Sporting Digest: Tennis
US MEN'S HARDCOURT CHAMPIONSHIPS (Indianapolis, Indiana) Singles, first round: A Chesnokov (Rus) bt T Enqvist (Swe) 6-2 6-4; D Wheaton (US) bt F Clavet (Sp) 6-4 6-2; A Cherkasov (Rus) bt M Pernfors (Swe) 6-4 7-6; M Zoecke (Ger) bt J Stoltenberg (Aus) 6-3 6-2; A Sznajder (Can) bt Guillaume Raoux (Fr) 6-4 6-2; D Rostagno (US) bt G Pozzi (It) 6-1 6-4; J Tarango (US) bt N Kulti (Swe) 6-7 6-4 6-4; J Oncins (Bra) bt J Palmer (US) 6-1 6-4; T Nelson (US) bt B McPhie (US) 6-4 6-1; C Cartti (It) bt R Gilbert (Fr) 6-3 3-6 6-1; R Reneberg (US) bt J Eltingh (Neth) 6-4 6-2; B Shelton (US) bt A Moreno (Mex) 4-6 6-3 6-1; J Morgan (Aus) bt J Hlasek (Swit) 6-3 4-6 6-4; B Steven (NZ) bt T Witsken (US) 6-3 7-6. Second round: A Volkov (Rus) bt M Zoecke (Ger) 6-4 6-4.
CANADIAN WOMEN'S OPEN (Toronto) First round: N Tauziat (Fr) bt C Suire (Fr) 6-2 6-0; K Maleeva (Bul) bt N Baudone (It) 6-3 7-5; N Sawamatsu (Japan) bt L Neiland (Lat) 6-1 2-6 6-0.
MIDLAND BANK NATIONAL JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (Nottingham) Singles, boys 18 and under second round: M Powell (Notts) bt A Moran (Oxon) 6-7 7-5 6-0; M Ratcliffe (Northumberland) bt P Jessop (Staffs) 6-1 6-0; J Williams (Middlesex) bt C Anders (Lancs) 6-0 6-1; B McIver (N Scot) bt B O'Connor (Durham and Cleveland) 7-5 6-3; M Ingham (Lancs) bt O Hadden (N Scot) 6-2 6-2; J Hind (Kent) bt H Soma (Middlesex) 6-2 6-3; R Clarke (Leics) bt J Buswell (Northants) 6-1 6-4; S Pender (Cornwall) bt M Woolley (Warwicks) 6-3 6-2; T Spinks (Norfolk) bt B Webber (Cambs) 6-3 4-6 6-0; G Jones (Kent) bt J Cross (Channel Is) 2-6 6-0 6-4; M Coombs (Essex) bt R Harrison (Derbys) 6-3 6-3; J Fox (Lincs) bt A Hill (Cheshire) 6- 1 6-3; L Milligan (Middlesex) bt V Sundaram (Lancs) 6-2 7-6; A Osterrieth (Kent) bt J Trotman (Suffolk) 6-2 6-2; R Evans (Herts) bt J Monk (Sussex) 6-0 6-3; M Stocks (Norfolk) bt M Wallhaed (Lincs) 7-6 6-4. Girls, 18 and under second round: L Jelfs (Oxon) bt G Mewett (Sussex) 6-4 6-0; S Donovan (Herts) bt J Choudhury (Cambs) 6-4 6-0; K Hughes (Leics) bt S Tse (Isle of Man) 4-6 7-6 6-2; Z Mellis (Essex) bt J Dawson (Sussex) 6-1 7-6; I Wyatt (Oxon) bt C Reid (Surrey) 6-2 6-1; K Warne-Holland (Cheshire) bt R Anders (Lancs) 6-1 6-0; J McMahon (Sussex) bt C Lyte (Warwicks) 6-1 6-2; T Croson (Derbys) bt C Drummond (Notts) 6-0 6-1; A Green (Suffolk) bt R McArdle (Durham and Cleveland) 3-6 6-2 6-2; C Taylor (Oxon) bt F D'Amelio (Beds) 6-2 6-3; J Duncan (N of Scotland) bt J Fitzgerald (Cheshire) 6-4 6-4; J Ward (Durham and Cleveland) bt F Lishman (Northumberland) 3-6 6-3 8-6; H Matthews (Berks) bt K Webster (Derbys) 6-2 6- 0; M Miller (Yorks) bt L Austin (Sussex) 6-1 6-2; M Hughes (N Wales) bt N Burns (W of Scotland) 6-2 6-1; E Smith (Wilts) bt L Fletcher (Durham & Cleveland) 6-3 6-1.
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