21.   A tournament organizer, Cino Marchese, said hopes to see Kuerten in Milan were dim.

22.   After waiting several hours in hopes the rain would subside, tournament organizers finally called off play for the rest of the day.

23.   American tournament organizers have noted some problems getting exuberant teen-agers to follow the strict rules of golf etiquette.

24.   Any suspicious fan mail at the Swisscom Challenge tournament will be destroyed as a precaution as the worldwide anthrax scare continues to escalate, tournament organizers said Wednesday.

25.   As World Cup cricket took a break Wednesday after a fortnight of matches, Indian authorities were reportedly stepping up investigations into an alleged tax breach by tournament organizers.

26.   At the top of the list would be tournament organizers.

27.   Being a good guy helps, said tournament organizer Earl Donohoe.

28.   But instead of dropping the idea or pretending nothing was wrong, the tournament organizers were clever enough to try to make it better.

29.   But the ambition received a jolt last week when an artist accused tournament organizers of wrongly using his drawing as the official mascot.

30.   But tournament organizers had to call off the final matches Tuesday because of the humidity in center court after the rain.