TENNIS ROUNDUP : Lendl Plays Chang in Hong Kong

Top-seeded Ivan Lendl and third-seeded Michael Chang won semifinal matches Saturday in the Marlboro Tennis Championships at Hong Kong and will play for the title today.

Lendl breezed past Derrick Rostagno, 6-3, 6-0, and Chang turned back David Wheaton, 7-6 (7-3), 6-1.

Chang trailed, 5-0, in the first set before coming back. The 18-year-old Californian, the crowd-favorite, had no problems in the second set with Wheaton, who upset second-seed Emilio Sanchez of Spain earlier.

The winner of today’s final gets $200,000 and the loser gets $100,000.

Barbara Paulus of Austria upset top-seeded Gabriela Sabatini, 6-3, 6-4, and advanced to the final against Mary Joe Fernandez in the Porsche Cup tournament at Filderstadt, Germany.

Fernandez beat Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria, 7-5, 6-0, in the other semifinal.

Paulus, seeded eighth, beat Sabatini at her own game, mixing long looping shots from the baseline with hard passing shots to both sides.

Fernandez traded serves with Maleeva until breaking in the ninth game, and then dominated the second set.

Henri Leconte of France upset top-seeded Stefan Edberg, 7-5, 3-6, 6-0, and will play Goran Ivanisevic of Yugoslavia in the final of the $1.1-million European Community Championship at Antwerp, Belgium.

The fourth-seeded Ivanisevic saved two match points before beating Amos Mansdorf, 1-6, 6-2, 7-6 (9-7), spoiling the Israeli’s 25th birthday. Ivanisevic, a 19-year-old Yugoslav, also saved two match points Friday in defeating Pat Cash of Australia.

Leconte played on only 13 hours of rest after he struggled for more than 2 1/2 hours to edge Andrei Chesnokov of the Soviet Union in a quarterfinal match that stretched into the early hours of Saturday morning.

Mats Wilander reached a final for the first time in more than a year by beating Alexander Mronz of Germany, 6-2, 7-6 (7-1), in a semifinal of a Grand Prix tournament at Lyon, France.

Wilander, the former No. 1 player in the world, will play Marc Rosset of Switzerland today for the title. Rosset beat David Pate, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, when Pate double-faulted on match point.

Plagued by injuries and personal problems, Wilander has been in only one final since his banner year of 1988. That was in July, 1989, when he lost to Andres Gomez in Boston.

Fourth-seeded Horst Skoff of Austria defeated ailing countryman Thomas Muster, 6-2, 7-6 (7-2), and reached the final of the ATP CA Trophy championships at Vienna, where he will face Anders Jarryd of Sweden.

Jarryd beat sixth-seeded Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union, 6-2, 7-5, in the other semifinal to advance to an ATP final for the first time since 1986.

In the all-Austrian semifinal, the top-seeded Muster was not his usual powerful self during the rallies, with his forehand lacking precision. He limped on his ailing left leg throughout the match.

The crowd, while cheering Skoff, seemed disappointed that Muster hadn’t pulled off the comeback.