11.   Each swashbuckling stab during this crucial ninth game only added to the tension.

12.   Elgin Baylor, one of the greatest players of all time, retired after the ninth game of the season, unable to recover fully from knee surgery.

13.   Edberg broke Henman at love in the ninth game in both the third and fourth sets and then held, clinching both.

14.   Fiset was back in net for the ninth consecutive game.

15.   He struck quickly to break in the ninth game of the third set and served out the set.

16.   He then missed two and had one blocked before being released after the ninth game of National Football League season.

17.   Hingis wriggled free of a couple of match points in the ninth game.

18.   His next mistake came when his two match points in the ninth game of the fifth were converted into aces by Henman.

19.   Hingis finally got the upper hand in the ninth game of the final set with a tricky lob that set up two break points against Kournikova.

20.   However, in the ninth game, Mamiit committed three unforced errors to help Chang close out the set.