Tennis Roundup : Unseeded Italian Upsets Edberg in 2nd Round

Unseeded Paolo Cane of Italy stunned Stefan Edberg, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, Tuesday night in a second-round match of the $642,500 Stockholm Open-Scandinavian tennis championships at Stockholm.

“I had nothing to lose and I played very relaxed,” Cane said. “I knew I had a chance to beat him if he didn’t serve well.”

Edberg didn’t, especially in the third set. The Swede, ranked third in the world and a two-time defending champion here, had his serve broken three times in the final set.

In another second-round match, third-seeded Boris Becker of West Germany Becker struggled but rallied in the final 4 games to beat Johan Carlsson of Sweden, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.

In a first-round upset, No. 13 Slobodan Zivojinovic of Yugoslavia was eliminated by Jim Pugh of Palos Verdes, Calif., 6-3, 6-4.

At Antwerp, Belgium, Tomas Smid of Czechoslovakia upset Brad Gilbert, 6-1, 6-4, to highlight first-round play in the $1-million European Community Championship.

Top-seeded Martina Navratilova needed only 47 minutes for her 6-3, 6-0 first-round victory over South Africa’s Karen Schimper in the $300,000 New England Virginia Slims tournament at Worcester, Mass.

In other first-round matches, No. 3 Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina beat Ronni Reis of Miami, 6-1, 7-5, and No. 5 Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia eliminated Elise Burgin of Baltimore, 7-6, 6-4.