Sporting Digest: Tennis
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CHAMPIONSHIP (Antwerp) Men's singles, second round: M Larsson (Swe) bt R Matuszewski (US) 6-3 6-2; M Gustafsson (Swe) bt B Steven (NZ) 2-6 6-4 6-2; C Pioline (Fr) bt M Goellner (Ger) 6-3 7-6; G Ivanisevic (Croa) bt J Van Herck (Bel) 6-3 6-3; B Becker (Ger) bt C Adams (US) 7-6 6-4.
KREMLIN CUP (Moscow) Men's singles, second round: P Kuhnen (Ger) bt A Cherkasov (Rus) 6-3 1-6 6-3; P Haarhuis (Neth) bt M Knowles (Bah) 2-6 6-3 7-5; M Rosset (Swit) bt Y Kafelnikov (Rus) 7-6 3-6 7-5; A Olkhovsky (Rus) bt J Stark (US) 7-6
6-3; A Merinov (Rus) bt A Volkov w/o.
VIRGINIA SLIMS OF PHILADELPHIA WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT Second round: S Graf (Ger) bt P Shriver (US) 6-1 6-3; C Martinez (Sp) bt L Raymond (US) 4-6 6-3 7-5; K Po (US) bt H Sukova (Cz Rep) 7-6 6-4; A Coetzer (SA) bt N Tauziat (Fr) 6-3 6-7 6-3; N Zvereva (Bela) bt A Grossman (US) 6-4 6-0; L Davenport (US) bt N Arendt (US) 3-6 7-5 6-4. Third round: A Frazier (US) bt M Pierce (Fr) 7-6 6-4; K Po (US) bt M Werdel (US) 6-1 4-6 6-3; A Coetzer (SA) bt A Henricksson (US) 4-6 6-4 7-6.
LTA WOMEN'S SATELLITE TOURNAMENT (Swindon) Singles, second round: S Parhomenko (Rus) bt D Cocos (Rom) 6-3 7-5; C Billingham (Oxon) bt M Hughes (Wal) 6-3 6-1;
S-A Siddall (Dorset) bt A Scheider (Ger) 6-2 4-6 6-4; E Borras (Sp bt S Tse (IOM) 7-6 6-4; V Humphreys-Davies (Cambs) bt C Taylor (Oxon) 6-4 6-0. Quarter-finals: Parhomenko bt J Dubcova (Cz Rep) 6-4 6-2; F Boucard (Fr) bt Billingham 6-4 6-0; Borras (Sp) bt Siddall 7-5 6-3; E Bond (Glos) bt Humphreys-Davies 6-2
6-1.
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