Tennis

Jeremy Bates, Britain’s top-ranked player but only 219th in the world, beat David Pate, 6-4, 6-2, in the London Queens Club tournament, a grass-court tuneup for Wimbledon.

Pam Shriver lost four games in a row in the second set but still swept Britain’s Julie Salmon, 6-0, 6-4, in the opening round of the $150,000 Edgbaston women’s grass-court tournament at Birmingham, England.