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...Crimson then knotted the game at 3-all on a backpedaling putaway overhead by Chaikovsky ("It was the craziest shot") and a putaway volley by Roberts...
Cabbie Molina has told interviewers that as the three men emerged from his car, they were greeted by a volley of gunfire, and Molina heard a cry, "Don't fire! I'm a police agent!" and another voice cry, "I give myself up!" Both Molina and the technician at the nearby TV tower said they heard no police order to halt. There was no convincing explanation of why it took a police car 90 minutes to get the wounded Soto to a hospital, a trip that a car can make in 25 minutes. Soto was dead when...
Zimmerman stormed back to cruise to an easy second-set victory and seemed poised to win the match serving at 5-3 and 3-1 in the ninth game of the third set. But after Zimmerman missed a backhand volley, and double-faulted, Horne passed him down the line and the set moved to 5-4. At 6-6, Horne swept the tie-breaker, 5-0, the last point coming as Zimmerman netted an approach shot...
...serve (a slice, spot-picking variety), the compact groundstrokes, the volley and the overhead are all more than adequate. His approach shots are deadly, his court movement and quickness easily the best on the team...
...improve now that he has recovered from a bout with herpes. He is in terrific shape thanks to a training regimen that includes five miles and four hours of tennis a day. He pulverizes his ground strokes almost as hard as Jimmy Connors, has a vicious serve, and a volley game that used to be his Achilles heel but has recently been dipped in the river Styx...