Sampras didn't have to come up with any more than just a couple of flame-throwers on his serve.
It has emerged that when Grenfell Tower was renovated a couple of years ago, flame-resistant external cladding could have been used at an extra cost of just five thousand pounds.
The beach looked like a small swatch of an industrial wasteland: a couple of oil barrels with flames flickering on top, and a few giant rigs on the horizon.
We had a couple of tracks that were Flaming Lips-designed tracks for her to sing on.
Using these elements, a mechanism is proposed for the onset of instability, which is shown to result from a coupling of the flame's response to flow oscillations with the bulk resonance mode of the burner.
Finally we learned that Drew Barrymore had "several thousand pairs" of floral panties when her house went up in flames a couple of years back; whether the two facts were connected we may never know.
And now the brothers Alfred face a similar test: Are they just a couple of punk kids who will flame out, or will their efforts help us all have more money sooner than we might otherwise?
It was quite a nice memorial, if not spectacularly original: a big, curving wall with the names of those who fell inscribed on it, eternal flame, a couple of guards in their ceremonial uniforms.
Then, with a honk of a horn, and the flash-past of a couple of police motorbike outriders, the flame appeared over the hill.
This year, I fell for a mammoth Darwin called Orange Bowl, whose scarlet petals seem licked by orange flames, and a couple of the green tulips, like Greenland, which is rose with soft green stripes, and Spring Green, white with pale green.
