Sporting Digest: Tennis
MONTE CARLO OPEN Singles final: S Bruguera (Sp) bt C Pioline (Fr) 7-6 6-0.
MUNICH OPEN First round: A Boetsch (Fr) bt J Renzenbrink (Ger) 6-2 6-0; M Gollner (Ger) bt S Eriksson (Swe) 7-5 6-1; I Lendl (US) bt T Zdrazila (Cz Rep) 6-2 6-3; G Solves (Fr) bt H Holm (Swe) 6-2 6-1; A Cherkasov (Rus) bt K Carlsen (Den) 7- 6 7-6; J F Altur (Sp) bt D Dier (Ger) 6-3 7-6; K Kucera (Slov) bt L Jonsson (Swe) 6-2 6-4; K Novacek (Cz) bt C Bergstrom (Swe) 6-4 6-4.
MADRID OPEN First round: C Costa (Sp) bt B Wuyts (Bel) 3-6 7-5 6-1; J Oncins (Bra) bt M Aurelio Gorriz (Sp) 6-0 6-3; J A Conde (Sp) bt H de la Pena (Arg) 6-4 6-4; A Corretja (Sp) bt J Arrese (Sp) 6-4 6-1; A Jarryd (Swe) bt F Roig (Sp) 6-1 6-1; G Markus (Arg) bt J Gisbert (Sp) 6-2 6-4; M Filippini (Urug) bt R Furlan (It) 6-2 6-3.
HAMBURG WOMEN'S OPEN First round: J Novotna (Cz Rep) bt J Durie (GB) 6-0 6-2; S Graf (Ger) bt J Weisner (Aut) 6-2 7-5; W Probst (Ger) bt J Santrock (US) 6-3 6-2; K Kroupova (Cz Rep) bt M Zivic-Skulj (Ger) 7-5 6-3.
BARCELONA WOMEN'S OPEN Doubles final: A Sanchez Vicario (Sp) and C Martinez (Sp) bt M Maleeva (Bul) and M Maleeva-Fragniere (Swit) 4-6 6-1 6-0.
ATLANTA CHALLENGE MEN'S TOURNAMENT First round: J Yzaga (Peru) bt R Weiis (US) 5-7 w/o; R Azar (Arg) bt D Rostagno (US) 6-3 6-7 6- 2; H Skoff (Aut) bt G Schaller (US) 7-5 6-1; R Fromberg (Aus) bt C Dosedel (Cz Rep) 6-2 7-5; R Agenor (Hai) bt T Martin (US) 7-6 7-5; A Berasategui (Sp) bt D Perez (Urug) 6-2 7-5.
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