Wilander, Edberg, Nystrom Advance
Swedes Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg and Joakim Nystrom waited out a rain delay Wednesday before breezing to second-round victories in the $405,000 Monte Carlo Open tennis tournament.
It took Wilander, seeded No. 1, four hours to defeat Thomas Muster of Austria, 6-2, 6-2, but only 1 hour 13 minutes was actual playing time.
Edberg, seeded No. 2, beat Yugoslavia’s Marco Ostoja, 6-3, 6-2, and No. 3 Nystrom defeated Uruguay’s Diego Perez, 6-2, 6-3.
Aaron Krickstein, 18, upset another Swede, 11th-seeded Henrik Sundstrom, 7-6, 6-0.
Sundstrom, who won Monte Carlo in 1984, became the third seeded player to be eliminated. No. 12 Tomas Smid of Czechoslovakia and No. 14 Guy Forget of France were ousted Tuesday.
No. 4-seeded Yannick Noah of France was unable to get in his second-round match with Peru’s Pablo Arraya and is scheduled to play today.
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