(Petrova charged back and had two points to level the set at 5-5 but double-faulted and missed an easy backhand.) I felt if I could get that game, she would be fragile, ... that I could have won the match.
- Nadia PetrovaI don`t think I played the way I could have. I definitely think I could have given him a better challenge than I did, ... He got up 3-0 and I think I only won one or two points. I double faulted the first four of my service points. I didn`t feel all that nervous. But I never really hit it the way I wanted.
- Chris Jordan(While the Mercury News series could arguably be faulted for occasional overstatement, the elite media`s attacks on the series were clearly driven by a need to defend their shoddy record on the contra-cocaine story--involving a decade-long suppression of evidence ( Extra! , 6/87, 3-4/88). The Washington Post was typical.) When Brian Barger and I wrote the first story about contra-cocaine smuggling for the Associated Press in December 1985 (12/20/85), ... the Post waited a week, added some fresh denials and then stuck the story near the back of the national news section.
- Babe Zaharias