TENNIS ROUNDUP : Lendl Wins After Bomb Scare

Ivan Lendl finished off Boris Becker with two passing shots in a final-set tiebreaker Sunday and won the Seiko Super tennis tournament at Tokyo.

Lendl won, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), in a match that was delayed an hour at the start while police searched for a bomb after a telephoned warning. No bomb was found. The players were told of the call, but the 7,350 spectators, including U.S. Ambassador Michael Armacost, were not.

“It happens sometimes,” Becker said. “It did not affect my game.

“At the end it’s one point, and it depends a bit on luck. I know I am on the right track the way I’m playing. It’s almost the best I’ve played in a long time.”

The bomb threat didn’t bother Lendl, either.

“This is the first time in about 10 years that I have beaten the top two players in the world back to back,” Lendl, who won $122,700 of the $1-million purse, said of victories over No. 1-ranked Stefan Edberg in the semis and Becker.

Becker, who fired 22 aces to 14 by Lendl, received $66,000.

“It’s a success, especially on this surface. I went into the match saying, ‘Serve well and take the short ball,’ ” Lendl said after the two-hour 14-minute match on the carpet at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gym.

Lendl started erratically, hitting long or wide, and was broken in the third game after two deuces.

Becker broke again in the fifth game, and Lendl narrowed the first set’s losing margin by breaking back in the eighth game.

But Lendl broke serve on his first chance in the second set, hitting a good return and then a running passing shot after deuce.

The games went with service in the third set, although at 5-5 and 40-0, Becker let Lendl back into the game for three deuces.

The tiebreaker also went to 5-5 before Lendl ended it with a forehand passing shot and then a backhand pass.

Lendl improved his record to 9-8 against Becker.

Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland and Guy Forget of France beat the American pair of Scott Davis and David Pate, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5, for the doubles title, worth $49,770.

Ronald Agenor of Haiti beat Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10-8), to win the Berlin Open.

Volkov, seeded eighth, broke Agenor’s serve in the sixth game and cruised through the first set.

The Soviet left-hander quickly fell behind, 5-2, in the second, before pulling back to 5-4. But the sixth-seeded Agenor held his serve to tie the match.

In the decisive third set, Volkov used a powerful serve and good returns to take a 4-2 lead.

But Agenor rallied and forced the set into a tiebreaker. Volkov saved three match points before Agenor beat him with a forehand passing shot to win the match.

The victory was Agenor’s third tournament title, including triumphs at the 1989 Athens Open and this year’s event at Genoa, Italy.

Tonya Fuller of the University of San Diego defeated Arizona’s Danielle Scott, 6-2, 6-2, to win the Southern California Women’s Championships at UC Irvine.

Dorey Brandt and Nicole Storto of San Diego State topped Scott and Banni Redhair of Arizona, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2, to win the doubles title.