Word: pete
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...Pete now looked green, much like the court surface. There was no doubt that he was in serious trouble. At 1-1 in the tiebreaker, Pete prepared to serve. Then he backed off, and through the magic of television, we got to watch him dry-heave a couple times before finally throwing up on the court...
...ball boys cleaned up the yak, the chair umpire gave Pete a delay of game warning. There is no sympathy in tennis for booting during a match...
...Pete then stepped up to the baseline and threw in a puff-ball serve with no juice on it. When he won the point, it became a legendary moment. Simply winning a point after something like that is huge. It was not over...
Serving at 6-7 down--a match point against him--Sampras serve-and-volleyed, a surprising strategy for someone barely mobile. When Pete stretched impossibly far to volley a cross-court passing shot from Corretja for a winner, the place erupted...
...watched Pete lean heavily on his racket, I was sure he was done. There was no physical way for him to recover. When his first serve on the next point was hit with no speed by a man who looked barely able to lift a racket, there was little doubt...