Tauziat Injured, Basuki/Vis Advance to Doubles Final   Canadian Open doubles semifinal, Sunday, August 22 By Ed Toombs

Yayuk Basuki / Caroline Vis (4) def. Alexandra Fusai / Nathalie Tauziat (2), 6-2, 2-1 ret.
Doubles semifinal

  The fans who stuck around after the dramatic Seles-Hingis semifinal in hopes of more enetertaining tennis were sent home diasappointed. In a semifinal doubles tilt, the fourth seeds, Yayuk Basuki of Indonesia and Caroline Vis of the Netherlands, were in c I was told it is "nothing serious" and should not compromise her participation in the upcoming US Open.

  The French pair were the pre-match favourites, not only because of their superior ranking, but also because they had beaten Basuki/Vis three consecutive times in the past two years. But it became increasingly evident as the games went by that something wa

  Still, it was Fusai who was broken in the first game of the match, mainly as a result of several superb returns by Vis and a forehand blast by Basuki on break point. The Frenchwomen had chances to break serve and pull even, particularly on Vis's serve in

  Then, after Tauziat's serve was broken to give the Indonesian-Dutch combo a 5-2 lead, Tauziat called for an injury timeout, and a WTA trainer worked on her right arm. When play resumed, Vis served out the first set, as the team converted their first set p

  One knew things were going very badly when Nathalie was serving at 1-1 in the second set. She was serving weakly, hit a feeble pop-up volley and blew an overhead. After her serve was broken at 30-40 on a Vis volley, it was announced that Tauziat could no

  Basuki/Vis, the defending Canadian Open champions, have had a nice run to reach the final. Their opponents in Sunday's final will be either Hingis/Novotna or Martinez/Tarabini, who face off in the second match of tonight's evening session (see separate re
 

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