Sporting Digest: Tennis

ATP CHALLENGER TOURNAMENT (Tashkent, Uzb) First round (Selected): C Adams (US) bt A Foster (GB) 7-6 6-3.

DIRECT LINE INSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS (Beckenham) Men's singles, second round: S Edberg (Swe) bt K Kinnear (US) 6-1 7-6; W Arthurs (Aus) bt N Borwick (Aus) 6-7 6-3 6-4; G Stafford (SA) bt B Cowan (GB) 7-5 6-3; L Tieleman (It) bt C Beecher (GB) 4-6 6-4 7-6; J Bates (GB) bt D Sapsford (GB) 6-1 7-6; P Hand (GB) bt T Nelson (US) 6-4 7-6; S Matsuoka (Japan) bt N Gould (GB) 6-3 6-4; P Kilderry (Aus) bt P Martin (GB) 6-3 6-1; D Wheaton (US) bt T Larkham (Aus) 6-0 6-2; B Pearce (US) bt J Eagle (Aus) 6-3 6-3; A Richardson (GB) bt J Canter (US) 2-6 7-6 6-3; M Kratzman (Aus) bt Greg Rusedski (Can) w/o; J Stoltenberg (Aus) bt E Ferreira (SA)

7-6 3-6 6-3; M Ondruska (Rus) bt M Barnard (SA) 6-2 6-2; G Forget (Fr) bt C van Rensberg (SA) 6-3

4-6 6-3; W McGuire (US) bt B Talbot (SA) 7-5 6-0.

Women's singles, second round: S McCarthy (US) bt J Moore (GB) 2-6 6-3 6-2; R Hiraki (Japan) bt T Croson (GB) 6-0 6-0; N Pratt (Aus) bt S Parkhomenko (Rus) 7-6 6-0; T Price (SA) bt S-A Siddall (GB) 6-3 6-1; M Miyauchi (Japan) bt Z Mellis (GB) 6-3 7-5; L Ahl (GB) bt A De Lone (US) 3-6 6-3 6-3; M Javer (GB) bt C Taylor (GB) 6-4

6-3; M Mazotta (Ven) bt R Mawdsley (Aus) 6-1

6-3; J Faull (Aus) bt K Nugent (Irl) 6-3 6-2; 8 D van Rensburg (SA) bt S Schenck (US) 6-4 6-4; K Cross (GB) bt L Field (Aus) 6-2 6-2; J Pullin (GB) bt A Henricksson (US) 1-6 6-4 6-1; J Watanabe (US) bt V Lake (GB) 6-4 4-6 6-4; K Godridge (Aus) bt H Crook (GB) 6-3 6-4; K-A Guse (Aus) bt C Herbert (GB) 6-3 6-1; M Joubert (SA) bt T Krizan (Slovak) 6-4 6-7 6-3.