TENNIS ROUNDUP : Cahill Tops McEnroe; Agassi Wins

Sixth-seeded Darren Cahill of Australia defeated fourth-seeded John McEnroe, 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-3, Friday night to advance to the semifinals of a $225,000 tournament at San Francisco.

Top-seeded Andre Agassi easily defeated Kevin Curren, 6-2, 6-4, to advance to a semifinal matchup against Brad Gilbert, who beat Dan Goldie, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4.

There were an unusual number of service breaks, seven, in the Agassi-Curren match before Agassi broke the final time in the 10th game of the second set with powerful returns of serve.

Curren was plagued by forehand errors in the first set. And overall, the serve-and-volleyer got only 43% of his first serves in, compared with Agassi’s 70%.

Gilbert needed more than two hours to handle Goldie. The eighth game of the match went 24 to points, the equivalent of six love games, before Gilbert won.

In another quarterfinal match, Wally Masur of Australia defeated David Pate, 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (7-1), as the hard-serving and somewhat erratic Pate couldn’t overcome his own errors in the tiebreaker. Pate, ranked 97th in the world, had previously upset second-seeded Andres Gomez of Ecuador.

Carl-Uwe Steeb of Germany eliminated Aaron Krickstein, the last American in the field, Friday night during the quarterfinals of a $600,000 indoor tournament at Milan.

With the 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) victory, Steeb will play the tournament’s hometown favorite, Cristiano Caratti, in the semifinals.

Caratti, who upset Ivan Lendl Thursday, breezed past Nicklas Kulti of Sweden, 6-3, 6-1.

Caratti, who reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, used his strong backhand to win.

Also moving into the semifinals were Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland and Alexander Volkov of the Soviet Union.

Top-seeded Sabine Appelmans of Belgium and second-seeded Raffaella Reggi of Italy scored easy victories in a women’s indoor tournament at Oslo. Appelmans beat Nathalie Herreman of France, 6-2, 6-1, and Reggi defeated Beate Reinstadler of Austria, 6-3, 6-4.

Leila Meskhi of the Soviet Union beat Czech teen-ager Eva Sviglerova, 6-3, 6-4, to reach the semifinals of a $100,000 women’s tournament at Wellington, New Zealand.

Meskhi, the only seeded player to reach the final four, will play Karine Quentrec of France. Quentrec upset fourth-seeded Sabine Hack of Germany, 0-6, 6-2, 6-3.