Sport in Short: Tennis
AUSTRALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (Sydney) Second round: I Lendl (US) bt B Steven (NZ) 7-5 7-5; W Masur (Aus) bt J Morgan (Aus) 6-4 6-3; C van Rensburg (SA) bt S Matsuoka (Jap) 7-5 7-6; N Borwick (Aus) bt D Wheaton (US) 6-0 3-6 6-4; B Black (Zim) bt D Rostagno (US) 7-6 6-7 6-4; A Agassi (US) bt J Grabb (US) 6-4 6-2; P Haarhuis (Neth) bt G Doyle (Aus) 6-1 6-3; S Edberg (Swe) bt P Baur (Ger) 7-6 7-5.
TOULOUSE OPEN First round: C Pioline (Fr) bt A Cherkasov (Rus) 4-6 6-4 6-1; L Roux (Fr) bt B Borg (Swe) 6-0 6-4; F Gauthier (Fr) bt O Soules (Fr) 6-3 6-3; O Camporese (It) bt H Leconte (Fr) 2-6 6-3 6-4; P Korda (Cz) bt T Hogstedt (Swe) 6-4 6-1; M Rosset (Swit) bt O Delaitre (Fr) 6-1 7-6; G Forget (Fr) bt M Schapers (Neth) 6-3 3-6 7-5. Second round: B Gilbert (US) bt R Gilbert (Fr) 6-3 6-4; J Svensson (Swe) bt Camporese 6-3 6-4; A Boetsch (Fr) bt Pioline 6-2 6-2.
SAAB INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT (Athens) Second round: S Bruguera (Sp) bt H de la Pena (Arg) 6-3 6-1; M Gustafsson (Swe) bt M Naewie (Ger) 6-4 6-3; M Jaite (Arg) bt T Champion (Fr) 6-3 1-1 ret; J Arrese (Sp) bt H Skoff (Aut) 6-2 6-4.
WOMEN'S INDOOR TOURNAMENT (Zurich) First round: H Sukova (Cz) bt P Hy (Can) 6-3 6-3; M Maleeva-Fragniere (Swit) bt M Kochta (Ger) 6-1 3-6 7-5; J Novotna (Cz) bt L Harvey-Wild (US) 6-4 6-3; B Rittner (Ger) bt S Rehe (US) 5-7 6-1 6-4; M Navratilova (US) bt E Zardo (Swit) 6-0 6-0. Second round: Z Garrison (US) bt J Durie (GB) 3-6 6-3 6-4; S Graf (Ger) bt G Probst (Ger) 6-0 6-2.
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