Tennis Roundup : Top-Seeded Mayotte Serves Up 7-6, 6-3 Win Over Moir

Top-seeded Tim Mayotte used an overwhelming serve to defeat Barry Moir, 7-6, 6-3, Thursday and move into the quarterfinals of the Sovran Bank tennis tournament in Washington.

Mayotte, ranked No. 11 in the world, had 11 aces and surrendered only 16 points on his serve. After winning the first-set tiebreaker, 7-3, he got the only service break of the match in the eighth game of the second set before serving out the match.

In other matches, Simon Youl of Australia upset seventh-seeded Derrick Rostagno, 7-6 (9-7), 7-6 (8-6); Todd Witsken surprised sixth-seeded Paul Annacone, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3; 10th-seeded Paul Chamberlain downed Chris Garner, 6-3, 6-2, and Ramesh Krishnan of India beat Javier Frana of Argentina, 7-5, 6-1.

Jens Woehrmann of West Germany upset top-seeded Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, in a second-round match of a Grand Prix tournament at Stuttgart, West Germany.

The match was halted by darkness Wednesday with Hlasek leading, 6-4, 4-6, 3-1.

In quarterfinal matches, Martin Jaite of Argentina defeated Aaron Krickstein, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2; Alex Antonitsch of Austria beat Kevin Curren, 5-7, 6-4, 6-0, and Guillermo Perez-Roldan of Argentina downed Fabrice Santoro of France, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2.

Eighth-seeded Karel Novacek of Czechoslovakia ousted Paul Haarhuis of the Netherlands, 6-2, 6-3, in the quarterfinals of a Grand Prix tournament at Hilversum, the Netherlands.

Haarhuis had eliminated top-seeded Kent Carlsson of Sweden.

In the semifinals, Novacek will face Tomas Carbonell of Spain, who defeated fourth-seeded Horst Skoff of Austria, 7-5, 6-3.

In another match, third-seeded Andrei Chesnokov of the Soviet Union trounced Diego Perez of Spain, 6-2, 6-2.