Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Navratilova fought off the challenge, acing out a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 win, but after the match she said, "It's what happens to all top players. The crowd now expects me to win, and I have to really break my but with a great shot to get any kind of crowd reaction...
...Once you start winning a lot, you need more than just winning to get you going, and it's a lot easier to get into the match when the crowd is into it," Navratilova says, explaining that she responds greatly to the crowd's reactions...
...other quarterfinal singles match, third-ranked Evonne Goolagong aced Marise Kruger on the last point of the tiebreaker to take her match...
...left-handed Navratilova continued to dominate in the third set, as her shots to the corners started to fall with surprising regularity. Reid had trouble finding the lines, and it was game, set, match. Navratilova, as yet another of Reid's backhands sailed past the baseline...
...only way an individual can capture and filter and finally understand the ultimate horror of Vietnam: stripping naked a burnt-out old man to search him for weapons, fishing the Lake Country for fish who don't live in shell craters. Even these vulgarities don't match the ones that flashed on our television screens every night for the better part of a decade--the Saigon police chief with his gun to the head of a suspect, Buddhist monks on fire in the streets of Hue, the little napalmed girl running in terror down a rural road. And so Paul...