Navratilova Gains Finals at Sydney With Victories in Singles and Doubles

SYDNEY, Australia — Martina Navratilova, tuning up for this week’s Australian Open, advanced to the finals in singles and doubles in the New South Wales Open tennis tournament on Saturday.

The top-seeded Navratilova, of Ft. Worth, Tex., defeated No. 9 Hana Mandlikova of Australia, 6-3, 6-2, and will play Sweden’s Catarina Lindqvist in today’s final.

Lindqvist advanced by defeating Terry Phelps of Larchmont, N.Y., in the other semifinal, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6.

In doubles, Navratilova and regular partner Pam Shriver, the No. 1-seeded team, defeated the unseeded team of Iwona Kuczynska of Poland and Judith Weisner of Austria, 6-3, 6-0.

Navratilova and Shriver will face Liz Smylie and Wendy Turnbull of Australia, who advanced past Ann Henricksson and Gretchen Magers of the United States, 6-2, 6-3.

In the men’s singles semifinals, Andrei Cherkasov of the Soviet Union defeated Olivier Delaitre of France, 7-5, 6-1, and third-seeded Aaron Krickstein of Grosse Pointe, Mich., defeated Bruno Oresar of Yugoslavia, 6-0, 2-6, 6-4.