81.   Sa started off well against the home crowd favorite, serving hard on the fast indoor surface, with both players holding serve easily.

82.   Stolle, son of former French and U.S. Open champion Fred Stolle, injured his shoulder Tuesday night while defeating crowd favorite and top-ranked Canadian Sebastien Lareau.

83.   The Americans, losing finalists last year to Switzerland, start as crowd favorites thanks to the popularity of both Monica Seles and Jan Michael Gambill.

84.   The crowd favorite will be Pierce, who was born in Canada and raised in the United States but plays for France.

85.   The end of the year customarily brings a crush of new films, from highbrow Academy Award contenders to lowbrow crowd favorites and everything else in between.

86.   The crowd favorite was Shen Xue and Hongbo Zhao of China, who followed the Russians with a spectacularly athletic performance.

87.   The long-hitting crowd favorite had more trouble with the drive Friday, hitting a spectator on the second hole.

88.   The likeable, good-looking crowd favorite is probably still at the peak of his career.

89.   The morning belonged to Curtis Strange, who lives on the grounds of the sprawling Kingsmill community and is easily the crowd favorite.

90.   The Russian, who has once been a Playboy model, was the crowd favorite throughout almost the entire nine-day championships.