Tennis Glance

Monday, June 2, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

By BOB GREENE

AP Sports Writer

STARS

In the first week of the French Open:

- Magnus Norman, Sweden, defeated No. 1 Pete Sampras.

- Magnus Gustafsson, Sweden, defeated No. 2 Goran Ivanisevic.

- Nicole Arendt, Princeton, N.J., defeated No. 4 Jana Novotna.

- Gustavo Kerten, Brazil, defeated No. 5 Thomas Muster.

SPEAKING

"Can't talk right now, I'm in the middle of a match." - Jana Kandarr when, during a second-round match against Jana Novotna, she answered her cellular telephone, which was ringing in her tennis bag. Novotna won 6-4, 6-0.

"It's very tough on the body. Mentally, it's even harder. It's not really tennis. It's just a fight." - Pete Sampras on the slow red clay surface at the French Open.

"The sun is going to rise tomorrow, and I'll be on a plane following it." - Jim Courier after losing a first-round match.

STEFFI STANDING ALONE

Steffi Graf is the only one of 17 Germans who entered the tournament to reach the fourth round of the French Open, the worst result for the Germans at Roland Garros in 15 years. Germany's biggest male stars, Boris Becker and Michael Stich, didn't enter this year's tourney, while the only other German to be seeded, No. 8 Anke Huber, fail to get out of the first round.

STANFORD LEADING THE PACK

Five Stanford players - Lilia Osterloh, Julie Scott, Katie Schlukebir, Ryan Wolters and Bob Bryan - have been selected for the USTA All-American Summer Team. Others picked to the elite training program are Mary Carlisle White and Dawn Buth of Florida, John Roddick and Eddie Jacques of Georgia, Cristina Moros of Texas and Eric Taino of UCLA.

SHOWING UP IN PARIS

This year's French Open is the 100th anniverary of women's tennis at Paris. All of the top 25-ranked women players in the world and 94 of the top 100 showed up at Roland Garros. The only ones missing were No. 27 Jennifer Capriati, No. 33 Meredith McGrath, No. 60 Mariann Werdel Witmeyer, No. 66 Mari Antonia Sanchez Lorenzo, No. 68 Anne Miller and No. 98 Corina Morariu.

SUCCESS, FINALLY

Caroline Dhenin of France received her third straight wild card into the main draw of the French Open. She lost in the first round in both 1995 and 1996, but this year she knocked off 17th-ranked Sabine Appelmans of Belgium and Croatia's Silvia Talaja before losing in the third round to seventh-seeded Conchita Martinez.

STASHING THE LOOT

By progressing past the first round, Steffi Graf has passed $20 million in career prize money and is closing in on leader Martina Navratilova. If Graf wins the French Open, she will collect $654,115 and overtake Navratilova as No. 1 on the women's money list. Navratilova retired in 1994 after winning $20.33 million during her 20-year career.

SCHEDULE Tournaments this week

Corel WTA Tour and ATP Tour

French Open, 2nd week, clay, Paris Tournaments week of June 9

Corel WTA Tour

$164,250 DFS Classic, grass, Birmingham, England

ATP Tour

$875,000 Gerry Weber Open 1997, grass, Halle, Germany

$675,000 The Stella Artois Grass Court Championships, grass, Lodon

$303,000 Internazionali di Tennis Carisbo, clay, Bologna, Italy

Men's 35 Tour

Nuveen Tour, Columbus, Ohio

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