Sporting Digest: Tennis
BORIS BECKER has opted out of the German Davis Cup team to play Spain in the quarter-finals. Germany will be represented on 15 to 17 July by Michael Stich, Karsten Braasch, Marc Goellner and Patrik Kuhnen. Hendrik Dreekmann will make up the squad.
ALL ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS (Wimbledon) Sunday's late results: Boy's doubles final: B Ellwood (Aus) and M Philippoussis (Aus) bt V Platenik (Slovak) and R Schlachter (Bra) 6-2 6-4. Girl's doubles final: E De Villiers (SA) and E Jelfs (GB) bt C Morariu (US) and L Varmuzova (San Marino) 6-3 6-4.
SWISS OPEN MEN'S (Gstaad): Y Kafelnikov (Rus) bt D Vacek (Cz Rep) 6-3 6-2; K Novacek (Cz Rep) bt A Volkov (Rus) 3-6 6-1 7-6; T Muster (Aut) bt L Manta (Swit) 6-1 6-3; A Berasategui (Sp) bt Y El Aynaoui (Mor) 7-5 6-3; M Rios (Chile) bt A Mansdorf (Isr) 6-4 6-4; A Boetsch (Fr) bt R Agenor (Hai) 6-2 6-7 6-2; A Corretja (Sp) bt A Reichel (US) 6-3 6-2; E Sanchez (Sp) bt A Cherkasov (Rus) 7-5 7-6.
SWEDISH MEN'S OPEN (Bastad) First round: A Jarryd (Swe) bt T Johansson (Swe) 6-2 1-6 7-6; X Daufresne (Bel) bt R Gilbert (Fr) 6-3 6-4; B Karbacher (Ger) bt H Holm (Swe) 4-6 6-1 7-5; T Carbonell (Sp) bt H de la Pena (Arg) 6-1 6-1; J-P Fleurian (Fr) bt H Dreekman (Ger) 6-2 6-2; L Jonsson (Swe) bt P Lundgren (Swe) 2-6 6-3 6-1; J Bjorkman (Swe) bt G Solves (Fr) 6-0 6-4; D Johnson (US) bt K Alami (Mor) 6-7 7-5 disq.
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