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Tiebreak

Tiebreak meaning

A tiebreaker, a game or an extension to a game played to resolve a tied score.

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But the Sealions and the Tamaraws will still clinch the top two seeding with superior tiebreak points over the Basilan side.

Medvedev won the next three points of the tiebreak and pushed the match to a winner-take-all fifth set on Eubanks’ unforced error, which became an unsettling theme for the former Georgia Tech star.

Mmoh evened the tiebreak (first to seven points) at 5–5 with a booming serve Wolf returned way long, then gave it back with a double fault.

Nole" won out as Djokovic stormed to a 5-0 lead in the final tiebreak and closed out the match with a thumping forehand down the line that Tsitsipas could only hit long.

Nole” won out as Djokovic tore into a 5-0 lead in the final tiebreak and closed out the match with a thumping forehand down the line that Tsitsipas could only hit long.

She was unable to convert that opportunity but made no mistake at the second time of asking, a wrong-footing, deep backhand giving her the set via a tiebreak after 68 minutes on court.

The American successfully returned to the court with enough energy to force the set into a tiebreak.

The Serb needed another tiebreak to get the job done in set three but was able to put his superior quality to good use despite a spirited effort from his opposite number.

The tiebreak was invented in the 1950s by Jimmy Van Alen, an American benefactor, who lived in Rhode Island.

As the opener headed into a tiebreak, it was the British-American duo who held their nerve.

But he found some big serves when it mattered and forced a tiebreak.

Medvedev continued to push hard in a tense fourth set and the 27-year-old shrugged off a double fault in the tiebreak to level the contest, before breaking in the fifth game of the decider to lay the platform for his great escape.

Sinner saved a set point in the first set tiebreak before prevailing in one hour 49 minutes on his first match point against former Wimbledon semi-finalist and his Halle doubles partner Hurkacz to gain the first grass-court title of his career.

Swiatek’s 9-7 triumph in a third-set tiebreak left the world No 1 flat on her back on the red clay of the Caja Magica.

That means that conference record could be the main factor here, as the fourth tiebreak down the list that could come into play.

The first set of his match against Shelton went to a tiebreak.

To end the match like this it's sad," seventh seed Paolini, who had produced a stirring comeback from 5-1 down in the second set to force a tiebreak, told the crowd in a courtside interview.

Where it gets tricky is if there is a three-team tiebreak.

But the German showed plenty of fight in the second set as he came back from a break down and overcame four double-faults and 15 unforced errors to level the match by winning the tiebreak before unleashing an extended roar.

Did someone say ✋? plays a solid tiebreak against Medvedev to take the fourth set 7-6(2) and level things up on Margaret Court Arena.