The third-set super-tiebreak, meanwhile, is a slightly longer version of a conventional seven-point tiebreak.
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"Tiebreak Tens," an exhibition held earlier this month in Madrid, featured eight elite professionals playing "matches" that consisted of a single first-to-ten tiebreak.
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Raonic's serve dominated the second set tiebreak, while the third set tiebreak turned into a tussle, as the Canadian's return-of-serve went missing, as did Wawrinka's first serve.
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He then broke Zverev's serve to help force the tiebreak.
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However, the American broke right back before forcing a tiebreak.
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The second set went to a tiebreak, which Mertl lost.
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But his confidence seemed to evaporate after he lost the tiebreak.
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Riske pushed the set to a tiebreak, where Siniakova took control.
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"After the tiebreak of 2012, it was very heartbreaking," said Raisman.
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"We will not go with the tiebreak for now," Forget said.
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The fourth set was tightly contested again and went into another tiebreak.
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"Basically, I stayed in the zone, even in (the) tiebreak," Bencic said.
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The decisive tiebreak was perhaps a microcosm of the two men's careers.
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Kyrgios got steamed up early in the tiebreak, yelling at his entourage.
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Querrey pounced in the tiebreak to dispatch the 14-times major champion.
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Is a super-tiebreak shoot-out more gripping than a draining third set?
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I was trying to stay calm the whole second set, the whole tiebreak.
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After a short rain delay, Pouille clinched victory in a third-set tiebreak.
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For starters sets were played to four with a tiebreak at 3-3.
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He lost momentum upon resumption as Chardy broke twice to force a tiebreak.
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Djokovic capitalized on a slew of errors by Tsonga in the first tiebreak.
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Halep, meanwhile, got down on herself after losing the second set tiebreak to Konta.
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Edmund kept pace with Monfils, however, in the second set before dominating the tiebreak.
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Tennis rules state players have to change ends every six points during a tiebreak.
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The one-sided tiebreak seemed to take the wind out of Ramos-Vinolas' sails.
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It was a three-set, three-tiebreak affair in which the intensity never dropped.
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It was Friday's opening tiebreak that convinced Querrey he could win the match though.
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Riske raced ahead 3-0 in the tiebreak and eventually won it 7-3.
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The second set was decided in a tiebreak, ending when Nadal netted a forehand.
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After resumption, they slogged their way into the tiebreak where Kvitova quickly took command.
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Mladenovic, though, stayed strong and forced a tiebreak just at the moment the heavens opened.
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But the Belgian, without a victory since 2017, lost the tiebreak on a double-fault.
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The match was decided in an epic tiebreak with both players showing remarkable grasscourt skills.
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However, once in the tiebreak Nishikori kept his wits and converted his first match point.
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"The problem is arrive to 26-all on the tiebreak of the fifth," he said.
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"Having a tiebreak at some stage probably is going to be the outcome," Lewis said.
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Muguruza fought back from 3-5 down to take the opening set to a tiebreak.
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Cilic twice held serve to stay in the opener and then struck in the tiebreak.
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And England has won the Cricket World Cup in a controversial tiebreak––but are tiebreaks fair?
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Even those two sets in the tiebreak, I was still the one facing more break points.
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I was one tiebreak away from getting to the final when I came in really struggling.
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Djere dominated the tiebreak but eventually needed five set points to close out the first set.
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Lopez refused to go down without a fight, forcing a first-set tiebreak that Nishikori edged.
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He saved four more during the tiebreak to force a decider, amid delirium in the stadium.
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Dimitrov saved a set point in the second set tiebreak, before putting away the dogged American.
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Kristyna surged 4-1 ahead in the third set but Karolina fought back to force a tiebreak.
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The third set also went to tiebreak, with Edmund finally prevailing after two hours and 26 minutes.
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In the first semi-final, Linette needed six set points before sealing the tiebreak with a backhand.
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The Briton finally bagged the second set tiebreak on his eighth set point to level the match.
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Tsitsipas jumped ahead 6-1 in the tiebreak and ultimately prevailed after Cuevas saved three match points.
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But the Kazakh player's challenge crumbled after she narrowly lost a tiebreak she had led 5-2.
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At 27-73 in the final tiebreak, Pete lost his cookies on the back of the court.
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But he quickly killed the danger and waltzed through the tiebreak to take a two-set lead.
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The 29-year-old Australian held serve and suddenly Federer found himself serving to force a tiebreak.
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Federer roared back to take Rubin into the tiebreak and raced to three match points at 6-3.
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Wimbledon responded by changing its scoring system to force a tiebreak at 12-all in the deciding set.
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Twice in the first-set tiebreak against Mr Istomin, he was one point away from claiming the set.
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Wimbledon will this year utilize a tiebreak should scores get locked at 12 games each in the decider.
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Thiem broke in the next game but again Djokovic hit back to drag the match into a tiebreak.
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Keys eventually held her nerve to triumph in a tiebreak after 2 hours and 41 minutes on court.
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But after that I continued fighting very well and saved two match points playing aggressively in the tiebreak.
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Bencic won the first five points of the tiebreak and took the set on her second set point.
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Last year's finalist Kasatkina turned on the style in the tiebreak, claiming four straight points to force a decider.
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Giorgi was down 6-3 in the tiebreak before winning five consecutive points to make her third career final.
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Earlier, Goffin did well to force a first set tiebreak by holding serve, including winning a 29-rally point.
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In the resulting tiebreak, Thiem suffered a meltdown and Del Potro leveled with a gravity-defying crosscourt forehand winner.
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Fognini cruised after losing the first set in a tiebreak, breaking Fritz six times over the last two sets.
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Today I was extremely tired in the tiebreak but I went for my shots and they all went in.
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After six breaks of serve and a feast of glorious shot-making, the fireworks continued in a frenzied tiebreak.
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The top seed fended off a set point in the tiebreak to beat Delbonis 6-3 7-63(6).
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He then led 5-3 in the tiebreak but a succession of loose strokes allowed Djokovic to snatch it.
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Federer has won two of their three matches but eight of the nine sets have gone to a tiebreak.
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"I tried to be more aggressive," Giorgi told Tennis Channel when asked about the sharper play after the tiebreak.
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Group ties will involve two singles and a doubles with rubbers played over best of three sets tiebreak sets.
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It follows an impressive week in Stuttgart where he lost a final-set tiebreak to Wimbledon favorite Roger Federer.
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In the tiebreak, Khachanov was down 0/2, then won four straight points, but Medvedev came back to win.
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However, a visibly tiring Monfils still held on to save five set points to take it to a tiebreak.
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The Austrian then held his nerve brilliantly in the final tiebreak after crumbling earlier when serving for the match.
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She let two set points go begging in the tiebreak against an opponent she had never beaten on hardcourts.
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"That was probably the most stressful tiebreak I&aposve ever played in my life," Kyrgios told the crowd afterwards.
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Three consecutive forehand winners gave a ruthless Federer control of the second set tiebreak as he moved two sets clear.
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In the tiebreak he won three of the last four points to seal his second round spot after 87 minutes.
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Verdasco's cause was not helped by consecutive double-faults in the fourth set tiebreak, gifting Sela a 5-2 lead.
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It's only about luck, and it was a little bit more on my side today in the third-set tiebreak.
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Kyrgios limped through the rest of the set, which he lost in a tiebreak, and then retired from the tournament.
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When the set drifted to a tiebreak, Bertens quickly found another gear, firing one superb forehand winner down the line.
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And in the end I just fought the tiebreak and got a couple of loose errors and that was it.
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It will be a rematch of last Sunday's Sydney International final, which the Australian lost in a final set tiebreak.
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Tsonga was down, 6-2, and serving to stay in the tiebreak, but he netted a backhand to lose it.
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Despite saving a match point, Mertens could not match her rival in the tiebreak as Kerber prevailed in two hours.
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Twice French Open runner-up Thiem was not finished though and fought back to take the match into a tiebreak.
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Facing a match point in the doubles tiebreak, he ripped a backhand winner off a serve down a narrow gap.
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"That was probably the most stressful tiebreak I&aposve ever played in my life," Kyrgios said, according to The Independent.
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"You have to be good to beat Paire, he's dangerous and I was lucky in the tiebreak," said Del Potro.
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He survived four set points against him in the tiebreak, coming back from a 3-6 deficit, before finally triumphing.
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Kyrgios eventually tied the second set at 6-6 and claimed the victory, his second of the year, in another tiebreak.
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Murray produced several spellbinding returns as they saved a set point in the opening set before snatching it on a tiebreak.
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However, Khachanov leveled the match against the Spaniard when he bagged a tightly-contested second set 7-3 in the tiebreak.
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Medvedev won a 45-stroke rally to move 5-3 ahead in the tiebreak on his way to taking the opener.
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It proved a pivotal moment because Monfils went on to pocket the tiebreak with ease as Edmund buckled under the strain.
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The pair traded blows in a finely balanced second set before taking it into a tiebreak, with Wawrinka again emerging victorious.
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Raonic rescued the only break point in the second set at 2-1 down before going on to force another tiebreak.
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There was also the explosion of rage which saw him demolish his racket near the end of the second-set tiebreak.
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She and Riske battled back and forth then and the American pushed the set to a tiebreak, where Siniakova took control.
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" Doubles specialist Jamie Murray told reporters at Flushing Meadows on Sunday he was "a big fan of the final-set tiebreak.
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Still others, on a more practical level, suggested that the Board include 41 members, in case a tiebreak would be required.
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But the Japanese rallied to match the lanky Czech shot-for-shot in a gripping second set, then dominated the tiebreak.
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Two crushing winners at the net by Nadal gave him and Federer the momentum to take them easily through the tiebreak.
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Against Wozniacki on Monday, there was little between the two players in the first set, which Vandeweghe edged in the tiebreak.
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Struff chiseled out a tough first set with a backhand winner at 5-5 in the tiebreak before serving an ace.
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The Russian eventually forced a tiebreak but made a mess of a couple of forehands to hand Babos a deserved lead.
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Pavic and Dabrowski saved a championship point before closing out the match tiebreak under a closed roof at Rod Laver Arena.
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He had virtually no hope in the third set tiebreak as his opponent denied him a look at a second serve.
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But Tsitsipas managed to save two match points and shifted the momentum after edging Zverev in a marathon second-set tiebreak.
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She saved a set point at 5-6 and then forced a tiebreak which she won with a crisp backhand winner.
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Williams closed out the match emphatically in the second-set tiebreak with two aces, her 63th and 13th of the match.
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She trailed Nina Stojanovic in the final round of qualifying by a set and 5-1 in a second-set tiebreak.
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Serving for the match at 6-5, however, wasn't so straightforward, with Blinkova saving a match point and forcing the tiebreak.
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Fucsovics was close to claiming the biggest win of his career in the second set before Bautista Agut forced a tiebreak.
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Gulbis did recover in the third set and pushed the former world number one hard, stretching the contest to a tiebreak.
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Cilic survived more Zverev pressure at 5-6, winning a long baseline exchange at 30-30 to set up another tiebreak.
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"We went with a 10-point tiebreak at six-games-all in the final set to ensure the fans still get a special finale to these often epic contests, with the longer tiebreak still then allowing for that one final twist or change of momentum in the contest," Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said in a statement.
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However, Mannarino rallied back to force the second set into a tiebreak before Nadal ended the contest on his second match point.
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Federer saved another match point to set up a tiebreak and he proved unstoppable as he swept to his 26,23th match win.
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After almost five hours of tennis, Novak Djokovic of Serbia beat Roger Federer of Switzerland in a fifth-set tiebreak at Wimbledon.
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Without such tiebreak measures, cricket fans might have been left with no clear winner; Messrs Djokovic and Federer might still be playing.
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Briton Konta was broken in the 11th game of the first set but dragged the contest into a tiebreak, which she edged.
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Her opponent leveled at 3-3 and took the first set on a tiebreak, before turning the screw decisively in the second.
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After dominating the first set tiebreak, Barty broke the big-serving Pliskova in a 12-minute game to open the second set.
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When the Swiss stood yet another match point down at 23-20 in the tiebreak, he was hanging on by his fingernails.
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A sensational backhand down the line - the shot of the match - gave Janowicz the minibreak he needed in the first set tiebreak.
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On Court Suzanne Lenglen, Marin Cilic and Juan Martin del Potro were level at 5-5 in a tight first set tiebreak.
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Earlier, Djokovic staved off three set points in a first set tiebreak before improving his career record against Berdych to 23-2.
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Once again, Federer lifted in the tiebreak, bringing up three set points in a trice and converting the first with an ace.
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Wawrinka took an early lead in the tiebreak thanks to a Berankis double-fault and an ace took him to 6-1.
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If anything the quality went up another notch under the lights in a third set that went with serve to the tiebreak.
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He served for the match in the second set but Tsitsipas managed to stay alive by taking the set on a tiebreak.
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Lajovic shook off the loss of a first set tiebreak to dominate the second frame, earning two breaks of Isner's fearsome serve.
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Medvedev regained his composure in the nick of time to hold serve with an ace and looked dangerous again in the tiebreak.
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Keys, however, broke back for 5-5 with a stunning forehand winner down the line and the set went to a tiebreak.
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The Serbian athlete and Federer alternated wins through the first four sets that ended with a historic 12-20193 fifth set tiebreak.
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That included trailing Nina Stojanovic in the final round of qualifying by a set and 5-1 in a second-set tiebreak.
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After the opening set went with serve until the tiebreak, Thiem needed only one break of serve in the second to advance.
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Nadal saved that one with a nerveless forehand winner down the line but there was more trouble for Spain in the tiebreak.
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Martic forced a tiebreak and was trailing 2-3 when Mertens switched gears, eventually clinching the opening set with a sharp forehand winner.
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Andreescu cruised through the first set and had match point in the second set, but Bertens fought back to win in a tiebreak.
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There was no shaking the Russian, who edged an epic 42-shot rally and raced to a 4-1 lead in the tiebreak.
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Wawrinka struggled for concentration in a scrappy third set in which he made a string of unforced errors and he lost the tiebreak.
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The Austrian did not make an unforced error in the first set and raced off to a 5-1 lead in the tiebreak.
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He also took Alexander Zverev to five sets before losing a deciding tiebreak in a Davis Cup tie against Germany in early February.
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The winner will face either Juan Martin del Potro or Marin Cilic, who were locked at 5-5 in a first-set tiebreak.
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Tsitsipas was serving at 4-3 in the second set when he finally faltered, dropping nine consecutive points as Cuevas forced a tiebreak.
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But Raonic recovered again to set up a fourth consecutive tiebreak and it took an wayward Wawrinka forehand to end the enthralling contest.
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Halep won the first set on a tiebreak with Konta, having squandered a clutch of break points, returning the favor in the second.
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Cibulkova, winner of seven previous matches against her Russian opponent, started the match strongly by edging a tight opening set in a tiebreak.
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He was ultimately issued a point penalty at the end of the second set tiebreak after insulting the Irish umpire using an expletive.
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While the scoreboard indicated a closely-fought contest, Djokovic sealed the important points, including saving two set points in the third set tiebreak.
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The 15th seed had three set points in the tiebreak, the first of which, when serving at 6-5, he will be ruing.
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Young had looked on course to take the match in straight sets but lost the last three points of a second-set tiebreak.
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Mr Djokovic dominated the climactic tiebreak to secure his 16th career major title, only four behind the all-time record held by his opponent.
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A typical high-leverage moment, like a break point or a tight spot in a first-set tiebreak, has a leverage value around 27.2%.
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In grand-slam tennis, the tiebreak—usually triggered when a set reaches six games all—was first introduced at the US Open in 20193.
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Bemelmans and de Loore had a match point to win the tie in the fifth set tiebreak but the Italians nicked it 26-23.
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Only the French Open has resisted the pull of a final set tiebreak, with matches continuing until a player secures a two-game lead.
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Mladenovic recovered from an early break in the second to move ahead 5-3 before ultimately leveling the match 7-4 in the tiebreak.
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Anderson, a member of the ATP Player Council, said he felt it was a matter of time before the final-set tiebreak came in.
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Tsitsipas rallied from 4-2 down in the third set and was masterful in the final tiebreak, wielding his huge serve to devastating effect.
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The ATP said no men's tour-level match has featured a tiebreak with more than 38 points since 1991 - six have finished 20-18.
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She then saved two match points at the end of the third set and held her nerve in a see-sawing tiebreak to prevail.
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Leading 4-2 in the fourth set, Sugita held the momentum when the players resumed on Monday and took the set on a tiebreak.
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After an exchange of breaks early in the second set, the Russian sealed the win in the tiebreak on a forehand error by Kvitova.
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The blow-up seemed to help as he served out to love and kept snapping at Cilic's heels all the way to a tiebreak.
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He double-faulted at 3-4 in the tiebreak to give Zverev a two-point lead and Zverev finished it off with an ace.
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The 19-year-old ultimately trampled over Bertens in the third-set tiebreak as the Dutch self destructed by producing four successive unforced errors.
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Once Kerber won the longest rally of the match, a 21-shot belter from the baseline, she strode 6-2 ahead in the tiebreak.
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Keys led 5-4 in the third before the Dutch player rallied to force the tiebreak, which she won when Keys netted a backhand.
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She saved eight out of nine break points to keep Kvitova at bay in the first set, then scrambled brilliantly to claim the tiebreak.
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The 113-year-old Chilean was two points from losing the opening set at 5-6, but held serve and cruised through the tiebreak.
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A crunching forehand winner at 5-5 in the tiebreak earned him a set point and Nadal then dumped a backhand into the net.
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Having taken the second set with a single break, Murray's progress slowed in the third as Karlovic found his range to force a tiebreak.
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The world number 77 was 3-0 down in the deciding-set tiebreak but he kept his composure to prevail on the first match point.
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Halep was cruising to victory after leading by a set and a break but Kenin roared back to edge the second set in a tiebreak.
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It snapped an 85-match run of holds by the Swiss but he did not flinch, hitting back to take the set on a tiebreak.
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A super-tiebreak reduces the length of a typical three-setter by 20083% and almost eliminates the possibility that a match will exceed two hours.
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The 36-year-old American roared back to win the second set 6-3 before losing the decisive tiebreak 10-5 in the exhibition match.
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World number 18 Pouille, seeded third, overcame a 4-0 deficit in the opening set's tiebreak to down Thiem, who made too many unforced errors.
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A 20-year-old Djokovic edged a fourth-set tiebreak to claim his maiden Grand Slam crown in 2008 against then 22-year-old Tsonga.
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He saved a set point at 6-5 with a punchy backhand volley down the line and had Federer on the ropes in the tiebreak.
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Carreno Busta was staring at defeat when 6-5 down in the tiebreak but was let off the hook when Anderson missed with a forehand.
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The German was 5-0 down in the tiebreak but battled back before Isner took the match to a third set with a forehand winner.
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But she was commanding in the tiebreak, closing it out swiftly with a blazing shot that all but knocked the racket out of Halep's hand.
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Tsonga came up with another crucial hold at 6-6 with a forehand winner and another serve that Djokovic could not handle, forcing another tiebreak.
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Three times Serbia had match points in the deciding set tiebreak and on the third Troicki fluffed the easiest of volleys — a mistake of nightmares.
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Marrero saved a match point with a dive volley in the third-set tiebreak, but the pair lost the fourth set quickly, in 27 minutes.
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Incredibly Nadal showed mercy at 6-4 in the tiebreak, failing to put away a short forehand, and Shapovalov arrowed a winner down the line.
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Unlike Tsitsipas, Kyrgios was uncharacteristically relaxed throughout the match, and he produced some wonderful shots, including a marvelous return winner that sealed the final tiebreak.
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Tsitsipas regained his composure to save a set point in the 10th game before sealing the victory in the tiebreak for his third career title.
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Griekspoor then led 26-33 in the tiebreak but Murray showed incredible defensive skills to somehow win a point at 23-26 and level again.
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The 22-year-old led the tiebreak 4-1 only for her Dutch opponent to reel off six straight points to claim the opening set.
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Wimbledon said in October that this year's Championships at will feature a tiebreak when the score reaches 12-12 in the final set of all matches.
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The Austrian made a match of it in the second set and was involved in a gripping tiebreak but went down 6-3 7-6(10).
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Cilic did level at 4-4 but his erratic play continued as Nishikori stole the set with the help of two double faults in the tiebreak.
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To her credit Mladenovic, who reached the top 10 last year but has slipped back, dug in to take a compelling second set into a tiebreak.
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So he was thrilled to escape in three sets over Italian Seppi, having fought back from a break down to take the last into another tiebreak.
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It took Djokovic nearly an hour to prevail in the first set but he closed out a one-sided tiebreak with a deft backhand passing shot.
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But the world number 29 prevailed in the final set tiebreak, clinching the win with a forehand groundstroke down the line for his second ATP victory.
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The third set tiebreak was a classic, swinging both ways, though with Kyrgios always seemingly on top, which made his fourth set collapse even more inexplicable.
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When play resumed on Sunday, Goerges took the first set in a tiebreak before going on to reach her seventh final in the past 12 months.
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Things started looking up when he rattled off five straight games, but a shaky service game put Londero back in it and led to a tiebreak.
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Barty ultimately battled through to a tiebreak and secured the victory when the American went wide with a forehand at the end of another lengthy rally.
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Forced to a tiebreak by Tsonga, Nadal stayed composed before the Frenchman lost confidence and allowed the Spaniard to race to a routine win at Bercy.
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After Raonic battled back to level the match and set up a match tiebreak decider, Zverev left the court with Federer and Nadal in hot pursuit.
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The frustration mounted as Thiem saved two set points then raced away in the tiebreak, converting it with a sumptuous backhand winner from an absurd angle.
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Compared to Halep, who lost her cool in a racket-smashing frenzy after losing the tiebreak, Muguruza handled the conditions as well as could be expected.
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However, the visibly exhausted Canadian managed to save a set point before winning the tiebreak and advancing to only his third career ATP 500 semi-final.
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The world number 18 made an excellent start, opening a 4-1 lead but Goffin forced a tiebreak which Pouille won after saving a set point.
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In the tiebreak, he took a mini-break for 3-2 when Nadal inexplicably netted a routine backhand and then sealed it with an unreturnable serve.
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She pulled back to a tiebreak but had to run off court for half an hour because of a rain shower — a feature of this year's tournament.
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With the players breaking each other twice in the match, Rublev triumphed after both sets went into a tiebreak to win 7-6(4) 7-6(10).
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The two players exchanged breaks of serve in the second set before Goerges overcame a tiebreak to wrap up the victory in an hour and 36 minutes.
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Kvitova struggled with her returns despite the American getting less than half of her first serves in, rallying back from 3-1 down to force another tiebreak.
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The Australian Open has joined Wimbledon in introducing a final set tiebreak, following the "most extensive" consultation in the event's history, according to tournament director Craig Tiley.
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Third seed Kohlschreiber looked on course for victory when he led by a set and 3-0 but Coric recovered to level the final on a tiebreak.
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He then saved three consecutive match points on serve in the 12th game, but lost the tiebreak after a brief interruption as Lajovic was suffering from cramps.
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The opener looked to be heading for a tiebreak before Del Potro dispatched a backhand volley to earn himself two more break points in the 10th game.
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The Japanese was running on fumes against Pablo Carreno Busta in an exhausting fourth round clash before prevailing in the tiebreak and will need to recover quickly.
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Dimitrov clawed his way back from a double break down in the decider to level at 5-63 and after Wawrinka broke again, Dimitrov forced the tiebreak.
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Japan's Kenzo Shirai edged out 35-year-old Romanian Marian Dragulescu for the bronze on the tiebreak rule after both earned the same average score of 15.449.
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When yet another rain delay sent the players off court for an hour with Djokovic serving at 5-6, he returned to take it into a tiebreak.
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Despite fighting back, the Pole could not handle her opponent's big kicking serve and stream of drop shots and Van Uytvanck bagged the tiebreak with a smash.
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She clung on to get to a tiebreak but was well beaten in it and an early break in the second set put Halep 3-1 up.
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Ferrer evened up the contest after a thrilling tiebreak featuring rallies of 27 and 31 shots that brought an end to an absorbing 71-minute second set.
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The players exchanged early breaks in the final set but Rybarikova clinched the decisive lead in the tiebreak, before sealing the victory on her seventh match point.
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The 23-year-old Belgian, who arrived in Paris following two first-round defeats in Madrid and Rome, won a comfortable tiebreak to claim the first set.
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She broke Barty's serve for the first time in the match but the Australian broke back to force a tiebreak, which the 27-year-old Muguruza controlled.
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Watson saw her first five championship points slip away in the second-set tiebreak before regaining her composure to lose just one game in the final set.
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Goffin had three more when Nadal served at 403-6, 0-40 but the Spaniard produced two magical winners to stay alive before rolling through the tiebreak.
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And once the Taiwanese had leveled matters in a second-set tiebreak, she had all the momentum, while Konta continued to spray errors all around the arena.
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Fifth seed Ostapenko saved a set point before edging the opener in a tiebreak but failed to maintain her level in the second as Sharapova forced a decider.
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It took a second-set tiebreak and one hour 43 minutes for Kvitova to secure the win which sets up a semi-final clash with compatriot Lucie Safarova.
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On the court in Indian Wells on Saturday, Murray overcame a break in the first set, and then took the second in a tiebreak against his Spanish opponent.
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Murray even fought back from 2-0 down in the third, but his resistance snapped in the tiebreak and Djokovic fired down his seventh ace to secure victory.
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When, to his immense credit, Raonic finally began to threaten in the third set, going 3-0 up in the tiebreak, it was Federer they were cheering for.
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A classic baseline hustler, Ferrer stunned all with a rare dash to the net and a volleyed winner that conjured a set point during the second set tiebreak.
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Dimitrov managed to nose ahead by edging the first set tiebreak 9-7 before racing away in the second with two breaks of serve to seal the match.
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The tension kept rising as the third set went into a tiebreak, and Raonic pounced on a weak second serve from Murray to take a 3-1 lead.
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He broke back, then never looked in danger in the tiebreak, bringing up set points with a flukey netcord that had him casting his eyes to the heavens.
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But Struff, 27, with only four tour-level wins on the grass in his career, broke back as Raonic was serving for the match, eventually forcing another tiebreak.
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And the 26-year-old Buyukakcay battled Kvitova all the way, including in the first set when she came back from 5-2 down to force a tiebreak.
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In the other last-eight clash, Marin Cilic and Juan Martin del Potro were locked in a tight tiebreak battle for the first set before rain stopped play.
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A frustrated Zverev smashed his racquet at one point but managed to save two match points in the third set before Raonic clinched the victory in a tiebreak.
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The 27-year-old Bulgarian was edged out in a second-set tiebreak but eventually prevailed 6-123 6-7(4) 6-3, sealing victory with an ace.
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It took a tiebreak to separate them with Federer taking five points in a row to grab the first set — prompting Nadal to disappear for a bathroom break.
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Playing the more adventurous tennis, Tsitsipas earned a set point in the opening tiebreak with a nerveless volley onto the sideline and converted when Medvedev netted a forehand.
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But after faltering in a marathon third set tiebreak in which the Czech saved two match points, the Australian admitted he was relieved to come through in four.
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Nadal, the top seed and defending champion, fought off two set points and won six of the final seven points in the tiebreak to take the first set.
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The Spaniard raced into a 26-22 lead in the tiebreak and quelled a Barty fightback from behind the baseline to send the match to a deciding set.
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Tsitsipas was broken once in each of the first and second sets before Raonic claimed the tiebreak comfortably and sealed their maiden meeting with a forehand crosscourt winner.
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Djokovic fell 53-3 behind in the opening set before rallying back to 5-5 after staving off two set points, forcing a tiebreak that he won easily.
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The tiebreak saw the first 10 points won by the server before Medvedev pounced to capture the opening set as Greek sixth seed Tsitsipas struggled with his backhand.
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Williams, ranked world number 55 and in the twilight of her career, summoned her two decades of experience at Melbourne Park to break back and force a tiebreak.
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Pospisil was in early trouble and trailed 4-1 but he battled back to force a tiebreak in which he saved two set points before taking the opener.
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Fourth-seeded Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta saved four set points in the first-set tiebreak during a 7-6 (6), 6-4 victory against German qualifier Kevin Krawietz.
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His survival instincts got him out of trouble, though, and he pulled away in the tiebreak, clinching victory on his second match point when Anderson netted a return.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - A new penalty shootout system similar to the tennis tiebreak will be tested at the European under-17 championship, which began in Croatia on Wednesday, UEFA said.
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And so the "super over", in which each team faces six extra balls, has become the tiebreak of choice in recent years for certain 50- and 20-over matches.
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Isner breezed through the second-set tiebreak and he seemed on his way to winning another tiebreaker in the third set when he opened up a 3-0 lead.
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Marterer continued to hang tough and forced Nadal into a tiebreak but his big stage debut, and invaluable lesson in claycourt tennis, ended when he hit a backhand long.
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Muller always looked like having the edge with his serve-volley game and made it count with a forehand smash at the net to seal the first set tiebreak.
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Khachanov served for the opening set at 5-4 but Schwartzman leveled and then went on to win a close tiebreak when the Russian double-faulted on set point.
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The 18-year-old De Minaur raced past Harrison to claim the first set before forcing a tiebreak in the second, where he cruised to a 5-3 lead.
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The pair exchanged early breaks in overcast conditions before top-seeded Federer stamped his authority by winning the tiebreak 7-1, ending Kudla's 10-set winning streak this week.
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Murray, who played a marathon 31-minute tiebreak in his quarter-final win over German Philipp Kohlschreiber, breezed through the second set to reach his second final in Dubai.
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The Russian, who sent down seven aces during the contest, double faulted when facing a break point to gift Sabalenka the game and send the set into a tiebreak.
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Neither Raonic or Wawrinka could assert authority in the early stages of the match, which resulted in a first set tiebreak, where Raonic secured a mini-break early on.
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The world number one needed to wait for his 14th opportunity to break his opponent but by that time Mayer had taken the first set by winning the tiebreak.
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The match always looked like being decided in the tiebreak and Williams took an early mini-break before dictating play with deep forehands to take a 6-1 lead.
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The Frenchman, ranked 55, put up spirited resistance in the third set to force a tiebreak but was ultimately swept off Centre Court by his opponent's laser-guided groundstrokes.
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Fritz's serve was to let him down at crucial moments in the match and a couple of double faults in the tiebreak helped hand the opening set to Schwartzman.
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Then, amidst incredible tension when serving for the match at 6-20 in the fourth-set tiebreak, he gave world number one Djokovic a look at a second serve.
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Federer survived three game points to hold serve for 3-3 before Thiem eventually triumphed 13-11 in a gripping tiebreak, saving two match points to force a decider.
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But the two-times semi-finalist at the All England Club began to flag in the first-set tiebreak, losing it 7-3 before conceding the next five games.
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Tsitsipas was denied on a first match point at 6-5 in the fourth set but shrugged off the near-miss to dominate the tiebreak against the 22nd seed.
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"I want to apologize for the situation in the tiebreak," Zverev said in his on-court interview after the match, which was punctuated with some boos from the crowd.
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Opelka looked like he would wrap up the match in straight sets but Fognini saved a match point and hung on to win the tiebreak to extend the contest.
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The heavy-swinging Canadian looked likely to pull off an upset against the more tentative Djokovic, but Shapovalov's error count climbed too high during the critical third set tiebreak.
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The 18-year-old showed true grit to get the set back on serve at 5-5 and the match looked destined to be decided in a super tiebreak.
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It still seemed as if Cilic was in control but the strutting Italian raised his game another level in the fourth set tiebreak as the crowd roared him on.
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The 28-year-old broke Kudermetova's serve twice in the final set and forced the contest into a tiebreak, where she rallied from 5-2 down to seal victory.
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However, Goffin failed to capitalize on those chances as his opponent took the set to a tiebreak where he switched gears to take the early lead in the contest.
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World number 30 Berrettini saved five points in the marathon second set tiebreak and held on to win it 13-11 for his third ATP crown in last 11 months.
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Fans at Rod Laver Arena who had fried in the sunshine applauded the announcement but Collins was not cheering after losing the tiebreak and being thrashed in the second set.
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Beaten by Roger Federer in last year's final, Cilic was pushed to the brink by Spanish veteran Verdasco who had the Croat on the ropes in the fourth set tiebreak.
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Safarova saved three match-points in the deciding set and rallied to win the last four points of the third set tiebreak to end the three-hour contest on top.
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He took a 6-1 lead in the second set tiebreak in superb fashion only to crumble under Querrey's onslaught with the American world number 61 winning seven straight points.
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Murray battled hard to save three set points in the tiebreak before Sandgren converted the fourth to end the 74-minute first set when the Briton's volley found the net.
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The 21-year-old German had the better of an even opening set that went with serve but Gulbis turned the tables in the tiebreak to take it 7-2.
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A second tiebreak arrived and just as in the day's first shootout, it was Zverev who jumped into a lead against an edgy Cilic who double-faulted at 1-4.
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The 28-year-old broke Federer's serve early in the match but the Swiss recovered to force a tiebreak that he needed every bit of his vast experience to win.
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While he played down the subsequent warning afterwards, Federer was not himself in the tiebreak, going down 6-1 with a flurry of errors before clawing back to 6-4.
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But Belarussian Azarenka, showing her trademark grit, clawed her way back from the brink and despite trailing 5-3 in the tiebreak sealed a remarkable victory with a backhand winner.
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The U.S. Open and Australian Open both use tiebreaks when scores are locked at six games apiece in the deciding set, although the length of the final set tiebreak differs.
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Ramos-Vinolas saved two match points in the second set tiebreak but Tsitsipas played a patient game to force the Spaniard into making an error before wrapping up the tie.
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Slovenia's Klepac and Spain's Martinez Sanchez were unable to close out the match in the second set tiebreak but were refreshed in the third while rolling over the Williams sisters.
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The 25-year-old then rediscovered her touch in the second set, before stepping up her game in the final set tiebreak to earn three championship points at 6-3.
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With both players holding serve, the set went to a tiebreak, where Federer prevailed in front of a sun-baked crowd of 16,000 that included Rod Laver and Bill Gates.
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He then had two set points in the tiebreak but missed both, spraying one backhand well wide, and the 29-year-old Fabbiano completed the best win of his career.
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Kerber eventually prevailed in a tiebreak, but Halep came out all guns blazing in the second, firing baseline bullets at her opponent, who tried to cling on against the onslaught.
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But it could not douse Querrey's fighting spirit as he battled back from 3-1 down in the tiebreak to complete his first victory over a current world number one.
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The Frenchman had then battled back to force a thrilling tiebreak finale in the third set, and Thiem upped his game significantly too, taking the second set to the wire.
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Greece's Maria Sakkari edged 20-year-old Naomi Osaka in a closely contested second-set tiebreak to dispatch the Japanese 6-3 7-63(8) in their first-round match.
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In a high-quality match that stretched for nearly three hours, Albot displayed nerves of steel in the dramatic final tiebreak, staving off defeat with a series of clutch shots.
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Nadal started strongly, got pegged back as Kyrgios fueled himself with fury in a second set full of incident, then came through a high-octane tiebreak to take the third.
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But just as Barty looked poised to claim the first set, leading 6-4 in the tiebreak, she faltered, losing four points in a row to gift Kenin the lead.
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Zhang, 30, battled hard and held set point in the tiebreak in the opening stanza but faded after losing a fierce tussle for the sixth game of the second set.
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The German, also playing in the main draw for the first time, faltered when serving for the second set at 5-4 but he made no mistake in the tiebreak.
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Muguruza saved two set points in the nerve-jangling tiebreak on Thursday and broke the Romanian as she served to level the match at 5-4 in the second set.
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In a grandstand finish with the terraces roaring, Nadal saved two match points in the decisive tiebreak but surrendered on the third when he slammed a forehand into the net.
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After clinching the opener in a tiebreak, Pliskova switched gears to move ahead early in the second set before sealing victory at the third opportunity by securing another service break.
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He struck the ball with authority in the second set and played a solid tiebreak but his lack of sharpness told as he was sent packing by the fifth seed.
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Bulgaria's 33th seed Grigor Dimitrov switched gears after losing the second set tiebreak to beat Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 7-5 in the second round.
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There was an early exchange of breaks in the second set with Querrey opening a 6-1 lead in the tiebreak before suffering another meltdown and finding himself trailing 8-7.
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His hunger for the fight was clear for all to see too against Cecchinato in a thrilling tiebreak — the Serb roaring to the crowd, who chanted "Djoko Djoko" at crucial moments.
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After four deuces, the 27-year-old held with a thumping forehand then raced away with the ensuing tiebreak to seal a title-decider against either Simona Halep or Angelique Kerber.
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For Paes, who turns 43 in two weeks, the 4-6 6-4 10-8 (champions tiebreak) win over India's Sania Mirza and Croat Ivan Dodig turned the clock full circle.
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It also increases the probability that a set will end in a tiebreak, an alternative source of "high-leverage" points with a disproportionately large impact on the outcome of a match.
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She whipped in a series of ferocious forehand winners while also frustrating the Czech, constantly forcing her to the net with her dropshots to win the first set with a tiebreak.
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Both players broke each other three times and had nearly identical statistics on serve but it was the second set tiebreak that made the difference for the Czech 23-year-old.
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The Briton, who overcame dual Grand Slam semi-finalist Ekaterina Makarova, thought she had won the first round match after reaching seven points in the third set tiebreak and celebrated accordingly.
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Djokovic's win over Federer proved historic this year as it was the first Wimbledon final to feature a tiebreak in the deciding set, after the players were knotted at 163-12.
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Goerges appeared to have lost her ruthless edge in the second set but had enough firepower to beat Sakkari in the tiebreak and secure victory in an hour and 33 minutes.
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Garin saved eight of the 10 break points he faced and ultimately played his best tennis during the third-set tiebreak, controlling the court with his baseline play and superior shotmaking.
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Nadal then glided through his first set before the hard-hitting Sock fought back to force a third set, which under the event's rules is a rapid-fire, 21-point tiebreak.
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The second set went with serve before an attritional tiebreak in which Baghdatis fluffed chances to square the match and Wawrinka threw his racket in frustration after missing an easy forehand.
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A break midway through the second set was enough for Lajovic to force a decider before he wrapped up his first career victory over a top-10 opponent in the tiebreak.
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The Bryans bagged the second set on a tiebreak their opponents came within two points of winning, before Feliciano closed out the match in the third with a love service game.
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At deuce Rublev still had the chance to drag the set into a tiebreak but Chung struck a forehand winner to seal victory in just under two hours of compelling action.
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Amid the mental fight was his usual array of the stupendous and stupid - under-arm serves, a record-breaking 63mph second serve, deft slices and, in the final tiebreak, shocking errors.
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The Australian seemed to have no issues with his vision on serve, however, at one point firing four consecutive aces in a 40-second game to force a first-set tiebreak.
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The mixed doubles match will be played in Tennis Australia's abbreviated "Fast 4" format, with sets played to four games, no-ad scoring and a nine-point tiebreak at 3-all.
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But Robin Haase dragged the Dutch team back into the contest with a clutch display in the final set tiebreak to beat Alexander Bublik 7-5 3-6 7-6(5).
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Kenin raced to a 4-2 lead before the 35-year-old Stosur, who has dropped to 129th in the world rankings, rallied to win the opening set on a tiebreak.
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Monfils was doubled over between every point at this stage but the Frenchman then got a second wind in the tiebreak to go 6-3 up, before squandering three match points.
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Even when Thiem took a tumble mid-rally during the final tiebreak, he scrambled to his feet to take a 5-2 lead when Nadal punched a backhand into the tramlines.
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But Muguruza quickly recovered to take the set to a tiebreak and, despite Clijsters' best efforts to take it to a deciding set, the Spaniard advanced on her second match point.
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Williams eventually took the first set 7-6 on a tiebreak that she edged 9-7, settling into a more comfortable rhythm in the second set, which she won 43-4.
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Facing two set points at 4-6 in the tiebreak, the Frenchman capitalized on multiple forehand errors by Thompson before clinching the opener with a backhand passing shot on the run.
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Yet Brown continued to mix it up and broke back to level at 6-6 before his opponent, who served 14 double faults, clinched the second set 7-3 in the tiebreak.
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Up 2-0 in the second set and closing in on victory, the Russian's serve crumbled, allowing Davis to reel off five consecutive games and eventually capture a tense second set tiebreak.
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The tiebreak was also a see-saw contest, Barty moving 4-2 up before Anisimova scored five points in a row to take the set with a forehand winner down the line.
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Karlovic rifled in a flurry of aces to keep nosing ahead in the second set and saved a double break point to clinch the tiebreak, drawing wild cheers from the home fans.
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The U.S. Open is the only one of the four Grand Slam events to have a final-set tiebreak in singles, though the Australian Open and French Open use it in doubles.
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A passive Murray dropped serve twice in the opening set and world number 68 Melzer saved eight set points with some brave hitting before the Briton took the opener on a tiebreak.
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But it was not all plain sailing for the inconsistent Dimitrov, who, after allowing Simon only one point in the second-set tiebreak, struggled again to keep his mind on the match.
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Borna Coric, 19, of Croatia came back from 2-63 in a climactic decider against Australian Nick Kyrgios by winning five of the last six points to claim the tiebreak 8-6.
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But Zverev held his nerve to force a tiebreak, which he won comfortably and eventually prevailed in the final set to book his first trip to the last 75 of the tournament.
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In a bid to keep the pace humming, the indoor hard court matches at Prague's O2 Arena will be best-of-three sets with a 10-point tiebreak deciding the final set.
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Djokovic led 5-1 in the ensuing tiebreak and although Federer hit back to 5-4, the top seed capitalized on more errors by the Swiss to restore his one-set lead.
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Thiem, seeded third, failed to serve out the opening set at 5-4 but won the final three points in the tiebreak, before taking control of the match in the second set.
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Nadal started the tiebreak as he began the match, a poor forehand volley handing Djokovic the initiative, but the Spaniard won the next two points on his opponent's serve to retake control.
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Murray had break points in the first, seventh and ninth games of the second set as he tightened his grip, but Raonic was cool under pressure and took it to a tiebreak.
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Kokkinakis displayed poise beyond his years to go toe-to-toe with the 36-year-old Federer and dominated the tiebreak, winning on a second serve that Federer sent into the net.
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Murray, who fired 18 aces and 43 winners, clinched a topsy turvy third set in the tiebreak when Tomic went long with a return after two and a half hours on court.
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Having edged a high-intensity first-set when Raonic double-faulted on set point in a tense tiebreak, Djokovic looked to have broken the shackles in the second to lead 85-21996.
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No quarter was give in the second set but Chung, who beat Zverev's brother Mischa in the first round after he retired ill, leveled with five successive winning points in the tiebreak.
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Raisman rose to the podium alongside compatriot and gold medal winner Simone Biles and bronze medalist Aliya Mustafina, the Russian rival that had prevailed in the tiebreak for the bronze in London.
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Seventh seed Auger-Aliassime saved a match point while trailing 5-4 in the final set before forcing a tiebreak, where he carved out a 5-0 lead and never looked back.
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Russian duo Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov survived three match points in a tense tiebreak in the final set of the decisive doubles rubber to claim a 2-43 victory over Serbia.
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Federer was in danger at 4-4, 30-30 in the second set, having lost the opening tiebreak, but turned on the style to win his 55th career match at the tournament.
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There was no glorious dash to the finish line, with the final set a grind but Thiem was majestic in the tiebreak to earn another chance to rock the Grand Slam establishment.
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But the count of his errors also started creeping up as Djokovic regained control to get the contest back on serve and then took the set with an imperious display in tiebreak.
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The Scot saved five set points, and seven in all, after going 6-1 down in a captivating 16-minute tiebreak that he eventually took 11-9 with a forehand crosscourt winner.
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Pouille, 29, did not have a single break point and despite pushing Cilic hard in the first set, he lost the last four points of the tiebreak and never threatened a comeback.
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The triumph completes an impressive week for Mannarino on the Rosmalen grasscourts as he overcame fourth seed Fernando Verdasco and fifth seed David Goffin, before a final set tiebreak win over Coric.
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Second seed Borna Coric was locked in a deciding-set tiebreak with Frenchman Adrian Mannarino when play was suspended while Australian Jordan Thompson was leading 7-5 5-3 against Richard Gasquet.
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"The first set was a little bit frustrating because I had a lot of break points and you don't want to be in a tiebreak against a player like Matteo," Nadal said.
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The two-time Madrid champion eventually broke her compatriot to level the first set and edged the tiebreak as Pliskova double-faulted to hand her a two-point advantage which Kvitova pounced on.
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Both players seemed happier returning, though, and Wozniacki began to make her weight of shot tell as she moved 5-3 ahead, only to lose her grip and get dragged into a tiebreak.
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Advocates of the final-set tiebreak believe it will help to extend players' careers after serious injuries to several of the top names in recent years, and attract new fans to the sport.
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That game ended Zhu's resistance and Pliskova, a former number one, who could rise to the top spot again at the Championships, took the tiebreak and the match after 1 hour 21 minutes.
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The set entered a tiebreak and here the American's mental strength set her apart — perhaps no surprise given she is playing her 71st grand slam singles tournament, a record among current female players.
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Nishikori offered more resistance in the second set and had three set points at 5-4 but Cilic held firm and claimed the title by winning the tiebreak on a Nishikori double-fault.
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Up next for the third seed is Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili, who roared back from 1-6 down in the first set tiebreak to beat 2013 finalist Pablo Cuevas 7-6(6) 6-4.
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Nishikori, who beat Murray in the quarter-finals of last year's U.S. Open, could not sustain his early form and although he courageously forced a third-set tiebreak he lost that 7-0.
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The world number one saved two match points in a second set tiebreak before edging to victory in the final set after a match that brought out some scintillating tennis from both players.
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The 31-year-old was two sets up and leading by a break in the third when he spurned a match point, allowing Sandgren to force a tiebreak that the American won easily.
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Keys broke back to force a tiebreak but she could not prevent Bertens, who won the Nuremberg claycourt tournament last month, from claiming the set after the Dutchwoman produced some stunning angled winners.
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For the first time in his four meetings with the world number three, Dimitrov managed to win a set via a tiebreak to force the decider but could not pull off an upset.
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The 22-year-old German served superbly throughout and held his nerve in the second-set tiebreak to notch a second group victory to claim second spot ahead of world number one Nadal.
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Kyrgios accused Murphy of starting the shot clock too early and was ultimately issued a point penalty at the end of the second set tiebreak for insulting the Irish umpire using an expletive.
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Kuznetsova reached 4-4 in the tiebreak but then mis-hit a return and Keys used a diagonal forehand for double championship point, sealing the match after Kuznetsolva had closed to 6-5.
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The Australian clawed his back from 3-0 down in the final set to force the tiebreak and even had two chances to win the match, but Herbert was equal to the task.
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Facing two match points against the ninth-seed Cilic in the fourth set, the third-seeded Federer forced a tiebreak on the strength of two straight aces (and a miss hit from Cilic).
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Sharapova broke back immediately to force a tiebreak but had to fend off a set point at 6-7 and another at 7-8 before sealing the set when Kuzmova missed a forehand.
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The 20-times Grand Slam champion made an extraordinary 82 unforced errors to go with 62 winners in a contest that was decided by the extended tiebreak introduced to prevent even longer contests.
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Gasquet, beginning to dominate as his silky one-handed backhand found its range and throwing in the odd drop shot of his own, duly broke back and took the set to a tiebreak.
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After losing the first set on a tiebreak, 24-year-old Kontaveit twice rallied from a break down to win the second set before racing to a 3-0 lead in the decider.
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The Spaniard squandered three match points while leading 43-4 in the final set before saving two himself at 6-4 down in the tiebreak to advance in two hours and 45 minutes.
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After taking the opening set in a tiebreak, Gauff needed only one break of serve to wrap up the match in 97 minutes for her first career win over a top-10 player.
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Playing in her first tournament with new coach Thierry Van Cleemput, Halep raced to a 4-0 lead in the opening set before her ninth-seeded opponent fought back to force a tiebreak.
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Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, with a total of 39 Grand Slams between them, gave Fognini plenty of advice during breaks in play as the second set went with serve until the tiebreak.
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The Russian looked set to drag the contest into a decider but world number four Del Potro held his nerve in the tiebreak to close out the victory with an ace on match point.
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In a 210th meeting between the two greats, the stubborn Djokovic simply refused to be beaten as he eked out a fourth successive victory over Federer in a tiebreak decider after three compelling hours.
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By then the damage had been done, with a distraught and flustered Begu meekly surrendering the tiebreak before she slumped into her chair and hid under a towel in an attempt to regain composure.
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Wimbledon opted to introduce a tiebreak at 12-12 in the final set of singles matches — which had previously been open ended — rather than at 6-6 as is the norm in other sets.
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Djokovic and Federer alternated victories through the first four sets in an impressive and momentous game, as for the first time ever, the men's singles final ended with a 12-12 fifth set tiebreak.
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Nine-time Halle champion Federer, who saved two match points to beat Benoit Paire in the second round, edged a tense opening set against 60th ranked Ebden in the tiebreak with a backhand winner.
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The Frenchman made several errors in the tiebreak though and was broken at 4-4 in the second — the only break of serve in the day's two semi-finals — before Djokovic sealed the win.
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Djokovic and Federer alternated victories through the first four sets in an impressive and historic set, as for the first-time ever, the Men's singles final ended with a 12-12 fifth set tiebreak.
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Wimbledon 2016 finalist Milos Raonic beat the towering American Reilly Opelka 7-6(1) 6-81 6-1 in the third round, barely breaking a sweat after the opening set went to a tiebreak.
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Pella wrapped up the third set comfortably, then shaded an exciting fourth set that included two breaks of serve for each player with Pella taking command in the tiebreak to clinch it 7-3.
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Zverev, 21, won fair and square 7-5 7-6(5) to claim a third victory in six meetings with Federer, but the semi-final ended in uproar after a controversial second-set tiebreak.
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Djokovic and Federer alternated victories through the first four sets in an impressive and historic set, as for the first time ever, the Men's singles final ended with a 12-12 fifth set tiebreak.
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Cilic proved a tough opponent for Zverev, going toe-to-toe with the youngster in a tiebreak lasting 20 minutes before the German ground down the wily 29-year-old to take the opener.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Stan Wawrinka edged out Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis in a nerve-jangling, near-30 minute tiebreak to secure the Dubai Duty Free Championship with a 63-4 7-6(13) triumph on Saturday.
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Raonic held to stay alive at 4-5 and 5-6 but rock solid Murray was relentless, winning the first five points of the day's second tiebreak and wrapping it up without any drama.
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He battled back from 4-1 down in the final set tiebreak to claim a fourth win in five against the 16-time Grand Slam champion and has already booked his semi-final spot.
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He then had a handful of opportunities to break again with the score at 1-1 and 2-2 in the second but Pouille held serve and eventually claimed the set on a tiebreak.
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Serbia's world number one, who will be supplanted by Nadal at the top of the ATP rankings on Monday, won a high-octane first-set tiebreak before wearing down Dimitrov in the second set.
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While a nervous Mertens struggled early, going 3-0 down in the first set, the 21-year-old, ranked 54th in the world, battled back to force a tiebreak which Williams won 9-7.
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Unseeded Fognini survived a first-set tiebreak and a tense final set before upsetting the seventh-seeded Frenchman in a match that stretched nearly two hours and 30 minutes in the blazing afternoon sun.
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This time, Kuznetsova fought back, forcing a tiebreak when the ball touched the top of the net and rolled over to the other side, creating a light moment that had Keys smiling in disbelief.
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Three huge serves kept Federer alive — just — and he then produced the kind of form, and outrageous shots, that has made him the most successful man in tennis by stealing the tiebreak 11-9.
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Although reading Nadal's serve with ease, the Croatian missed out on a number of break points, and he gave the Spaniard a free set point in the tiebreak when he hammered a forehand long.
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The Dutch top seed then had two more match points in the 12th game, but Riske saved one of them with a volley, and then produced a sublime lob shot to force a tiebreak.
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The two went toe-to-toe in the third set, with neither able to gain a decisive advantage until Kohlschreiber got his nose in front in the tiebreak and converted his third match point.
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Zhang held her own in an evenly contested first set against two-times Wimbledon champion Kvitova, and even led 5-1 in the tiebreak before her 28-year-old opponent settled into her stride.
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Twice Tsitsipas nervelessly held serve to stay afloat as the final moved into a final-set tiebreak for the first time since 2005 and only the fourth time in the event's 50-year history.
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Nadal did his best to rise above it all, though he also exploded with emotion after a huge service hold during a stupendous third-set showdown which the Spaniard eventually took on a tiebreak.
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"For me I was suffering a lot physically today," Nadal said shortly after winning the extended tiebreak that is used in place of a deciding third set at doubles matches at the ATP Cup.
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Tsitsipas needed a medical timeout to deal with a shoulder problem after making unforced errors in a poor tiebreak, and Hurkacz quickly stole a march in the second set before Tsitsipas launched his comeback.
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Lopez wasted a match point in the 433th game of the contest but a sensational lunging backhand volley put him 5-2 ahead in the deciding tiebreak and he made no mistake the second time.
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Whether a final is decided in the third set or the fifth, in a tiebreak at 6-all or at 12-all, the trophy goes to the player who excels in the high-leverage moments.
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Playing in his third ATP final, Ramos-Vinolas converted his only break point in the opening set and looked poised to surge through the set but Khachanov forced a tiebreak before surrendering it 7-4.
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His clash with Lopez was featured the largest age difference in an ATP Tour semi-final since 1977 and when he calmly took a first-set tiebreak it seemed the zest of youth would prevail.
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The top-seeded team in last week's doubles event, the French pairing of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, lost all three of their matches, with two of their defeats occurring in a super-tiebreak.
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Trailing 5-6 0-26 in the second set, the Canadian saved three consecutive match points and hit a running forehand pass to cap a 23-shot rally before Cilic claimed victory in the tiebreak.
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French number one Tsonga got off to a slow start as world number 95 Djere held throughout the opening set, but the 2008 Australian Open runner-up served three aces to take the tiebreak easily.
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The world number 16 trailed 2-5 in the final-set tiebreak after rallying back into the match but held his nerve for only his second win over a player ranked in the top five.
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After a brief interruption when the players were locked at 24-26 in the opening set, Federer saved two set points in the tiebreak and held firm to gain the upper hand in the contest.
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Things begun well when she broke in the third game, but it was not long before momentum swung toward her opponent, who broke back for 3-3 before claiming the first set on a tiebreak.
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The world number nine got a break in the 23th game to go 26-21 up but Wozniacki, seeded third, saved two match points and finally took it to the tiebreak to force a decider.
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Chasing his third title of the year, Bautista Agut raced to a 4-1 lead in the opening set but was soon pegged back by a determined Djere, who went on to force a tiebreak.
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The two had only met once before on hardcourts, in Doha four years ago, and the Romanian needed a third set tiebreak to see off the Estonian, who had twice reached the U.S. Open quarters.
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Garcia was rewarded for being more positive in the tiebreak as Williams' serve wavered and the Frenchwoman wrapped up the opener on her second set point when her opponent sent another groundstroke wide and long.
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Romanian Halep was outplayed by American Dolehide in the first set at Indian Wells but slowly exerted her authority and, after surviving a second-set tiebreak, gradually wore down the tiring teen to secure victory.
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The Spaniard surrendered a 23-26 lead in the first set and then spurned two set points in the tiebreak, which Mayer, ranked 21 in the world, edged thanks to an impressive crosscourt forehand winner.
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The Ukrainian 10th seed raised her game in the second with some powerful, precise groundstrokes and had three set points to level the match but was unable to convert, before being overrun in the tiebreak.
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Capping a back-and-forth battle that lasted three hours and 63 minutes, the final tiebreak was over relatively quickly as Putintseva built a 26-26 lead and had four match points at 23-2.
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Martina Hingis and Leander Paes both completed the full set of grand slam doubles titles when they beat Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig 4-6 6-4 10-8 (champions tiebreak) in the mixed final.
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Fourth seed Anderson was unable to break Tsitsipas' serve on any of his four opportunities and saw his lone match point opportunity vanish when Tsitsipas smoked a backhand crosscourt winner in the third set tiebreak.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Australian John Peers and Finn Henri Kontinen made a small slice of Wimbledon history when they won the first match decided by a tiebreak at 12-12 in the deciding set on Tuesday.
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Stephens was assured in winning the first set and battled back from a break down in the second and served for the match at 5-4, only to be broken and dragged into a tiebreak.
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The pair slugged it out through one intense game after another and on to an equally tough tiebreak, which Nadal, also feeling the pressure, sealed despite passing up one set point with a double fault.
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After Sakkari rode that boisterous support to a first set tiebreak win, Czech seventh seed Kvitova came firing back to clinch a quarter-final place with the 6-7(43) 6-3 6-2 victory.
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Krejcikova and Mektic proved too strong for the reigning U.S. Open champions in the tiebreak, winning eight straight points on their way to a 5-7 6-4 (10-1) victory on Rod Laver Arena.
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Fritz looked set to win the match in the second set before the 35-year-old Spaniard fought back in the tiebreak to take it into a decider where he eventually ran out of steam.
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He even received the loss of the third-set tiebreak with the closest he could manage to equanimity and it was only after he introduced an element of the ridiculous that he suffered his meltdown.
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Both players converted five break points each in a riveting contest but it was Kerber who kept her composure in the decisive tiebreak to improve her head-to-head record to 8-1 against Strycova.
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Rafael Nadal came back from a 5-2 deficit in a first-set tiebreak to take a 63-6 (6), 6-4 victory over British qualifier Daniel Evans on Wednesday at the Rogers Cup in Montreal.
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The 17th-seeded Querrey can blame himself for a meltdown in the first set tiebreak, where he lost five points in a row to allow Anderson into the lead under the lights on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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The Lithuanian, ranked 70th, won the first set in a tiebreak before Tsitsipas took control of his service games to secure the remaining two sets comfortably for a 6-7(4) 6-2 6-4 win.
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Cilic, runner-up to Roger Federer at Wimbledon last year and this year's Australian Open, was relentless, however, and seized on a couple of Kyrgios groundstroke errors in the opening tiebreak to pocket the first set.
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A number of them fell flat during big points in the second set tiebreak and again at the close of the fourth set, and the Serb might cringe if he subjected himself to a video review.
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Thirteenth seed Bautista Agut, playing days after the death of his mother, battled back from 1-4 in the second set, breaking serve when Djokovic missed an easy volley and dragging the set into a tiebreak.
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The 35-year-old, who suffered a heartbreaking defeat in the 2014 final when he held a match point against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, this time saved one in a tense tiebreak shootout before toppling the Croat.
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Wawrinka played a loose point at 11-11 in the tiebreak, giving the Canadian a chance to missile his way into a two-sets-to-one lead, which he did, by sending down another unreturnable serve.
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Nadal edged a bruising first set after blowing eight break points with a top-class tiebreak, playing adventurous shots which sapped Goffin's energy and the world number 10 ceded the final point with a double fault.
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Del Potro saved two break points in the sixth game, a deft chip from the baseline that dipped over the net followed by a forehand winner, before taking the opening set in a 7-1 tiebreak.
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The Uruguayan, who beat Carreno Busta in the final of the claycourt event last year, broke twice in the first five games to seal the first set before toppling his opponent in a second set tiebreak.
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Zverev, who is the next highest seeded player left in the bottom half of the draw after Rafa Nadal, won six of the last seven points in the final-set tiebreak to close out the win.
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The world number one gritted his teeth and went again in the tiebreak and moved through to a last-eight meeting with Austrian Dominic Thiem when Kyrgios netted a forehand after three hours and 38 minutes.
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Fognini had battled through two five-set matches at the tournament, including coming from two sets down in the opening round, and another looked on the cards when he won the third set on the tiebreak.
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The third set was tight and went to a tiebreak in which Jabeur saved three match points, and created one of her own, before Halep converted her fourth match point to advance to the quarter-finals.
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The Czech then roared back into the match, earning her first break of Osaka's serve to force a tiebreak and fired eight of her 15 aces in the final set, while saving all six break points.
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Resuming the match on Tuesday after a thunderstorm ended the previous night's play early in the third set, Nadal was forced to an entertaining tiebreak to wrap up a hard-fought French Open first round encounter.
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Opelka had delivered a similar tough defeat to fellow American Isner in the opening round of the Australian Open last month when he edged out a four-set win with each set finishing in a tiebreak.
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AFTER NEARLY five hours on the court and over 400 points of tennis, the men's singles final at Wimbledon this year was decided by the tennis equivalent of a coin-flip: a first-to-seven-point tiebreak.
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Although the traditionalists managing the All England Club might not be keeping up with the latest win-probability metrics, the quantifiable excitement of this year's final is a vote in favour of the unorthodox 12-12 tiebreak.
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The hard-hitting Californian was in a hole at 3-0, 40-33 down in the first set but rallied to break back and ultimately force a tiebreak he won to the delight of the partisan crowd.
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Nadal, playing his first match since losing to Roger Federer in the Wimbledon semi-finals, fell behind 5-2 in the tiebreak before roaring back to prevail in his first career meeting with world number 53 Evans.
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Against Karlovic, however, Nishikori squandered a two-set lead before closing out a tense tiebreak to prevail 2.113-22.11 240-259(6) 5-7 5-7 7-403(7) on a sweltering day at Margaret Court Arena.
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The honor of performing a tiebreak procedure which diplomats think was unprecedented in the Union's 60-year history fell to Matti Maasikas, Estonia's self-effacing EU affairs minister, who was chairing the evening ministerial meeting in Brussels.
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Goffin had a chance to seal the match in the third set at 5-4 but Zverev saved two match points to take it to a tiebreak, where the Belgian triumphed after winning all his service points.
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The British player won 6-3 7-6(3) to set up a last-16 clash with Spanish veteran Fernando Verdasco who scraped past Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert after losing a first-set tiebreak the previous day.
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The 30-year-old matched his two breaks in that set with two more in the third to get on top in the match, but Nishioka, 23, won the fourth set tiebreak on his second set point.
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The 21-year-old forced and then won a third-set tiebreak, but was broken in the 11th game of the fourth set with Cilic clinching the contest on his first match point with an unreturnable serve.
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The Italian dominated the tiebreak and grew in confidence in the second set as Thiem, suffering with a cold, failed to repeat the dazzling form he displayed when beating Djokovic in a three-set thriller on Tuesday.
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After a trade of service breaks in the opening set, Schwartzman had to dig deep at 6-5 40-0 down but some big serves and forehands got him out of trouble and he forced a tiebreak.
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But Djokovic produced a magical backhand flick at 5-5 in the night's second tiebreak, then an ace, before Raonic succumbed to an eighth successive defeat at the hands of the Serb when his backhand flew wide.
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The crowd groaned when he fluffed the next point but the thrills kept on coming in the tiebreak as he finished off a 30-stroke rally by punching away a volley as he fell into the splits.
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For the first time Federer experienced the Australian Open's unique system for ending prolonged contests, a so-called 'super breaker' — a first to 10-point tiebreak activated when the score reaches six games all in deciding sets.
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In something resembling both a hug and a wrestle, De Minaur and Kyrgios fell to the ground in a celebratory embrace after edging the half hour-long extended tiebreak, used in place of a deciding third set.
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Monfils squandered four match points at 5-213 in the second set but the 33-year-old held his nerve in the tiebreak and will look to lift the 10th title of his career in Sunday's final.
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But in damp windy conditions that gradually turned to steady drizzle and forced play to be called off on all outside courts, Dodig broke serve and saved two match points before taking the set to a tiebreak.
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Murray had the opportunity to win in straight sets when he had a match point at 6-5 in the second-set tiebreak, but Sandgren won the next three points to take it into the deciding set.
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The Swiss squandered seven set points in the opener and although he took the second on a tiebreak he capitulated in the decider after dropping serve at 1-2, losing 63-5 6-7(26) 24-22012.
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Federer, who won five straight titles at Flushing Meadows between 2004 and 2008, continued to struggle with his serve, double faulting twice in a row in the final tiebreak and conceding the match with a forehand error.
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A decade ago, two rule changes—a winner-takes-all point at deuce and a ten-point "super-tiebreak" instead of a deciding third set—were introduced in second-tier doubles competitions, with the aim of abbreviating them.
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Fourth seed Sabalenka, who has won three of her four singles titles in China, was made to save a set point on serve in the second set before sealing her spot in the final in the ensuing tiebreak.
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Dimitrov, who has struggled on clay in the past and has never progressed past the French Open third round, broke twice and sealed the victory in the tiebreak to record one of his best performances on the surface.
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"I've never played a tiebreak like that ever, not in juniors, nothing has been close to that," Murray, who is contesting his first tournament since losing in the fourth round of the Australian Open in January, told reporters.
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Dimitrov, who has slipped just outside the top 20 in the world after early exits in his last three Grand Slams appearances, would not go out without a fight, though, and took the third set in another tiebreak.
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He needed to fend off three set points in a pivotal opening tiebreak, but Murray always had an extra trick up his sleeve to wear down Isner's resistance and set up a clash with home favorite Richard Gasquet.
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But once Federer changed gear to claim 10 of 11 points to breeze through the first set tiebreak and break to love at the start of the second his 58th victory at the tournament was never in doubt.
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He'll need every cheap point off his serve he can get, and if sets go to a tiebreak, we'll witness an epic: the clay masters, king and prince, both with immense mental fortitude, vying for the Paris final.
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Taken to four sets in each of his first three matches by unseeded opponents, he was later stretched to the limit by Gael Monfils in a quarter-final thriller on Wednesday that went to a final-set tiebreak.
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But he roared back to take the next five games, a stretch during which he managed to fire off a number of backhand winners, en route to strolling through the tiebreak before getting more treatment on his shoulder.
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The tenacious Blinkova refused to back down, however, saving a match point on Osaka's serve in the second before breaking her to set up a tiebreak, which the Russian won when Osaka sent a return into the net.
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With two points up for grabs for victories on the second day of the tournament in Geneva, Zverev looked on course to extend Europe's 3-1 lead from Friday after edging a tight first set in the tiebreak.
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She broke early but blew her first chance to seal the opening set when she lost serve leading 5-4, but made up for it in the tiebreak when Kvitova wasted an opportunity to go 3-0 up.
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Fifth seed Alexander Zverev saved three set points in a 16-minute opening set tiebreak during his straight sets victory over French qualifier Jeremy Chardy, winning 33-6(13) 7-6(3) in one hour and 47 minutes.
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Fucsovics, a muscular 27-year-old who claimed his first and only ATP title in Geneva in 2018, was inspired in the deciding tiebreak, passing the net-rushing Canadian twice on the way to a 6-2 lead.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Berating the umpire at the start and bellowing to the sky as he closed out a third-set tiebreak on Centre Court, it was hard to argue with Novak Djokovic's assertion that the passion is back.
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Team Europe struck first as Austrian Thiem beat Canada's Denis Shapovalov 6-4 5-7 13-33, saving three match points in the super tiebreak — a race to 10 points when the match goes into a third set.
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Local favorite Gasquet, bidding for a fourth title overall at the indoor event, dropped the first set on the tiebreak and was broken twice in the second as the 19-year-old Zverev claimed his second career title.
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Auger-Aliassime, who is youngest player in the world's top 100, was unable to take advantage of one of his five chances in the tiebreak, with Berrettini serving well under pressure before taking control of points on his forehand.
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Jankovic raced through the first set and seemed poised for an upset, but the second set tiebreak proved pivotal, as Williams survived, staving off three match points en route to a 1-6 7-63(5) 6-1 victory.
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Ramos-Vinolas, who took a few minutes' rest in the final set to shake off muscle discomfort, was again unable to seize the chance to see off the number one seed, who came out stronger to win the tiebreak.
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Having found her range and her speed, Anisimova rallied back and snatched the extra break to serve for the set at 6-5, only for Barty to force a tiebreak when the American buried a backhand into the net.
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Fifth seed Sabalenka of Belarus lost 22-3 2-6 7-6(1) to Hsieh Su-wei after the Taiwanese came from a break down at 63-2 in the final set to eventually clinch victory in the tiebreak.
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Both players and the umpire appeared confused as to what to do next when the set reached 6-6 but after a brief negotiation, they proceeded to play the tiebreak with the Belgian quickly taking a 5-0 lead.
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There was the odd outburst at the umpire, one after a first serve during the first-set tiebreak was called out despite appearing to clip the line, but Kyrgios kept his emotions in check to edge a tight tussle.
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The set went to a tiebreak and Cibulkova scrapped ferociously to force the deciding set, before coasting to victory in clinical style, winning 71 percent of her first serves and making only three unforced errors in the final set.
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Nadal needed all his experience to keep Pouille at bay in the decider and the match looked to be heading for another tiebreak before he pounced to break Pouille's serve for the first time to go 6-63 up.
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The tempestuous Kyrgios had just been beaten in a tiebreak against Johnson when he walked to the net, offered his hand to the American and stormed off court to the bemusement of his opponent and chair umpire Fergus Murphy.
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Tellingly, Chung won 34 of the 54 rallies that exceeded nine strokes, most memorably when he slid at full-stretch to hook a forehand winner past his opponent to take a 5-3 lead in the third set tiebreak.
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Numerous forehand errors by Halep gave Stephens a 4-0 lead in the tiebreak and the American went up 6-4 before Halep rallied, crushing a backhand down the line to earn her first set point, which she converted.
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Konta bashed away a forehand winner to take the set into a tiebreak but Vondrousova showed remarkable calm to move 6-2 ahead and then clinch victory by conjuring another dropshot to leave her opponent stranded on the baseline.
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Putintseva was far from an unknown quantity for Osaka, having recently knocked her out in Birmingham, and again proved a resolute obstacle for the Japanese, fighting back after an early break to take the first set on a tiebreak.
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Left-hander Muller, who celebrated his maiden ATP title in Sydney earlier this month in his 17th year as a professional, saved a match point in the decisive tiebreak but fired a forehand into the tramlines to bow out.
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Berdych's best chance of shaking Federer out of his silky rhythm was to grab the opening set but a terrible forehand at 3-4 in the subsequent tiebreak allowed Federer breathing space which he used to clinch the opener.
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The 23-year-old held his nerve when the Serbian battled back for parity in the first set tiebreak, going 1-0 up when Djokovic fired a forehand long, and kept his concentration throughout an equally tight second set.
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The hosts were in danger of falling 2-0 behind as Chardy snatched the opening set tiebreak against Fognini before the 30-year-old Italian raced through the rest of the match to keep the tie in the balance.
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Despite losing the opening set in 229 minutes and the second on a tiebreak, he was proved right, claiming an astonishing 212-523 252-28(23) 7-5 6-4 13-11 victory in four hours and 83 minutes.
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After the tie was interrupted by rain for 2-1/2 hours early on, the American relied on her experience to bag the opening set tiebreak but she visibly tired in the second as Cornet easily leveled the contest.
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They squandered match points at 83-5 and 7-6 in the deciding tiebreak and had another at 8-7, only for Troicki to nervously prod long a volley that will give him nightmares for many days to come.
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Tsitsipas had just conceded the first set on a tiebreak to Nick Kyrgios in Brisbane, Australia, when he lost his cool, swiping his racket at his chair and inadvertently hitting his dad and coach, Apostolos Tsitsipas, in the process.
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If watching match points slip by was not hurtful enough for Sandgren, he also had to deal with some physical pain when a ball girl accidentally ran her knee into his calf during changeover in the fourth-set tiebreak.
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Federer missed out, most notably in heartbreaking fashion in Wimbledon's longest ever men's singles final, failing to convert two championship points before losing in a fifth-set tiebreak triggered at 12-12 - an historic first for a Wimbledon final.
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Tsitsipas saved two match points in the fourth-set tiebreak but Fabbiano was relentless and when he broke in the seventh game of the decider with a cruel netcord, it was clear it was not going to be Tsitsipas's day.
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After a thrilling Queen's final against Cilic in which he saved a match point before clinching a final set tiebreak 10-8, Lopez clearly believes his best Wimbledon run might still be ahead of him, possibly in the next few weeks.
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Fighting off a match point at 5-2, the teenager went on the attack by unleashing a barrage of drop shots and laser forehands to sweep five successive games from her crumbling opponent to force the second set into a tiebreak.
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Federer began the tiebreak with a couple of aces and broke with a forehand but Cilic ratcheted up the power to move 6-4 ahead with thundering forehand and leveled the match with another beefy winner from his favorite wing.
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Playing in his first action since losing to Roger Federer at Wimbledon last month, the 33-year-old Spaniard enjoyed an easier outing than his opening match against England's Daniel Evans on Wednesday when he rallied from a tiebreak deficit.
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Having upset American wildcard Jack Sock in his opener, Bolt played fearlessly against former world number six Simon, saving four match points in the fourth set tiebreak before capturing the decisive break in the ninth game of the fifth set.
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His Swiss conqueror snatched a pulsating fourth-set tiebreak 22013-9 before winning 6-7(4) 4-6 20013-3 7-6(9) 6-3 to reach his 11th Wimbledon semi-final and keep up the tilt for an eighth title.
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The world number one, who was beaten by Pouille the last time they met at the 2016 U.S. Open, lost a close first set before saving two match points in a second-set tiebreak which he won to level things up.
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After a one-sided start in a midnight match at Rod Laver Arena, Wozniacki met stiff resistance from the 39th-ranked Spaniard who dug deep to save a match point in the second set before outclassing the Dane in the tiebreak.
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Haase, playing in his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final, did well to force a second-set tiebreak but Federer proved too much to handle as the Swiss fired down nine aces and dropped only nine points on serve.
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Four times Schmiedlova got to within two points of winning the match but Osaka refused to buckle and the pressure finally began to tell as the Slovak double-faulted and then missed a backhand to take the set into a tiebreak.
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The 25th-seed, who recently lost his father Steve Johnson Sr., had trouble containing his raw emotion after saving two set points in the fourth-set tiebreak to beat Borna Coric 6-2, 7-10003(8), 3-6, 7-6(6).
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Tursunov, playing his first grand slam main draw match since the 2014 U.S. Open after battling a succession of foot injuries, had an opportunity to snatch the first set before the Swiss forced a tiebreak, that he won easily 7-2.
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After returning to a sunny Court Suzanne Lenglen locked at 5-5 in the first set tiebreak after battle was halted because of rain on Wednesday, Del Potro flirted with danger before racking up an eighth win in succession against Cilic.
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But then followed a 28-point tiebreak in which twice grand slam champion Wawrinka saved five set points before a Baghdatis backhand drifted long to give the Swiss a second title of the year following his victory in Chennai in January.
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Switzerland, who scored a dramatic tiebreak win over Britain earlier in the day to reach the last four, ran out of steam against the Edin foursome who finished at the top of the preliminary round group with a 7-2 record.
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Nadal failed to capitalise, squandering a match point before Cilic unleashed two massive forehands to level again at 5-5 as the set headed towards a tiebreak where Nadal's ability to hold his nerve in clutch situations proved the difference.
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Then, at 5-5 in the tiebreak with Isner throwing the kitchen sink at a return, he produced a superbly improvised shot, played on the half-volley from almost under his feet on the baseline, to catch his opponent by surprise.
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Another of the young guns, Zverev, had looked like wrapping up his match with Isner in straight sets after romping through the opener in under half an hour, but the defiant American took the second set down to a tiebreak.
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There were no dramas after taking the big tiebreak lead in the second set and she raced along the baseline for another retrieval that induced a wide forehand from the disgusted Czech, who flung down her racket as Kuznetsova rejoiced.
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That seemed to provide the teenager with a wakeup call as he stormed through the next four games before eventually forcing a tiebreak, won with a blistering cross court forehand that Goffin could only stare at as it hit the corner.
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It was a similar story in the second set with Nishikori unable to convert any of the five break point chances that came his way before succumbing in a tiebreak in which Bautista Agut reeled off the last four points.
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Ukrainian Svitolina saved four set points at 5-03 in the second and then had a match point in the tiebreak which Halep saved with a brave forehand that kissed the sideline and followed that with an improvised backhand winner.
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Again Halep showed her mettle to stay alive but it still seemed in vain until she leveled at 5-5 and then went 40-0 up on Svitolina's serve before the Ukrainian rallied to take the set into a tiebreak.
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Raja, 32, saved a match point at 6-5 in the tiebreak with a sensational reflex volley and then sealed victory over Briton Murray and Brazilian Soares with a backhand winner, to the delight of the Indians in the crowd.
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This one was particularly galling as he frequently outplayed the world number one and had a match point in the final-set tiebreak before bowing out after three hours 38 minutes of toe-to-toe combat against the home favorite.
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The eighth seed faltered at 3-0 in the final set when he had an injury timeout and let Chardy back into the contest, before closing out a 6-3 6-0 7-6(5) victory comfortably enough in a tiebreak.
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With all three of their previous meetings requiring a third-set tiebreak to decide the winner, a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium had expected high drama but instead witnessed a rout as Federer recorded his third win against the unpredictable Australian.
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Had Pliskova not dropped serve in the final game of a high-quality duel, Wimbledon would have witnessed its first final set tiebreak at 303-12 — the new rule brought in after last year's tournament to prevent 'never-ending' final sets.
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The Australian blitzed Johnson in the second set tiebreak where he showed his lighter side when he broke into a little dance after chasing down a dropshot he sent back for a brilliant crosscourt winner and a commanding 6-0 cushion.
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Halep saved a pair of match points herself on Townsend's serve at 5-4 in the third but instead of cruising to victory was pegged back in the seesaw tiebreak that ultimately went the way of the world No. 116.
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Riske held her nerve to save a match point in the third-set tiebreak before going on to inflict a fourth consecutive first-round defeat on Kerber, who was beaten by Kristina Mladenovic in her first match at the U.S. Open.
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Yet serving for the set, the Canadian's inexperience and nerves were exposed when he produced three of his seven double faults and opened the door for the 33-year-old American who went on to take the first tiebreak 7-3.
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He thrashed two blazing forehands to earn three match points in the final tiebreak, then sealed it with a cross-court volley to book his third Grand Slam final after losing the last two French Open deciders to Rafa Nadal.
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The Australian handed Nadal an early break for 2-1 lead in the fourth with a double fault, but the "new" Nick Kyrgios was not about to lie down and took the set to its dramatic conclusion in the tiebreak.
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Ramos-Vinolas, who upset Federer four years ago to snap a 15-match losing streak against top-10 players, recovered well to force a second-set tiebreak but his Swiss opponent came back from 4-1 down to seal victory.
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However, unlike after some of his previous meltdowns, his game did not fall apart and he continued to throw his tiring body around the court after losing the fourth-set tiebreak as the match headed toward the new 10-point decider.
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The 2015 champion in Paris has yet to drop a set in the 2017 tournament, but this time he came close to conceding the first, which the unpredictable Italian failed to serve out before losing in a one-sided tiebreak.
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Carreno Busta showed heart to rally from a break down in the fourth set and push the match into a third tiebreak but was quickly overwhelmed by Cilic's firepower as the Croatian brought up four match points in a hurry.
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When Raonic opened up an early lead in the tiebreak it looked as though Federer might drop his first set of the tournament, but he responded in style to win seven of the next eight points and earn himself a standing ovation.
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The defending champion was one point away from victory at 5-4 in the third on Thiem's serve but the Austrian rallied, forcing a tiebreak which he controlled from the off to take the contest 6-163 4-6 7-6(4).
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A decade ago, the men's and women's tours shortened doubles matches by converting the deciding third set to a first-to-ten-point "match tiebreak," a move that almost guarantees each contest finishes within two hours, though at the cost of some excitement.
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Sure enough a Kyrgios double-fault at the start of the tiebreak gave the initiative to Cilic who quickly built a 6-3 lead and although he netted on his first match point he converted the second when Kyrgios skewed a backhand wide.
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The tiebreak left Kohlschreiber running on empty in the third set and Murray needed just another 30 minutes to secure a meeting with seventh-seeded Frenchman Lucas Pouille, who beat Federer's Russian conqueror Evgeny Donskoy 6-4 5-7 7-6(2).
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Nothing could separate the players in an intoxicating climax played in a soccer-like atmosphere and the match was already longer than Federer's 25 epic defeat by Rafael Nadal when Wimbledon's new rule stipulating a deciding-set tiebreak at 24-12 kicked in.
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Tsitsipas broke three times as he ran away with the first set and although his French opponent put up more of a fight in the second, the number four seed pulled away in the tiebreak to win 6-2 7-6(3).
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Though the Spaniard came from 2-5 down in the tiebreak to level at 143-5, Djokovic edged ahead 6-5 after a strong first serve before clinching the set after a little more than an hour when his opponent netted a backhand.
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Kvitova, back to her best after a career-threatening injury sidelined her for five months, was up a break in the decider but the 13th seed allowed Williams back into the contest and the American was the more composed player in the tiebreak.
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Meeting for the first time, Goffin and Millman were evenly matched early on, with the Australian, a last-minute call-up replacing Thanasi Kokkinakis, breaking Goffin's serve to set up a first set tiebreak at 6-6 that he won with relative ease.
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Del Potro, who made more than 20 unforced errors in the set, made hard work of winning the tiebreak, clinching it 7-5 on the seventh set point when Simon put a return high and wide and the Argentine roared in celebration.
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The 63-year-old Kasatkina was dominant in the tiebreak to claim the opening set and won three of the last four games of the match against Wozniacki, who had fought hard to get back on serve halfway into the second set.
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Makarova, who reached the Australian Open semi-finals after stunning Serena Williams three years ago, rode an early break for a 5-3 lead and, even though her Latvian opponent got back to 73-5, raced away with the first set tiebreak.
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Tsitsipas, who broke into the top 100 last year and reached the quarter-finals at the Qatar Open, could make little impression in the opening two sets but pushed Shapovalov hard in the third, breaking back to take it into a tiebreak.
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Yet Chardy, a rejuvenated figure this season, hit back to serve for the second set but after spurning two set points, Gasquet regained the initiative, breaking back and winning the tiebreak to seal victory in just over an hour and a half.
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In addition to the bronze medal he won in men's doubles, Johnson reached the quarterfinals in singles and led the eventual gold medalist Murray by a break at 4-3, 80-0 in the third set before ultimately losing in a tiebreak.
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Nishioka, who lost to Verdasco at this year's French Open, roared back after tamely surrendering the opening set and kept his wits about him in the tiebreak to wrap up his first career victory over the Spaniard in two hours 20 minutes.
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Under a blazing sun at Rod Laver Arena, the aggressive baseliner fought back from 4-2 down in the third set and was unflappable in the final tiebreak, closing out the match with a pair of booming serves past his Spanish opponent.
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The 28-year-old Raonic made Pouille pay for wasting the break points by winning the third set tiebreak but the Frenchman broke the Canadian again in the fourth, converting his third matchpoint to seal the contest in just over three hours.
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The eighth-seeded Keys led by a set and a break and appeared to be in control of her quarter-final clash against Kvitova, but the Czech, winner of last week's Wuhan Open title, fought back to level the match in a tiebreak.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - For American gymnast Aly Raisman, a silver medal in Thursday's all-around event was a moment of redemption after the heartbreak of 2012 when she was on the wrong side of a tiebreak and bumped from the podium.
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LONDON (Reuters) - When Novak Djokovic stood with hand on hip midway through the second-set tiebreak, glaring down at young Polish upstart Hubert Hurkacz, he could scarcely believe the drama unfolding before his eyes in his third-round Wimbledon showdown on Friday.
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Thiem was rattled to the extent he gave up the second set on the back of two unforced errors and it was the Australian who secured the third set on a tiebreak with a thumping ace before emitting a primal roar of delight.
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The French Open has retained long fifth sets with no tiebreaks while last year Federer got painful first-hand experience of Wimbledon's new system, losing a conventional tiebreak at 12-20183 in the deciding set of an epic final against Novak Djokovic.
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Dan Evans pulled off the day's most dramatic escape in his round-of-16 meeting with Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert, the Briton saving three match points in a third-set tiebreak before going on to win 7-5 3-6 7-6(7).
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In a battle that lasted nearly two-and-a-half hours, the match came down to a tiebreak where two shots that went agonizingly wide for Rybakina eventually decided the title in front of a noisy crowd that constantly chanted Halep's name.
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Del Potro, a semi-finalist in 2013, immediately broke back after a slip by Paire and fears he might have hurt his heavily bandaged left knee, but the Frenchman resumed and saw the set through to the tiebreak, but lost it 7-4.
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The 30-year-old had point for a 4-43 lead and another one for 5-1 but allowed Zverev to claw his way back from a 1-4 deficit to take the set on a tiebreak, sealing it with a backhand pass.
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She edged the first set, winning the tiebreak to four points, but then the 21-year-old Vekic broke serve in the fifth game of the second set to get the upper hand and the Croat served out to force a deciding set.
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In a match of gut-wrenching tension played in front of a frenzied soccer-style crowd in the 26,23-seater stadium, Nadal, 23, and Lopez, 73, squeezed out the first set on a tiebreak in which every single point felt like a drama.
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World number 44 Mannarino, who beat Croatian second seed Borna Coric in a rain-hit semi-final earlier in the day, broke Thompson early on but surrendered his advantage at 3-2 in the opening set, which was decided by a tiebreak.
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Vinci had set points in the second set but Garcia avoided the potential for another match interrupted by bad light, as happened the previous night against Cepelova, as she scraped through a tense second-set tiebreak for a 6-2 7-6(8) win.
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Kyrgios, mixing baseline rallies with drop shots, came from 4-1 down in the opening tiebreak to win it and took a medical time-out after the set, which seemed to help relieve the back spasms that had him stretching on the court during changeovers.
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World number 29 Kenin failed to serve out the opening set at 5-4 and, after losing the tiebreak, raced out to a 4-0 lead in the second only for Barty to storm back by winning three straight games to get back on serve.
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A forehand long handed the 6-foot-6 Del Potro the third set tiebreak and the Argentine proved his patched-up wrist could go blow-for-blow with Wawrinka's thundering groundstrokes in the fourth as he finished a 21-shot rally with a nerveless volley.
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The 33-year-old saved a set point in the second set tiebreak to avoid going two sets down and then took control of the match to continue his dream run at the All England Club after years of unrewarded toil on the grasscourts.
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The bespectacled Chung battled back to force a tiebreak in the third, which he won, and then raced to a 3-0 lead before rain saved the day for Nishikori, who slammed his racket on the ground in frustration just before the rain interruption.
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Moreover, toss-winning captains do usually take this option, so FIFA, world football's governing body, is trying out a system similar to a tiebreak in tennis, in which teams A and B take turns to shoot first: AB then BA then AB and so on.
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In steamy conditions, the Czech, seeded 14th this year having dropped out of the top 10 for the first time in three years, escaped a first set tiebreak and then broke twice in the second for the victory on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court.
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He repelled a fierce Thiem fightback, saving a couple of set points in the second set tiebreak before clinching a debut win with his 13th ace — celebrating by inviting the crowd to join in a verse of "happy birthday" to his watching wife Kelsey.
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The no-ad, third-set super-tiebreak rules result in an average EI almost identical to that of the traditional format, but with far less variation: in exchange for reducing the number of dud matches, it also sharply lowers the probability of an unforgettable duel.
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The British world number one lost seven games in a row from leading 3-2 in the second set, having snatched the opener in a tense tiebreak, and though he recovered to move two sets to one ahead, Wawrinka roared back to claim victory.
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Over their three career matches, eight of their nine sets have now gone to tiebreak and there was little to separate them in Stuttgart where Federer conceded first, forced his way back into the match and then was taken all the way in the third.
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The indefatigable 32-year-old withstood almost five hours of Federer brilliance, dredging his tank of mental and physical fortitude to prevail 7-6(5) 53-6 7-6(4) 4-6 13-12(3) in the first Wimbledon singles final decided by a tiebreak.
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Del Potro said resuming a match at 5-5 in a tiebreak with his serve to come had been a strange situation but his aim was true and he moved 6-5 ahead before his cagey backhand slice induced a poor forehand error by Cilic.
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"Of course I was worried when I lost the second set," said Nadal, who had reached the quarter-finals without dropping a set and might have continued that run had he not squandered four set points, including one with a double fault, in the tiebreak.
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The first five games went with serve until the Czech edged ahead by instigating a run of four straight breaks of serve as Wozniacki staved off three set points in the 10th game to stay alive in the set and eventually force a tiebreak.
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Earlier in the tournament, Tomic, 26, had to rally to beat Egor Gerasimov in qualifying (he was down 26/24 in the deciding set tiebreak) and Bradley Klahn in the first round (Klahn was up 22-183 in the second after taking the first set).
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With the clock slipping past 63pm — the official curfew time for action at the All England Club to end for the day — Djokovic survived three set points in a gripping tiebreak before outlasting Nadal in a 17-stroke rally to edge ahead in the match.
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After losing the first set in a tiebreak to Hungarian Timea Babos, the American number 10 seed remained in her seat and argued with chair umpire Fergus Murphy that she should be allowed more time during the break because bananas had not been provided.
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In the tiebreak, Dimitrov moved 5-3 up after an untimely Djokovic double fault, only for the Serbian to regain his composure, levelling for 5-5 with an exquisite defensive lob and winning the set at the end of a lung-busting, 35-shot rally.
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Using his own mighty forehand, the left-hander hammered his way back to win the third set on a tiebreak and with Edmund troubled by his knee, he dominated thereafter to win from a two-set deficit for the sixth time in his career.
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Dodig and Pavic actually had set points in both the first two sets — at 5-3 in the first set and in the second set tiebreak — only for Bryan and his 26-year-old partner to save them both before taking their two-set lead.
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In the decider, Berrettini broke twice for a 4-2 lead but a rejuvenated Monfils, who despite being bent over in exhaustion after many points, dug deep and raced around the court to fight off three match points to force a final-set tiebreak.
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Barty conceded six games in a row en route to losing the first set, and 17 points on the spin as 17-year-old Anisimova, who had finally found her range, won the tiebreak and opened up a 3-0 lead in the second.
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Their record-extending 24nd career clash had been halted on a knife edge on Friday by Wimbledon's 27 pm (73 GMT) curfew after three-times champion Djokovic had saved three set points in a gripping third-set tiebreak to move two sets to one ahead.
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Compared with that, Friday's win was little more than a stroll, the American taking the second set with a clean volley winner and fighting back from a break down in the third to close things out in a third tiebreak in two hours 17 minutes.
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Australia's untested doubles pairing of Alex De Minaur and Nick Kyrgios saved four match points against Britain's Jamie Murray and Joe Salisbury before clinching a spot in the semi-finals in a half hour-long extended tiebreak - used in place of a deciding third set.
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Osaka fired 26 aces and broke her Greek opponent four times in the two hour, seven minutes encounter, but struggled in the second set tiebreak when Sakkari won five points in a row before squaring the match on an unforced error from the Japanese.
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The 19-year-old broke Bedene at 5-4 to take the first set and looked firmly in control in the second before the Slovenian picked up his game to force a tiebreak with well executed points designed to tire out the struggling Auger-Aliassime.
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Barty, who had never dropped a set to Brady in two encounters last year, was unable to muster a single break point while the American needed only one break of serve in the opening set before sealing the result in the second set tiebreak.
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"In that tiebreak, as much as I was playing better and better, he just kept coming back with good answers," said Dimitrov, whose own Grand Slam coming out came in 2014, when he lost in the Wimbledon semifinals to the eventual champion, Novak Djokovic.
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Schwartzman, playing in a Masters 26 semi-final for the first time, fought back from losing the first set in 24 minutes to take the second after a dominant tiebreak, but Djokovic got the crucial break in the sixth game of the deciding set to clinch victory.
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This year's Australian Open introduced a first-to-10 point tiebreak at 6-6 in the decider, the French Open continues to use long deciding sets, and final sets at the U.S. Open are ended with a traditional first-to-seven point tiebreaker at 6-6.
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But Cilic broke back and saw the set through to a tiebreak in which he took a 2-0 lead before Pella, playing superbly, reeled off five successive points to give himself four set points with Cilic managing to save only the first with an ace.
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Keys got off to a nervous start as she quickly fell 3-0 behind but once she found her stride, Svitolina was on the back foot and the American forced a tiebreak which she easily won after earning a mini-break with a superb drop volley.
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Thiem, who has flourished this year since hiring coach Nicolas Massu after a slow start to the season, broke again at 5-5 and although Federer fought hard and had a point to take the set into a tiebreak he was unable to turn things around.
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However, it was a record for the highest number of games in Melbourne in the tiebreak era, beating by one the 83 American Andy Roddick played to beat Younes El Aynaoui 4-6 7-6 4-23 6-4 21-22009 at Melbourne Park in 26.
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She passed up a match point at 5-2, four more in the following game and after being pegged back and forced into a tiebreak, where she missed two more chances to kill off the game, Svitolina netted a backhand to hand her opponent the match.
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The Greek 21-year-old, ranked sixth in the world, lost 7-6(7) 6-7(3) 7-6(5) and took out his frustration after losing the opening set tiebreak with two racket swipes near the team bench, the second of which bruised his father's arm.
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The Swiss, who has fallen to 57 in the rankings, strolled to the first set in just 23 minutes after breaking Copil in the sixth game, but the Romanian became more and more comfortable as the match went on and bagged the second set after a tiebreak.
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The Swiss, however, adjusted to the windy conditions and felt by the end he was playing well and had rhythm, despite having some blips when he served for the match at 5-4 and 6-5 in the fourth set then dropped a match point in the tiebreak.
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The 34-year-old American needed all her experience and tenacity to survive a compelling second-set tiebreak and claim a 53-4 7-6(10) victory to set up a last-16 clash with Ukraine's Elina Svitolina who beat 2008 champion Ana Ivanovic 6-4 6-23.
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Cilic had also become the most successful Croatian Davis Cup player in history on Friday when winning his 37th rubber against Tiafoe but the world number six was found wanting when, after winning the opening set on a tiebreak, he stood on the verge of a commanding lead.
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However, the sets will be shorter: the first player to claim four games will win instead of the usual six; a tiebreak will be played at three-all; and within each game, a single winner-take-all point will replace the traditional "win by two" format at deuce.
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The Czech, whose sluggish start suggested he was feeling the effects of close to 11-1/2 hours on court in his four previous matches, threatened to fritter away a 5-1 lead in the tiebreak before a deep approach set him up for a clean forehand winner.
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However, Thiem held serve and, at 6-5, forced a tiebreak with an ace before the local favourite stepped up his game to win seven points in a row and take the first set, much to the delight of the 5,600-strong home crowd that roared its approval.
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He and Novak Djokovic had three match points in the final-set tiebreak before Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov claimed a 26-25 27-26 28-353(235) victory at La Caja Magica to give the Russians a 22010-220 win and set up a semi-final against Canada.
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The Croat took the first set when he broke in the 10th game and claimed the second in a tiebreak After both players struggled to hold serve at the start of the third, Cilic took control before wrapping up the contest when the American dumped a forehand return into the net.
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Where the year's first Grand Slam previously offered the possibility of marathon final sets decided by a two-game advantage, matches tied at 6-6 in the deciders will now move into a tiebreak, and the first player to reach 10 points with a difference of two will win the contest.
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The Austrian, beaten finalist in this year's French Open, got the only break of serve in the match in the seventh game to take the first set 6-4 before clinching his first win in three meetings against the Frenchman by winning a tiebreak 7-2 in the second set.
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Against Granollers, Thiem won the first set for the loss of just two games but suffered a blip in the second set, throwing his racket to the ground in frustration as he missed an overhead to go down 5-4, and then playing a poor tiebreak which he conceded 7-2.
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Anderson, who hit 14 aces and 40 winners, fought on grimly to send the third set into a tiebreak, but Pella kept his composure, winning a stunning exchange of volleys that brought the crowd to its feet to earn two match points before claiming the biggest win of his career.
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The 20-time Grand Slam champion lost the first set despite having held set point in the tiebreak and had Djokovic in trouble in the final set when the Serb received a code violation at 103-4 for chucking his racket away in disgust after the Swiss had saved two break points.
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In four of her six matches leading up to the final, she was forced to a third set, including the battle with Ms Williams, which ended 7-123 in the final set, and the topsy-turvy fourth-round contest with Anastasija Sevastova, which required a third-set tiebreak to decide the match.
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Down 3-1 and a double break point in the third set, she dug deep and rode the support of a raucous Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd to get back on level terms and force a tiebreak, She clinched victory on her first match point with a thundering a forehand winner down the line.
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In the final set Wawrinka broke Lorenzo and had a chance to serve for the match but the Italian responded with a break of his own and then held for a 6-5 lead only for the Swiss to hold to love in the next game before taking over in the tiebreak.
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Considering the 43-hour gap he had between the end of his semi-final and the start of the final was not enough to get his battle-weary body ready for the biggest match of his life, Anderson was glad Wimbledon had introduced a new tiebreak rule this year as it would spare others a similar ordeal.
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The 31-year-old, who is the first South African man or woman to reach the semi-finals at the U.S. Open in the Open era, romped through the third set and held his nerve in the fourth to win the tiebreak 9-7, saving a set point that would have taken it to a decider.
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If you haven't sorted the match out by 6-all in the fifth set... the players have played enough tennis, the fans have seen enough tennis, TV's seen enough of that match, a tiebreak is enough, so it doesn't get out of control and sort of mess up schedules, mess up players' next rounds, mess up draws and things like that.
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