Tennis Roundup : Edberg Is Pressed by Collegian

Top-seeded Stefan Edberg of Sweden, the world’s No. 2-ranked player, held off a determined college student from Texas to take a 7-6, 2-6, 6-4 victory Tuesday night at the U.S. Indoor Tennis Championships at Memphis, Tenn.

“He played well. I was a little surprised,” Edberg said after his match with Richey Reneberg, a junior at Southern Methodist University.

Edberg took the first set on a 7-5 tiebreaker before allowing Reneberg, an amateur ranked 340th internationally, to take the second set.

“I lost my concentration in the second set for a while,” Edberg said.

Reneberg said he felt little pressure facing one of the world’s top players.

“I had nothing to lose and I went out there to see what I would do,” he said.

In an earlier match, Ulf Stenlund of Sweden collected seven straight points in a tiebreaker in an upset of No. 8 Anders Jarryd, also of Sweden.

The unseeded Stenlund ended the match, 7-6, 6-3, after Jarryd took a 5-0 advantage in the first-set tiebreaker.

The victory sends Stenlund to a third-round contest with 10th-seeded Kevin Curren of Austin, Tex., who ended the second round with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Claudio Panatta of Italy.

Jimmy Connors, seeded second, No. 3 Mikael Pernfors and No. 5 John McEnroe play their first matches tonight.

Sylvia Hanika of West Germany ousted an erratic Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, in a $150,000 tournament at San Francisco.

Hanika gained control of the match when her fourth-seeded opponent double-faulted twice in the fourth game of the second set to give Hanika a 4-0 lead. In the final set, Sabatini often tried to use a power forehand, but many of those shots ended up in the net or off the court.

Earlier, eighth-seeded Stephanie Rehe outdueled Kate Gompert, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, in a 2-hour 47-minute match.

In other afternoon matches, Wendy White outlasted Molly Van Nostrand, 6-4 2-6, 6-1; Bulgaria’s Manuela Maleeva beat Australia’s Anne Minter, 6-1, 6-2; Peanut Louie-Harper defeated Sabrina Goles of Yugoslavia, 6-3, 6-1, and Anne White beat Melissa Gurney, 6-2, 6-1.