TENNIS ROUNDUP : Agassi Won’t Forget Loss to Fromberg

Andre Agassi didn’t remember Richard Fromberg. He will now.

Fromberg, seeded 15th and ranked 27th in the world, eliminated the second-seeded Agassi, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, Thursday in the third round of the ATP Championship at the Jack Nicklaus Sports Center in Mason, Ohio.

In another upset, Scott Davis knocked off third-seeded John McEnroe, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, while top-seeded Stefan Edberg routed Andrew Sznajder of Canada, 6-1, 6-0.

Agassi said he didn’t recall meeting Fromberg before, but the tall Australian remembered.

“I was 12 or 13 and I lost, 6-4, in the third,” Fromberg said of the match in an Australian junior tournament. “I was really small then.”

Fromberg has grown to 6-3, 170 pounds.

“I never underestimate these players,” Agassi said. “You can get beat every day. The problem is getting motivated to beat these guys that everybody expects you to beat day after day. That gets tough after a while.”

In other matches, No. 11 Jim Courier beat sixth-seeded Jay Berger, 6-2, 6-2, and Jakob Hlasek defeated No. 5 Aaron Krickstein, 6-2, 6-4.

No. 3 Andres Gomez stopped Darren Cahill, 7-6 (7-3), 6-3; No. 4 Brad Gilbert, the defending champion, ousted Guy Forget, 6-1, 6-2; and No. 7 Michael Chang beat No. 10 Pete Sampras, 7-5, 6-4.

Second-seeded Laura Gildemeister overcame Bettina Fulco, 6-7 (8-6), 6-2, 6-2, and moved into the quarterfinals of a $150,000 Virginia Slims tournament at Albuquerque, N.M.

In other matches, top-seeded Jana Novotna of Czechoslovakia defeated Claudia Toleafoa of New Zealand, 6-2, 6-3, sixth-seeded Susan Sloane beat Halle Cioffi, 7-5, 6-3, and seventh-seeded Amanda Coetzer of South Africa downed Betsy Nagelsen, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2).

Horst Skoff of Austria defeated former champion Marian Vajda of Czechoslovakia, 6-4, 6-1, in the second round of the Czechoslovak Open at Prague.