TENNIS ROUNDUP : It’s Upsetting: Edberg, Lendl Agassi Lose

Two heavy hitters gave heavy hits to Stefan Edberg and Ivan Lendl at the Volvo International on Thursday at New Haven, Conn.

Richard Krajicek consistently hit 120-m.p.h. serves Edberg couldn’t handle and beat the top-seeded Swede, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

“He made a lot of return mistakes,” Krajicek said. “After a while I started serving so good that I could go for my returns and I just went for it.”

“He played better and better as the match went on,” Edberg said. “I served worse and worse as the match went on.”

Marc Rosset also consistently hit 120-m.p.h. serves, but he beat Lendl, 6-4, 6-4, by outlasting him on the baseline.

Of the top eight seeded players, only fourth-seeded John McEnroe and fifth-seeded Goran Ivanisevic remain in the tournament. They will play today in a quarterfinal match.

Fabrice Santoro, seeded 14th and playing his second three-set match in less than four hours, upset an ailing Andre Agassi, 2-6, 7-5, 6-2, in the third round of the U.S. Men’s Hardcourts Championship at Indianapolis.

Agassi, who was said to be nauseated, immediately left the Indianapolis Sports Center after Santoro’s backhand winner ended the match after 1 hour 48 minutes.

Santoro, 18, earned the right to play Agassi with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 second-round victory over Cedric Pioline earlier in the day.

In other matches, top-seeded Boris Becker defeated 16th-seeded Christian Bergstrom, 6-2, 6-2, and French Open champion Jim Courier used four service breaks to defeat 15th-seeded Francisco Clavet of Spain, 6-2, 6-1.

Joining them in the quarterfinals were No. 5 Pete Sampras, No. 6 David Wheaton, No. 9 Jakob Hlasek and unseeded Australian Richard Fromberg.