TENNIS ROUNDUP : Chang Wins Easily at London

Michael Chang played almost flawlessly Sunday in crushing Guy Forget of France, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1, to win the Wembley indoor championships in London.

It was Chang’s first tournament victory since he won the French Open title in June.

Chang, seeded second, needed only 90 minutes to beat the unseeded Forget. Chang, 17, won $80,000, and Forget, who returned to the circuit in September after a five-month injury layoff, earned $40,000.

“It was good to come here and win,” Chang said. “I’ve only got the Masters to go, and finishing off the year well is a good confidence boost.”

Forget said no matter what he tried, it did not work against Chang.

“It just got worse and worse,” Forget said. “Every time I tried to find a solution, he came up with a better answer.”

McEnroe teamed with Jakob Hlasek to win the doubles title by defeating Jeremy Bates of Britain and Kevin Curren, 6-1, 7-6.

Second-seeded Zina Garrison of Houston struggled past the Soviet Union’s Larisa Savchenko to score a 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 victory in the $250,000 Virginia Slims tournament at Chicago.

“I felt a little bit slow out there today,” Garrison said. “The second set she hit the ball and won the points and there was nothing I could possibly have done. It’s just a matter of saying . . . ‘I’ve been working hard, and if you’re going to beat me, you got to keep hitting winners.’ ”

Garrison, 25, ranked No 5 in the world, won $50,000 by defeating the unseeded Savchenko, 23, for the fourth time in as many matches.

“I felt kind of hopeless out there,” Garrison said. “Her backhands were just falling . . . Whatever she did was like gold.”

Ivan Lendl held off a tough opening-set effort by Magnus Gustafsson of Sweden and turned the final into a rout to win the Stockholm Open.

Lendl, the world’s top-ranked player, won, 7-5, 6-0, 6-3. It was his first victory in this tournament, the world’s oldest Grand Prix indoors, and his 83rd career singles title.

Lendl earned $200,000, Gustafsson $100,000.

Gustafsson, who was ranked 92nd in the world, upset three seeded players en route to the final--No. 12 Paolo Cane of Italy, No. 4 Andre Agassi and No. 8 Mats Wilander of Sweden.

Jorge Lozano of Mexico and Todd Witsken of Carmel, Ind., defeated the top-seeded team of Rick Leach and Jim Pugh, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, in the doubles final.

Sixth-seeded Leila Meskhi became the first Soviet woman in 15 years to win a regular-circuit tournament in the United States, defeating second seeded Helen Kelesi of Canada, 6-3, 6-4, in a Virginia Slims tournament at Brentwood, Tenn.

The last Soviet woman to win a championship was Olga Morozova, who beat Billie Jean King in 1974 in Philadelphia.

Jason Netter of UCLA defeated Arizona’s Scott Sigerseth, 6-4, 6-1, to win the Rolex-Intercollegiate tournament at UC Irvine.

Irvine’s Trevor Kronemann and Shige Kanroji, the country’s top-ranked doubles team, beat Mark Knowles and Fritz Bissell of UCLA, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4, in that final.