The four quarterfinal losers drop into the bracket for the Plate.

Quarterfinal losers continued to play classification matches to determine final placement from first to eighth.

The four quarterfinal losers entered the consolation bracket, where they raced for positions five through eight.

Quarterfinal losers in the main event joined the consolation on its second day.

In the repechage rounds, the Belgians defeated both of the other quarterfinal losers in turn.

Evidently 8 teams advanced from preliminary play to knockout matches and there were no playoffs to distinguish any of the quarterfinal losers, 5th to 8th places.

The winners of the quarterfinal games moved on to the semifinals, while the quarterfinal losers played a series of classification games.

All four quarterfinal winners advanced to the Olympics, then the four quarterfinal losers played two rounds to allocate the final slot.

As for the other IRB tournaments, four quarterfinal losers dropped into the bracket for the Plate.

Gambill, a quarterfinal loser to Sampras at Wimbledon, was not supposed to have enough clay-court game for a specialist of Corretja's quality.