Connors Is Beaten at Madrid

Jimmy Connors was beaten in his first clay-court tournament in two years Tuesday at an ATP tennis tournament in Madrid. Brazilian Cassio Motta outlasted Connors, 7-6 (8-6), 1-6, 6-1.

In another match, top-seeded Emilio Sanchez Vicario of Spain was upset by Renzo Furlan of Italy, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3.

Second-seeded Steffi Graf of Germany breezed to a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Marketa Kochta, also of Germany, in 58 minutes in the first round of the Hamburg Open.

The total purse for the Wimbledon tennis championships will be a record $6.8 million, but it will not be equally distributed among the men and women, Wimbledon officials said.

Although the total payout is a 5% increase over last year’s, Wimbledon officials rejected demands by female tennis players and officials for equal pay. The men will receive $3.7 million, the women $3.1 million.