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Jennifer Capriati defeated Miriam Oremans, 6-1, 6-4, in the second round of the Porsche Grand Prix at Filderstadt, Germany.

Top-seeded Martina Hingis defeated Magdalena Maleeva in three sets in the second round.

Top-seeded Monica Seles defeated Japan’s Saori Obata, 6-4, 6-2, to reach the quarterfinals of the Kiwi Open at Shanghai.

Top-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia lost to Bohdan Ulihrach of the Czech Republic, 7-6 (6), 6-3, in the first round of the CA Trophy at Vienna.

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U.S. Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe said the team decided to donate $100,000 to the relief effort for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York. The Americans will play India in a relegation match, starting Friday at Winston-Salem, N.C. Previously, the U.S. Tennis Assn. contributed $1 million to the effort.

Soccer

Three-time Major League Soccer champion D.C. United said it will not renew Coach Thomas Rongen’s contract when it expires Dec. 31. He has more MLS victories than any coach, with a record of 82-90-8.

John Ellinger, coach of the U.S. under-17 team, has been mentioned as a possible successor.

Coach Octavio Zambrano, who turned around the fortunes of the New York/New Jersey MetroStars after being fired by the Galaxy, was given a two-year contract.

Although terms were not revealed, Zambrano will be one of the highest-paid coaches in MLS.

Yachting

Chicago sailor Steve Fossett sliced nearly two days off a trans-Atlantic sailing record when he arrived off the British coast.

Fossett and the crew of his carbon-fiber catamaran Playstation set out from New York on Friday and crossed the finish line at Cornwall’s Lizard peninsula. He was timed in 4 days 17 hours 28 minutes 6 seconds.

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The record, subject to ratification, beat the previous West-to-East trans-Atlantic sailing record by nearly 44 hours. That mark was set 11 years ago by Serge Madec.

Fossett’s boat is a 125-foot catamaran.

Miscellany

Former football Coach Terry Donahue and former basketball player and Coach Gary Cunningham are among 11 people who will be inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday.

Donahue coached the Bruins for 20 seasons and retired in 1995 with a 151-74-8 record. He was a defensive tackle in the 1960s.

He led the Bruins to 13 bowl games, including four Rose Bowl appearances and five Pac-10 championships.

In the 1960s, Donahue played for the Bruins, who won the 1966 Rose Bowl with him as starting defensive tackle.

Cunningham played forward on the Bruins’ basketball teams from 1960-62. He was as an assistant to John Wooden from 1969-75 and became coach in 1977. The Bruins were 50-8 in his two seasons.

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Other inductees are Jill Andrews, gymnastics; Sharron Backus, softball; Jim D. Brown, football; Charles Cheshire, football; Warren Edmonson, track and field; John Green, basketball; John Lee, football; Lisa Longaker, softball, and Ozzie Volstad, volleyball.

The International Wrestling Federation (FILA) has rejected a proposal to reschedule the world championships later this year in New York City and instead voted to move the event to Bulgaria and Greece.

The championships were to be held Sept. 26-29 at Madison Square Garden, but were postponed in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.

The men’s and women’s freestyle championships will be held Nov. 22-25 at Sofia, Bulgaria, and the Greco-Roman championships will be held Dec. 6-9 at Athens.

Michael Holton, first-year coach at Portland, has arranged a game at UCLA on Dec. 14, 2002. Holton is a former Bruin player and assistant.

Passings

Eddie Futch, who trained 20 boxing world champions, including heavyweights Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Riddick Bowe and Michael Spinks, died in Las Vegas. He was 90.

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