BRIEFLY\Sampras to face Agassi in final.

Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services

Andre Agassi delivered his end of the deal, setting up a match with Pete Sampras for tennis' No. 1 ranking with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 victory over Michael Chang in the Sybae Open semifinals Saturday night in San Jose.

Sampras, who beat Slovakia's Jan Kroslak 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 in the other semifinal, and Agassi play today to determine the ATP computer's No. 1 ranking.

Sampras began the year as No. 1, Agassi took it over on Jan. 29 and then lost it on Feb. 12 to Thomas Muster, who lost a first-round match lat week in the Dubai Open.

Agassi is 8-9 in seven years against Sampras, who won their last meeting, the U.S. Open finals last year.

Now 10-5 lifetime against Chang, Agassi lost to him in their most recent match, the semifinals of the Australian Open three weeks ago. Agassi defeated Chang in the finals of last year's San Jose event.

Sampras had to endure what he most dreads - a tiebreaker - on the way to beating Kroslak.

Fourth-seeded Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia served 14 aces as he beat unseeded David Prinosil of Germany 6-2, 7-6 (8-6) to reach the final of the Dubai Open in the United Arab Emirates. In today's final, Ivanisevic plays 21-year-old Alberto Costa of Spain, who outlasted Javier Sanchez of Spain 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Guy Forget and Cedric Pioline advanced to an all-French final at France's Marseille Open with semifinal victories. The seventh-seeded Pioline beat Hendrik Dreekman 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Forget beat Tomas Carbonell of Spain 6-4, 7-6 (8-6).

Top-seeded Iva Majoli advanced to the final of her second consecutive tournament, beating Magdalena Maleeva 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 at the Paris Open. Julie Halard of France made the Paris final for the second time in three years, beating Silvia Farina of Italy 6-4, 6-4.

FOOTBALL

Wayne McDuffie, former Florida State football player and assistant coach, committed suicide at his Tallahassee-area home Friday night. McDuffie, 52, shot himself in the chest near the swimming pool behind the family's house in Killearn, friends said. His wife, Toni, a former FSU cheerleader, found the body.

BASKETBALL

Five Michigan basketball players and a recruit all escaped serious injury early Saturday when their vehicle rolled over while returning from a party in Detroit.

The players were Maurice Taylor, Willie Mitchell, Robert Traylor, Louis Bullock, all starters, and Ron Oliver. The recruit was Mateen Cleaves, a 6-foot-2 guard from Flint, Mich. The most serious injury was Traylor's broken right arm. The 320-pound freshman will miss the rest of the season.

BOXING

Mike Tyson picked up a new sweetheart on Valentine's Day - a new baby daughter named Rayna. Tyson's girlfriend, Monica Turner, gave birth to their 8-pound, 10-ounce daughter Wednesday morning at a Maryland Hospital, the New York Daily News reported.

Unbeaten Philip Holiday of South Africa retained his International Boxing Federation lightweight title by stopping American John Lark in the 10th round in Pretoria, South Africa.

Samson Dutchboy Gym of Thailand retained his World Boxing Federation junior bantamweight title with a seventh round technical knockout of Jenaro Garcia of Mexico in Bang Saen, Thailand.

WINTER SPORTS

Sergei Klevchenja of Russia won the 1,000 and finished second in the 500 meters to take the lead at the 27th World Sprint Speedskating Championships. Christine Witty of the United States led the women's competition after dominanting the 1,000 meters in 1 minute, 20.63 seconds.

ETC.

Tisha Venturini and Tiffeny Milbrett scored first-half goals to lead the United States women's soccer team to a 3-0 victory over Sweden in Houston. . . .

Frederik Deburghgraeve of Belgium set a short-course record (59.02 seconds) in the 100-meter breaststroke in Bstogne, Belgium. . . .

The Southern California Striders, once the nation's top track and field club with such great athletes as Rafer Johnson and Parry O'Brien, will hold a 40th-anniversary reunion April 27 in Culver City. Information: [phone].

Pete Rose returned to Baseball - for a day anyway - and didn't miss a beat. Rose appeared at Phoenix Municipal Stadium and played second base for the National League in a 5-4 victory over the American League in the '96 Dream Game for Old Timers. Rose, banned from baseball for gambling and other infractions, received a standing ovation from a crowd of 6,500. The game wasn't sanctioned by the major leagues. Rose, 54, the major league's career hits leader, lined a single to right in the first, reached on catcher's interference and stole second in the second and flied to left in the fifth. In the first inning, he started a 4-6-3 double play.