1.  Agassi won his ninth straight match without dropping a set since Wimbledon.

2.  Dewulf, who was playing his ninth match after making it through the qualifying rounds, admitted he never thought he could win.

3.  Hingis won her ninth straight match at Sea Pines Racquet Club without her best stuff.

4.  Sporting squandered a key opportunity to gain ground on adversaries FC Porto and Benfica ahead of their ninth round matches.

5.  The European champions won its ninth straight match, both in the Bundesliga and internationally, to move a point clear of Kaiserslautern and Bayer Leverkusen.

6.  The dismissal came in the ninth match of the finals.