1.   The opening set in particular was something of a disappointment.

2.   Beck and Ben Folds Five, who both delivered dynamic opening sets, approached the same conundrum in different ways.

3.   A lot of the good stuff came in the opening set.

4.   After giving Capriati all she could handle in the opening set, Dokic began to falter under a withering ground assault.

5.   But after treatment, he appeared to be playing without pain in the opening set Thursday.

6.   But just as she had in the opening set, she broke back immediately.

7.   But once Chang broke back in the eighth game of the opening set and pocketed the set, the outcome of the match was all but preordained.

8.   But it was all downhill for Mauresmo after the opening set.

9.   But the Swiss teen-ager needed just one chance to serve out the opening set in the next game.

10.   Courier lost his serve in the ninth game of the opening set and sent a forehand wide at set point.