Sporting Digest: Tennis
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CHAMPIONSHIP (Antwerp) Quarter-finals: B Becker (Ger) bt M Larsson (Swe) 6-1 7-6; M Gustafsson (Swe) bt M Stich (Ger) 7-6 7-5; P Sampras (US) bt N Kulti (Swe) 7-6 6-3. C Pioline (Fr) bt G Ivanisevic (Croat) 7-6 6-0.
KREMLIN CUP (Moscow) Quarter-finals: M Rosset (Swit) bt P Haarhuis (Neth) 6-4 6-2; P Kuhnen (Ger) bt A Olkhovsky (Rus) 6-4 7-6; K Braasch (Ger) bt A Merinov (Rus) 6-2 6-3; D Polyakov (Ukr) bt M Damm (Cz Rep) 6-3 7-6.
VIRGINIA SLIMS WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT (Philadelphia) Third round: G Sabatini (Arg) bt L Davenport (US) 6-4 6-2; Z Garrison-Jackson (US) bt L McNeil (US) 6-3 6-1. Quarter-finals: S Graf (Ger) bt A Coetzer (SA) 6-4 6-1; C Martinez (Sp) bt N Zvereva (Bela) 6-4 6-4; K Po (US) bt Garrison-Jackson (US) 6-2 6-4.
LTA WOMEN'S SATELLITE TOURNAMENT (Swindon) Semi-finals: S Parkhomenko (Rus) bt F Boucard (Fr) 6-1 7-6; E Bond (Eng) bt E Borrass (Sp) 6-3 6-1.
Doubles semi-finals: N Egorova and Parkhomenko (Rus) bt J Dubcova (Cz Rep) and T Obziler (Isr) 6-1 6-1; A Smith (Staffs) and C Stassen (Neth) bt C Billingham (Oxon) and V Humphreys-Davies (Cambs) 7-5 6-1.
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