Tennis Roundup : Unseeded Davis Beats No. 5 Krickstein, 6-3, 6-4

Unseeded Marty Davis continued a string of upsets in the Volvo International tennis tournament Thursday by eliminating fifth-seeded Aaron Krickstein, 6-3, 6-4, at Stratton Mountain, Vt.

Davis, 2-3 in his career against Krickstein, waited out a four-hour rain delay and came from behind twice. There were four consecutive service breaks in the second set until the ninth game, when Davis held serve and then broke Krickstein to close out the match.

“The second set, I felt much less in control than the first set because I was coming from behind,” Davis said. “I felt he was returning better. He was jamming me. He was hitting the ball right at me. I felt I was handcuffed a bit.”

Second-seeded Andre Agassi, the last of the top seven seeded players, outlasted No. 16 Jim Pugh, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

In other matches, No. 10 Jay Berger defeated No. 7 Peter Lundgren of Sweden, 6-2, 6-3; No. 13 Paul Annacone beat Leo Lavalle of Mexico, 6-3, 6-3; Roger Smith of the Bahamas downed qualifier Eric Amend, 6-1, 6-4; No. 9 Darren Cahill of Australia turned back Michael Robertson, 6-2, 6-7, 6-2; No. 12 Dan Goldie outlasted Todd Nelson, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, and Jim Courier ousted Yahiya Doumbia of Senegal, 7-6, 6-0.

Top-seeded Steffi Graf of West Germany moved into the quarterfinals of a $200,000 Virginia Slims tournament at Hamburg, West Germany, with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Sabrina Goles of Yugoslavia.

Graf needed only 43 minutes to dispatch Goles despite the lingering effects of a bite on her right hand by her dog, Max.

In other matches, Isabel Cueto of West Germany beat Niege Dias of Brazil, 6-4, 6-3; Sandra Cecchini of Italy defeated Laura Garrone of Italy, 0-6, 7-5, 6-1; Katherina Maleeva of Bulgaria downed Jana Novotna of Czechoslovakia, 6-3, 6-1, and Silke Meier of West Germany eliminated Sylvia Hanika, also of West Germany, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.

Also advancing were Raffaella Reggi of Italy with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Andrea Vieira of Brazil; Bettina Fulco of Argentina with a 6-1, 6-0 decision over Barbara Paulus of Austria, and Radka Zrubakova of Czechoslovakia, who eliminated Arantxa Sanchez of Spain, 6-2, 6-3.

Top-seeded Yannick Noah of France struggled past Franco Davin of Argentina, 6-2, 1-6, 7-6, and advanced to the quarterfinals of a $245,000 Grand Prix tournament at Bordeaux, France.

Noah won the tiebreaker, 7-2.

It was the second straight day that Noah had to go to three sets to beat an Argentine player. In the first round, Noah outlasted Guillermo Rivas.

In other matches, second-seeded Kent Carlsson of Sweden defeated Mark Rackl of West Germany, 6-2, 6-2; Horst Skoff of Austria downed Pablo Arraya of Peru, 6-2, 6-2; fourth-seeded Joakim Nystrom of Sweden beat Thierry Pham of France, 6-4, 6-4, and fifth-seeded Ronald Agenor of Haiti ousted Frenchman Jerome Potier, 6-2, 6-3.