Sporting Digest: Tennis
EUROCARD MEN'S OPEN (Stuttgart) Second round: A Boetsch (Fr) bt K Novacek (Cz Rep) 6-3 7-6; M Stich (Ger) bt A Cherkasov (Rus) 6-2 6-1; H Leconte (Fr) bt C Pioline (Fr) 6-4 6-7 6-3; B Becker (Ger) bt A Volkov (Rus) 7-5 7-5; S Bruguera (Sp) bt Y Kafelnikov (Rus) 1-6 7-5 6-1; M Gustafsson (Swe) bt C-U Steeb (Ger) 6-3 4-6 6-1; G Ivanisevic (Croa) bt C Costa (Sp) 6-3 4-6 6-0.
US PRO MEN'S TOURNAMENT (Philadelphia): First round: I Lendl (US) bt P McEnroe (US) 6-4 4-6 6-4; M Chang (US) bt C Adams (US) 3-6 6-1 6-2; T Martin (US) bt A Reichel (US) 6-1 1-6 6-4. Second round: A Chesnokov (Rus) bt A O'Brien (US) 3-6 6-3 6-4; J Yzaga (Peru) bt G Rusdedski (Can) 7-6 6-3; J Eltingh (Neth) bt L Mattar (Bra) 7-6 6-2; P Haarhuis (Neth) bt R Furlan (It) 7-6 4-6 6-1.
WTA TOURNAMENT (Oklahoma City) Second round: A Frazier (US) bt A Gavaldon (US) 6-1 6-3; P Fendick (US) bt R Zrubakova (Slovak) 6-2 6-3; M McGrath (US) bt A Coetzer (SA) 7-6 2-6 6-3.
PARIS WOMEN'S OPEN Second round: S Appelmans (Bel) bt K Quentrec (Fr) 6-2 6-1; L Meskhi (Geor) bt P Langrova (Cz Rep) 7-5 6-0; K Maleeva (Bul) bt K Kschwendt (Ger) 6-2 6-2; L Courtois (Bel) bt P Begerow (Ger) 6-3 4-6 7-6; C Vis (Neth) bt M Pierce (Fr) 3-6 6-4 6-1; M Navratilova (US) bt L Golarsa (It) 6-0 6-2; W Probst (Ger) bt D Monami (Bel) 6-3 6-0; J Halard (Fr) bt S Cecchini (It) 6-4 6-4.
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