31.   Neither team entered the tournament on a high note.

32.   Never mind that this team entered the tournament unseeded and saddled with the worst regular-season record in the eight-year history of the program.

33.   My father played three holes each morning on his way to school, and entered tournaments with money earned selling golf balls found in ditches.

34.   Of all the teams in the nation, Connecticut was the only one that entered the tournament with a chance for an upset.

35.   Not only that, but Thomann can then turn around and lose to Christophe Rochus, who entered the tournament on a seven-match losing streak.

36.   Sampras entered this tournament on a three-match losing streak and needed to right his confidence.

37.   Serena Williams has entered eight tournaments this year.

38.   Since the final week of June, Price has entered four tournaments.

39.   Still, a win was a win, no small achievement for a young and relatively inexperienced American team that entered this tournament not quite certain what to expect.

40.   That, after entering both tournaments hoping only to play well enough to secure senior tour playing privileges for another year.