Sporting Digest: Tennis

STELLA ARTOIS MEN'S GRASS COURT CHAMPIONSHIPS (Queen's Club) Singles, first round: R Matheson (GB) bt J Hlasek (Swit) 6-3 7-6; A Antonitsch (Aut) bt J Bjorkman (Swe) 6-3 3-6 6-4; L Tieleman (It) bt S Stolle (Aus) 4-6 7-6 6-4; M Gollner (Ger) bt T Ho (US) 6-3 6-4; D Witt (US) bt C Van Rensburg (SA) 6-3 7-6; M Tebbutt (Aus) bt C Bailey (GB) 6-3 6-4; J Morgan (Aus) bt D Pate (US) 6-2 6-3; D Wheaton (US) bt N Pereira (Ven) 6-2 4-6 7-5; T Martin (US) bt S Lareau (Can) 6-2 6-3. Second round: C Wilkinson (GB) bt G Ivanisevic (Croa) 6-3 3-6 6-3; S Edberg (Swe) bt B Steven (NZ) 6-4 7-6; B Black (Zim) bt

I Lendl (US) 6-2 7-6; B Becker (Ger) bt C Adams (US) 6-1 6-3. G Raoux (Fr) bt T Woodbridge (Aus) 3-6 6-4 6-4.

MEN'S CONTINENTAL GRASS COURT CHAMPIONSHIPS (Rosmalen, Neth) First round: A Medvedev (Ukr) bt F Wibier (Neth) 6-4 6-4; A Olhovskiy (Rus) bt K Carlsen (Den) 6-3 6-4; A Volkov (Rus) bt J Stark (US) 6-2 6-3; J Siemerink (Neth) bt R Weiss (US) 6-2 6-2; M Washington (US) bt J Eltingh (Neth) 6-4 7-5; R Krajicek (Neth) bt C Saceanu (Ger) 7-6 6-1; J Eagle (US) bt P Haarhuis (Neth) 7-6 6-2; D Rostagno (US) bt A Chesnokov (Rus) 6-0 6-7 6-4; W Masur (Aus) bt A Sznajder (Can) 6-3 6-4.

DFS CLASSIC WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT (Edgbaston): Singles, first round: C Wood (Eng) bt M Kiene (Neth) 6-3 6-1; C Rubin (US) bt T Price (SA) 6-4 6-2; S McCarthy (US) bt L Woodroffe (Eng) 6-1 6-3; M Miyauchi (Japan) bt C Porwik (Ger) 6-4 6-0; J Byrne (Aus) bt C Cunningham (US) 6-1 6-4; E Reinach (SA) bt S Amiach (Fr) 6-4 7-5. Second round: M Navratilova (US) bt M Strandlund (Swe) 7-5 7-6; P Shriver (US) bt M Jaggard-Lai (Aus) 7-5 6-3; K Radford (Aus) bt R McQuillan (Aus) 7-5 6-3; N Tauziat (Fr) bt S Farina (It) 6-7 6-2 6-2; M Endo (Japan) bt J Kruger (SA) 6-1 6-3; Z Garrison Jackson (US) bt C MacGregor (US) 6-4 7-5.