Sport in Short: Tennis
IVAN LENDL and Carlos Costa, the top two seeds, made surprise quarter-final departures from the Bordeaux Open tournament yesterday. Lendl, the No 1 seed, lost his cool and his match 7-5, 6-4 to local favourite, Cedric Pioline, who took advantage of Lendl's anger at a line call to hold his serve then break for the first set. Second seed Costa was beaten 7-6, 7-6 by Ukraine's Andrei Medvedev.
SWEDEN'S Magnus Gustafsson has a foot injury and will miss this month's Davis Cup semi-final against the United States in Minneapolis later this month. He will be replaced by Magnus Larsson.
ATP TOURNAMENT (Bordeaux): Quarter- finals: S Bruguera (Sp) bt G Lopez (Sp) 6-4 6-2; A Medvedev (Ukr) bt C Costa (Sp) 7-6 7-6; C Piolene (Fr) bt Lendl 7-5 6-4; R Gilbert (Fr) bt G Forget (Fr) 6-4 6-4.
ATP TOURNAMENT (Cologne): Second round: B Karbacher (Ger) bt A Olhovsky (Russia) 6-7 7-6 6-3. Quarter-finals: Karbacher bt T Muster (Aut) 6-3 6-3; K Braasch (Ger) bt J Gunnarsson (Swe) 7-5 6-1; J Sanchez (Sp) bt R Furlan (It) 6-1 6-4 M Ondruska (SA) bt M Filippini (Urug) 6-3 6-3.
CLARINS WOMEN'S OPEN (Paris): Quarter- finals: J Halard (Fr) bt F Bonsignori (It) 6-3 1-6 6-0; E Zardo (Swit) bt S Meier (Ger) 6-0 6-1; S Cecchini (It) bt S Hack (Ger) 6-3 6-2; N Ercegovic (Croa) bt V Martinek (Ger) 3-6 6-1
6-3.
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