Sporting Digest: Tennis

HEAVY rain prevented the former Wimbledon champion, Pat Cash, from playing his first singles match in 12 months. Cash was due to play his fellow Australian, John Fitzgerald, in his opening match of the Colonial Classic grass-court event at Kooyong yesterday.

ORANGE BOWL INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Miami Beach, Fla): (Selected results): Men's semi-finals: A Costa (Sp) bt F Browne (Arg) 6-1 6-4; R Carretero (Sp) bt T Johansson (Swe) 6-4 6-2. Final: Costa bt Carretero 7-5, 6-2. Women's semi-finals: A Montilo (Sp) bt M D'Agostini (Bra) 6-2 6-3; S Jeyaseelan (Can) bt T Panova (Rus) 6-4 6-4. Final: Montilo bt Jeyaseelan 6-7, 6-1, 6-1.