91.   But it was clear from the beginning that Pierce was totally dominant, with her powerful ground strokes and the fact that she seemed much more confident than Farina.

92.   But her revival was short lived, as Williams broke back immediately by using powerful and accurate ground strokes.

93.   But Safin produced powerful ground strokes and mixed it with a soft touch to keep Hewitt off-balance.

94.   But Witmeyer reeled off six straight points with blistering ground strokes to take the set.

95.   Coming to the net behind powerful ground strokes, rather than his serve, he saved that game and then broke Fromberg in the next.

96.   Dokic, who is being accompanied instead by her mother Liliana, looked outstanding at times on a surface which suits her flat-hit ground strokes.

97.   From then on, Williams kept Kournikova on the run with punishing ground strokes and attacked on short balls to charge the net for putaway volleys and smashes.

98.   Gomez looked tired and his ground strokes were uncharacteristically erratic.

99.   Grosjean used effective ground strokes in taking the first set and seemed in charge.

100.   Halard-Decugis beat top seed Irina Spirlea of Romania but had no answer to the solid, flat ground strokes of her American opponent.