Sporting Digest: Tennis

STEFAN EDBERG, Magnus Larsson, Jonas Bjoerkman and Jan Apell are in Sweden's provisional five-man squad for the Davis Cup semi-final against the United States in Gothenburg from 23 to 25 September.

LTA SUMMER SATELITTE (Eastbourne) Men's first round (GB unless stated): C Beecher bt D Lobb 6-0 6-1; H Capell bt B Sceney (Aus) 6-3 7-6; N Gould bt C Wall 6-3 6-3; B Cowan bt N Weal 6-4 6-0; A Foster bt G Saffery 6-0 6-3; T Spinks bt P Wright 6-0 3-0 ret; A Von Hugo bt M Lee 6-3 6-2; T Hand bt D Ward 7-6 6-4; R Matheson bt M Pennonen 7-5 6-2; J Hunter bt G Marx 1-6 6-4 6-4; R Ruppenthal (Ger) bt D Sanders 7-6 6-4; G Henderson bt H Koll (Nor) 6-2 6-5.

ATP WORLD SERIES TOURNAMENT (Bogota) First round results: B Shelton (US) bt D Orsanic (Arg) 6-7 6-4 7-6; S Cortes (Ch) bt P Tramacchi (Aus) 6-4 6-3; A Krickstein (US) bt M Knowles (Bah) 6-3 6-4; F Wibier (Neth) bt A Aramburu (Peru) 6-4 6-3.

BORDEAUX GRAND PRIX First round results (French unless stated): T Champion bt Mark Petchey (GB) 6-4 6-2; A Antonitsch (Aust) bt L Roux 6-3 6-4; M Rosset (Swit) bt K Carlsen (Den) 7-5 6-4; W Ferreira (SA) bt M Barnard (SA) 6-4 6-2; F Santoro bt A Boetsch 6-4 7-5; G Basthie bt L Jonsson (Swe) 6-7 6-3 6-2; G Raoux bt J Siemerink (Neth) 7-6 6-4; G Pozzi (It) bt J Renzenbrink (Ger) 2-6 6-2 6-2; C Pioline (Fr) bt H Dreekmann (Ger) 7-6 6-7 7-5; O Delaitre (Fr) bt L Barthez (Fr) 6-3 6-4; D Adams (Aus) bt J Burillo (Sp) 6-3 6-2; M Wilander (Swe) bt D Nargiso (It) 6-4 6-3; G Forget leads Ronald Agenor (Haiti) 5-3 (halted by rain).

ROMANIAN OPEN (Bucharest) First round results: T Carbonel (Sp) bt F Dewulf (Bel) 6-3 6-0; A Coreteja (Sp) bt A Cherkasov (Rus) 6-3 6-3; A Berasategui (Sp) bat G Schaller (Aust)

6-2 6-1; F Davin (Arg) bt S Bruguera (Sp) 7-6 3-6 6-3; T Muster (Aust) bt S Youl (Aus) 6-1 6-4; M A Gorriz (Sp) bt M Fillipini (Uru) 7-6 6-4; K Kucera (Slovak) bt H Skoff (Aust) 6-3 6-3; S Dosedel (Cz Rep) bt R Sabau (Rom) 4-6 6-3 6-4.