TENNIS ROUNDUP : Bruguera Can’t Beat Rain in Bordeaux

Second-seeded Marc Rosset of Switzerland and No. 3 Arnaud Boetsch of France advanced Friday to the semifinals of a $355,000 tournament at Bordeaux, France, but top-seeded Sergi Bruguera of Spain was rained out again.

Rosset, the 1992 Olympic champion, defeated Libor Nemecek of the Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-3, and Boetsch defeated Javier Frana of Argentina, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.

In the other quarterfinal, Diego Nargiso of Italy eliminated No. 4 Javier Sanchez of Spain, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).

Bruguera, ranked No. 4 in the world, was scheduled to play against eighth-seeded Thomas Enqvist of Sweden, but rain postponed the match until this morning. That winner has to come back in the afternoon to meet Boetsch in one semifinal.

Bruguera had his opening match delayed a day by rain and his second match against Henri Leconte was interrupted by showers and power failures.

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Top-seeded Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia defeated Romania’s Dinu Pescariu, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), to advance to the semifinals of the $500,000 Romanian Open at Bucharest.

In the semifinals, Ivanisevic will meet Guillermo Perez-Roldan, who upset No. 5 Magnus Gustafsson of Sweden, 7-6 (7-3), 6-0.

“I hope I’ll play better tomorrow, because last time I met Perez-Roldan was in Nice and he beat me, 6-1, 6-2,” Ivanisevic said.

No. 8 Andrei Cherkasov of Russia will play unseeded Andrea Gaudenzi of Italy in the other semifinal. Cherkasov defeated Tomas Nydahl of Sweden, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2, and Gaudenzi beat Francisco Clavet of Spain, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.

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Top-seeded Dodo Cheney of Santa Monica, winner of 240 U.S. Tennis Assn. titles, was upset by No. 3 Betty Eisenstein of Washington, 7-5, 6-3, in the semifinals of the USTA National women’s 70 grass court championships at Oceanside, N.Y.

In men’s 65 play, No. 3 King Lambert of Santa Ana surprised No. 2 Jason Morton of Sun Lakes, Ariz., 6-4, 6-4, and No. 4 Wayne Hippenstiel of Carmichael Calif., upset No. 1 Fred Kovaleski, the defending champion, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5.