TENNIS ROUNDUP : Edberg Defeats Srejber, but Wilander Is Ousted

Stefan Edberg advanced but fellow Swede Mats Wilander didn’t in Wednesday’s second-round singles matches of the ATP Championship at Mason, Ohio.

Edberg came back to beat Czechoslovakia’s Milan Srejber, 6-4, 6-7 (7-5), 6-4.

Wilander, still rusty from a four-month layoff, lost to Australia’s Darren Cahill, 6-3, 6-2.

“I knew it was going to be up and down from the beginning,” Wilander said. “Obviously, this is a down. You don’t come out and play 75% of your ability right away; you play 100% one day and 20% the next. You just have to keep playing to get it back.”

Wilander has a 12-7 record on the ATP Tour this year and has not won a tournament in two years.

In the night’s featured matches, eighth-seeded John McEnroe beat Jean-Philippe Fleurian of France, 7-6 (6-3), 6-2, and defending champion Brad Gilbert defeated David Wheaton, 6-3, 6-2.

“I volleyed pretty well, and I felt as if he were playing my style of game,” McEnroe said. “I was picking up the ball better than I have in the last month or six weeks.”

Edberg has been bothered by a sprained left ankle that he injured Sunday during the final of the Los Angeles tournament.

“I was not 100% today, not even close to it,” he said.

Edberg also had to overcome a 3-4, love-30 deficit in the third set.

“Even when I was down a break in the third, I never thought it was over,” Edberg said. “It’s always hard to serve a match out.”

Andrei Chesnokov of the Soviet Union, seeded ninth, was eliminated by Scott Davis, 6-3, 6-2.

Advancing were No. 5 Aaron Krickstein, who beat Sweden’s Johan Carlsson, 6-2, 7-6 (8-6); No. 6 Jay Berger, who defeated Nicolas Pereira of Uruguay, 6-2, 6-7 (7-5), 6-4, and No. 7 Michael Chang defeated Israel’s Amos Mansdorf, 6-0, 6-4.

Eighth-seeded Anne Minter defeated Kathy May-Paben, 6-3, 6-4, during the second round in a $150,000 tournament at Albuquerque, N.M.