Chang Wins; All Three Top Seeds Advance in Australia

Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker and Ivan Lendl, the top three seeds, advanced to the third round of the Australian Indoor tennis championship today.

Edberg, the Wimbledon champion and top-ranked player in the world rankings, beat fellow Swede Niclas Kroon 6-3, 6-2.

Becker pulled his game together after a second set slump and powered to a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Mats Wilander.

Lendl also rallied from a second-set slump to defeat Finnish teen-ager Aki Rahunen 6-0, 3-6, 6-0.

Sixth-seeded Michael Chang marked his Australian debut with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory over fellow American Todd Witsken in a 2-hour, 5-minute baseline battle that ended at 1 a.m local time.

Ninth-seeded David Wheaton and the unseeded trio of Todd Woodbridge, Paul Haarhuis and Patrick Kuhnen also advanced to the round of 16.

Wheaton beat qualifier Sandon Stolle 4-6, 6-0, 6-2 and Woodbridge upset fourth-seeded Brad Gilbert 7-6 (9-7), 6-3 after trailing 6-0 in the first-set tiebreaker.

Gilbert, who won the Queensland Open last week, smashed his racket in anger after the loss.

Kuhnen defeated seventh-seeded Richard Fromberg 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 and Haarhuis eliminated 12th-seeded Derrick Rostagno 7-6 (7-3), 6-4.

At Athens, Top-seeded Thomas Muster of Austria battled to a 7-6 (7-1), 6-3 victory over Canada’s Martin Wostenholm today in his opening match at the Athens International.

Second seeded Emilio Sanchez of Spain was beaten by countryman Francisco Roig 6-2, 7-6 (8-6).

Guillermo Perez-Roldan of Argentina, the No. 3 seed, was on the verge of joining Sanchez on the sidelines, but rallied to beat Carlos Costa of Spain 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (7-9), 6-1.