Stich Gets German Jeers for Effort in Upset Loss

Playing before a home crowd, top-seeded and third-ranked Michael Stich was routed, 6-2, 6-2, by Andrea Gaudenzi, then jeered for his effort Friday in the Mercedes Cup at Stuttgart, Germany.

Also jeered was Yevgeny Kafelnikov, a 6-4, 6-0 loser to French Open finalist Alberto Berasategui.

In the other quarterfinal matches, Andrei Chesnokov upset third-seeded Thomas Muster, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, and Bernd Karbacher beat Lars Jonsson, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).

The 10th-seeded Gaudenzi, who has jumped from 126th to 29th in the world this year, repeatedly passed Stich at the net and outplayed him from the baseline.

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Spain, Germany and the United States coasted into the Federation Cup semifinals at Frankfurt, Germany, but third-seeded France struggled against Bulgarian sisters Katerina and Magdalena Maleeva, needing to win the doubles.

Julie Halard outlasted Katerina Maleeva, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, before Mary Pierce fell to Magdalena, 6-7 (6-8), 6-4, 6-4. Halard and Nathalie Tauziat defeated the Maleevas, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, in doubles.

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David Wheaton used a booming serve to overpower Michael Tebbutt, 6-4, 6-4, and advanced to the semifinals of the $650,000 Legg Mason Classic in Washington.

Wheaton will play Jason Stoltenberg, a 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-3 winner over Brett Steven. In the other semifinal, second-seeded Stefan Edberg, a 6-4, 6-1 winner over Aaron Krickstein, will face Byron Black. Black defeated Thomas Enqvist, 7-5, 6-4.

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Top-seeded Tina Karwasky of Glendale defeated unseeded Marlie Buehler of New York, 6-4, 7-5, in the semifinals of the U.S. Tennis Assn. Senior Women’s Championships in New York. Karwasky will play fourth-seeded Carole Ford of Bethesda, Md., in the finals.

Track and Field

William Sigei of Kenya shattered the world 10,000-meter record with a time of 26 minutes 52.23 seconds at the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, cutting more than six seconds off fellow Kenyan Yobes Ondieki’s old record.

Basketball

Assistant coach Stan Van Gundy, 34, was promoted to succeed Stu Jackson, who left the Wisconsin basketball program for a job with Vancouver’s NBA expansion team.

The San Antonio Spurs signed free-agent point guard Avery Johnson for the third time.

A bid estimated at more than $150 million by Wayne Huizenga to buy the Miami Heat could give him control of teams in each of the four major professional sports.

Chris Cohan, a San Francisco cable television magnate and 25% owner of the Golden State Warriors, has accused the majority owners of breaking a promise to sell him the team and has asked a judge to order the team sold, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Point guard David Wesley, who played for the New Jersey Nets last season, signed a two-year contract with the Boston Celtics.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the NBA Players Assn.’s request to file an expedited appeal of a ruling that upheld the legality of the league’s salary cap.

Miscellany

VfL Bochum of Germany’s first soccer division has joined the pursuit of U.S. defender Alexi Lalas, who also is sought by Coventry City of England’s Premier League.

Danish cyclist Michael Nielsen, 19, suffered a heart attack in the U.S. Olympic Training Center dining hall at Colorado Springs, but the USOC medical staff quickly responded and Nielsen was reported to be in a hospital, resting comfortably.

Despite George Steinbrenner’s agreement to meet with the Rev. Jesse Jackson next week, picket lines will go up this weekend outside Yankee Stadium over racially charged statements made by a team executive. Picketing will be done while the Yankees are playing the Angels at Anaheim.

Miguel Indurain finished about three minutes behind Piotr Ugrumov of Latvia in the 19th stage, but with two days left still is expected to win his fourth consecutive Tour de France. Indurain leads Ugrumov by 5:39 in the overall standings.

Dale Earnhardt turned a fast lap of 193.470 m.p.h. in his Chevrolet Lumina to win the pole for the DieHard 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.

Two second-half goals ended the United States’ run in the women’s field hockey World Cup semifinals, Argentina winning, 2-0, at Dublin, Ireland.

Names in the News

Arnold Schwarzenegger will be the host of ceremonies launching the Inner-City Games at USC today. . . . The son of sportscaster Dan Dierdorf, Daniel Dierdorf Jr., 25, was arrested on charges of raping and sodomizing his former girlfriend near St. Louis. . . . George Munger, who was the University of Pennsylvania football coach 16 seasons and is a member of college football’s Hall of Fame, died of heart failure at 84 in Philadelphia.