1.   First round losers will take part in a subsidiary competition.

2.   Andre Agassi, a first round loser in Paris, is expected to join him.

3.   Blake was a first round loser in Monte Carlo last week on clay.

4.   It was so close that Scottish manager Craig Brown believed his team deserved to be called the best of the first round losers.

5.   Ljubicic was the first lucky loser to reach the Key Biscayne quarterfinals.

6.   Sampras, who made little impact during the clay court events and was a first round loser at the French Open, is more at home on grass.

7.   Another first round loser was defending champion and eighth seed Dominik Hrbaty of Slovakia, beaten by a qualifier.

8.   Similarly the four first round losers in goup one will play the four winners of the regional qualifying to decide who plays in group one the following year.