Sporting Digest: Tennis

FEDERATION CUP (Frankfurt) Quarter-finals: United States bt Canada 3-0 (US first: M J Fernandez bt H Kelesi 6-1 4-1 ret; L Davenport bt P Hy 6-2 6-4; G Fernandez and Z Garrison Jackson bt J Hetherington and R Simpson-Alter 6-1 7-6). Bulgaria bt Indonesia 3-0 (Bulgaria first: K Maleeva bt R Tedjakusuma 6-2 6-1; M Maleeva bt Y Basuki 6-3 6-3; L Bacheva and S Krivencheva bt Tedjakusuma and Basuki 6-1 6-3). Austria bt Australia 2-1 (Austria first: P Ritter bt R McQuillan 6-4 6-1; J Wiesner bt K Radford 6-0 6-3; E Smylie and R Stubbs bt S Plischke and B Schett 6-2 6-3). Spain beat Argentina 3-0 (Spain first: C Martinez bt P Tarabini 6-3 6-7 6-2; A Sanchez Vicario bt F Labat 6-1 6-4; M A Montolio and N Avila bt Labat and B Fulco-Villella 6-1 6-4).

PATHMARK WOMEN'S CLASSIC (Mahwah, NJ) Second round: N Louarsabishvily (Geor) bt J Novotna (Cz Rep) 2-6 7-6 6-2; H Sukova (Cz Rep) bt P Casale-Telford (US) 6-2 6-3; M Maleeva-Fragniere (Swit) bt P O'Reilly (US) 6-3 6-2; P Shriver (US) bt A Creek (US) 7-6 6-3.

DC MEN'S CLASSIC (Washington) Second round: B Black (Zim) bt W Ferreira (SA) 6-7 6-4 6-1; M Rosset (Swit) bt M Zoecke (Ger) 3-6 7-5 7-6; J Yzaga (Peru) bt G Pozzi (It) 6-3 7-6; I Lendl (US) bt O Gross (Ger) 6-2 6-4; A Krickstein (US) bt E Ferreira (SA) 6-2 7-5; D Wheaton (US) bt M Washington (US) 6-4 4-6 6-3; H Holm (Swe) bt K Carlsen (Den) 6-3 6-3; J Stoltenberg (Aus) bt P McEnroe (US) 6-1 4-6 6-1; J Stark (US) bt B Barber (US) 4-6 6-2 6-2; B Steven (NZ) bt A Mansdorf (Isr) 6-1 4-6 6-4; T Enqvist (Swe) bt R Renenberg (US) 6-0 1-6 7-6; M Wilander (Swe) bt J Bjorkman (Swe) 6-3 6-2; M Tebbutt (Aus) bt M Knowles (Bah) 4-6 6-4 6-3; S Edberg (Swe) bt A Antonitsch (Aut) 6-2 6-1. Third round: Krickstein bt Wilander 6-7 6-4 7-6; Stoltenberg bt Rosset 6-2 6-2; Enqvist bt Yzaga 6-1 6-1; Tebbutt bt C Adams (US) 7-5 4-6 7-6. B Black (Zim) bt H Holm (Swe) 7-6 6-4; D Wheaton (US) bt I Lendl (US 2-6 6-3 7-6.

ATP TOURNAMENT (Stuttgart) Second round: M Goellner (Ger) bt A Medvedev (Ukr) 7-6 6-2; E Sanchez (Sp) bt G Schaller (Aut) 7-6 6-4. Third round: M Stich (Ger) bt H Skoff (Aut) 7-5 6-3; A Gaudenzi (It) bt A Costa (Sp) 4-6 6-1 6-0; Y Kafelnikov (Rus) bt Y El Aynaoui (Mor) 7-6 6-4; B Karbacher (Ger) bt S Noszaly (Hung) 4-6 6-1 7-6; L Jonsson (Swe) bt Goellner 7-6 6-3; T Muster (Aut) bt F Davin (Arg) 6-2 6-3; A Berasategui (Sp) bt Sanchez 6-4 6-4; A Chesnokov (Rus) bt R Fromberg (Aus) 4-6 7-6 7-5.

LTA SATELLITE TOURNAMENT (Ilkley) Quarter-finals: C Hunt (GB) bt L Serna (Sp) 7-5 6-0; L Varmuzova (San Marino) bt K Hand (GB) 6-1 6-2; M Lamarre (Fr) bt S Siddall (GB) 6-2 6-1.