" Se les needs a victory or else she will lose just enough points for Graf to overtake her in the rankings Sanchez 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assistant Jerry Green has expressed a strong interest in the job The Cotton Orange and the Sugar will choose from among five teams the ACC and Big East champions Notre Dame and two at-large teams to fill their at-large berths The remaining two teams will play in a fourth as yet undetermined bowl The leading candidates are the Fiesta and the Citrus Orange Bowl President Harper Davidson said the fourth bowl will play host to a national championship game only if the No 1 and No 2 teams come from the group of the ACC the Big East and Notre Dame "Whoever has the first-ranked team will get to choose first" Davidson said "That's not chiseled in stone That will get resolved" The other two major bowls will take their choice according to the ranking of their respective host teams The ranking to be used Brock said likely will be The Associated Press poll of writers and broadcasters According to one conference official within the alliance the pool of five teams will have the right to refuse the selection for instance if Notre Dame is chosen by the Cotton Bowl for the third consecutive year it may decline However the declining team must play within the four-bowl alliance Also Notre Dame will have to win an as yet unspecified number of games to qualify for the alliance I thought we had a chance because we'd changed a bunch of springs and things and had the car really working well" Said Earnhardt who leads the second-place Rudd by 82 points for the million Winston Cup championship: "I just really got the handle on the track today and got pretty comfortable Still I was a little hesitant on the first corner and that's where I got beat Everywhere else the clocks showed we beat them" Wallace who agrees that he attacks a road course more recklessly than others indicated this boldness possibly cost him the pole "I ran off the track and that killed me" said Wallace whose charging style has produced a 5-3 edge over the smoother Rudd in the eight most recent road events "I Fot off right before 'The Carousel turn (a sweeping downhill Turn 6) That cost me dearly We definitely would have been second I just got too aggressive We're in good shape for Sunday" Kendall a Trans-Am Series road racing champion is filling in for the injured Kyle Petty at Sears Point in the Felix Sabates-owned Grand Prix He'll also drive the car in August at Watkins Glen NY Bill Elliott felt bad although he didn't mess up his Ford Elliott spun in Turn "I did a 360" said Elliott who'll try to qualify again today "It was a pretty spectacular crash not to have hit anything" Your evito rku By IVAN MAISEL Dallas Morning News DALLAS The postseason college football alliance between the ACC and Big East Notre Dame and three major New Year's Day bowls became real Friday Signed contracts remain weeks away and the alliance won't take effect until the 1992 regular season and 1993 bowls But the six parties etnerged from a three-hour meet-jog with a handwritten statement tat they "have agreed to agree spbject to final ratification with our respective governing bodies" It is the first public acknowledgment the alliance will come to life For the first time in their nearly 60 years of existence the Cotton Sugar and Orange bowls have agreed to cooperate in a formal selection system "This certainly heads in the direction of being one of the most significant things ever to happen in college football" Cotton Bowl executive vice president Jim Brock said "This thing has a chance to really be a bonanza Well just have to wait and see" The alliance members agreed to meet next week most likely Friday Orange Bowl executive director Steve Hatchell called the agreement Friday "a big step" However he added "There are some things we have (to accomplish) that are beyond complicated" Pole Rudd saving some for Sunday's race antinued from page 1C th'e pole winner had yet to take the rake at Sears Point "Rusty can have the pole if I can have the race" joked Rudd who has combined with Wallace to sweep the lait 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