TENNIS ROUNDUP : Wheaton Beats Chang in London; Edberg Also Wins

Sixth-seeded David Wheaton defeated fourth-seeded Michael Chang, 6-3, 6-3, to advance to the semifinals of the Queens Club tournament Friday in London.

MaliVai Washington, a former University of Michigan player, advanced with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Australian John Fitzgerald.

Wheaton next plays Sweden’s Anders Jarryd, who defeated Canadian Grant Connell, 6-2, 6-1.

Washington will take on Stefan Edberg, the world’s top-ranked player who is tuning up in this grass-court event for the defense of his Wimbledon title. Edberg advanced with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Australian Pat Cash.

Washington, 21, broke Fitzgerald in the next-to-last game of each set. Then, each time, he served out without conceding a point.

At Birmingham, England, Martina Navratilova and Zina Garrison, who met in last year’s Wimbledon final, appeared sharp in winning their quarterfinal matches in the Edgbaston grass-court tournament.

Navratilova defeated fifth-seeded Lori McNeil, 6-3, 6-2, in 47 minutes, and Garrison beat South Africa’s Mariaan de Swardt, 6-3, 6-4.

Navratilova’s semifinal opponent will be Brenda Schultz, an unseeded Dutch player who defeated Catherine Suire of France, 6-3, 6-2.

Garrison will play fourth-seeded Natalia Zvereva of the Soviet Union, who outlasted Manon Bollegraf of the Netherlands, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-2, in a 2 1/2-hour match.

In the quarterfinals of a tournament at Florence, Italy, Jimmy Arias was upset by qualifier Carlos Costa, 6-4, 6-1.

Costa next faces unseeded Austrian Thomas Muster, who defeated Fabrice Santoro of France, 6-7 (7-4), 6-1, 6-1.