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Sporting Digest: Tennis

GODO MEN'S TOURNAMENT (Barcelona): Second round (Sp unless stated): R Furlan (It) bt E Sanchez 7-5 7-5; R Gibert (Fr) bt M Gollner (Ger) 6-4 1-6 7-5; Y Kafelnikov (Rus) bt F Clavet 7-5 7-6; S Bruguera bt J Burillo 7-6

6-2; J Sanchez bt J Altur 6-3 6-2; M Gustafsson (Swe) bt O Delaitre (Fr) 6-0 6-3; J Arrese bt R Carretero 2-6 6-1 6-3; A Medvedev (Ukr) bt B Wuyts (Bel) 6-3 6-3; I Lendl bt M Naewie (Ger) 6-3 6-3; A Agassi (US) bt A Corretja 6-2 6-3; K Novacek (Cz Rep) bt J Svensson (Swe) 6-4 5-7 6-2; R Krajicek (Neth) bt G Prpic (Croa) 6-4 6-4; F Dewulf (Bel) bt M Aurelio Gorriz 6-4 6-2.

JAPAN OPEN (Tokyo) Men's singles, second round: J Siemerink (Neth) bt H Kaneko (Jap) 6-2 6-3; A Mansdorf (Isr) bt C van Rensburg (SA) 6-1 5-7 7-5; H Holm (Swe) bt A O'Brien (US) 6-2 4-6 6-3; C Bergstrom (Swe) bt P McEnroe (US) 6-4 6-1; G Raoux (Fr) bt S Simian (Fr) 6-1 6-1; J Stark (US) bt A Cherkasov (Rus) 6-4 6-1; D Wheaton (US) bt R Weiss (US) 6-1 5-7 7-6; J Courier (US) bt M Damm (Cz Rep) 7-6 6-4; W Masur (Aus) bt J Cunha-Silva (Por) 6-4 6-2; A Volkov (Rus) bt J Stoltenberg (Aus) 6-2 6-4; D Flach (US) bt B Steven (NZ) 6-3 6-2; D Vacek (Cz Rep) bt K Carlsen (Den) 7-6 7-5; N Borwick (Aus) bt K Jones (US) 6-1 6-4; T Woodbridge (Aus) bt M Chang (US) 6-3 3-6 7-6. Women's singles, second round: K Date (Japan) bt Li Fang (Ch) 6-0 6-0; P Shriver (US) bt A Henricksson (US) 6-1 0-0 ret; P Fendick (US) bt Y Basuki (Indon) 6-1 6-2; S Rottier (Neth) bt M Miyauchi (Japan) 7-6 6-2; M Oremans (Neth) bt K Nagatsuka (Japan)

6-7 6-0 7-5; N Provis (Aus) bt A Sugiyama (Japan) 6-4 6-0; M Jaggard-Lai (Aus) bt S Appelmans (Bel) 6-2 6-2; M Endo (Japan) bt N Sawamatsu (Japan) 6-3 6-7 6-4.

BAUSCH & LOMB WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP (Amelia Island, Florida) First round: F Labat (Arg) bt A Temesvari (Hun) 3-6 6-2 6-0; V Martinek (Ger) bt M Drake (Can) 6-2 6-1; K Rinaldi (US) bt S Frankl (Ger) 3-6 6-4 6-2; A Gavaldon (Mex) bt A Vieira (Bra) 6-2 7-6; I Gorrochategui (Arg) bt C Papadaki (Gr) 1-6 7-5 6-1; T Ignatieva (Rus) bt M Bollegraf (Neth) 5-7 7-6 6-3; G Helgeson (US) bt S Cacic (US) 6-2 4-6 6-4. Second round: A Sanchez Vicario (Sp) bt F Perfetti (It) 6-1 6-2; G Sabatini (Arg) bt J Kruger (SA) 6-1 6-2; M Maleeva- Fragniere (Swit) bt A Fusai (Fr) 6-2 6-2; A Coetzer (SA) bt N Ercegovic (Croa) 7-5 6-3; N Zvereva (Bela) bt B Fulco-Villella (Arg) 6-2 6-4; L McNeil (US) bt F Bonsignori (It) 6-3 7-5; L Meskhi (Geor) bt C Rubin (US) 6-4 6-1; L Davenport (US) bt C Kuhlman (US) 1-6 6-2 6-3; S Stafford (US) bt R Bobkova (Cz Rec) 6-2 6-4. Gorrochategui bt Labat 7-6 2-6 6-1; S Hack (Ger) bt K Kschwendt (Swit) 4-1 ret; P Tarabini (Arg) bt J Watanabe (US) 6-0 6-2; Rinaldi bt C Singer (Ger) 6-2 6-2; J Capriati (US) bt Ignatieva 6-1 6-0; Gavaldon bt Helgeson 1-6 6-3 6-4; P Langrova (Cz) bt Martinek 7-6 6-1; Stafford bt McNeil 7-6 4-6 6-3.

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