We came out here to play with determination and country pride and that is what really saw us through. We worked on our mistakes from the last match and it paid off for us.

The determination was made by us and Prudential that this project was strong enough that we could go forward on a speculative basis,

We are all going to need the third party determination to tell us yes or no. They are probably not going to have that information until the middle of the month, because the final letter of map revision number isn't issued until the day the revisions go into effect.

It wasn't the Mayflower. It wasn't the Love Boat. But it brought us to this magical country and reunited our family, so it was beautiful to me, ... Faith, hard work and the kindness of new friends carried my family forward and made it possible for me to become the first Asian-Pacific-American woman to serve in the Cabinet of a president of the United States.

There aren't too many country clubs around here, but we did have a few girls play at the Drake camp. We're mostly in-season players. They're awesome girls; they're good students and they're coming around as tennis players.

That gutsy play shows what she means to us.