Sporting Digest: Tennis
DUBAI MEN'S OPEN Second round: I Lendl (US) bt A Cherkasov (Rus) 6-4 6-2; H Holm (Swe) bt T Muster (Aut) 6-3 6-4; A Volkov (Rus) bt H Davids (Neth) 6-2 3-6 6-2; M Gustafsson (Swe) bt P Rafter (Aus) 7-5 3-6 6-3.
SAN JOSE MEN'S OPEN First round: R Reneberg (US) bt M Petchey (GB) 6-2 6-2; A O'Brien (US) bt J Connors (US) 6-4 7-5; J-P Fleurian (Fr) bt J Morgan (Aus) 7-5 6-3; D Nainkin (SA) bt K Evans (US) 6-1 0-6 6-4; J Tarango (US) bt N Borwick (Aus) 7-5 6-3; B Shelton (US) bt X Daufresne (Fr) 7-6 6-3.
MARSEILLE MEN'S OPEN First round: A Boetsch (Fr) bt M Stadling (Swe) 6-2 6-4; O Delaitre (Fr) bt A Olhovskiy (Rus) 7-6 6-3; M Stich (Ger) bt R Agenor (Haiti) 6-7 7-6 6-3. Second round: J Bjorkman (Swe) bt G Raoux (Fr) 6-2 3-6 7-6; D Rikl (Cz Rep) bt C-U Steeb (Ger) 7-5 7-6; Delaitre bt Olhovskiy 7-6 6-3; M Rosset (Swit) bt A Antonitsch (Aut) 6-4 6-3; H Leconte (Fra) bt T Champion (Fra) 6-1 6-3.
TORAY PAN PACIFIC WOMEN'S OPEN (Tokyo) First round: N Tauziat (Fr) bt L McNeil (US) 6-2 7-5; K Boogert (Neth) bt Y Kamio (Japan) 6-2 6-3; K Radford (Aus) bt K Quentrec (Fr) 7-5 3-6 6-1; J Novotna (Cz Rep) bt A Sugiyama (Japan) 6-3 6-4; P Shriver (US) bt H Sukova (Cz Rep) 6-1 3-6 6-3; C Kuhlman (US) bt K Date (Japan) 4-6 7-5 7-5; L Neiland (Lat) bt N Muns-Jagerman (Neth) 7-6 6-3. Second round: S Graf (Ger) bt C Wood (GB) 6-3 6-4; M Navratilova (US) bt M Bollegraf (Neth) 6-7 6-2 6-1.
LTA WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT (Telford) Singles, second round: C Taylor (Oxon) bt C Habernigg (Aut) 4-6 6-1 6-4; E Bond (Glos) bt S Bouilleau (Fr) 6-4 6-0; A Castera (Fr) bt S Tse (IoM) 6-3 6-1; K Nugent (Irl) bt M Hughes (Wal) 7-6 6-3; L Giroud (Fr) bt J Dawson (Sussex) 6-3 6-2; K Roubanova (Bucks) bt I Martin (Rom) 6-0 7-5; Z Mellis (Essex) bt C Toyre (Fr) 6-2 5-7 6-4; J Ward (Eng) bt M Mair (Sco) 4-6 6-4 6-4.
EXHIBITION THREE-MATCH SERIES (Stockholm, first match): M Wilander (Swe) bt B Borg (Swe) 4-6 6-2 7-5.
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