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TENNIS ROUNDUP : Skoff, Bruguera Advance to Final

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From Associated Press

Second-seeded Horst Skoff of Austria and sixth-seeded Sergi Bruguera of Spain advanced to the final of the Geneva Open in Switzerland.

Skoff defeated No. 4 seeded and defending champion Marc Rosset of Switzerland, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, and Bruguera beat Denmark’s Michael Tauson, 6-1, 6-2.

Neither finalist has won a tournament this year.

Skoff, a member of the Austrian Davis Cup team that meets the United States in next week’s semifinals in Vienna, showed no ill-effects from a minor accident Friday, when a car apparently backed into him as he was putting his bags in the trunk.

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Goran Ivanisevic of Yugoslavia and Guy Forget of France scored semifinal victories in a $300,000 tournament in Bordeaux, France.

Ivanisevic defeated Guillermo Perez-Roldan of Argentina, 6-4, 6-4, and Forget beat Ronald Agenor of Haiti, 6-3, 6-4.

“I don’t have anything to prove in the finals tomorrow,” Forget said. “Ivanisevic is stronger than me on paper and I’m playing like if I was training.”

Ivanisevic, 19, reached the quarterfinals of the French Open this spring, defeating Boris Becker in the first round. However, Becker beat him at Wimbledon.

Cecilia Dahlman of Sweden beat Mary Pierce, an American playing out of France, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, in the semifinals of the Athens Open in Greece.

Katia Piccolini defeated fellow Italian Federica Bonsignori, 6-2, 6-3, in the other semifinal.

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Dodo Chaney, 74, of Santa Monica won her 200th USTA title in the finals of the women’s 70s division at Cedarhurst, N.Y. Cheney beat Pat Spuhler, 6-2, 6-4.

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