Sport in Short: Tennis

MARC ROSSET, the Olympic gold medallist, said yesterday he would withdraw from all future Davis Cup competitions if the Swiss team coach, Georges Deniau, is forced to quit. Rosset's threat, which would not affect next month's Davis Cup final against the United States in Fort Worth, Texas, is because of pressure on Deniau to agree to a new location for the Swiss Tennis Association's national training centre.

HONG KONG CHAMPIONSHIPS First round: I Lendl (US) bt T Woodbridge (Aus) 6-1 6-2; M Chang (US) bt M Larsson (Swe) 6-4 6-3; E Sanchez (Sp) bt Xia Jiaping (Ch) 6-1 6-0; G Prpic (Croa) bt M Woodforde (Aus) 6-4 6-4; M Stich (Ger) bt M Damm (Cz) 6-3 6-3.

VIENNA MEN'S TROPHY First round: D Prinosil (Cz) bt G Mandl (Aut) 6-2 6-4; D Poljakov (Ukr) bt C Costa (Sp) 6-3 7-5; P Korda (Cz) bt F Fontang (Fr) 6-2 6-1; T Gollwitzer (Ger) bt A Chesnokov (Rus) 6-4 3-6 6-4; F Santoro (Fr) bt J Connors (US) 3-6 7-6 6-3.

LYONS MEN'S OPEN First round: M Washington (US) bt P McEnroe (US) 6-3 6-4; M Rosset (Swit) bt O Delaitre (Fr) 6-4 6-1; W Masur (Aus) bt F Roig (Sp) 6-3 7-5; J Hlasek (Swit) bt D Rostagno (US) 5- 7 6-4 6-4; O Camporese (It) bt R Koenig (SA) 6-2 6- 2; C-U Steeb (Ger) bt S Simian (Fr) 7-6 7-5; G Forget (Fr) bt R Gilbert (Fr) 6-3 6-7 7-6; T Muster (Aus) bt T Champion (Fr) 6-2 6-4.

MIDLAND BANK WOMEN'S INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (Brighton) Singles, first round: N Tauziat (Fr) bt P Fendick (US) 6-3 6-7 6-2; L McNeil (US) bt L Gildemeister (Peru) 4-6 6-1 7-5; M Maleeva (Bul) bt S Appelmans (Bel) 6-4 6-1; L Meskhi (Georgia) bt R Zrubakova (Cz) 2-6 6-2

6-2; S Graf (Ger) bt L Savchenko-Neiland (Lat)

6-2 6-3; A Huber (Ger) bt B Schultz (Neth) 6-1 3-6

6-4; P Paradis-Mangon (Fr) bt K Maleeva (Bul)

3-6 6-4 6-1; J Novotna (Cz) bt P Hy (Can) 6-0 6-3; C Dahlman (Swe) bt E Maniokova (CIS) 6-2 0-6 6-4; A Strnadova (Cz) bt A Grunfeld (GB) 7-6 6-2; C Martinez (Sp) bt N Van Lottum (Fr) 6-1 6-1; N Zvereva (CIS) bt W Probst (Ger) 7-5 6-3.

DAVIS CUP DRAW World Group: Australia v United States; Italy v Brazil; India v Switzerland; Austria v France; Spain v Netherlands; Sweden v Cuba; Denmark v Czechoslovakia; Russia v Germany. (Ties to be played from 26 to 28 March). Euro/African Group One Zone B: First round: Hungary v Finland; Norway v Zimbabwe. (Ties to be played from 26 to 28 March). Second round: Great Britain v Hungary or Finland; Norway or Zimbabwe v Croatia. (Ties to be played from 30 April to 2 May).