TENNIS ROUNDUP : Furlan, 20, Exposes Lendl’s Feet of Clay

Ivan Lendl wasn’t surprised when he was upset by Renzo Furlan, a 20-year-old qualifier from Italy, 7-5, 6-4, Wednesday in the second round of the German Open at Hamburg.

“I am still having trouble adjusting to clay,” Lendl said. “I tried to fight, but when you mis-hit every second ball, it’s not simple to motivate yourself.”

Furlan, 61st on the ATP computer rankings, played a patient game at the baseline, waiting for Lendl to make unforced errors. Furlan got off to a 3-0 lead and coasted through the first set.

Lendl made more than 30 unforced errors but was even at 4-4 in the second set when Furlan held serve and then broke him to close out the match.

In other matches, Horatio de la Pena of Argentina upset sixth-seeded Jim Courier, 6-7 (7-3), 6-2, 6-4; Cristiano Caratti of Italy knocked off seventh-seeded Jonas Svensson of Sweden, 6-2, 6-2; and Francisco Clavet of Spain ousted eighth-seeded Emilio Sanchez, another Spaniard, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.

Top-ranked Monica Seles breezed past Nicole Provis of Australia, 6-3, 6-1, in the second round of the Italian Open at Rome.

Third-seeded Martina Navratilova had little trouble in disposing of Elna Reinach of South Africa, 6-3, 6-0.

In other matches, fifth-seeded Conchita Martinez of Spain defeated Stacey Martin, 6-3, 6-3; seventh-seeded Jennifer Capriati overcame Cristina Tessi of Argentina, 7-5, 7-6 (7-3); sixth-seeded Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere of Switzerland downed Florencia Labat of Argentina, 6-2, 6-1; and eighth-seeded Leila Meskhi of the Soviet Union beat Linda Ferrando of Italy, 7-6 (7-5), 6-0.

The world’s top-ranked doubles team of Scott Davis and David Pate was eliminated in straight sets by an unseeded team in the U.S. Clay Court Championships at Charlotte, N.C.

The unseeded tandem of Monaco’s Diego Nargiso and Italy’s Stefano Pescosolido moved into the doubles quarterfinals by overpowering the top-seeded Davis-Pate duo, 6-3, 6-3.

In singles play, third-seeded David Wheaton, fourth-seeded Richey Reneberg and fifth-seeded Jimmy Arias all advanced to the quarterfinals.