Sporting Digest: Tennis

BERND KARBACHER, ranked 58th in the world, will represent Germany alongside Michael Stich in the World Cup team event in Dusseldorf from 16 to 22 May. Boris Becker and Marc Goellner are unavailable.

MILAN MEN'S TOURNAMENT Second round: B Becker (Ger) bt A Mansdorf (Isr) 6-3 3-6 6-3; G Ivanisevic (Croa) bt J Stoltenberg (Aus) 6-3 6-2. Quarter-finals: R Agenor (Hai) bt W Masur (Aus) 4-6 6-1 6-4; S Bruguera (Sp) bt K Novacek (Cz Rep) 6-1 6-0; P Korda (Cz Rep) bt Ivanisevic 6-4 4-6 6-3; Becker bt C Pioline (Fr) 6-2 4-6 6-2.

ST JUDE INTERNATIONAL MEN'S INDOOR TOURNAMENT (Memphis) Third round: B Gilbert (US) bt C Adams (US) 6-3 6-0; J Courier (US) bt D Randall (US) 6-3 6-3; T Martin (US) bt J Hlasek (Swit) 7-5 7-5; P Haarhuis (Neth) bt J Stark (US) 6-7 6-4 6-4; A O'Brien (US) bt C Caratti (It) 6-4 6-4; P McEnroe (US) bt A Chesnokov (Rus) 6-3 6-3; K Braasch (Ger) bt M Chang (US) 6-4 6-3; T Enqvist (Swe) bt M Washington (US) 6-7 7-6 6-1.

LTA MEN'S SATELLITE TOURNAMENT (Coventry) Quarter-finals: A Vysand (Est) bt B Gyetko (Can) 6-3 6-3; E Ferreira (SA) bt J Kroslak (Slovak) 6-3 6-7 6-4; M Barnard (SA) bt A Lesch (Ger) 6-2 7-6; F Cousin (Bel) bt S Herdoiza (US) 6-2 6-4.

VIRGINIA SLIMS WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT (Chicago) Second round: C Rubin (US) bt K Po (US) 6-2 2-6 6-2. Quarter-finals: L McNeil (US) bt L Davenport (US) 7-6 6-2; Rubin bt S Cacic (US) 6-4 6-0.

ASIA WOMEN'S OPEN (Osaka, Japan) Quarter-finals: M Maleeva-Fragniere (Swit) bt Y Kamio (Japan) 6-1 6-4; M Endo (Japan) bt M Miyauchi (Japan) 6-3 6-2; A Sugiyama (Japan) bt K Boogert (Neth) 6-3 6-3; I Majoli (Croa) bt Park Sung Hee (S Kor) 7-5 6-7 6-2.

LINZ WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT (Aut) Quarter-finals: E Maniokova (Rus) bt S Cecchini (It) 3-6 7-6 6-4; B Schett(Aut) bt J Makarova (Rus) 6-1 7-6; M Babel (Ger) bt L Meskhi (Geor) 7-5

6-3; S Appelmans (Bel) bt A Huber (Ger) 4-6

6-3 6-4.

LTA WOMEN'S SATELLITE TOURNAMENT (Sunderland) Semi-finals: G Coorengel (Neth) bt S Schmidle (Ger) 6-4 3-6 7-5; M Maruska (Aut) bt A Franken (Ger) 6-2 6-3.