The overall year-on-year market decline for the printed versions of newspapers is running at about 8% for dailies, which together sold 7,110,862 copies in January, and 9% for the Sundays (latest total: 6,398,900).
But if there can be only one men's and one women's champion three Sundays from now, a good result can be measured in a lot of different ways for the 127 players in each draw who won't be holding up the trophy.
A young guy, a new kid at one of the Sundays, had attached himself to the ITN crew, and his hands were shaking as he waited to put in his word.
But 521 had turned up on four or five Sundays out of eight.
On most Sundays he can be found in one of the diocese's churches, healing by prayer or livening up services by getting worshippers to act out Bible stories.Often, though, people who want to hear him must travel further.
For three Sundays in a row central areas of several Chinese cities have been saturated with uniformed and plainclothes officers.
Many of those who took part spoilt their Sundays to do so.
The first Sundays, with no fat, eggy political story to consume with my toast, I am starting to make up my own Westminster news.
According to the constitution, Sundays and official holidays are upheld as days of "spiritual elevation".Measured responseAlan Greenspan said again that America's interest rates could begin to rise in a "measured" fashion.
Shops and restaurants are closed on Sundays: "If you want a Sunday lunch, you have to drive to France," laments Simon, a hedge-fund manager.
Supermarkets Carrefour Cité Europe (9am-10pm weekdays, 9am-8pm Sundays) The mother of all supermarkets is in the Cité Europe shopping mall near the Eurotunnel, which also contains scores of shops from Go Sport to Toys R Us.
