"I'm actually pretty excited about playing him," Ondruska said. "I've had a bad start this year, but I've been playing pretty well lately. He's one of the better players from the baseline, so I know what to expect."

While Courier helped the U.S. Davis Cup team defeat Belgium over the weekend, Ondruska visited his younger brother at Southern Methodist University in Dallas last week. He hit with his brother and practiced daily amid a heat wave that has sent temperatures above 100 degrees for two weeks, so he isn't concerned about Washington's hot and humid weather.

"It's not that hot here," Ondruska said. "Dallas was 110 degrees pretty much every day. So this is very nice."

White House Visits
Paul Goldstein didn't feel any extra pressure last night, even with first daughter Chelsea Clinton sitting in the Stadium Court stands cheering him on. Goldstein and Clinton both attended Sidwell Friends and went on to Stanford University. Last Friday, Clinton invited Goldstein and another Stanford teammate to visit her at the White House. While there, Goldstein had a unique opportunity to play on the White House tennis court, although he didn't get to meet President Clinton or Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"It was sweet," Goldstein said. "She's real good friends with a couple guys on the tennis team. She's a great person. She's a very likable person." ...

Peter Tramacchi didn't complete his first-round match against David Wheaton until almost midnight Monday. The Australian lost, 6-3, 6-3, but did not want to miss a trip to the White House he had signed up for recently. Despite going to bed around 2 a.m., he woke up at 6:30 to go on a tour with a small group of players and coaches.

"It was good fun," Tramacchi said. "It's not one of the Seven Wonders of the World, but it's something to see."