TENNIS ROUNDUP : Sanchez Stops Jaite in Sicily

Top-seeded Emilio Sanchez of Spain overcame Martin Jaite of Argentina, 2-6, 7-6 (6-3), 6-4, Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the $300,000 Assn. of Tennis Professionals tournament at Palermo, Sicily.

Also advancing were Marian Vajda of Czechoslovakia, who beat No. 5 Guillermo Perez-Roldan of Argentina, 6-2, 6-4; Diego Nargiso of Italy, who defeated Rodolphe Gilbert of France, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, and No. 8 Thomas Muster of Austria, who swept Roberto Azar of Argentina, 6-1, 6-3.

Third-seeded Sergi Bruguera of Spain struggled past Swedish qualifier David Engel, 2-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-2), in the first round of a $750,000 indoor tournament at Basel, Switzerland.

Bruguera next plays unseeded Kevin Curren, who overcame two second-set match points in defeating Switzerland’s Marc Rosset, 2-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-1.

The Soviet Union’s Leila Meskhi, seeded second, advanced to the third round of a $150,000 tournament in Bayonne, France, defeating France’s Nathalie Herreman, 6-3, 6-2.

Jim Grabb and Gianluca Pozzi of Italy defeated seeded players to reach the quarterfinals of the $250,000 Queensland Open in Brisbane, Australia.

Grabb beat sixth-seeded Shuzo Matsuoka of Japan, 7-5, 5-7, 6-3. Pozzi stopped No. 4 Todd Woodbridge of Australia, 6-4, 0-6, 6-1.

A Los Angeles promoter said he is offering 39-year-old Jimmy Connors and 17-year-old Monica Seles $1 million to play a winner-takes-all “Battle of the Sexes” match in Las Vegas.

Promoter David Krieff of Destiny Productions said the rules would be amended to give Connors only one serve and allow Seles to play the doubles alleys as in bounds.

Said Ray Benton, Connors’ agent: “There have been conversations but to date no substantive negotiations.”

Stephanie Tolleson, who represents Seles, was unavailable for comment.