Vicario to Face Majoli in Finals of Pan Pacific

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Iva Majoli won three-set semifinal matches Saturday at Tokyo in the Pan Pacific Open and will play for the title today.

Sanchez Vicario, No. 3 in the world and third-seeded in the tournament, beat fellow Spaniard and second-seeded Conchita Martinez, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.

Majoli, who upset top seed Monica Seles in the quarterfinals, rallied to defeat Martina Hingis of Switzerland, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0.

Top-seeded Goran Ivanisevic outlasted Guy Forget of France, 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-4 in the semifinals of the Croatia Indoors tournament at Zagreb, Croatia. His will face Frenchman Cedric Pioline in the final, who beat Marc Goellner of Germany, 6-4, 7-6 (8-6).

Peter Graf, the father of tennis player Steffi Graf, will take psychiatric tests in his jail cell to see if years of pills and alcohol may allow him to plead diminished responsibility on tax evasion charges, his lawyer said. Graf, 57, has been in investigative custody in Mannheim, southern Germany, since last August as part of the tax probe which also targets his daughter. . . .Boris Becker has a leg injury and will miss next week’s Davis Cup competition against Switzerland.

Baseball

The Chicago White Sox signed free agent Kevin Tapani to a one-year contract. The right-hander was 10-13 as a starter for the Minnesota Twins and Los Angeles Dodgers last season.

Winter Sports

Germany’s Katja Seizinger took the lead in the women’s overall standings with her second World Cup victory in as many days at Val d’Isere, France.

Seizinger dominated the first of two scheduled women’s downhills, beating American rival Picabo Street by a half-second. Street was left waiting at the starting gate when officials stopped the second race because of fog.

Dense fog on the Kandahar course forced organizers to call off the World Cup downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany and postpone the men’s race for 24 hours. . . .Eric Bergoust of Missoula, Mont., won his second World Cup aerials meet of the season at Kirchberg, Austria. Colette Brand of Switzerland took the women’s contest. . . .Austrian cousins Tobias and Markus Schiegl and Jana Bode of Germany won gold medals at the 1996 World Luge Championships at Altenberg, Germany. The Shiegls won the doubles and Bode captured the women’s singles. . . .Emmanuelle Claret of France captured the first gold medal of the biathlon World Championships when she won the 15-kilometer event at Ruhpolding, Germany. . . .Manuela di Centa and Stefania Belmondo won the 10-kilometer event and Fulvio Valbus and Silvio Fauner won the men’s 20-kilometer race, as Italy won the men’s and women’s races at a World Cup cross country team sprint meet at Seefeld, Austria.

Soccer

Substitute striker Mark Williams scored two goals within a minute in the second half to give South Africa a 2-0 victory and the championship in its first African Cup soccer tournament at Johannesburg, South Africa.

It was the first victory for a southern African team in the African Cup, being played for the 20th time since the first tournament in 1957. . . .Arrigo Sacchi, coach of Italy’s national soccer team, has been given a 2 1/2-year contract extension. . . .The Bahamas and Bermuda have withdrawn from the 1998 World Cup field, CONCACAF announced.

Football

Green Bay Packer Coach Mike Holmgren will be coaching a familiar group on offense as he leads the NFC against the AFC in today’s Pro Bowl at Honolulu. Along with Brett Favre and Mark Chmura of Green Bay, Holmgren has coached San Francisco 49ers Steve Young, Jerry Rice and Brent Jones and Philadelphia running back Ricky Watters, all when he was an assistant in San Francisco.

Former Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long was arrested in downtown Pittsburgh on Friday night on charges of disorderly conduct, aggravated assault and resisting arrest. . . .Iowa football coach Hayden Fry was given a new contract that runs through June 30, 2000.

Miscellany

The Oldsmobile MK III shared by Wayne Taylor of South Africa, Scott Sharp and Jim Pace led through the first three hours of the Rolex 24 Hours sports car endurance race at Daytona Beach, Fla.

Boxer Peter McNeeley, knocked out in the first round of Mike Tyson’s first comeback fight, has been ordered to stay away from his girlfriend, Bonnie Bryant, after he allegedly punched her, the Boston Herald reported. . . .Rick Acton, playing in his first Senior Tour event, shot a 4-under-par 67 to take a one-shot lead heading into the final round of the Royal Caribbean Classic at Key Biscayne, Fla. . . .Linford Christie hobbled off the track with a suspected groin injury after breaking down in a 60-meter race at Birmingham, England. Michael Rosswess went on to win and retain his British AAA indoor title. . . .Russia’s Denis Pankratov set a short-course world record in the 200-meter butterfly at a World Cup meet at Paris. His time of 1 minute, 52.34 seconds in the 25-meter pool bettered the mark of 1:53.05 set by France’s Franck Esposito in 1994.