In the playoffs, Roenick played five games in an opening-round loss to the Senators.

The defeat marked his fourth opening-round loss at the Open and was all the more painful because he'd vowed to be a legitimate contender this year.

He also played in all 6 playoff games in Vancouver's opening-round loss to the Los Angeles Kings.

"It's a tremendous relief to be back," Flatley said of the Islanders' first playoff appearance since an opening-round loss to the Rangers in 1990.

After suffering her first pair of consecutive opening-round losses in two decades, Navratilova regrouped her clay-court strategies and has now won three straight matches here.

It was Sampras's first opening-round loss on hardcourts since 1994.

First came tax problems, then more back problems and then, inevitably, problems on the tennis court with an opening-round loss to Amanda Coetzer in Toronto.

Andrew Castle of Britain, disgusted by his opening-round loss on home turf, asked spectators how they could actually pay to view such inept tennis.

It was his fourth opening-round loss of 2011.

Still, his 11 opening-round losses marked a career nadir, and his Grand Slam results were an absolute aberration.