TENNIS ROUNDUP : Stich Picks Up Where He Left Off and Wins

Michael Stich, playing for the first time since winning at Wimbledon, breezed to a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Cyril Suk of Czechoslovakia Wednesday in the Swiss Open at Gstaad.

The second-seeded Stich made the switch from grass to clay with no difficulty, and needed only 59 minutes to oust Suk, a qualifier.

Emilio Sanchez of Spain eliminated Aaron Krickstein, 6-3, 6-2, and next will play defending champion Martin Jaite of Argentina, a surprise winner over third-seeded Guy Forget of France, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5. Jaite is No. 32 in the world; Forget is No. 7.

Fourth-seeded Goran Ivanisevic of Yugoslavia outlasted Javier Sanchez of Spain, 5-7, 7-5, 6-1, to set up a match against David Wheaton.

French Open champion Jim Courier defeated Tommy Ho, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1, in the first round of the Gunze World tournament at Tokyo.

Courier is No. 5 in the ATP rankings, Ho is No. 162.

Patrick McEnroe beat Todd Witsken, 6-4, 6-2.

In women’s singles, Wimbledon runner-up Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina, seeking her third consecutive Gunze title, beat Susan Sloane, 6-3, 6-0.

Sabatini needed only 54 minutes, despite suffering two service breaks in the first set.

“It was my first match since Wimbledon. The surface is quite different. It’s very fast here compared with Wimbledon,” Sabatini said of her slow start.

The tournament is being played on artificial surface.

Katerina Maleeva of Bulgaria beat Anke Huber of Germany 6-3, 6-2.

Second-seeded Christian Saceanu of Germany lost to unseeded Glenn Layendecker, 6-1, 6-3, in the $150,000 Hall of Fame Championships at the Newport, R.I.

Layendecker, ranked No. 150 in the world, said: “I was lucky to get out of a 15-40 twice in the second set. I wasn’t sure I could finish him off because he had been so close on my serve. But I felt I executed well, and I won almost every important point.”

In other matches involving seeded players, No. 4 Jacco Eltingh of the Netherlands beat unseeded Alex Reichel, 6-3, 6-2, and No. 7 Javier Frana of Argentina beat wild-card Jared Palmer, 6-1, 6-3.

Eltingh served six aces and won 88% of the points on his first serve.

The tournament is the only ATP event in the United States played on grass.