21.   Muster had won seven straight clay court titles going into this event.

22.   Muster had beaten Moya three times in the past three weeks as he successfully defended his clay court titles in Estoril, Barcelona and Monte Carlo.

23.   Second-seeded Boris Becker, still without a clay court title, was to face fellow German Bernd Karbacher later in the day.

24.   She and current doubles partner Natasha Zvereva of Belarus won a clay title in Madrid last month, the week before the start of the French.