1.   At that time, she had no idea how difficult it would be to find her way to a major final.

2.   Bhupathi and Paes are only the second team ever to make it to all four major finals in one year.

3.   Bhupathi and Paes made all four major finals this year.

4.   A five-time Grand Slam champion, Hingis has lost her last five major finals, including the last two here to Capriati.

5.   Hingis ascended without having to defeat Graf in a major final.

6.   No compatriot had ever been so close to a major final.

7.   No sisters have played each other in a major final this century.

8.   No other sisters had contested a major final until the Sisters Sledgehammer arrived at that pinnacle Saturday night.

9.   On that day, her voice shook as she described how she thought she had worked hard enough to get back into a major final.

10.   She was high on making the second major final of her life, almost three years after being flattened by Martina Hingis in the first, the US Open.