Tennis Roundup : Edberg and John Lloyd Advance at Memphis

Second-seeded Stefan Edberg advanced to the third round of the $315,000 Volvo Tennis U.S. National Indoor Tournament Wednesday night at Memphis, Tenn., after Mike Leach retired with a shoulder injury in the second set.

In an earlier second-round match, unseeded John Lloyd upset No. 12 Jan Gunnarsson, 6-1, 6-2, at the Racquet Club of Memphis.

And ninth-seeded Tomas Smid was eliminated by Michael Westphal, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6, in a three-hour match late Wednesday.

Edberg, the defending champion in the tournament, won the hard-fought first set, 6-4. Leach had won the first game of the second set when he informed the chair umpire that he was unable to continue.

“It was not great,” Edberg said. “I was winning. That’s what counts. . . . At least I was out there. I played a set and that’s better than winning a forfeit.”

Leach said he had been bothered by a painful shoulder all week. Despite the pain, he defeated Horacio de la Pena, 7-5, 6-4, in the first round, then played a doubles match Tuesday.

Leach said that early in the first set of the Edberg match, the pain returned.

“I had a shoulder that didn’t want to function off my backhand and serve,” he said.

Lloyd, who is ranked 39th, said he had a feeling before the match that he would play well against Gunnarsson.

“It’s a strange thing, you know,” Lloyd said. “Sometimes you get in the warmup and you know you are going to play well. Today, just in that warmup--four minutes or whatever--I was hitting every ball perfectly. I didn’t know I was going to win, but I knew I was going to play well.”

He said before his first-round match with Ben Testerman that he was uneasy because he didn’t hit the ball well in warmup. But he won that match easily, 6-4, 6-2.

Gunnarsson was the third seeded player to be eliminated from the tournament. No. 10 Jimmy Arias and No. 11 Thierry Tulasne lost second-round matches on Tuesday.

Another seeded player, No. 5 Tim Mayotte, withdrew before play began because of an injury. Mayotte’s place in singles competition was taken first by Vince Van Patten, who withdrew Tuesday night because of an injured foot, and then by Tomm Warneke.

Warneke lost to Sammy Giammalva, 6-2, 6-4, Wednesday morning.

With the exception of Gunnarsson and Smid, seeded players survived Wednesday’s competition.

Jonathan Canter became the first seeded player to advance to the quarterfinals of the $150,000 Corel indoor tennis tournament at Toronto when he defeated Florin Segarceanu of Romania, 6-4, 7-5.

Canter, seeded fourth and one of only three seeded players to survive the opening round, used a steadier overall game to make it to the quarterfinals.