Sporting Digest: Tennis

MILAN MEN'S TOURNAMENT First round: K Novacek (Cz Rep) bt D Cahill (Aus) 6-4 7-6; G Ivanisevic (Croa) bt G Connell (Can) 6-4 6-4. Second round: C Pioline (Fr) bt A Berasategui (Sp) 6-3 4-6 6-2; S Bruguera (Sp) bt A Volkov (Rus) 6-2 6-7 6-1; M Stich (Ger) bt P Cane (It) 6-4 6-3; P Korda (Cz Rep) bt T Hogstedt (Swe) 7-5 6-2.

MEMPHIS MEN'S TOURNAMENT First round: B Black (Zim) bt M Petchey (GB) 6-3 6-4; J Palmer (US) bt T Woodbridge (US) 6-4 4-6 6-3; P Lundgren (Swe) bt R Furlan (It) 3-6 6-2 6-3; J Eltingh (Neth) bt B Shelton (US) 6-3 6-3; A O'Brien (US) bt J Tarango (US) 6-4 6-4; S Bryan (US) bt F Meligeni (Arg) 6-1 6-4; D Randall (US) bt J Grabb (US) 6-3 2-6 6-4. Second round: J Hlasek (Swit) bt J-P Fleurian (Fr) 7-5 4-2 ret; C Caratti (It) bt M Ruah (Ven) 7-6 6-1; P McEnroe (US) bt L Wahlgren (Swe) 6-4 6-1; B Gilbert (US) bt X Daufresne (Bel) 6-2 6-1.

ASIA WOMEN'S OPEN (Osaka, Japan) First round: K Nagatsuka (Japan) bt A Kerek (Rom) 6-3 1-6 6-3; M Endo (Japan) bt M Kidowaki (Japan) 6-2 6-3; A Henricksson (US) bt A Stranadova (Cz Rep) 6-7 6-3 6-4; K Boogert (Neth) bt L Field (Aus) 6-0 6-0; E Smylie (Aus) bt R Hiraki (Japan) 6-1 5-7 6-3; Li Fang (Ch) bt P Shriver (US) 6-3 ret; I Majoli (Croa) bt A Dechaume (Fr) 6-2 6-1; C Bakkum (Neth) bt D Jones (Aus) 6-3 6-1.

CHICAGO WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT First round: K Po (US) bt A Grossman (US) 6-1 6-4; B Schultz (Neth) bt J Stevens (US) 6-4 6-3; L McNeil (US) bt N Arendt (US) 7-5 7-5; C Rubin (US) bt E Brioukhovets (Ukr) 6-4 6-4; N Zvereva (Bela) bt S Stafford (US) 6-3 6-2. Second round: Z Garrison-Jackson (US) bt G Fernandez (US) 6-7 6-2 6-4.

LINZ WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT (Austria): First round: B Schett (Aut) bt K Malejeva (Bul) 7-6 7-6; J Makarova (Rus) bt A Temesvari (Hung) 6-4 3-6 6-3; S Appelmans (Bel) bt L Courtois (Bel) 6-0 4-6 6-4. Second round: J Manjokova (Rus) bt E Martincova (Cz Rep) 6-2 6-2; M Babel (Ger) bt K Bueche (Aut) 6-1 6-0; B Schett (Aut) bt T Krizan (Slov) 6-2 6-3.

LTA WOMEN'S SATELLITE TOURNAMENT (Sunderland) Second round: A-S Bittighoffer (Fr) bt U Svetlik (Aut) 6-2 5-7 6-1; C Stassen (Neth) bt J Dawson (Sussex) 6-3 1-6 6-4; A Franen (Ger) bt C Hunt (Dorset) 6-4 6-2; M Maruska (Aut) bt K Nugent (Ire) 6-1 6-0; G Coorengel (Neth) bt S Tiberi (It) 6-2 6-0; S Schmidle (Ger) bt J Ward (Durham and Cleveland) 6-1 3-6 6-3; E Bond (Gloucestershire) bt M Hughes (North Wales) 6-4 6-3; S Attili (It) bt C Taylor (Eng) 7-6 6-2.