Tennis Roundup : No. 4 Noah Knocks Off Lendl, and Agassi Gets Past Becker

Fourth-seeded Yannick Noah of France upset top-ranked Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia, 6-3, 6-2, in 59 minutes Saturday and reached the final of the $190,000 Norstar Hamlet Challenge Cup tennis tournament at Jericho, N.Y.

In today’s final, Noah plays 18-year-old Andre Agassi, who beat third-seeded Boris Becker of West Germany, 7-6, 6-3. Agassi, seeded No. 2, has won 21 straight matches.

Noah served 11 aces and broke Lendl’s service first in a 10-point sixth game of the first set, then twice in the second set--in the third and ninth games.

Steffi Graf of West Germany won her 27th straight match and a place in the today’s final of the $200,000 United Jersey Bank tournament with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia at Mahwah, N.J.

Graf, the No. 1-ranked women’s player, needed only 50 minutes to overpower Sukova and will play Nathalie Tauziat of France, who surprised fifth-seeded Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria, 6-4, 6-3, in the other semifinal.

Emilio Sanchez of Spain defeated Dan Goldie, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, at Wilmington, Del., to reach the final of a $52,000 tournament.

Sanchez will face unseeded Kevin Curren today. Curren advanced by beating 16-year-old Michael Chang, 6-2, 6-4.

Ramesh Krishnan of India outlasted Horacio de la Pena of Argentina, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, to reach today’s final in the $123,400 NYNEX Open at Rye Brook, N.Y.

Milan Srejber of Czechoslovakia reached the final with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Diego Nargiso of Monaco.