sentences:  Paradis-Magnon left tennis at the end of the year, but Pierce, who reached the final of the 1994 French Open, returned for 1994, and Alexandra Fusai made her Cup debut.This team allowed the recent success to continue, as they beat South Korea and Italy, with only Halard dropping a set to Silvia Farina.They then played Bulgaria in a very tight tie that involved Halard defeating Katerina Maleeva in three sets, but Pierce losing to the sister Magdalena Maleeva in an extremely close two-and-a-half-hour match.