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Tennis Roundup : Cash and Connors, Tuning Up for Wimbledon, Lose

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From Times Wire Services

Wimbledon champion Pat Cash and Jimmy Connors, warming up for this year’s Wimbledon, later this month, were both upset in the third round of the $385,000 Stella Artois tennis championships at London Thursday.

Cash, the No. 2-seeded player, lost to fellow Australian Darren Cahill, 7-6, 6-4. Connors, seeded third, lost to Guy Forget, 6-4, 7-6.

In other matches, Stefan Edberg defeated Johan Kriek, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, and Boris Becker beat Bill Scanlon, 6-3, 6-4.

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At Bologna, Italy, top-seeded Kent Carlsson of Sweden breezed past Spain’s Juan Aguilera, 6-0, 6-2, in a second-round match of a $99,000 tournament.

At Telford, England, Pam Shriver downed Elizabeth Smylie of Australia, 7-5, 6-3, in the second round of the Dow tournament.

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