TENNIS MEN’S TOURNAMENT AT INDIAN WELLS : Edberg Gets Back in Swing by Sweeping Scott Davis

Stefan Edberg had a full Tuesday afternoon. He showed off a stunning new tan, swiveled into his old corkscrew serve and became reacquainted with how it feels to win a tennis match.

Edberg dispatched Scott Davis, 6-3, 6-2, to move into the third round of the $1-million Newsweek Champions Cup and appeared not at all like a player who had not won a match in nearly six weeks.

It has been a long time between victories for Edberg, who lost to Ivan Lendl in the Australian Open final in January when he was forced to retire after pulling stomach muscles.

After that, Edberg withdrew from two tournaments in Europe and lost his first match after coming back, to 66th-ranked Gary Muller, who upset the third-ranked Edberg last week in the Volvo Tennis/Indoor tournament at Memphis, Tenn.

So, it was an understandably relieved Swede who beat Davis.

“It was an important match for me,” Edberg said. “It was nice to win a match and get back playing again.”

Edberg estimated his physical state at only 85%, but there appeared to be nothing wrong with his serve. Davis got only 13 points off Edberg’s serve, including five in the final game when he forced Edberg to a fourth match point.

“It wasn’t great, but it was good enough,” Edberg said.

Teen-agers Pete Sampras and Jim Courier, who work out together in Florida, finished their first matches at the same time with the same results, if not the same score.

Sampras, 18, had no problem with the thumb and finger he injured Monday or with Ramesh Krishnan, who looked nice in a baseball hat but struck out, 6-3, 6-2.

Sampras, who cut himself when he fell during a doubles match, said he put ice on his swollen right thumb and little finger late into the night.

“It hurt when I bent it, but once I got into the match, the adrenaline started pumping, and when that happens, you don’t think of anything,” he said.

Courier, 19, beat Steve Bryan, 7-5, 6-1, and will play Kelly Jones in the second round. Jones replaced Michael Chang, who withdrew from the event.

After reaching the fourth round of the French Open last year, Courier lost to Andrei Chesnokov despite winning the first two sets.

“I’ve really worked on my conditioning, which was a problem, so I think I’m pretty much on schedule,” Courier said. “The French is definitely my main tournament of the season.”

Tennis Notes

Rick Leach and Jim Pugh got a walkover in their first doubles match when USC’s Byron Black and Kent Seaton could not get to the court in time. Why? Black and Seaton were busy playing doubles against Michigan on the USC campus and were unable to make it here for a scheduled 5:15 p.m. start. Black and Seaton won their qualifying match to earn the right to play Leach and Pugh, but they asked for that match to be rescheduled.