Tennis Roundup : McEnroe Eases Into Quarterfinals

Top-seeded John McEnroe continued his defense of the $368,000 Player’s International tournament championship at Montreal Thursday with an easy, 6-0, 6-1 victory over unseeded Nelson Aerts.

McEnroe kept Aerts on the defensive with an overpowering serve in the first set, then relied on an effective serve-and-volley game and deft groundstrokes to overcome the Brazilian in the second set.

In the quarterfinals, McEnroe will face No. 16 Ramesh Krishnan of India, who stopped eighth-seeded Johan Kriek, 6-4, 6-4.

In the tournament’s biggest upset so far, 15th-seeded Jimmy Arias earned the right to play Eliot Teltscher with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over No. 4 Kevin Curren.

In other matches, Jimmy Connors advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Vitas Gerulaitis, and Stefan Edberg beat fellow Swede Henrik Sundstrom, 7-6, 6-4.

Unseeded Stephane Bonneau of Canada was beaten, 6-1, 6-2, by fifth-seeded Anders Jarryd of Sweden, while No. 2 Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia stopped ninth-seeded American Tim Mayotte, 7-6, 6-2.

Seventh-ranked Eliot Teltscher advanced by defeating unseeded Sammy Giammalva, 6-4, 6-4.

At Mahwah, N.J., Manuela Maleeva, on the verge of collapse from heat exhaustion, retired midway through the third set, allowing Iva Budrova to advance to the quarterfinals of the $150,000 United Jersey Bank tournament.

With courtside temperatures at 100 degrees, Maleeva, seeded third, retired with Budrova leading the third set, 3-0. Maleeva had won the first set, 6-1, and lost the second, 6-3.

Budrova will meet No. 6 Kathy Rinaldi in the quarterfinals. Rinaldi advanced with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over No. 12 Pam Casale.

In other third-round matches, No. 8 Catarina Lindqvist of Sweden defeated qualifier Leigh Thompson, 6-3, 6-2, while seventh-seeded Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina ousted Christiane Jolissaint of Switzerland, 6-3, 6-1.

At St. Louis, Chris Evert Lloyd withstood a second-set rally to defeat Lisa Bonder, 6-1, 7-6, and advance to the semifinals of a $126,000 tournament.

In another quarterfinal match, 13-year-old amateur Mary Joe Fernandez upset Wendy Turnbull, 6-1, 6-3, and will face Lloyd tonight.

Earlier, Hana Mandlikova defeated Susan Mascarin, 6-1, 6-3, and Andrea Temesvari beat Bonnie Gadusek, 7-6, 6-2.

At Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., top-seeded Christine Gilles of Plymouth, Mich., and third-seeded Diana Dopson of Austin, Tex., advanced to the final of the U.S. National Amateur championships with straight-set victories.

In men’s play, top-seeded Don Bishop of Wichita Falls, Tex.; second-seeded Louis Castro-Malaga of Peru, fifth-seeded Bryan Shelton of Huntsville, Ala., and unseeded Doug Sachs of Cresskill, N.J., moved into the semifinals.