1.  Pioline played an outstanding match against fifth seed Gustavo Kuerten in the quarterfinals that even impressed Martin.

2.  Ajax Amsterdam face Real Madrid in the outstanding match of an exciting night of European Champions League football on Wednesday.

3.  Organisers are facing a backlog of matches with six third round matches outstanding as well as the four quarter-finals which were scheduled for Friday.

4.  Pienaar had an outstanding match, as did recalled scrumhalf Johan Roux, flyhalf Hennie le Roux and left wing Pieter Hendriks.

5.  The All Blacks went on to Sydney for the annual Bledisloe Cup encounter which proved to be the outstanding match of the season.