TENNIS ROUNDUP : Lendl, Edberg to Meet in Semifinals at Tokyo

Ivan Lendl had 12 service aces in a victory over Scott Davis and Stefan Edberg struggled through a third-set tiebreaker to defeat Jakob Hlasek Friday to set up a semifinal confrontation in the Seiko Super tournament at Tokyo.

Edberg, seeded first, beat Hlasek, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (8-6), and Lendl, seeded third, defeated Davis, 7-6 (7-0), 6-2, on the artificial courts of the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. Lendl was successful on 80% of his first serves.

Second-seeded Boris Becker and unseeded Richey Reneberg will play in the other semifinal. Becker defeated Andrei Cherkasov, 6-4, 6-4, and Reneberg beat Thomas Hogstedt, 6-3, 6-2.

Top-seeded Steffi Graf defeated Nathalie Tauziat of France, 6-4, 6-1, to reach the semifinals of the European Indoors tournament at Zurich, Switzerland.

In today’s semifinals, Graf will play third-seeded Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, who beat unseeded Brenda Schultz of the Netherlands, 6-3, 6-2.

Gabriela Sabatini, seeded second, advanced with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over fifth-seeded Helena Sukova, and Jana Novotna of Czechoslovakia routed unseeded German Wiltrud Probst, 6-0, 6-1.

Graf, recovering from a viral infection, struggled halfway through her 71-minute match when Tauziat broke her service at 5-2 in the first set. But Graf, defending champion and three-time winner at Zurich, settled down for a blistering finish after a series of unforced errors.

Unseeded Martin Sinner of Germany continued his surprising run through the Berlin Open with a 7-6 (9-7), 5-7, 6-2 victory over Czech Milan Srejber in the quarterfinals of the Berlin Open.

The victory came a day after the 22-year-old beat top-seeded Goran Ivanisevic.

Sinner, ranked No. 151 in the world, will face Ronald Agenor of Haiti in the semifinals. Agenor defeated Kevin Curren, 7-6 (7-1), 6-4.

Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union beat second-seeded Jonas Svensson of Sweden, 6-3, 6-0.