1.   Meanwhile, Worcestershire have been playing Nottinghamshire in their first round match.

2.   The action begins next Friday with all the first round matches being played.

3.   Jo Durie also has the chance to progress with a first round match against fellow stalwart Liz Smylie, ranked four places below her.

4.   I would like to have had a good first round match first.

5.   The club is staging three preliminary round matches in the Durham and Northumberland inter-county foursomes as well as the Durham v NE and NW PGA match.

6.   Durie limped off court after five games of her first round match with Mary Joe Fernandez in Brighton two weeks ago.

7.   The plan is that none of these people will be able to purchase any of the seven thousand tickets available to England for the first round matches.

8.   Only three times has a team won the World Cup while losing an early round match.

9.   The third set of the opening-round match was terrific theater, with six of the first seven games going to deuce.

10.   Patrick Rafter huffed and puffed and blew Jeff Tarango down in a fiery first round match at the Australian Open.