TENNIS ROUNDUP : Saceanu Outplays Agassi in First Round at Belgium

Germany’s Christian Saceanu, ranked 153rd in the world, upset third-seeded Andre Agassi, 6-3, 7-6 (9-7), Wednesday in the first round of the Donnay Indoor tennis championships at Brussels.

Saceanu displayed the aggressiveness and power that Agassi lacked to score the biggest upset of his career.

Agassi, ranked fourth in the world, looked sullen throughout the first-round match, and nonchalance appeared to cost him several points.

Boris Becker, top-seeded and playing to hold on to his No. 1 world ranking, beat Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, in another first-round match. Second-seeded Stefan Edberg, seventh-seeded Michael Chang and Frenchman Guy Forget, seeded fourth, easily advanced to the third round with straight-set victories.

Edberg defeated Swedish countryman Magnus Gustafsson, 6-0, 6-4; Chang swept past France’s Arnaud Boetsch, 6-3, 6-2, and Forget trounced Belgian Eduardo Masso, 6-1, 6-2.

Mats Wilander also won his opening match, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), over Italian Omar Camporese.

Becker had to save two break points to avoid going 3-0 down in the deciding set before his experience carried him through.

“I escaped with a bit of luck against Volkov. I know what he’s capable of doing,” Becker said of the Soviet, who is ranked 19th in the world.

Top-seeded Ivan Lendl defeated Guillaume Raoux of France, 6-1, 7-5, in the $1-million U.S. Pro Indoor tournament at Philadelphia.

After winning the first game of the match and then losing six in a row, Raoux made Lendl work to win in straight sets and advance to the third round.

In other matches, MaliVai Washington defeated 16th-seeded Patrick McEnroe, 6-0, 6-3, to advance to the quarterfinals, where he will play defending champion Pete Sampras.

McEnroe had earned a wild-card entry to the tournament by reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open. His older brother, John McEnroe, aced and groused his way to 6-1, 6-2 victory over Alexander Mronz of France.

In other matches, No. 3 Brad Gilbert defeated Tomas Carbonell of Spain, 6-3, 6-3; No. 9 Petr Korda of Czechoslovakia beat unseeded Wayne Ferreira of South Africa, 7-5, 7-6 (7-3), and No. 7 Michael Stich of Germany defeated Cristiano Caratti of Italy, 6-2, 6-4.