International Players Tennis : Lloyd, Wilander and Noah Advance

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Defending champion Chris Evert Lloyd reached the women’s round of 16 at the $1.8-million International Players Championships Saturday, defeating Vicki Nelson-Dunbar, 6-0, 6-0, in a match she had hoped would present more of a challenge.

Fifth-seeded Mats Wilander and No. 12-seeded Tim Mayotte also won men’s matches and will play each other in the fourth round of the two-week tournament at the International Tennis Center.

Wilander, a finalist in this tournament a year ago, beat Jakob Hlasek of Czechoslovakia, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. Mayotte, who won the inaugural event in 1985, stayed in the hunt for another crown with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Aaron Krickstein.

Among others moving into the fourth round were Australian Open champion Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia, Zina Garrison and Yannick Noah of France.

Lloyd, seeded No. 2 behind Martina Navratilova, has had little trouble in her first three matches against Jennifer Mundel of south Africa, Akiko Kijimuta of Japan and Nelson-Dunbar.

She needed only 47 minutes to win Saturday, but it wasn’t that way for Mandlikova and Noah, the tournament’s fourth-seeded players. Both struggled before taking command of their matches.

Mandlikova won the first two games of her match with Svetlana Parkhomenko of the Soviet Union, then lost the next five. Almost as quickly as she lost her touch, however, she regained it and won five straight games to take the opening set, 7-5.

Parkhomenko, who double-faulted six times in the first set, led, 4-2, in the second. Mandlikova held serve for 4-3 and broke Parkhomenko in the eighth game to pull even. She broke her again two games later to win the set, 6-4, and end the 1-hour 23-minute match.

Noah played his second five-set match in three days and beat Sweden’s Ulf Stenlund, 1-6, 6-0, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. His first-round match against Italy’s Claudio Panatta lasted four sets.

Lloyd said she could have used a tougher match to prepare for fourth-round opponent Stephanie Rehe.

“I tried to not to lose interest and work on some things I wanted to do,” Lloyd said. “I’m not complaining. I’d rather win like that than struggle, but players like to be pressed.”