Sporting Digest: Tennis

Spanish Men's Open (Barcelona): Third round: A Corretja (Sp) bt N Kulti (Swe) 1-6 6-4

6-1; A Gaudenzi (It) bt M Rios (Chile) 6-1 6-1; J Arrese (Sp) bt J P Fleurian (Fr) 7-5 6-4; R Agenor (Hai) bt N Utgren (Swe) 7-6 6-1; C Costa (Sp) bt J Burillo (Sp) 6-2 6-4; T Carbonell (Sp) bt F Roig (Sp) 6-2 6-2; S Bruguera (Sp) bt A Berasategui (Sp) 6-4 6-3; R Krajicek (Neth) bt A Chesnokov (Rus) 7-6 6-3.

JAPANESE OPEN (Tokyo) Men's third round: M Chang (US) bt C Adams (US) 6-1 6-3; B Becker (Ger) bt K Carlsen (Den) 6-4 7-5; D Wheaton (US) bt J Stark (US) 6-2 6-7 6-3; P Rafter (Aus) bt P McEnroe 6-3 6-1; I Lendl (US) bt J Bjorkman (Swe) 7-6 7-6; P Sampras (US) bt T Henman (GB) 6-1 6-2; H Holm (Swe) bt A Krickstein (US) 4-6 6- 3 6-2. Women's quarter-finals: N Sawamatsu (Japan) bt F Labat (Arg) 5-7 6-2 6-3; A Frazier (US) bt P Fendick (US) 6-2 6-7 7-6; S Appelmans (Bel) bt M Werdel (US) 6-2 6-0; K Date (Japan) bt B Schett (Aut) 6-0 6-1.

BAUSCH AND LOMB WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS (Amelia Island, Fla) Second round: P Langrova (Cz Rep) bt M J Fernandez (US) 3-6

6-4 6-2; L Davenport (US) bt R Bobkova (Cz Rep) 6-3 6-0; M Pierce (Fr) bt I Spirlea (Rom) 6-4 7-6; A Coetzer (SA) bt L Neiland (Lat) 6-2 6-2; S Hack (Ger) bt I Gorrochategui (Arg) 4-6 6-1 6-1; A Carlsson (Sweden) bt J Kruger (SA) 6-4 6-4; L Courtois (Bel) bt G Helgeson (US) 6-2 2-6 6-2. Third round: M Navratilova (US) bt S Frankl (Ger) 6-1 6-1; Davenport bt K Kroupova (Cz) 6-2 6-1; A Sanchez Vicario (Sp) bt Courtois 6-0 6-2; Hack bt K Maleeva (Bul) 7-6 6-4.