Football

Tennis

Vince Spadea reached the semifinals of the New Zealand Open with a 7-5, 6-2 victory over Jan Siemerink of the Netherlands....Second-seeded Paul Haarhuis of the Netherlands led the way into the semifinals of the Indonesia Open in Jakarta with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Canadian Greg Rusedski....

Basketball

....Nevada Las Vegas Coach Tim Grgurich was released from a hospital after being treated for exhaustion.

Soccer

....Brazilian forward Romario was loaned from Barcelona to the Rio de Janeiro club Flamengo.

Miscellany

....Sun Caiyun of China was credited with the first world record in the women’s pole vault, 13 feet 3 1/2 inches, set in 1992, but was denied sharing a later mark, 13-4 1/2, with Nicole Rieger of Germany because of a positive drug test....