31.   Brandi blitzed Tanasugarn in the first set with a strong serve and consistently accurate ground strokes and broke serve to open the second set.

32.   A break in the fifth game was all Martin needed to win the first set.

33.   A double fault ended the first set.

34.   A first set of war games ended last week off the southern coast of Fujien.

35.   A first set of arch television spots shows La Macchia going door to door in a white shirt and tie, introducing himself to mystified Twin Cities residents.

36.   After joking with courtside spectators and showing a lighter side in the first set, he began arguing calls and remonstrating with himself in the second.

37.   After making another one of his notorious slow starts, Sampras only barely escaped from the first set with its tie breaker in his pocket.

38.   After losing the first set, he summoned a supervisor, Gilbert Ysern, to the court to warn Paes to turn down the volume on his grunting.

39.   Against Sampras on Wednesday night, Sebastien Lareau had a great deal of hope in the first set.

40.   After making a bold beginning in the first set of her first-ever final this sunny afternoon, Kournikova performed a convincing fizzle in the next two.