Tennis Roundup : Cash Drops His Serve Against Annacone but Still Breaks Through

Wimbledon champion Pat Cash lost his last three service games Tuesday but still advanced to the second round of the $840,000 Paris Open with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Paul Annacone.

The Australian, seeded No. 2, took advantage of a double fault by Annacone in the 10th game to gain the only break of the first set.

In the second set, there were 7 service breaks in the 10 games.

“I lost a bit of concentration,” Cash said. “I started missing a few serves but I came back strong.”

Annacone came back from a 0-4 deficit to close it to 3-4. However, a succession of three straight service losses, two by Annacone and one by Cash, ended the match in Cash’s favor.

“I don’t think it was really good tennis,” said Annacone, who got only 53% of his first serves in, compared to 64% for Cash.

In other matches, Brad Gilbert, seeded No. 7, defeated Claudio Mezzadri of Switzerland, 6-0, 6-3; Michiel Schapers of the Netherlands beat Thierry Tulasne of France, 6-3, 6-3, and Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union upset No. 5-seeded Martin Jaite of Argentina, 6-7, 6-3, 6-1.

At Stockholm, Christian Bergstrom upset fourth-seeded Emilio Sanchez of Spain, and another young Swede, Magnus Gustafsson, shocked sixth-seeded compatriot Mikael Pernfors in the second round of a $525,000 Grand Prix tournament.

In another second-round match, top-seeded Stefan Edberg of Sweden came from behind to beat Richey Reneberg, 6-7, 6-0, 6-2.

Bergstrom’s 6-1, 7-5 victory over Sanchez ended the Spaniard’s chance to qualify for next month’s Masters in New York, and Pernfors’ 6-2, 6-2 loss to Gustafsson convinced him to take a sabbatical later this winter.

“I only played here because I wanted to reach the Masters,” said Sanchez, who is at his best on slow clay courts. “I don’t feel confident on this surface, and it will take a long time before I play indoors again.”

Said Pernfors: “I didn’t feel like playing today. I will play in London (next week), but then I will have a Christmas at home and only practice in January.

“Hopefully the break will help me to reach the top 10 again.”

In first-round matches, Kelly Evernden of New Zealand eliminated Brad Pearce, 6-4, 7-5, Jan Gunnarsson of Sweden defeated Michael Westphal of West Germany, 6-3, 6-4, and Ulf Stenlund of Sweden overcame John Fitzgerald of Australia, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4.

At Worcester, Mass., top-seeded Chris Evert needed 90 minutes to defeat Michelle Torres as the top three players advanced in the opening round of a $250,000 Virginia Slims tournament.

Evert, 32, wore down the 20-year-old Torres, 6-3, 6-3.

Second-seeded Pam Shriver defeated Kate Gompert, 6-3, 6-3, and third-seeded Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina beat Patricia Hy of Hong Kong, 6-3, 6-3.

In another match, Eva Pfaff of West Germany upset eighth-seeded Wendy Turnbull of Australia, 7-5, 7-8.

Evert, holder of 18 Grand Slam singles titles, broke Torres twice in the first set and three times in the second.

“These girls, especially the younger ones that play me, it’s like the finals at Wimbledon for them,” Evert said. “They’ve got everything to gain, and nothing to lose.”

Said Torres: “She’s just so strong, mentally. She ended up winning all the big points.”

In other first-round matches, all with unseeded players, Hu Na defeated Anna Maria Fernandez, 6-1, 6-3; Jo Durie of Britain eliminated Heather Ludloff, 6-1, 6-4, and Andrea Holikova of Czechoslovakia beat Brenda Schultz of the Netherlands, 6-2, 6-4.

Holikova faces Evert in the next round.