TENNIS ROUNDUP
The United States routed Russia, 3-0, in the World Team Cup at Duesseldorf, Germany, getting singles victories from Pete Sampras and Michael Chang and a doubles victory from Richey Reneberg and Patrick McEnroe.
Sergei Bruguera won in singles and doubles to lead defending champion Spain past Switzerland, 2-1, and set up a showdown with the United States for the blue group title.
Sampras defeated Alexander Volkov, 7-5, 6-1. He played more steadily than the Russian, who gambled on hitting winners.
“That’s his game,†Sampras said. “He makes it, he doesn’t make it. Today he made a lot of errors, and I played a whole lot better.â€
Chang breezed past Andrei Chesnokov, 6-1, 6-4, in the other singles match, and Reneberg and McEnroe beat Volkov and Andrei Olhovskiy, 6-3, 6-4.
In the Swiss-Spanish singles, Jakob Hlasek beat Carlos Costa, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, and Bruguera won his eighth consecutive singles match at the event by rolling past Marc Rosset, 6-4, 6-1.
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South African Wayne Ferreira, the top-seeded player, fought back from a first-set loss to beat unseeded Alex Corretja of Spain, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, and advance to the quarterfinals of the Muratti Time ATP tournament at Bologna, Italy.
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Lori McNeil was upset in the second round of the Strasbourg Open at France by Sandrine Testud of France, 6-1, 6-3.
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