Tennis Roundup : Agassi Storms Back to Win After Dropping First 8 Games

Second-seeded Andre Agassi spotted West Germany’s Alexander Mronz the first eight games but stormed back for an 0-6, 6-4, 6-2 victory Tuesday night in the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships at Brookline, Mass.

Agassi, an 18-year-old from Las Vegas, survived his initial test a few hours after top-seeded Mats Wilander of Sweden needed just 62 minutes to defeat Andrew Burrow, 6-1, 6-2, in the second round of the clay-court tournament.

The post-Wimbledon rankings put Wilander third, behind Ivan Lendl and Stefan Edberg. Burrow, a native of South Africa, was ranked 493rd. Wilander was playing for the first time since being upset in the Wimbledon quarterfinals by Miloslav Mecir.

In other second-round matches at the Longwood Cricket Club, 17-year-old Jim Courier defeated ninth-seeded Jaime Yzaga, 6-1, 7-5, and Spain’s Juan Aquilera downed No. 6 Jay Berger, 6-3, 6-1.

Top-seeded Henri Leconte of France was upset by unseeded Milan Srejber of Czechoslovakia, 6-2, 6-4, in the first round of the $270,000 Swiss Open at Gstaad, Switzerland.

Srejber’s countryman, Marian Vajda, easily defeated fourth-seeded Martin Jaite of Argentina, finalist at this year’s Monte Carlo tournament, 6-3, 6-1.

At Newport, R.I., fourth-seeded Wally Masur of Australia defeated Mike Bauer, 6-2, 7-6, in the first round of the $150,000 Hall of Fame Tennis Championship, the only American grass-court stop on the men’s pro tour.