Sporting Digest: Tennis

ATP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Frankfurt) Arthur Ashe group: P Sampras (US) bt S Bruguera (Sp) 6-3 1-6 6-3; G Ivanisevic (Croat) bt S Edberg (Swe) 7-6 6-7 6-3. Stan Smith Group: M Stich (Ger) bt J Courier (US) 7-5 6-4.

VIRGINIA SLIMS CHAMPIONSHIPS (Madison Square Garden, New York) Quarter- finals: M Pierce (Fr) bt M Navratilova (US) 6-1 3-6 6-4; S Graf (Ger) bt A Coetzer (SA)

6-1 6-2.

LTA WOMEN'S SATELLITE TOURNAMENT (Swansea): Singles semi-finals: S-A Siddall (Dorset) bt J Dubcova (Cz Rep) 6-3 7-5; G Coorengel (Neth) bt N Egorova (Rus) 6-2 6-4. Doubles semi-finals: Egorova and S Parkhomenko (Rus) bt D Huber (US) and S Tse (IOM) 6-0 6-2; A Smith (Staffs) and C Stassen (Neth) bt D Cocos (Rom) and V Massart (Fr) 6-1 6-3.