R2 :
Top-seeded Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia was the only seeded player to get through the second round without difficulty. She disposed of Bunny Bruning of San Diego 6-0, 6-1.
QF:
Renata Tomanova and Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia both won singles quarter-final matches in a women’s $25,000 futures tournament Friday night and earned the right, as futures semi-finalists, to play in the major women’s circuit for the next two weeks.
Tomanova‘s 6-2, 6-4 victory over Wendy Barlow of Victoria ended a month-long stay on the futures tour for the Czeckoslovak veteran, who was ranked 22nd in the world at the start of the 1978 season.
Mandlikova, 17, had a more difficult time than her countrywoman as she was pushed to a tie breaker in the third set for a 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 victory over Kim Sands‘of Miami
SF:
Top-seeded Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia scored a 6-3, 7-6 victory Saturday over countrywoman Renata Tomanva in the semifinals of a women’s $25,000 futures tennis tournament. It places the 16-year-old Mandlikova into Sunday’s final against Leslie Allen, the 21-year-old New Yorker who defeated Kay McDaniel of Shreveport, La., 6-2, 6-2 Saturday. The winner receives $3,400.
F :
Hana Mandlikova of Prague, Czechoslovakia was all smiles yesterday but it wasn’t because she had just received $3,400 for defeating Leslie Allen of Manhattan, New York 7-6, 6-2 in the $25,000 Avon Futures singles final at the Cote de Liesse Racquet Club.
After all, the 16-year-old Mandlikova gets to keep almost none of it. Because she is classified as a serni-pro, the Czech tennis association is entitled to all her earnings, with the exception of a $7 stipend. The association, in turn, pays all Hana‘s expenses, win or lose.
Hana was smiling yesterday because she had reached a milestone. She had won her first Futures tournament after only three weeks on the circuit something some girls take years to do if they win at all.
F :
Hana Mandlikova of Prague, Czechoslovakia was all smiles yesterday but it wasn’t because she had just received $3,400 for defeating Leslie Allen of Manhattan, New York 7-6, 6-2 in the $25,000 Avon Futures singles final at the Cote de Liesse Racquet Club.
After all, the 16-year-old Mandlikova gets to keep almost none of it. Because she is classified as a serni-pro, the Czech tennis association is entitled to all her earnings, with the exception of a $7 stipend. The association, in turn, pays all Hana‘s expenses, win or lose.
Hana was smiling yesterday because she had reached a milestone. She had won her first Futures tournament after only three weeks on the circuit something some girls take years to do if they win at all.
