31.  Third-seeded Cedric Pioline was the highest ranked player to advance.

32.  Wagner is the highest seeded player left in the tournament.

33.  Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek, seeded fourth, is the highest ranked player left.

34.  With a bracket that included winners of seven French Opens and the highest ranked unseeded player, Sampras was not expected to get this far.

35.  With the top six gone, seventh-seeded Lleyton Hewitt of Australia was the highest ranked player remaining.

36.  Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Patrick Rafter, the two highest seeded players in the tournament, were beaten Saturday in the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open.

37.  Hoch, the highest ranked player in the tournament, struggled to generate the momentum necessary to challenge the leaders.

38.  Australian Open officials replaced Kafelnikov with American MaliVai Washington, who was the next highest ranked player eligible to be seeded.

39.  Washington was the next highest ranked player eligible to be seeded.

40.  Now the defending champions must rely on veteran Mats Wilander, selected instead of Edberg for singles, and their highest ranking player, Thomas Enqvist.