Sports People

Leander Paes of India beat Pat Cash, a wild-card entrant and 1987 Wimbledon champion, 6-2, 6-2, at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championship at Newport, R.I. Cash, an Australian who has six career singles titles and achieved a career-best ranking of No. 4 in 1988, is coming back from a series of injuries that forced him into temporary retirement. Top-seeded Byron Black of Zimbabwe beat Jacco Eltingh of the Netherlands 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. … Stefan Edberg, playing his last Swedish Open, led qualifier Jack Waite of the United States 6-2, 4-2 when the firstround match at Bastad, Sweden, was suspended because of rain. … At Gstaad, Switzerland, unseeded Jiri Novak upset No. 2 seed Marcelo Rios of Chile 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-2 in the first round of the Swiss Open. … At Columbus, Ohio, former Ohio State basketball player Scott Gradney was given probation for his part in three car break-ins.