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"tiebreaker" Definitions
  1. (North American English) (British English tiebreak) (in tennis) a period of extra play to decide who is the winner of a set when both players have won six games
  2. an extra question in a competition to decide who is the winner when two or more of those taking part have equal scores
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China's Xiao Ruoteng, who lost gold in the all-around on a tiebreaker, won gold on pommel horse on a tiebreaker.
For the following season, the N.H.L. adopted head-to-head results as the second tiebreaker after wins and made goals-for the third tiebreaker.
Svitolina promptly broke back at love to force a tiebreaker, but Sakkari won the final four points of the tiebreaker to take the set.
Federer failed to take advantage of three match points in the second-set tiebreaker, and wasted a 5-1 lead in the third-set tiebreaker.
The United States Open had been the only Grand Slam event to use a tiebreaker in the final set, playing a standard first-to-seven-points tiebreaker at 6-6.
Hence, the independent potentially serves another important role — tiebreaker.
This time, Anderson served out the set, avoiding a tiebreaker.
The two would then hold serve to force the tiebreaker.
To some players, this could serve as a legitimate tiebreaker.
USC wins a tiebreaker with Colorado if the Buffaloes lose.
However, Djokovic had enough to get through the decisive tiebreaker.
So did a third reader, who served as a tiebreaker.
The Bucks do not own the tiebreaker over the Heat.
There's no checking out Wikipedia to see how a tiebreaker works.
Neither the Rockets — who hold the tiebreaker — nor Mavericks played Saturday.
Ospreys fell to third on another tiebreaker, number of tries scored.
However, the Argentine won five straight points to force a tiebreaker.
Counting the NL West tiebreaker game against the Dodgers on Oct.
Eight of 11 were settled by the 10-point match tiebreaker.
A coin flip was used as a tiebreaker, and Hamlin won.
Basically, Keller said "no," and Carter "yes," so you're the tiebreaker.
They organized; Amazon resisted — and the coronavirus acted as tiebreaker. 7.
In the final tiebreaker, he double-faulted twice in a row.
He was ahead in the third-set tiebreaker, and lost it.
Mexico, under the W.B.C.'s interpretation of the tiebreaker rule, had actually allowed 19 runs in 17 defensive innings, which meant it would finish a hair behind Venezuela and would be shut out of the tiebreaker.
Miami is in seventh due to a tiebreaker, and Indiana is eighth.
Swalwell's drop out would make the tiebreaker unnecessary for the July debates.
The Nets hold the head-to-head tiebreaker edge on the Magic.
The tiebreaker spins led to even more money and yet ANOTHER tie.
After losing five straight games, she held to force a decisive tiebreaker.
They organized; Amazon resisted — and at last, the coronavirus acted as tiebreaker.
But, once again, Sevastova broke back, and wound up forcing a tiebreaker.
Seattle holds the tiebreaker edge based on a win at San Francisco.
He had 10 double faults, including two in the fourth-set tiebreaker.
But here's the tiebreaker, we can fix the problem with the innocent person.
Federer and Nadal told him a tiebreaker win could turn his season around.
The Dodgers own the tiebreaker after going 5-1 against Washington this year.
Even if Magnus Carlsen was forced into a tiebreaker, he still won, right?
But she recovered remarkably well to force and win a second-set tiebreaker.
But Dimitrov broke Murray's serve and held his own to force the tiebreaker.
The Sooners own the tiebreaker over the Mountaineers after sweeping the season series.
Bertens forced Williams into a first-set tiebreaker, but lost in two sets.
Clinton wins the presidency, and her vice president becomes the chamber's tiebreaker vote.
Oh, and I recommend rock, paper, scissors as a tiebreaker on paint color.
In October, Wimbledon added a tiebreaker at 12-12 in the deciding set.
She wobbled when serving for the match, but came through in a tiebreaker.
At one point, she collapses to her knees during the first-set tiebreaker.
Instead, his apology stemmed from a quirky moment in the second-set tiebreaker.
Thiem leveled the set at 26-22, then won it in a tiebreaker.
Belgium leads, 1-0, but surrenders its well-earned Fair Play tiebreaker edge.
In that case the tiebreaker will be fewest yellow cards in the tournament.
Murray broke back in the sixth game and the set went to tiebreaker.
King had a couple of set points, but Zverev prevailed in a tiebreaker.
Unfortunately for the Saints, a tiebreaker sent them into the wild-card round.
The Lions own the tiebreaker, having beat the Terrapins 76-69 in December.
The Americans were eliminated in the second round on a tiebreaker in 2006.
Pella won the first five points of the decisive tiebreaker to pull away.
The tiebreaker rule also said partial innings would be used in the formulation.
Both teams have 94 points, though Columbus is still ahead on a tiebreaker.
Each player won a tiebreaker in the first two sets of last year's final.
Instead, Fritz rebounded to protect his serve and ultimately prevail in a second tiebreaker.
If you are looking for a tiebreaker, try asking your pet what they think.
Jarry fell down a break early but rallied to force and win a tiebreaker.
Friday's NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Kentucky Speedway could be a tiebreaker of sorts.
That gives the resolution 21625 votes, meaning Pence right now would cast the tiebreaker.
Maybe if I'd gotten that first set tiebreaker, maybe it would have been different.
"We've got the tiebreaker against Detroit and Chicago, and that's a plus," Wall said.
We had the points, and the tiebreaker, to earn our way into the playoffs.
This means it's a 85003-50 tie, with Vice President Pence as the tiebreaker.
Edwards tied with Stewart for the 2011 title but lost it on a tiebreaker.
He felt that was the case Monday, when he lost the fourth-set tiebreaker.
Sets are played to only four games, with a tiebreaker played at 3-4.
John Millman of Australia took the No. 3 seed to a fifth set tiebreaker.
Murkowski and Collins also joined all Democrats in opposing her nomination, necessitating the tiebreaker.
The final tiebreaker was one-sided, though, as Wawrinka captured the final six points.
The Astros hold the tiebreaker, having gone 22-276 against the Yankees this year.
For the first time, a pair of tiebreaker games will settle the playoff picture.
The Lions should get their tiebreaker rule before their trip to South Africa in 2021.
Milwaukee (20-16) began the day sixth in the conference, holding a tiebreaker over Miami.
The statistical odds of a tiebreaker in New Hampshire determining the election are spectacularly low.
We'd hoped to be a tiebreaker, but for now the answer is: not so fast.
Eight service holds then sent the match into the tiebreaker which, almost inevitably, Djokovic dominated.
He turned it on in the tiebreaker, taking all three points on Ramos-Vinolas' serve.
Williams, seeded No. 8, found herself down by 5-2 in the first-set tiebreaker.
Clinton wins the presidency, giving the chamber's tiebreaker vote to her running mate, Tim Kaine.
Kvitova came back from 2-4 in the opening set before Garcia took the tiebreaker.
Kenzo Shirai of Japan earned the bronze in a tiebreaker over Marian Dragulescu of Romania.
Most of the rest were about his dispute with Ramos in the first-set tiebreaker.
He has won 25 straight official sets, with only two of those requiring a tiebreaker.
The bright spot was Senegal, which beat Poland and was eliminated on the sixth tiebreaker.
All it lacked was a suspenseful third-set tiebreaker, but Federer's serve unexpectedly deserted him.
The U.S. Open introduced the tiebreaker at 863-6 in the final set in 1970.
Then it missed out on the knockout rounds only by the tiebreaker of goal differential.
The contestants play a 10-point tiebreaker, and the winner advances to the next round.
Once safely past the tiebreaker, Osaka cruised through the third set against a dejected Schmiedlova.
Youzhny won the second set in a tiebreaker and all but breezed through the third.
Since Control maps cannot end in a tie, they are the default tiebreaker map type.
He saved the next four in the fourth-set tiebreaker, which he trailed, 22001-226.
Milwaukee owns the tiebreaker with the eighth-placed Washington Wizards after winning the season series.
If they finish the year tied, the Stars would win the division in a tiebreaker.
It was down 2-0 and Bayern had a heavy tiebreaker with two away goals.
This was the tiebreaker the U.S. Open adopted for all sets in 212 at 6-6 but abandoned in 1975 in favor of the best-of-12-point tiebreaker that had to be won by two and seemed, to the players, less of a lottery.
Nonetheless, the omission of a tiebreaker meant that rugby's most venerated tradition ended as an anticlimax.
The tradition-heavy Davis Cup has seen the light and gone with a fifth-set tiebreaker.
I also had match points in the second set, and I lost it in the tiebreaker.
Although both teams have 89 points, the Blues own the tiebreaker by virtue of total wins.
The Utes also earned a valuable tiebreaker in their quest for a Pac-0 South title.
The Utes also earned a valuable tiebreaker in their quest for a Pac-12 South title.
He also trailed 3-1 in the second-set tiebreaker before winning the final four points.
They won 10 games in 2015 but missed out on the postseason due to a tiebreaker.
Bee officials will administer a Tiebreaker Test to all spellers in the competition at 6 p.m.
Gasquet and Bautista Agut held serve throughout the first set before Gasquet cruised in the tiebreaker.
To end that scourge of ties, the spelling bee introduced a written "tiebreaker test" this year.
At that point, because the first tiebreaker is away goals, the Americans needed to score twice.
The Chiefs, meanwhile, are a game behind the Raiders but possess the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Mertens fended off the first eight match points Williams held, before ultimately falling in a tiebreaker.
The Chargers are a tiebreaker behind Kansas City for the top seeding in the A.F.C. playoffs.
In October, Wimbledon decided to add a standard tiebreaker at 12-12 in the final set.
The tiebreaker was a decisive end to a match that promised excitement when it began Nov.
Later this year, Wimbledon will introduce a conventional best-of-12-point tiebreaker at 12-12.
But Federer saved both, and then ultimately rolled through the tiebreaker and the next two sets.
But Bertens saved a championship point in the second-set tiebreaker to force a third set.
As things stand, Spain and Portugal would advance, with Spain winning the group on a tiebreaker.
It ended with a tiebreaker, with McEnroe reaching back for a little of the old greatness.
Pleasing the Trump administration would most likely be a "tiebreaker" after those concerns, Mr. Brown said.
Barty weathered a storm of powerful baseline rallies to secure the first set in a tiebreaker.
"We can go straight to a tiebreaker, if you want," Djokovic joked as they changed ends.
Monfils ultimately held his serve and sent the match to its only fitting conclusion: a tiebreaker.
LiNkzr's Widowmaker created a problem for London, which struggled to adjust until the tiebreaker on Ilios.
The surge has the Titans trailing Pittsburgh in the wild-card race by just a tiebreaker.
Neither player faced a break point in the fourth set, won by Dimitrov in another tiebreaker.
That would have forced the Dominicans into a tiebreaker game with the United States on Monday.
McNally and Gauff, who trailed by 2-6 in the first-set tiebreaker, welcomed the support.
McNally and Gauff, who trailed by 2-6 in the first-set tiebreaker, welcomed the support.
But there has to be some tiebreaker, so let's consider those extra innings Scherzer has pitched.
He then staved off a set point while serving down 5-6 before quickly handling the tiebreaker.
Auger-Aliassime saved two set points in the first-set tiebreaker before converting his second set point.
His decision potentially alleviates the need for a tiebreaker in the upcoming debates on July 30-31.
Kansas City owns a tiebreaker advantage over Los Angeles thanks to a season sweep of the Chargers.
Ovechkin then got his tiebreaker, and Andre Burakovsky added another goal for the 5-3 final. NHL.
If more than 20 candidates meet either the polling or the donor threshold, a tiebreaker kicks in.
Kyrgios showed his displeasure after dropping an opening set tiebreaker by smashing three rackets during the changeover.
Djokovic won his sixth Australian Open and ousted Roger Federer in a fifth-set tiebreaker at Wimbledon.
Friday's victory guaranteed that the Mets would, at worst, play a tiebreaker for a wild-card spot.
He broke right back to get back on serve and dominated the tiebreaker to clinch the win.
If the two teams finish the regular season tied atop the division, Detroit would win the tiebreaker.
The took control of the tiebreaker against Detroit based on each team's record within the Central Division.
This means that, with Vice-President Mike Pence as a tiebreaker, McConnell can lose only one vote.
Columbus is tied with the Montreal Canadiens, but holds the second wild card spot with the tiebreaker.
A loss to the Rockets would give Houston the season-series win and the tiebreaker over Utah.
Instead, Cilic took some deep breaths, resumed taking chances and dominated the tiebreaker to seal the upset.
Khachanov double-faulted three times during the tiebreaker, but still managed to stave off four set points.
New England owns the tiebreaker by virtue of its 27-24 win at Pittsburgh on Dec. 17.
The Australian Open will be the first tournament to use a 22010-point tiebreaker in singles play.
In the event of a 33-50 vote, Vice President Mike Pence would act as the tiebreaker.
In the event of a 50-50 vote, Vice President Mike Pence would act as the tiebreaker.
Querrey led 5-2 in the first set tiebreaker before Anderson ran off with five consecutive points.
It defeated Tigres on the away-goals tiebreaker with a 4-03 aggregate score in the quarterfinals.
Kyrgios grew frustrated during the third-set tiebreaker by fans making line calls before points were over.
In the first set, he committed a key double fault — while ahead, 7-6, in the tiebreaker.
One point and the Bruins would have the tiebreaker and meet the Washington Capitals in the playoffs.
The Bulls own the head-to-head tiebreaker by virtue of winning the season series 13-1.
She rebounded in the second, winning 3-2, but ended up losing in a super tiebreaker, 10-5.
Salisbury and Ram battled back valiantly to take the second and send the final into a match tiebreaker.
She rebounded in the second, winning 3-2, but ended up losing in a super tiebreaker, 10-5.
On the second day, Zverev collapsed in a third-set super tiebreaker, falling 10-1 to John Isner.
Federer's service winner knotted the tiebreaker, and he sealed the victory when Coric couldn't handle a backhand volley.
They had split the first two, so the Bulls will have the tiebreaker if it comes into play.
Though they own the same record as the Orlando Magic, the Nets own the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Mayer, who won the tournament in 2014 and 2017, squandered two set points in the opening-set tiebreaker.
Kansas City also owns a tiebreaker advantage over Los Angeles thanks to their season sweep of the Chargers.
New York began the day tied with the Tampa Bay Lightning but possessing the regulation/overtime wins tiebreaker.
The tiebreaker had initially been calculated based on a misapplication from a game played earlier in the tournament.
All the while, Selina courts votes for the presidential tiebreaker with the focus and fury of a dart.
Djokovic had battled late into the night on Saturday to beat Kei Nishikori in a third-set tiebreaker.
The Broncos, who play the New England Patriots on Sunday, hold the strength of victory tiebreaker over Miami.
Denny Hamlin edged Austin Dillon for the final spot in the field on a tiebreaker at Talladega Superspeedway.
He rifled two forehands down the line to clinch the tiebreaker, as an invigorated crowd chanted his name.
Halep served for the first set twice but was broken each time, and Keys prevailed in a tiebreaker.
The match appeared headed to a tiebreaker when Federer went ahead, 27-33, while serving at 23-26.
Raisman, the team captain, had finished fourth in the all-around at the London Games, in a tiebreaker.
The Colts, with the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Titans, would then claim the AFC South title.
Andy Bragen raced to the net, hoping to capture a key point in the tight third-set tiebreaker.
She wobbled again leading, 6-2, in the pivotal tiebreaker, hitting unforced errors to lose consecutive set points.
The Ravens enter the game leading Tennessee and Indianapolis, by a tiebreaker, for the conference's second wild card.
But the Americans held them off to force a tiebreaker and won five of the last six points.
Instead, Wednesday's result meant the teams split their six games, and the next tiebreaker is intra-division games.
Barcelona leads on the head-to-head tiebreaker but Madrid has six games left — one more than Barcelona.
That extended the Canadian's Melbourne Park stay only briefly, with all resistance broken in the one-sided tiebreaker.
Seattle (10-483), which visits the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night, holds the tiebreaker over the 49ers.
Down by 6-4 in a third-set tiebreaker to Tomas Berdych, he was in a dire situation.
In 2011, he finished second in the Cup series standings, with Stewart winning the title on a tiebreaker.
He rallied from 6-1 down in the tiebreaker and needed four match points to overcome the Czech.
Ondrej Pavelec stopped all 30 shots he faced through overtime and both Washington attempts in the shootout tiebreaker.
A poll by Sky Sports, a British broadcaster, showed that five-sixths of respondents favoured some kind of tiebreaker.
After losing an opening-set tiebreaker, the tennis legend hammered her racket into the court and tossed it backwards.
He converted only two of 12 break-point chances and lost his final three service points in the tiebreaker.
There were further accusations of sign-stealing in the NL West tiebreaker played between the Dodgers and the Rockies.
Winning the tiebreaker 7-3, and securing the Fed Cup for the US for the first time since 2000.
A coin toss sounds farcical and absurd, but at least it's a tiebreaker triggered by genuinely close vote totals.
Instead of being an expected tiebreaker, the new rate raises more questions about the current understanding of the universe.
The 21-year-old Spaniard trailed 4-2 in the tiebreaker before reeling off five straight points to advance.
However, Muguruza rallied and pushed the match to another tiebreaker, where Pliskova pulled herself together and sealed the victory.
With the win, the Sixers moved into third place in the Eastern Conference, holding a tiebreaker over the Pacers.
The next tiebreaker is divisional record, so the last few regular-season games will determine which team ranks higher.
He did not make the same mistake in the third set tiebreaker, winning the last four points to advance.
After losing an opening-set tiebreaker, she slammed her racket into the court five times and threw it backwards.
Each team has nine games remaining, and the Lightning own the tiebreaker with more non-shootout victories (39-113).
The United States also has a huge edge in goal differential, the first tiebreaker, plus-216 to plus-1.
The Rockies play the Dodgers in Los Angeles on Monday in a tiebreaker to decide the NL West champion.
The Colts' defense will be the tiebreaker if it can get the Mariota Turnover Factory up and running again.
He hit two as he fought to force a second-set tiebreaker in the 12th game of that set.
Seles, on her way to a third Grand Slam singles title that year, prevailed in the third set tiebreaker.
She beat Ekaterina Makarova, 6-0, 4-26, 23-25 (27), including a 26-22 score in the tiebreaker.
It was Van Alen, a wealthy American, who pushed for brisker, innovative formats — including the tiebreaker — in the 212s.
"I know Jimmy Van Alen was dismayed when his original sudden death nine-point tiebreaker was discarded," Flink said.
Halep had a match point in the second set tiebreaker, but Bertens fended it off and won the set.
The other will be used at Madison Square Garden for a women's one-day tiebreaker event on March 5.
When she took the tiebreaker by ending a 32-shot rally with a forehand winner, the crowd went nuts.
She then fell behind 23-26 and 21-3 in the tiebreaker but rallied to earn a match point.
For a tiebreaker, consider the nation's election of Trump despite the media's self-admitted attempts to help Clinton win.
If the teams have identical records, the first tiebreaker would be head-to-head record; the second, divisional record.
She carried that momentum into the tiebreaker, which she broke open at 2-2 by winning four straight points.
She had two double-faults in the tiebreaker, as Witthoeft leveled the match, but regained control in the third.
Davis Cup had already switched to a fifth-set tiebreaker last year, eliminating the possibility of marathon final sets.
North Korea, ranked 14th in the world, will miss out after being eliminated by South Korea on a tiebreaker.
With the victory, England (20-22) moved ahead of France in the Six Nations standings on the point-difference tiebreaker.
The tiebreaker was tied at 23-4 before Keys won three of the next four points to seal the victory.
Rogers and Vandeweghe won the first set 6-3, but the second set went to a tiebreaker at 6-6.
Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin rode a perfect tiebreaker to a 6-3, 7-6 (0) win over Kazakhstan's Marc-Andrea Huesler.
The second set featured eight service breaks, and a whopping 21 break points, before Muguruza ultimately won in a tiebreaker.
There, he beat Monfils in a fifth-set tiebreaker in the quarterfinals before losing to the eventual champion, Rafael Nadal.
The Jets actually fell below Miami in the American Football Conference East standings based on the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Another key adjustment came in the third-set tiebreaker, with Tiafoe serving, 3-2, and only 4 points from victory.
The Hawks won three of four against the Celtics and own the tiebreaker should they finish with the same record.
But she couldn't take advantage, with Townsend pulling the scores back to eventually win the match in a thrilling tiebreaker.
But now, having won Monday's tiebreaker against the Cubs, they'll travel back to Milwaukee and won't play again until Thursday.
Republicans currently only have a 51-49 majority and use Vice President Mike Pence as the tiebreaker vote, when necessary.
But if you ask most of them, I'm sure they would have preferred to see a fifth-set tiebreaker, too.
Their Olympic semifinal in 271 in Rio de Janeiro was exceptional, with del Potro prevailing in a third-set tiebreaker.
But the Brewers won the Central division tiebreaker on Monday at Wrigley, 3-1, and now the Cubs are finished.
He lost the final at Indian Wells to Juan Martín del Potro last Sunday, also in a third-set tiebreaker.
Each player is allowed three incorrect challenges per set and is awarded another should the set go to a tiebreaker.
At the same Games he took the silver medal in small-bore rifle, prone, missing the gold on a tiebreaker.
That will leave the French Open as the only Grand Slam tournament that uses no deciding-set tiebreaker in singles.
Winnipeg is tied with the Vancouver Canucks with 228 points, with the Canucks ahead of the Jets on a tiebreaker.
A victory would have put the Lions a game behind Minnesota in the standings and given them a potential tiebreaker.
Like Nadal's match, del Potro's had been suspended from the day before, at 5-5 in the first-set tiebreaker.
She has not dropped a set here despite a challenging draw, nor has she even been pushed to a tiebreaker.
If Democrats remain unified, Republicans can afford just two defections to allow Vice President Pence to cast a tiebreaker vote.
Republicans, with a 52-seat majority, can afford to lose two senators and have a tiebreaker by Vice President Pence.
However, Stewart had won five races and Edwards had only one trophy meaning the title went to Stewart by tiebreaker.
Chiarot posted the tiebreaker 30 seconds into the third period when he scored from the edge of the left circle.
But after more than two hours, the Serbs were poised to close out the victory in the third-set tiebreaker.
"Then I played a great breaker," Federer said, referring to the tiebreaker in which he did not lose a point.
The tension peaked with a nerve-racking replay after a challenge on the 289th point of the third-set tiebreaker.
She's slated to be back in action in March, playing in a one-day tiebreaker tournament at Madison Square Garden.
Struff went ahead, 5-1, in the first set that day but lost a tiebreaker and fell in straight sets.
They lost to the 230-63 Titans last month so they don't have the tiebreaker right now, but halfway through the season the Jaguars are in position to have a home playoff game and maybe even a bye, since they have the tiebreaker on the 26-29 Pittsburgh Steelers, who they crushed two weeks ago.
I won the second set in a tiebreaker, and though my wife was long gone by then — amateur tennis is never as riveting to spectators as it feels to the players — I'd tasted the drug that is relentless positivity, and I rode the high to a close, exhausting victory in the 10-point match tiebreaker.
But Cochran wouldn't have been a tiebreaker anyway, even if he put on padded underwear and showed up to vote yes.
Charlotte has the same record as Miami but the Hornets hold the tiebreaker edge over both the Heat and the Pistons.
The Bruins, who host the Ottawa Senators on Saturday, are tied with Detroit (2004-29-11) but trail in the tiebreaker.
Facing time pressure and a tough position, the Russian grandmaster blundered at last in the 38th move of the third tiebreaker.
As the set sped towards another tiebreaker, the pressure was beginning to tell on Kyrgios as he yelled "I can't focus".
Los Angeles clinched its sixth successive division title with a home victory against the Rockies in the NL West tiebreaker game.
But it took a long time to find acceptance on the pro tour, and the super tiebreaker remains a sore point.
It was like a breath of oxygen for a deep diver that changed the course of the tiebreaker and the match.
Minnesota, which holds the tiebreaker with Philadelphia for the No. 1 seed, has a chance to clinch the NFC North title.
But he converted on his fourth match point during a tiebreaker to win, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (9).
Also suspended because of darkness Monday was John Isner's match with John Millman of Australia after a marathon second-set tiebreaker.
The Week 17 home rematch against the Cowboys could easily pull the two teams level and nullify the Cowboys' tiebreaker advantage.
And that was definitely before the 22-year-old Pouille upset Rafael Nadal in a fifth-set tiebreaker on Sunday night.
Yesterday, Senate Republicans narrowly revived their healthcare legislation by a 51-50 vote with Vice President Pence casting the tiebreaker. Sens.
Colorado won the game, 1-0, which tied the two-game, total-goals series at 23-1 and forced the tiebreaker.
But del Potro has won their last two matches, including a semifinal at the Rio Olympics in a final-set tiebreaker.
They won on Sunday in Denver to force a tiebreaker for the National League West title on Monday in Los Angeles.
Katie Boulter earned the distinction of winning the first 63-point tiebreaker under the Australian Open's new system for deciding sets.
Two hours later, Osaka sat courtside, stone-faced, as her Kastles teammates pushed the overall match into a deciding doubles tiebreaker.
She played on, but was woozy and at one point fell to her knees between points in the first-set tiebreaker.
Mats Zuccarello scored for the Rangers in the first round of the tiebreaker, and Mikko Rantanen tied it in the second.
Chacin started on Monday when the Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs, 3-1, in the N.L. Central tiebreaker at Wrigley Field.
Then he had to navigate a tiebreaker in which neither man won a point on serve in the first six points.
After losing a lopsided final in Barcelona, Thiem had two set points in the first-set tiebreaker against Nadal in Madrid.
Their words of wisdom paid handsome dividends as Zverev fed off the energy from the crowd to play a superb tiebreaker.
Coric rallied with two winners, then hit three straight serves that Zverev could not return to get to force a tiebreaker.
Nadal, seeking his 10th Barcelona title, struggled in the first set but took control of the match after winning the tiebreaker.
"That was the most stressful tiebreaker I've ever been involved in," Kyrgios said in an on-court interview after the match.
The semifinal was still up for grabs for both players late in a tiebreaker, with Thiem ahead two sets to one.
Wozniacki rallied from a 4-2 deficit in the second set to force a tiebreaker, but she never led in it.
Schnur got the only mini-break of the tiebreaker to grab a 3-2 lead, and he served out the match.
Budget reconciliation allows for passage of a final bill with only 50 votes and a tiebreaker from Vice President Mike Pence.
The Detroit Red Wings lost to the Rangers in New York but took the tiebreaker because of regulation and overtime wins.
The motion to proceed suggests that 50 Republican senators (plus Vice President Mike Pence, the tiebreaker) still want to pass something.
Mr Carlsen, the stronger competitor in speedier formats, won the first three rapid games to clinch the tiebreaker and retain his title.
Nashville also is even in points with St. Louis for third place in the Central Division, although the Blues own the tiebreaker.
Gasquet was forced to save a match point down in the deciding set's tiebreaker to reach his sixth tour semifinal in 2018.
After a short break while a spectator received medical attention, Nadal held for 6-6 and the set went into a tiebreaker.
Nothing except for a tweet about a hot dog eating contest with some dude named Arthur and a demand for a tiebreaker.
Why it matters: There were 21 candidates who'd provisionally qualified for the 20 debate slots, meaning a tiebreaker may have been needed.
Sevastova also squandered two set points in the second set, then overcame deficits of 2-0 and 3-1 in the tiebreaker.
Mr. Chung had the upper hand because it turned out he had a tiebreaker vote for Xfund's decisions, according to court documents.
The matches followed similar scripts, with Putintseva pushing Williams into a first-set tiebreaker before Williams overwhelmed Putintseva in the second set.
Del Potro won the biggest points, on the longest rallies, and when he needed to finish matters in the third-set tiebreaker.
That made for a tense ending: Because of the away-goals tiebreaker, one score would have been enough for Wolfsburg to advance.
If the Dodgers and the Rockies are tied for first after Sunday's games, the Dodgers will host a tiebreaker game on Monday.
But despite jumping out to early leads in the next two sets, she ended up losing the match in a tiebreaker. 3.
The seventh-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas, 20, lost in five sets to Thomas Fabbiano after saving match points in a fourth-set tiebreaker.
If two people have the same score under the Pennsylvania guidelines, the tiebreaker goes to the person in the youngest age group.
Wimbledon embraced the best-of-12-point tiebreaker in 1971, but chose to use it at 123-8 instead of 6-6.
He was asked in the postmatch interview how he had managed to come out on top in the taut third-set tiebreaker.
Private grievances and public discord come together in a down-to-the-wire tiebreaker as millions watch on television throughout the world.
The Liberty, who are on their longest winning streak since 2010, when they won 10 straight, hold the tiebreaker with the Mystics.
Vice President Mike Pence can serve as a tiebreaker, and he is expected to support any bill that makes it this far.
The Spitfire full-held the Justice on Blizzard World, taking the map 3-0, before winning the tiebreaker on Nepal 13-1.
An exquisite lob gave him daylight in the tiebreaker and then he ended the first set by feathering a crafty drop shot.
Cilic failed to convert a set point in the 10th game but once he had taken the opening tiebreaker he was untroubled.
Dimitrov, former top-234 player who tumbled to 29th last summer, held firm after Nadal won the third set in a tiebreaker.
Britain's Daniel Evans was pushed to a third-set tiebreaker before defeating China's Yan Bai 6-33, 4-6, 7-26 (27).
Gordon's score of 21 in a tiebreaker was enough to defeat Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving, the 2013 winner, who had 18.
The statement also said that the W.B.C. regretted any misunderstanding caused by initial statements that indicated Mexico had qualified for the tiebreaker.
Initially, after Mexico bested Venezuela, 11-9, late Sunday night, the belief was that Mexico would play Italy in the Monday tiebreaker.
Today, Republicans only need a simple majority (50 votes plus Vice President Mike Pence as a tiebreaker) to move through their nominations.
In the event of a 43-50 vote, Vice President Mike Pence would act as the tiebreaker and vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
In the event of a 50-50 vote, Vice President Mike Pence would act as the tiebreaker and vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
The Mets clinched at least a wild-card tiebreaker and know their season cannot end on Sunday, the league's final regular season date.
This improbable deadlock led to a "super over", a tiebreaker never previously used in an ODI, which gives each team six extra balls.
In a news release on Friday, the All-England Lawn Tennis Club — which hosts Wimbledon — introduced a final-set tiebreaker beginning in 2019.
Even when he was in trouble, trailing 2-6 in the second set tiebreaker, the priceless commodity of experience came to his rescue.
Northwestern still could gain a share of the West title but the Badgers will advance to the championship, based on a potential tiebreaker.
During the match, just after losing an opening-set tiebreaker, Williams hammered her racket into the court five times before tossing it backwards.
Coric served for the win at 24-254 in the tiebreaker but lost the point when he hit a forehand into the net.
She rebounded in the second, winning 3-2, but ended up losing in a super tiebreaker, 10-5, according to the Associated Press.
Utah won the season series, taking a 2-0 lead with one meeting left, to earn a potential playoff tiebreaker over the Clippers.
Republicans need 50 votes plus Mike Pence's tiebreaker to repeal Obamacare through the reconciliation process, and they have 52 seats in the Senate.
But Isner won the final two games of the second set and the tiebreaker before being the stronger player in the final set.
With two games remaining for both teams, Arizona must win out while Colorado loses out to get into the postseason on a tiebreaker.
Zheng and Sakkari exchanged breaks in the first set en route to the tiebreaker, which Zheng closed out on her second set point.
"It is hard to see with the math Kavanaugh not getting approved, if you include a vice presidential tiebreaker," Bash said on CNN.
Boston finished in a tie with Detroit at 235 points but lost the tiebreaker and missed the playoffs for a second straight season.
The Ducks and Oilers each have four games left on their schedules, but the Oilers hold the tiebreaker on regulation and overtime wins.
Halep seemed to be frustrating Kerber as they headed to a tiebreaker, but momentum abruptly changed hands, as it had throughout the match.
But the political atmosphere was poisoned when Thomas Jefferson was elected in 1800, after an Electoral College tiebreaker, and the measure didn't pass.
Since Tennessee lost the first matchup, Houston is temporarily ahead on the head-to-head tiebreaker—but their Week 17 rematch looms large.
His vote broke the 50-50 tie — marking the first time a VP has had to cast the tiebreaker on a Cabinet nominee.
She can still be confirmed with 50 votes (Mike Pence will cast the tiebreaker), but if one more Republican defects, it's game over.
Buyukakcay recovered from a 5-2 deficit in the opening set to find herself leading, 2-0, with a minibreak in the tiebreaker.
But Keys seized the opening, taking the third set in a tiebreaker to win the match, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (3).
He lost the third set, too, and blew a break in the fifth set, and there he was in a fifth-set tiebreaker.
They had been forced into this winner-take-all wild-card game after falling to the Milwaukee Brewers in Monday's N.L. Central tiebreaker.
In the first round, she started by conceding a tiebreaker against 58th-ranked Johanna Larsson before taking 12 of the last 15 games.
Raonic had plenty to do with that, of course, including in the third-set tiebreaker, when he served his way out of trouble.
In the last tiebreaker, Wawrinka was up 5-4 before Raonic closed with three consecutive points to avoid heading to a fifth set.
The Islanders are tied with Washington with 231 points with 10 games remaining, but they hold the tiebreaker with a greater scoring differential.
Vandeweghe took control of her quarterfinal with Pliskova by winning the opening-set tiebreaker after saving a set point in the 10th game.
But Thiem took a 3-0 lead in the tiebreaker, helped by some sloppiness from Nadal, and held on to take the set.
Schwartzman took the fourth-set tiebreaker, 7-0, and comfortably won the fifth set, breaking Anderson in all four of his service games.
Even if it equalizes, and even though Spain is trailing Morocco, 2-1, it would be eliminated on a tiebreaker of goals scored.
He also trailed, 4-8, in the fifth-set tiebreaker against John Millman in the third round before winning the final six points.
A loss would leave Kansas City and Oakland tied, with the Chiefs owning the tiebreaker by virtue of having swept the season series.
Needing a win in regulation to force a tiebreaker, Kisenosato beat Terunofuji of Mongolia to give both wrestlers a record of 13-2.
New England and Pittsburgh are both 11-3, the Patriots now own the No. 1 seed by claiming the head-to-head tiebreaker.
The tiebreaker, which took place in a single day, made for much more engaging viewing: three speedy games, one after another, and no draws.
Anderson served for the third at 127-3, got broken, then had a pair of set points in that tiebreaker, double-faulting one away.
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The unseeded Vesely won six of the final seven points of the tiebreaker to win a match that lasted three hours and six minutes.
If the Canadiens finish in a tie with Columbus at season's end, the Blue Jackets would win the tiebreaker, and Montreal would stay home.
The first tiebreaker, opening yet again with the Ruy Lopez, which was played 10 times during the 16 matches, was fought to a standstill.
Keys won three straight games to take a 6-5 lead before Kuznetsova remained alive by winning the 12th game and forcing the tiebreaker.
Brooklyn also moved a half-game ahead of the eighth-place Detroit Pistons, against whom the Nets also own the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Novak Djokovic has won his fifth Wimbledon title, beating eight-time champion Roger Federer in a fifth-set tiebreaker after saving two match points.
But MSU's chances for a conference championship appear to be a pipe dreams now that they are four games (and the tiebreaker) behind Iowa,.
The top 25 nationally ranked high schools performed equally in this phase and a new tiebreaker process was used to determine their numerical ranks.
I don't think I played the best tiebreaker but it was enough to get through and I'm super happy to be in the final.
The tight, well-played match at Court Philippe Chatrier between Mladenovic and Serena Williams was suspended when a thunderstorm arrived before second-set tiebreaker.
Sonego took the early edge in the tiebreaker, leading 4-1, but Thiem won five of the next six points to force match point.
Then the Switzerland native carried the momentum into the tiebreaker to notch one of the biggest victories of her career by outdueling the Ukrainian.
It was 6-63 in the fifth-set tiebreaker at the end of one of the most compelling matches of this United States Open.
But he lost the second set in a tiebreaker despite holding several match points, and then fell behind in the third set, 5-1.
Though the teams would be tied atop the A.F.C. West, Kansas City would hold the tiebreaker because of its better record in divisional games.
Japan advanced to the second round of the World Cup on the sixth tiebreaker despite losing to Poland, 1-0, in Volgograd on Thursday.
Pavic saved three match points with consecutive big serves in the 10th game but the hosts played solid tennis in the tiebreaker to prevail.
Auger-Aliassime then earned his first service break of the match and later took control of the tiebreaker by winning the first five points.
But that was a first-round match, and though there were calls afterward for Wimbledon to adopt a final-set tiebreaker, the club resisted.
She began to play her best tennis of the match, reeling off five straight games in the second set before Svitolina forced a tiebreaker.
Nadal had to twice fight back from a break down against the Japanese world number 26 in the opening set before winning the tiebreaker.
Also, there would be no 163rd game to determine a playoff spot, with the regular-season series serving as the tiebreaker in all scenarios.
From there, she reeled off five straight points of her own, and then recovered from a 3-5 deficit in the third-set tiebreaker.
The Titans get the spot with a victory over the Texans since they own a tiebreaker over the Steelers on the strength of schedule.
Cilic, who struck nine aces over all, served extremely well to prevail in the tiebreaker and end Djokovic's 17-match winning streak in Paris.
He was soon back in another tiebreaker with Isner, for whom tiebreakers are as natural a habitat as a swamp is to a gator.
Querrey rebounded from a break down in each set, and by 0-3, 2-5 and 6-7 in the tiebreaker, before closing out Ram.
AS MORE CVs glitter with university degrees and straight A-grades, companies have devised a new tiebreaker for admission to the best jobs: the internship.
Hingis, a three-time singles champion at Melbourne Park, and Mirza dominated the first-set tiebreaker preceded by eight service breaks, four by each team.
Each player saved match points in the tiebreaker of an 82-minute third set, but Troicki's final winner left Dimitrov flat-footed at the net.
Entering Wednesday's action, Villanova sits three games ahead of second-place Butler with three contests remaining - although the Bulldogs hold the tiebreaker as of now.
The Frenchman, winner of three Grand Slam titles in doubles, saved the match points in the third-set tiebreaker at 6-5 and 7-6.
It's the only meeting between the two teams this season, and it could play out as the tiebreaker if these teams are equals come March.
If it is mathematically impossible for one champion to emerge through 25 rounds, officials will declare the speller with the highest tiebreaker score the winner.
Having removed voters from the picture, policy-making becomes a battle between conservative activists and liberal technocrats, with the business community often serving as tiebreaker.
That will almost surely lead to more defensive, cautious game plans from coaches, particularly since the tiebreaker among teams tied on points is goal difference.
She won five matches there, losing to top-seeded Karolina Pliskova, who is ranked 17th in the world, in two tiebreaker sets in a quarterfinal.
The deadline for repealing Obamacare through reconciliation -- meaning with just 50 votes and VP Pence as a tiebreaker -- is at the end of the month.
Both players struggled to hold serve throughout the second set and Halep saved a match point in her final service game before forcing a tiebreaker.
Cassel's numbers were somewhat worse than Brady's, but the team was still fairly successful, going 11-5 and missing a playoff berth on a tiebreaker.
Williams had fewer double faults (7-6), but the last one came at the worst possible moment: on match point in the second-set tiebreaker.
She had that great get in the tiebreaker and her average serve speed was 108 miles per hour, the same as it was against Halep.
Zimonjic and Yung-Jan Chan defeated the second-seeded Soares and Yaroslava Shvedova, 13-11, in a super tiebreaker in the mixed doubles quarterfinals Tuesday.
The American Jack Sock, seeded No. 23, had just lost a fourth-set tiebreaker to Robin Haase when play was called just after 6 p.m.
But Williams hit a forehand crosscourt winner on the run to tie it at 6-6, forcing the tiebreaker, which she won with another forehand.
Federer then faced match point again in the tiebreaker and came back to win that to force a fifth set, which he won 6–3.
So contentious the confirmation fight that for the first time in history the Vice President needed to use his tiebreaker vote on a cabinet nominee.
The win was the first time Querrey has come out on top in a third set tiebreaker this year after losing seven in a row.
Tiafoe missed wide on an open-court forehand by two inches that would have given him a 4-1 lead in a third-set tiebreaker.
Wimbledon officials sound increasingly open to the idea of a fifth-set tiebreaker — currently used only at the United States Open and in Davis Cup.
The United States Open is the only one of the four Grand Slam tournaments that uses a tiebreaker in the final set of singles matches.
The two remaining divisional battles for first place could each come down to a tiebreaker game, keeping the wild-card matchup up in the air.
He hit three double faults in the third-set tiebreaker, including one at 7-7 that gave Nadal a fifth set point, which he converted.
The outcome of their Week 14 game against the Los Angeles Chargers — one of the two presumptive wild cards — could be meaningful for tiebreaker purposes.
Barty and Vandeweghe's 8-6 triumph in the third-set tiebreaker gave them their second victory in four meetings this season against Babos and Mladenovic.
And Vandeweghe took control of her quarterfinal with Pliskova by winning the opening-set tiebreaker after saving a set point earlier in the 10th game.
Colombia beats Senegal, and advance from Group H. Japan also advances because of the sixth tiebreaker: "fair play," or number of red and yellow cards.
She fought back from a slow start to level the first set and then built a comfortable lead in the tiebreaker to close it out.
Johnson, who had trailed by 4-6 in the final tiebreaker, broke down in sobs after his final forehand winner — while Coric smashed his racket.
She had a lead throughout the tiebreaker until Venus scooted in front, 5-4, thanks to a backhand blunder from the youngest but burliest Williams.
Finally, at 6-5 in the tiebreaker, Monfils hit a return long off a 125-mile-per-hour serve, and Berrettini collapsed on the court.
She took a commanding lead, but Mertens clawed her way into a tiebreaker, which finally tipped in Williams's favor after it went to 7-7.
Rybakina saved set point late in the second set and then sailed through the tiebreaker to close out the win in two hours, 12 minutes.
After a 65-minute first set that Radwanska won in a tiebreaker, the second set went quickly as Jankovic struggled with an apparent back injury.
It's for anyone interested in first-rate ensemble acting and theater that keeps you on the edge of your seat as compellingly as any tiebreaker.
The tiebreaker goes to the better pass rush, which is more an exercise in theory than an actual practice with these two bottom-floor defenses.
Bigger challenges await in the second week here, but she has yet to lose a set in four matches, or be pushed to a tiebreaker.
If a senator or two fails to vote (doesn't show up, over sleeps...), does the simple majority go down to 49 votes needed for tiebreaker?
Assuming they win the White House (and thus the tiebreaker vote), Democrats will need to gain four seats this November to control the upper chamber.
The time on the clock when the third pan of biscuits goes into the oven is used as a tiebreaker—but that was also a tie.
The Trail Blazers can overtake the Rockets on a tiebreaker to finish third in the West with a win against the visiting Sacramento Kings on Wednesday.
After Fritz took a 2-0 lead in the tiebreaker, Schwartzman won five of the next six and squandered three set points before finally breaking through.
He rolled through a first-set tiebreaker against Wawrinka and seemed to be in good shape when he broke back to 3-4 in the second.
The Wildcats are tied for the conference lead with Oregon but the Ducks hold the tiebreaker edge by winning the lone meeting between the two teams.
The Canadian double-faulted again in the tiebreaker, this time at 5-4 up, but he held firm and won the contest with a trademark ace.
But in the second-set tiebreaker, Williams announced herself with two blistering return winners off Radwanska's first two serves and cruised to a 7-1 finish.
She eventually had to save two set points on her serve at 5-6 before taking command of her nerves and the match in the tiebreaker.
"You might want to give the spouse who makes less money a day more or a week more so the tiebreaker goes to them," he said.
I quietly seethe when I see that the current tiebreaker lumps regulation and overtime wins together when overtime wins are just as stupid as shootout wins.
Federer is attacking selectively but often on particularly significant points, and he saved a set point at 6-7 in the tiebreaker by serving and volleying.
In the second set, Querrey had a 6-1 lead in the tiebreaker before finally closing it out on his eighth set point at 11-9.
Shapovalov battled back after Nadal cruised through the first set, then erased a 3-0 deficit in the tiebreaker for the biggest victory of his career.
One possible tiebreaker: Ask your husband to make it a dads' day with the kids, and you can head to an air-conditioned movie or lunch.
Both the Islanders and Rangers have 23 points, but the Islanders own the tiebreaker by virtue of having two games remaining while the Rangers have one.
The Steelers won their third straight and seventh in the last eight to maintain a tiebreaker edge over Tennessee for the final AFC wild-card spot.
The Steelers won their third straight and seventh in the last eight to maintain a tiebreaker edge over Tennessee for the final AFC wild-card spot.
The Raptors own the head-to-head tiebreaker, meaning Washington must win its final two games and have Toronto drop its remaining games to finish third.
To me, the problem lies in how the tiebreaker works: A better goal difference (or a higher number of goals scored) is enough to go through.
The Warriors also earned a potential tiebreaker by virtue of their third straight win over the Nuggets after an October defeat, claiming the season series 3-453.
In the first four sets, if both players or teams are tied at six games a piece, a tiebreaker game will determine the winner of the set.
The top two teams earn a first-round bye in the playoffs and the Bears own the tiebreaker over the Rams thanks to their win last Sunday.
Even with the tiebreaker, and even if Tennessee wins one more SEC game than Florida the rest of the season, Florida still wins a downright awful division.
The result leaves the Chargers and Chiefs tied atop the AFC West with 93-29 records, though the Chiefs hold a tiebreaker with a better division mark.
Garin broke Querrey, who reached the event's final in 2010 and 2015, in the match's first game and took four points on Querrey's serve in the tiebreaker.
The Warriors also earned a potential tiebreaker by virtue of their third straight win over the Nuggets after an October defeat, claiming the season series 3-1.
All fell incomplete, and the Chargers blew an amazing chance to pull within one game of the Broncos (and clinch tiebreaker rights over them in the process).
Four times, Williams was a point from victory in the tiebreaker — at 20083-5, 7-6, 22007-26 and 24-26 — and could not close it out.
In the tiebreaker, a confident Osaka upped her baseline game and had two early mini breaks before wrapping up the match in two hours and 27 minutes.
The Raptors also are 211 1/2 games behind the Boston Celtics and should both teams finish with 51 wins, Toronto owns the head-to-head tiebreaker.
That would reduce the Liberals' seats to 42 in the legislature meaning votes would likely not result in a tiebreaker, as the Greens-NDP hold 44 seats.
Having dragged the second set into a tiebreaker which she edged, the battling Czech quickly switched gears and attacked her opponent relentlessly to prevail in the decider.
Thomson hit 32 in 1951, capped by his "Shot Heard Round the World" in a pennant-winning tiebreaker for the New York Giants against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Neymar penalty gave Barca a 5-1 lead and drew them level on aggregate, 5-5, with the away goal tiebreaker giving the lead to PSG.
Pouille survived a set point in the first-set tiebreaker, then was broken in the final game to lose the second set before cruising through the third.
At 6-5, the Bucs are just one game behind the Falcons, and the Bucs Week 1 win means the head-to-head tiebreaker is a wash.
Japan, in contrast, stumbled into the second round by virtue of having received fewer yellow cards than Senegal in Group H, a hitherto unseen World Cup tiebreaker.
Japan Drawn into a tough group, it beat Colombia and sneaked through on a tiebreaker, then went up 26-21 on Belgium before running out of gas.
In 2013, he started and earned a complete-game victory in a wild-card tiebreaker against the Texas Rangers, although that is considered a regular-season game.
He ended up losing in a lopsided third-set tiebreaker after serving for the title and holding three match points at 21-4 in the final set.
Tamika Catchings' Indiana Fever would've finished fifth, taking on the Atlanta Dream, who won a head-to-head tiebreaker with the Connecticut Sun, in the first round.
At 211-25 in the tiebreaker, she cracked a backhand winner down the line, clenching her first with a "Come on!" that would have made Serena proud.
The Bulldogs (20-11, 11-7 SEC) hold the tiebreaker over Florida by virtue of their 78-71 win over the Gators in Gainesville on Jan. 28.
It also ensured that the Dodgers would win the season series between the teams, meaning that a potential tiebreaker would take place here, and not in Denver.
Cilic wasted a 6-1 lead in the second-set tiebreaker and then fell apart with a series of errors under pressure from the big-serving Querrey.
A win would have bumped the Yankees' lead to five and a half games and also given them the tiebreaker by virtue of winning the season series.
Then the challenger, Sergey Karjakin of Russia, won a game, but Carlsen came back to win one of his own before retaining his crown in a tiebreaker.
But Federer — after recovering from a 13-21 deficit in the opening set to push Nishikori into a tiebreaker — was the more convincing server throughout the match.
The Bills are staring down a 17th consecutive year of playoff-free football, unless they win out and half of the conference acquiesces to their tiebreaker demands.
Mexican Open Stan Wawrinka squandered three match points before getting forced into a third-set tiebreaker, but he emerged with a first-round win in Acapulco, Mexico.
Kyrgios won that third-round match in Madrid in 2015, surviving a 14-12 third-set tiebreaker after the first two sets also were decided in tiebreakers.
Garin jumped ahead 6-2 in the tiebreaker to set up four match points, and he finally put away the match on the last of those four.
Kansas City moved into a first-place tie with Oakland (43-3) but holds the tiebreaker with wins in both games between the two teams this season.
Tsitsipas, 21, became the youngest champion at the year-end event since 2001, winning a back-and-forth title match that extended to a third-set tiebreaker.
Thiem fought back again from 1-4 down to 4-4 in the tiebreaker, but Tsitsipas closed out the match when Thiem smacked a service return wide.
Williams broke at love there, was better in the second tiebreaker, then surged ahead quickly in the final set with a break to lead by 2-0.
That is why a win on Friday night — preferably by a goal or two, to assuage any potential goal-differential-tiebreaker concerns — will relieve the pressure immensely.
The Lynx had to beat the Washington Mystics on Sunday to secure the top spot because the Sparks were a game behind them and held the tiebreaker.
His name was not chosen from a bowl; a fellow Republican's name was picked from the bowl in a tiebreaker, giving the party control of the House.
Nadal took a two-set-to-one lead after winning a third-set tiebreaker in typically combative fashion, pumping both arms and shouting after completing the task.
She lost the seat — and the chances for a Democratic House — in a tiebreaker, when a state election official pulled Mr. Yancey's name out of a bowl.
Every set of singles on Friday went to a tiebreaker, which would have made one wonder if it was written into the lucrative contracts if not for the intensity of the exchanges and expressions as Cilic beat Tiafoe, 7-6 (203), 7-6 (0), and Dominic Thiem rallied to defeat John Isner, 23-26 (27), 27-210 (27), and finally 23-22 in a third-set match tiebreaker.
The Nets are even with Orlando but own the head-the-head tiebreaker and would finish sixth with a win or if the Magic lose Wednesday at Charlotte.
The Titans took the second map, 3-2 on King's Row, swept Hanamura 2-0, and finished the series with a 2-0 tiebreaker sweep of Lijiang Tower.
Kudla interrupted the smooth sailing by fighting off three match points to break and even the second set at 5-5, but he ultimately fell in the tiebreaker.
Although the Stars hold the tiebreaker over St. Louis, Tuesday's contest could be a potential playoff preview with Nashville holding down the first wild card in the West.
Oregon enters the weekend a game back of the No. 4 Wildcats with two games left, and the Ducks own the tiebreaker after beating Arizona earlier this month.
There is no margin of error, particularly outside of the majors thanks to the WTA's no-ad scoring system and 10-point deciding set super tiebreaker in doubles.
After LaDue's tiebreaker, Alex Iafallo and Anze Kopitar added empty-net goals in the final two minutes to make the score more onesided than the game actually was.
They entered the game in the No. 5 spot in the Eastern Conference standings and clinched a tiebreaker over the Pistons, who began the game at No. 8.
Mexico's team fumed after WBC officials denied a protest and eliminated them while letting Venezuela move forward to a Pool D tiebreaker game against Italy on Monday night.
But this is where everything went haywire—the concept of a "defensive inning" was initially misunderstood; once it was corrected, Mexico actually lost the tiebreaker by a hair.
Earlier, world No.88 Sasnovich began her match strongly but allowed Sevastova to push the first set to a tiebreaker before regaining composure to secure the early advantage.
After falling behind 5-2 at the start and losing the first set in a tiebreaker, Berrettini pulled off a 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-33 win.
While Garin was rewarded for his never-say-die attitude, Chardy was his own worst enemy, issuing 13 double faults including two in the decisive third set tiebreaker.
And if the Mets and the Giants are the two wild-card teams, the Mets will own the tiebreaker because they won the season series between the clubs.
The Raptors secured the season series against the Heat for the second straight season, as well as a potential playoff tiebreaker should they finish with the same record.
Muguruza just could not master the former world No. 123 Jelena Jankovic, pushing her to a tiebreaker in the second set before losing, 6-4, 7-6 (2).
The Yankees started play with a two-and-a-half-game lead over Oakland to host next Wednesday's American League wild-card game, and they have the tiebreaker.
This year, for the first time, Roland Garros will be the only Grand Slam event that will not use some form of a tiebreaker in the final set.
Phil Kessel beat Islanders goalie Robin Lehner in the first round of the shootout, but Josh Bailey scored on the Islanders' third attempt to keep the tiebreaker going.
Currently, the Republican and Democratic state party chairs each nominate five people to the redistricting board, and the state Supreme Court selects someone to serve as the tiebreaker.
Washington won the teams' first meeting, and a season sweep — and, thus, the head-to-head tiebreaker — would effectively grant it a two-game advantage over the Cowboys.
The Washington Mystics and Tulsa Shock would have been sixth and seventh, with the tiebreaker, ironically, of record-versus-opposing-conference giving the home game to the Mystics.
Thomas Greiss finished with 28 saves through overtime and thwarted all four Florida attempts in the tiebreaker as the Islanders won for the third time in four games.
Sharapova, 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 tiebreaker.
But the French were more composed in the tiebreaker and earned three more match points after Dodig went long with a forehand, and Herbert produced a winning serve.
He saved all six break opportunities he conceded to Nadal in the first set, but Nadal took control of the tiebreaker under the closed roof on center court.
Svitolina just kept the ball in play and rallied from 3-5 down to send the contest into a tiebreaker, which the Dutchwoman edged after rediscovering her poise.
Dad saw Bucky Dent, the Yankee shortstop, hit his spike-through-the-heart home run to beat the Red Sox in a season ending tiebreaker game in 1978.
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.
The tiebreaker question, he suggested, was which man would be the most effective leader on the Court — the most capable of convincing his colleagues through persuasion and strategic thinking.
Second-seeded David Goffin of Belgium saved five set points in a second-set tiebreaker before emerging with a 221-213, 210-6 (9) win over Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik.
After a tense final set Yastremska dominated the tiebreaker to join Kiki Bertens, Karolina Pliskova and Petra Kvitova as the only women to have won two titles this year.
And once the grand finals started, the Japanese champ took three games from McLean in rapid succession, leaving the competitors facing the ultimate tiebreaker, one more first-to-three.
If Flake withheld his vote on the floor, Republicans would also likely have to use Vice President Mike Pence as a tiebreaker as judicial nominees come up for consideration.
Troicki stepped up his game and the second set was a much tighter affair but Muller saved the two break points he faced to take it to a tiebreaker.
Pliskova staved off three match points while serving at 4-5 in the third set, and she had a match point at 6-5 in the third-set tiebreaker.
The two teams split their regular-season matchups, but the Wolf Pack win the tiebreaker because they swept third-place Fresno State while the Aggies split with the Bulldogs.
Outside the Grand Slams, doubles matches feature no-ad scoring — at deuce, the next point decides the game — and a 10-point super tiebreaker instead of a third set.
At which point, Major League Baseball can only hope that a tiebreaker game is not also needed to sort out who plays whom in the A.L. wild-card game.
To break that streak, the rules have changed to introduce a written "Tiebreaker Test," which will be given to all spellers who remain in Thursday's finals at 290 p.m.
The Hokies are tied with North Carolina atop the division but own the head-to-head tiebreaker thanks to a 34-33 triumph at the Tar Heels on Oct.
They repeated the tiebreaker and Guerrero smacked two homers while Pederson connected on his first swing but then hit a liner and a grounder to end the epic battle.
The Cardinals were alive at the start of play on Sunday but needed a victory and a loss by the Giants to force a tiebreaker game with San Francisco.
Moments after coming off the court, he told the BBC that he believed there should be a fifth-set tiebreaker at Wimbledon, the French Open and the Australian Open.
But he was much more dangerous in the third set, as Djokovic fought off five set points on his own serve before taking command for good in the tiebreaker.
The last point of that tiebreaker was emblematic: Del Potro tried to open up the court with his forehand, but Djokovic read the shot beautifully and counterpunched it crosscourt.
Court proceedings were paused as a few dozen people gathered in the courthouse lobby, where a little area was cleared out, to watch the tiebreaker unfold, Ms. Griffin said.
Speaking on Wednesday, Mr. Farmer said he intended to respect the outcome of Thursday's tiebreaker and would work to attract business to the town whether he won or not.
The tiebreaker was introduced to Grand Slam tennis the following year at the 1970 United States Open, with red flags being flown courtside whenever a set reached 123-6.
Marquez last pitched on Monday in the 5-2 N.L. West tiebreaker loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, allowing four runs, two earned, in four and two-thirds innings.
It was the Impact's first real scoring opportunity, and it meant that the Red Bulls would need at least three goals to advance because of the away-goals tiebreaker.
Donskoy was a qualifier ranked No. 225 when he upset Federer by winning a third-set tiebreaker in the second round in the United Arab Emirates on March 13.
Bathel, a German, trailed 0-3 on a double break in the opening set but rallied to force a tiebreaker, staving off four set points before losing the set.
Wozniacki took a 3-0 lead to start before Halep reeled her in to force a tiebreaker that Wozniacki — playing aggressively, particularly down the line — was able to dominate.
Two hours and two sets in, they were even at one apiece, each via tiebreaker, with zero service breaks, only the very occasional extended point and aces by the dozen.
In singles, Williams got better as the tournament went along, taking the last 12 sets she played after dropping a tiebreaker to open her second-round match against Christina McHale.
The Miami Heat escaped from the tiebreaker scenario in the Eastern Conference at the top of the pack and will have homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
Winnipeg resides even in points atop the Central Division with Nashville (23-247-290), which posted a 3-2 win over Buffalo on Tuesday, but the Jets hold the tiebreaker.
The 33-year-old Kanepi easily won the tiebreaker as the frustration started showing on Halep, who also exited the Australian Open in the first round in 2016 and 2017.
She rallied from 3-1 down to win the first set in a tiebreaker and broke Shuai's serve twice in the second to claim victory in 21 hour, 258 minutes.
Mr. Van Vuuren claims in a statement filed with the court that he thought Mr. Chung had a tiebreaker vote only on investment decisions, not operational ones with the firm.
If the Mets finish tied with the Cardinals, and ahead of the Giants, it would become more complicated, with St. Louis holding the tiebreaker for now on hosting the game.
Day had to play in the girls' doubles final later that evening, and she and Caroline Dolehide lost to Jada Hart and Ena Shibahara, 22-11, in the final tiebreaker.
Its most heartbreaking near miss came in 2010, when it finished tied for first with Nottinghamshire with 214 points, but lost the title on a tiebreaker, having one fewer win.
The close battles raise the possibility that 33 games will not be enough to separate the teams and that a tiebreaker will be needed for the first time since 2013.
Despite the time off, Nadal was points away from reaching the gold medal match in Rio, losing in a third-set tiebreaker to Juan Martín del Potro in the semifinals.
Mark Ingram rushed for 85 yards and a touchdown for the Saints (9-3), who own the head-to-head tiebreaker over Carolina (8-4) with four games to go.
Nadal was able to compete through the end of the first-set tiebreaker, but in the second set, it was as if del Potro no longer had a real opponent.
For the third time in their last four matches, the outcome would be decided by a final-set tiebreaker, and though the match was close, the decisive phase was not.
He started strongly before losing the opening set in a tiebreaker, and then faded as Djokovic prevailed, 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-3, on his way to the title.
He saved a set point in the first set and stayed close to the Spaniard shot for shot into the tiebreaker, where he had two set points of his own.
But after a close tiebreaker, Nishikori took near total control, increasing the pace on his ground strokes and showing soft hands at the net; a quality his opponent couldn't replicate.
"I would be in favor of singles and doubles all going to two-of-three sets with no-ad scoring and a match tiebreaker for the third set," he said.
Tomic had a set point in the first-set tiebreaker at 7-6 on Isner's serve, but Isner won that point and the next two to close out the set.
However, Kerber dug in and broke Pavlyuchenkova's serve in the third game of the second set before the 29-year-old German forced a tiebreaker and stole the second set.
The Rockets are tied with the Utah Jazz for the No. 8 spot in the Western Conference but own the tiebreaker due to a better win percentage against conference opponents.
After needing five set points to finish off the first set, Haase required four match points in the second-set tiebreaker, including two on his own serve, before clinching victory.
In doing so, they earned not just a satisfying win but t he head-to head tiebreaker edge, which could matter in playoff seeding and, potentially, decide home-field advantage.
Because the GOP only has a 53-person majority in the Senate, any nominee needs at least 50 lawmakers, with Vice President Mike Pence as a tiebreaker, to get approved.
Vekic again held match point, at 6-5 and 20093-6, but Kuznetsova won on both times, ultimately taking the final three points of the tiebreaker to win it 9-7.
Third-seeded Roger Federer saved two match points in a third-set tiebreaker against Croatia's Borna Coric to advance to the quarterfinals of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome on Thursday.
Oklahoma City entered the game in sixth place, tied with the Utah Jazz but holding the tiebreaker, and just a half-game ahead of the San Antonio Spurs for eighth place.
Both teams are a half-game behind Navy in the division, although the Tigers own a tiebreaker edge on the Midshipmen by dint of a September win over them in Memphis.
He also moves well for a player his size, and he played a deeply convincing first set and then closed it out after Djokovic rallied from 2-5 in the tiebreaker.
The win moved St. Louis into a tie with Nashville for second place in the Central Division, with the Blues holding the first tiebreaker with three games remaining for both teams.
It gave Washington a victory in the season series 271-23 — which means the Wizards would get the tiebreaker if the teams end up with the same record at season's end.
Sports Briefing | Tennis Rafael Nadal survived a wild tiebreaker to beat Fernando Verdasco, 6-0, 7-6 (9), in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif.
Khachanov, a 63-year-old Russian who has a wicked serve and a solid baseline game, gave Nadal everything he could handle, including a severe test in a third-set tiebreaker.
Her average first- and second-serve speeds were superior to Williams's on Saturday, and she tried and failed to serve for the opening set before Williams eventually prevailed in a tiebreaker.
In command, he abruptly handed the controls to the grateful Daniel, failing to serve out the opening set at 5-3 and then going on to lose it in a tiebreaker.
The 32-year-old Frenchman was on the ropes with Bedene serving at 5-5 in the second-set tiebreaker, but he won the next three points to force the decider.
The hard-fought first set lasted exactly one hour, with Putintseva coming back from an early 1-24 deficit before ultimately winning a tiebreaker on an Osaka backhand that veered wide.
Similarly, the Chargers' fortunes did not change much — at least not yet — as they still trail the Chiefs in the A.F.C. West thanks to the tiebreaker of a better division record.
The showdown was with Vice President Mike Pence, present in the Senate in case he needed to cast a tiebreaker vote to give the "skinny" repeal bill a 51-vote majority.
The 33-year-old Ovechkin was skating to his right in the fourth round of the tiebreaker when Rangers goalie Alexandar Georgiev threw his stick at the puck, knocking it away.
Cecchinato pushed the set into another tiebreaker, where he saved three set points and Djokovic saved three match points — the first at 5-6 with a lunging angled backhand volley winner.
Federer was leading the tiebreaker, 4-3, and seemed to have the edge on a Zverev service point when a ball boy at the back of the court dropped a ball.
His most encouraging recent performance was in defeat against Djokovic in Paris, where he saved all 12 break points he faced before losing his way in the decisive third-set tiebreaker.
While the United States Open has had a final-set tiebreaker at 6-6 for decades, Wimbledon will, in a nod to tradition, put the finish line later: at 12-12.
When Wawrinka hit a reflex volley passing winner off a snappy exchange with both men at the net, he held a set point at 6-5 in the first-set tiebreaker.
Millman won on Federer's serve in the first point of the extended tiebreaker, which he then expanded to an 8-4 lead with the second of two whipping forehand passing shots.
Sock led by two breaks at 4-1 in the second set and later had two set points on his own serve in the marathon tiebreaker before conceding it to Thompson.
Xiyu Wang lost her serve at 24-33 in the second set, allowing her opponent a chance to serve for the set, but she broke right back and forced the tiebreaker.
The points grew longer in the fourth with both players refusing to yield and it was only in the tiebreaker that Wawrinka created a clear margin to force a deciding set.
They trail Pittsburgh for the second A.F.C. wild-card spot by a tiebreaker, and on Sunday, Tennessee's defense got into the act, showing some surprising firepower in a wild fourth quarter.
Thiem, a finalist against Nadal at the French Open the last two years, broke back and led by 6-5 in the third, but Tsitsipas held on to force a tiebreaker.
The legislation has yet to garner the 50 Republican votes needed for a tiebreaker by Vice President Pence, while Senate Democrats have blasted the bill and argued it will hurt Americans.
Boston is tied in points with the Red Wings for third place in the Atlantic Division, but Detroit owns the tiebreaker with one road game left at the New York Rangers.
Lundqvist stopped 244 shots through overtime and all three he faced in the tiebreaker, Mika Zibanejad scored in the shootout and the Rangers beat the Arizona Coyotes 2-1 Saturday night.
Citi Open Australia's Nick Kyrgios survived one match point and won four of the final five points in the third-set tiebreaker to outlast top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece 6-4, 24-21, 24-24 (26) and reach the final in Washington, D.C. Tsitsipas had recovered from 25-03 down in the decisive tiebreaker with five straight points, but Kyrgios held to even it at 20-25 and then won the next point on his serve.
The bee ended in a tie for three consecutive years from 2014-2016, but that almost certainly won&apost happen this year because the 16 finalists all took a written tiebreaker test.
Keys reached her first Grand Slam semifinal last year at the Australian Open, fended off two set points in the ninth game before coming back to win the first in a tiebreaker.
Before the super tiebreaker, Federer gave Zverev, 22, an expletive-laced speech, telling the youngster he needed to carry himself like a winner and to shed his defeatist attitude after losing points.
At this year's US Open, as Roger Federer played in a tiebreaker match, a spectator in a light blue "Aftab" T-shirt could be seen in the background of almost every shot.
It was tight in the fourth as Tsonga's physical presence kept him ahead on serve and he piled on the pressure with some superb forceful tennis to claim the tiebreaker 7-4.
If LSU is firmly ensconced on the bubble—if it comes down to RPI rankings and Ken Pomeroy's numbers and "good wins" versus "bad losses"—Simmons should serve as a potential tiebreaker.
"We lost, there's nothing we can really do about it right now," Bulls guard Jimmy Butler told reporters of his team, which holds the tiebreaker with both the Pacers and the Heat.
But they fell short after recounts and Thursday's tiebreaker in the race between Republican David Yancey and Democrat Shelly Simonds (both got 22019,608 votes) left the GOP hanging onto a bare majority.
Eubanks was broken in his first service game and trailed 3-0 before rallying to force a tiebreaker, then staved off four set points before claiming the set on his second chance.
Ward lost the first nine games of the match but thrilled the Centre Court crowd by pushing the second set into a tiebreaker before losing, 6-0, 7-6 (23), 6-4.
The win leaves the Falcons two games behind the New Orleans Saints in the NFC South and gives them the edge over the Seahawks should any tiebreaker between the two be necessary.
At stake was whether a school district could use race as a "tiebreaker" when assigning students to different campuses, as a way to achieve diversity and avoid what amounted to segregated schools.
He beat Nadal in Brisbane two weeks ago and had his chances on Wednesday too, blowing six set points against the Spaniard in the second stanza before losing it on the tiebreaker.
GOALS FOR PENGUINS STARS Evgeni Malkin scored twice, including the tiebreaker in the third period, and Sidney Crosby also had two goals to lead Pittsburgh to a 5-4 victory at Philadelphia.
Calgary Flames Current position: 9th in the West, tied with the Blues (57 points) but out of the playoffs on a tiebreaker What went wrong last year: Bob Hartley was the coach.
He missed three critical ones in the final tiebreaker, the most important at 6-6 on a ball struck well inside the baseline that ended up in the middle of the net.
The two teams ended up in a tie at the end of the season, and St. Louis then beat Brooklyn in a best-of-three-games tiebreaker for the National League pennant.
After dispatching the Rams (27-228), after throttling them in the first half and fending them off in the second, the Saints (20033-22003) now own the critical head-to-head tiebreaker.
Halep was so relaxed that she did not even realize she had saved a match point at 13-21 in the tiebreaker until she read about it on Twitter after the match.
After losing the set in a tiebreaker, he called the trainer out again, but when he struck a forehand early in the second set, he grimaced again and then shook his head.
The chamber was split, 31-31, between Democrats and Republicans, until this Harlem seat — the tiebreaker — was captured on Tuesday by a Democrat, Brian Benjamin, a 40-year-old affordable housing developer.
The Oklahoma City Thunder, owning a head-to-head tiebreaker against the Los Angeles Clippers, have a two-game lead with two to play and so will take the No. 3 seed.
The ill-timed slump has dropped the Blue Jackets under the playoff line, as the Carolina Hurricanes pulled ahead of Columbus on a tiebreaker for the final Eastern Conference wild-card position.
Gauff and Bertens each held serve in the first set, but Gauff dominated the tiebreaker, jumping out to a 6-1 lead on points before ending the set on a forehand winner.
When they faced off on a hardcourt in the quarterfinals of the United States Open in 26, Thiem pushed Nadal to a fifth-set tiebreaker before losing in 24 hours 26 minutes.
In the women's final, Halep rallied from a 2-0 deficit to win the first set, then drew a warning from the umpire during the second-set tiebreaker after kicking her racket.
Another tiebreaker looked inevitable when the break points dried up in the fourth set, and Dimitrov quickly took control before serving up a 195 kph bomb to send the contest into a decider.
After informing the contestants that the correct answer is actually the Channel Islands, host Alex Trebek immediately fired off the tiebreaker question, without even giving anyone a chance to let the shock settle.
The Timberwolves hold the head-to-head tiebreaker between the two teams, but there is still plenty to be decided between now and April 893, the final day of the NBA's regular season.
Minnesota holds the tiebreaker edge and currently possesses the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference, but the squads close the regular season against one another on April 11 in Minneapolis.
Veteran second baseman Chase Utley has homered in back-to-back games for the Dodgers, who clinched their fourth consecutive division title Sunday and hold the tiebreaker with Washington for home-field advantage.
Democrats picked up 15 GOP-held state House seats and fell just shy of an even split in the chamber after losing a tiebreaker that consisted of drawing a name from a bowl.
Neither player faced a break point in the opening set, and after taking the tiebreaker, Raonic made an intimidating start to the second by dropping just one point in the first three games.
It has the same points total as Atlético, but in Spanish soccer the first tiebreaker is the head-to-head between two teams, and Barcelona beat Atlético home and away earlier this season.
Mladenovic failed to close out the match on serve in the 10th game of the deciding set before dominating Barty in the tiebreaker to produce arguably the best singles victory of her career.
Down by 0-3 in the tiebreaker, Williams won four straight points, the fourth after a tremendous scrambling get and lob that rebooted a rally which she soon ended with a backhand winner.
But for now, the United States Open remains the only major that uses the fifth-set tiebreaker, although the Davis Cup, the sport's premier team competition, adopted it this season after 116 years.
He double-faulted to give Tsitsipas a match point at 6-5 but saved it with a fearless forehand down the line and repeated the feat to send the set into a tiebreaker.
Bertens failed to capitalize on four set points ahead of the second-set tiebreaker, but she pushed the match into a decisive third set with a return winner on her next set point.
They still trail Baltimore for the final playoff spot, by way of a conference record tiebreaker, but they have what qualifies as a fairly easy game next week at home against the Giants.
Sabalenka led 4-1 in the tiebreaker but surrendered her lead to a more measured Vandeweghe, who clinched the first set when the Belarusian blasted a forehand wide while going for a winner.
Federer said he enjoyed seeing members of the young generation square off against one another, particularly savoring the fourth-round match between Shapovalov and Tsitsipas, which was decided in a third-set tiebreaker.
The victory tied Dallas with the St. Louis Blues on points for first place in both the Central Division and the Western Conference, though the Blues still hold a tiebreaker over the Stars.
No. 17 Madison Keys of the United States lost to Camila Giorgi of Italy, who overcame a disheartening loss in the second-set tiebreaker to win, 6-4, 6-7 (63), 6-1.
I cast the tiebreaker for the Impero, because the Laroque sold out shortly after my review, and the 2018 vintage now on retail shelves costs an additional dollar because of the new tariffs.
A Japan win against Israel would guarantee the Netherlands a spot in the semifinals, while an Israel win would leave three teams at 2-1 and bring the tournament's tiebreaker rule into effect.
The Jets (46-30-4, 13) have dropped four of their last five games and are even in points atop the Central Division with Nashville (45-29-6), though Winnipeg holds the tiebreaker.
The first set was delicately poised in the tiebreaker when Azarenka took control, but Siegemund said she "took time out and I reset myself" in the break and regained control of the match.
Elsewhere in Trump's orbit: BETSY'S OFF: Betsy DeVos became the first Cabinet nominee to need a vice presidential tiebreaker, but she ultimately was confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of Education.
Stephens, the 2017 U.S. Open winner, started strongly by gaining a 4-1 advantage but her Russian opponent got the break back before the 25-year-old American won the set via a tiebreaker.
The discrepancy in the number of games played will be ironed out by the end of the season, and the Hokies do hold a potential tiebreaker by virtue of their win over North Carolina.
One of the 2016 Championship Four drivers, Carl Edwards, tied Stewart in the 2011 season-ending point standings, but Stewart was crowned champion for the third and final time by virtue of a tiebreaker.
Pliskova, who had never before reached the second week of a slam, had a harder time, completing a Williams 'double' by beating older sister Venus in a third-set tiebreaker in the fourth round.
Kyrgios appeared in control when he raced out to a 5-1 lead in the third set tiebreaker with a blistering cross-court forehand but Tsitsipas battled back to get to a match point.
But after Keys hit one of her best forehands to pull even in the tiebreaker at 5-5, Williams eked out the next two points, and she quickly pulled ahead in the second set.
There was a memorable moment during Wimbledon last summer, for instance, when Novak Djokovic — after losing a tiebreaker to Roger Federer in the men's final — tried, and failed, to rip off his own shirt.
The Broncos not only slipped to 7-4 and third place in their division, but they also fell out of a playoff berth and are now behind the Dolphins on a tiebreaker: conference record.
The 17th-seeded Pouille saved two match points in the third-set tiebreaker before forcing a decider, but Novak regrouped to reach the third round of a Grand Slam event for the first time.
The Australian Open, which begins on Monday, will use a best-of-18-point tiebreaker at 6-6 in deciding sets, which are third sets for the women and fifth sets for the men.
The doubles match came down to a third-set tiebreaker, and though Khachanov and Rublev jumped out to a 27-26 lead, Pospisil came up with two fine first serves to stop Russia's momentum.
Federer expected to wake up Friday morning feeling somewhat the worse for wear after his escape against No. 10 seeded Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinals Thursday, which also went to a third-set tiebreaker.
She went on to break Rogers in that game and then really turned on the pressure in their tiebreaker, pounding the ball on her groundstrokes as she discovered what she described as inner determination.
White Sox 03, Cubs 3 Matt Davidson homered and knocked in two runs, including the tiebreaker, as the visiting Chicago White Sox avoided a series sweep at the hands of their cross-town rival.
Kyrgios won the first on clay in 213 in a second-round match in Madrid, 21-221 (221), 213-221 (22003), 222-6 (12), after saving two match points in the third-set tiebreaker.
The Bulls have an easier schedule over the final stretch, the Heat own the tiebreaker over Indiana and the Pacers are still down two key backups — center Al Jefferson and forward Glenn Robinson III.
Schnur saved five match points and appeared to have a match point of his own when he served what seemed to be an ace at 7-7 in the tiebreaker of the decisive set.
The Hawks own the tiebreaker but just lost Paul Millsap and Kent Bazemore to what they hope are short-term injuries, and the Raptors are in good shape to finish in the top four.
In the even quicker "blitz" format, which was slated to be the second tiebreaker had the competitors drawn even after four rapid games, the draw rate is lower still, at 34% of elite-level games.
After playing a remarkable tiebreaker to take a two-sets-to-one lead, Raonic was treated off court after the third game of the fourth set and then was broken at love at 3-3.
He had points for a 4-0 and 5-1 lead but allowed world number five Zverev to hit back and win the opening set on a tiebreaker, sealing it with a sublime backhand pass.
Which is an appropriate point to reveal that the tiebreaker in Competitive Meditation is "Muse points," which the Muse app calculates based on how long your brain spends in its Calm, Neutral, and Active zones.
The tiebreaker looked at the percentages of seniors who took and passed AP exams in at least four different subject areas – which showed how well students were prepared for college across a variety of disciplines.
Venezuela thought its WBC was over, and the WBC even fired off a tweet (since deleted) saying that Mexico had survived because of an edge with a mathematical tiebreaker: team runs allowed per defensive inning.
He won on his fifth match point, but Nishikori was not fussed - the first four came after he had galloped to a 6-0 lead in the third-set tiebreaker which he won 7-4.
Yelich finished with two hits, two RBIs and two runs for the Brewers, who finished the regular season with eight consecutive wins, including a victory over the Chicago Cubs in an NL Central tiebreaker Monday.
The 22-year-old benefited from a fortunate bounce on match point in the third set tiebreaker when Chardy's forehand caught the net cord and was redirected out of bounds, ending the three hour affair.
There have been 14 tiebreaker playoffs in baseball, beginning in 1946 when the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in what was then a best-of-three series to take the National League pennant.
Lokomotiv, who forced the tiebreaker with a stunning Game 4 overtime win in Barcelona on Thursday, came out on top in a roller-coaster contest after outscoring Barcelona 23-5 in a sizzling fourth quarter.
Proceedings looked destined to go to a tiebreaker until a series of unforced errors by Halep - who notched up 21 in the first set - in her final service game allowed Svitolina to claim the set.
The teenager's quixotic bid looked doomed in the third set tiebreaker when he fell 3-0 behind but the world number 143 refused to buckle and only coughed up one more point in the decider.
The Ravens are a game behind, but they have a head-to-head win in hand; if they can go into Pittsburgh and defeat the Steelers, they'll pull level and go ahead on the tiebreaker.
He has nine since June, defeating Federer, Nadal, Del Potro and Alexander Zverev, and beating Kevin Anderson twice (Anderson had to settle for a victory in the Laver Cup team event in a super tiebreaker).
If the Cubs and the Brewers are tied after Sunday's games, the Cubs will host a tiebreaker game on Monday to determine who wins the division and who hosts the wild-card game on Tuesday.
The ninth, however, proved costly: On Nadal's first match point, at 6-5 in the tiebreaker, Thiem misjudged an overhead smash, sending it into the back wall to end the match at 2:03 a.m.
Even with a victory, Thailand could no longer finish among the top four third-place teams in the 24-team field, given the tournament's primary tiebreaker of the difference between goals scored and goals allowed.
He squandered five break points in the second set and then had match points at 8-7 and 10-9 in the tiebreaker before Thiem forced the deciding set by converting his sixth set point.
The fourth was even as can be until Wawrinka stepped up in the tiebreaker by winning its final three points, the last with a run-around forehand return winner delivered from outside the doubles alley.
Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic had a tougher time against China's Xun Fang-Ying, saving four straight match points in a deciding tiebreaker before claiming the 6-3, 2-6, 63-6 (6) win.
Bolelli produced a drop volley winner for a 6-3 lead in the tiebreaker, but Nadal discarded that trio of set points with an ace, a backhand volley winner and an inside-out forehand winner.
Federer, who likes things neat and tidy, kept it simple, closing out a 4-6, 7-6 (6) [11-9] victory after fighting off a match point at 8-9 in the decisive match tiebreaker.
Friday's third-round win against local hope John Millman, when the 20-times Grand Slam champion won six straight points from 8-4 down in the final set tiebreaker, was touted as the great escape.
Despite temperatures soaring to 38 degrees Celsius (100F), the American kept her cool to win four straight points in the tiebreaker, saved two set points and converted her first to stun the crowd into silence.
Hours after Williams and the reigning Australian Open champion, Naomi Osaka, suffered stunning defeats (Osaka lost to the teen phenom Coco Gauff), Roger Federer rallied in a gripping tiebreaker to reach the fourth round. 9.
Osaka bounced Gauff routinely, Williams was denied history, Dimitrov sputtered after his statement win against Roger Federer, Monfils lost in a heartbreaking fifth-set tiebreaker, and Townsend looked gassed in her final set against Andreescu.
In 503, control of the state House memorably came down to one race in Newport News when the Republican incumbent kept his seat after a tiebreaker in which his name was drawn from a bowl.
The loser of that contest will play host to the NL wild-card game on Tuesday against the Los Angeles Dodgers or the Colorado Rockies, who play a tiebreaker Monday to determine the NL West champion.
The win moved St. Louis (22-22-219, 213 points) into a tie with Nashville for second place in the Central Division, with the Blues holding the first tiebreaker with three games remaining for both teams.
The Chicago Cubs (221-67) and Milwaukee Brewers (95-67) will meet Monday in a tiebreaker for the NL Central title, with the loser playing host to Los Angeles or Colorado in the wild-card game.
That also looked like going to a tiebreaker until Kyrgios pounced when leading 6-5 on serve, taking advantage of an uncharacteristically nervous service game from the former world number one to claim three match points.
While the Vikings hold the tiebreaker over Philadelphia for home field throughout the playoffs, coach Mike Zimmer is more concerned with the immediate task at hand against an opponent also in contention for a division title.
With the four more conservative justices likely to vote on the side of Masterpiece Cakeshop and the four more liberal justices likely to vote against the bakery, Kennedy stands in the middle as the potential tiebreaker.
The United States Open's fifth-set tiebreaker comes at 6-6, but the best compromise for the other three Slams might be 9-16 rather than the 12-12 that Anderson, Isner and others have suggested.
After winning the fourth in a tiebreaker, this time drawing an error from Nadal at the net, Thiem found his bearings in the forecourt in the final set, winning seven of his first eight forays forward.
The so-called Big Three have moved through this French Open with considerable ease through four rounds, dropping only one set (Rafael Nadal) between them and only once needing a tiebreaker to win a set (Federer).
The victory gave the Panthers the same record as the Saints (New Orleans still leads the N.F.C. South via a tiebreaker) and added some intrigue to the final weeks of the season in that competitive division.
Zverev then followed up the unusual interruption caused by the ball boy to establish a 5-4 lead in the second-set tiebreaker, and Federer then netted the simplest of forehand volleys to summon match point.
Isner and Anderson called for the introduction of a final-set tiebreaker after their semifinal this year, and Anderson had already upset Federer in a quarterfinal match that stretched to 13-11 in the final set.
Dunbar started lobbing back, yielding a two-set match that lasted more than six hours and culminated with a record-setting 643-shot, 29-minute rally when Hepner had set point during a second-set tiebreaker.
He held and went on to win the 62-minute first set by dominating the tiebreaker, closing it out by hitting a winner off a fine Federer drop shot and then nailing a backhand return winner.
Though Gauff rallied to win the first set in a tiebreaker, Kenin, the No. 27 seed, shrugged off that setback and systematically imposed her will and patterns to win, 20203-22020 (210), 225-3, 6-0.
The suspense never approached the high-anxiety levels of last year's Wimbledon final, when Djokovic beat Federer in a tiebreaker after they won 12 games each in the fifth set, a first for a Wimbledon final.
His jabby double-handed backhand, delivered with almost no backswing, gave him the first mini-break in the first set tiebreaker, and he followed that with a backhand passing shot off a low skidding Lopez approach.
It has been more than three decades since the last vice-presidential tiebreaker on a presidential nomination — settling a deadlock over a nominee who, like Ms. DeVos, had become the subject of a bitter political fight.
For example, if the tiebreaker was decided by a random draw, where the team with the better goal difference has a 90 percent chance of going through, while the other team has a 10 percent chance.
Of course, no one thinks Jimmy Butler is twice as valuable as Paul George—even if you think he's the better of the two—but as a tiebreaker, it doesn't bode well for the Pacers star.
The DNC's debate rules set the maximum number of candidates for the debate double-header at 20, and if he'd qualified with one of the criteria then he and others would have gone to a tiebreaker.
The pair were now slugging it out on the baseline and after both held serve through to a tiebreaker, Kerber kept her nerve in the face of some tremendous pressure to edge ahead in the thrilling encounter.
He saved three match points to break back to 21-26, then went on to dominate the decisive tiebreaker and stop Federer's 363-match winning streak with a 236-26, 211-7 (8), 7-6 (2) victory.
Vondrousova, ranked 22017th, was down triple set point at 214-217 in the first set before reeling off 12 of the next 13 points to dig out of the deficit and run away with the ensuing tiebreaker.
Nishikori was trailing by 8-5 in the fifth-set tiebreaker when a Carreno Busta shot clipped the net, and Nishikori reset to hit a backhand down the line after the ball landed near the doubles alley.
While Carlsen, 27, and Caruana, 26, are closely matched in longer conventional chess games, known as classical chess, Carlsen had been considered the favorite in the tiebreaker because he has had better rapid chess results than Caruana.
Each match is best-of-three sets but the third set will be a super-tiebreaker, which could lead to more upsets and could help a huge server like Querrey, or his teammates John Isner and Kyrgios.
After a tight first set, during which Serena had seven double faults and gave away a set point and the lead in the tiebreaker with errors, Venus pulled away for a 1-211 (4), 6-1 win.
While Nadal and Schwartzman struggled on Court Philippe Chatrier, third-seeded Marin Cilic and fifth-seeded Juan Martín del Potro were deadlocked, 5-5, in a first-set tiebreaker in the other quarterfinal on Court Suzanne Lenglen.
She was down by 3-6, 1-5 in her quarterfinal against the No. 5 seed, Elina Svitolina, and saved a match point at 5-6 in the second-set tiebreaker before sweeping through the third set.
He also said Wimbledon should abandon the win-by-two rule in the fifth set and just play a tiebreaker instead (Müller defeated Nadal, 15-13, in a fifth set that took 2 hours and 15 minutes).
This month, he reached the quarterfinals on the clay of Roland Garros, even though that is his least favorite surface, and he lost in the Queen's final in a third-set tiebreaker to the resurgent Feliciano Lopez.
MONTREAL — Troy Terry scored the lone shootout goal, Tyler Parsons stopped all five shots he faced in the tiebreaker, and the United States outlasted Canada, 5-4, on Thursday night to win the world junior hockey title.
Miami went 30-11 in the second half of the season, missing a playoff berth only because the Chicago Bulls owned the tiebreaker, and Dragic said that the Heat, if healthy, could make a run next season.
Though he proved himself to be a veritable Houdini in escaping Mr Carlsen's pincer binds, the fourth and final tiebreaker forced Mr Karjakin in the unfamiliar territory of having to play for a win rather than a draw.
The 28-year-old served for the match at 5-4 in the second set, but Cilic, the Australian Open runner-up, roared back to save three match points and went on to claim the tiebreaker in style.
The Tar Heels (7-943, 5-1 in the ACC) entered the game tied with Virginia Tech, which played later at Duke, for first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coastal Division, although the Hokies own the tiebreaker.
Perhaps, as some speculate, because Carlsen knew that his chances for a win were that much greater in the rapid chess tiebreaker matches, because he had much more experience in that faster mode of play than Caruana did.
Not only are they 1.5 games back of Boston (they own a 2-503 season-series lead with one more matchup to go, for tiebreaker purposes), they're also just 1.5 games up on the fifth-place Atlanta Hawks.
Fresh off his title on Sunday in Gstaad, Switzerland, Ramos-Vinolas fought off two set points before losing the first-set tiebreaker, then squandered five set points in the second set before clinching it to level the match.
Of the 60 senators who supported the fast-track bill last year, at least five have now come out against T.P.P. It will need at least 50 votes, assuming Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is the tiebreaker.
In theory, the Mets could play four games in three cities in four nights: Sunday at Philadelphia (regular season), Monday at St. Louis and Tuesday at San Francisco (tiebreaker games), and Wednesday at St. Louis (wild-card game).
At the end of the previous half-hour, Tom James successfully executed his plan to prevent the House of Representatives from giving either President Meyer or Senator Bill O'Brien a majority of votes in an unprecedented election tiebreaker.
Fellow tournament wild card Riske looked poised to send the match to a third set when she was serving on 13-3 and 15-0 in the second set but Sharapova upped her game to force a tiebreaker.
The first player to win six games (or more, in a tiebreaker) has taken the set; whichever player wins the most sets (usually either two of three or three of five) has won the match — GAME SET MATCH.
After breaking back in the next game and winning a second-set tiebreaker, the top-seeded Osaka overcame her nerves and negative emotions to defeat Schmiedlova, 0-223, 23-20 (24), 24-25, and avoid a crushing defeat.
With Keys sitting on a set point at 7-6 in the tiebreaker, Giorgi fell down, got up to make a slice backhand, then ripped a backhand cross court past Keys, who was left motionless at the net.
Team Italy was already in its clubhouse, preparing for the start of the Monday night tiebreaker game, which Venezuela won, 215-3, to join undefeated Puerto Rico as the two teams to advance from Pool D. Team Mexico?
New Orleans still owns a tiebreaker over Carolina based on head-to-head record, so for the Panthers to win the South, they will need to beat Atlanta next week and have New Orleans lose to Tampa Bay.
But it's all likely going to come down to the Week 16 game between these two teams; since the Ravens won the first round they can claw back with a win and potentially go ahead on the tiebreaker.
Should they lose it, the Vikings would split the season series with Packers and lose on the divisional-record tiebreaker (the Vikings would get to 2-4 at best, the Packers would be no worse than 3-21).
If Republicans retain control of both branches of Congress in 2018 — even if by just one vote in the House and a 50-50 split (with Vice President Pence the tiebreaker) in the Senate — Trump will claim vindication.
This is the only meeting between the Badgers and Boilermakers which puts even more importance on the outcome in case the two teams end up in a tie in Big Ten play with the victor holding any potential tiebreaker.
Wozniacki has never progressed beyond the quarter-finals in Sydney and she appeared to be heading for a straight-sets defeat when Strycova claimed the opener and raced to a 5-0 lead in the tiebreaker of the next.
Connors had destroyed Bjorn Borg in the final that year, as Ashe reminded me after seating himself close by while Connors chased Krickstein, 28 years his junior, across the evening shadows to emerge with a fifth-set tiebreaker victory.
World number two Murray let his commanding lead evaporate on a warm, windy day at Indian Wells and needed to break the Argentine left-hander in the 12th game just to force the tiebreaker, which Delbonis won 7-3.
Yet P.S.G. struggled at the Parc des Princes last week, wasting numerous chances in attack and opening itself up to a late equalizing goal that gave City the edge coming here because away goals serve as the aggregate tiebreaker.
He continues to roll and on Sunday in the second-round match that followed Djokovic's, he finished off his two-day 217-214, 7-6 (6) victory over Federico Delbonis, saving a set point in the second-set tiebreaker.
The match was on the big Argentine's racket in the second-set tiebreaker, but he sent his staple shot — an inside-out forehand — into the net on match point, and Federer took the hint to force a third set.
Voters had rendered a split decision, handing the executive to Mr. Obama in 473 and the Senate to Mr. McConnell two years later, the majority leader argued; therefore, the tiebreaker would go to the winner of the 247 campaign.
The Australian Open changed formats this year to allow for a super-tiebreaker (the first to reach 21970 points by a margin of two) at 280-19843 in the fifth set for men and the third set for women.
Zverev's nerves were severely tested as he suffered his first minibreak in the fourth set tiebreaker with a massive fault on his second serve and then hit anther horrendous overhead volley that missed the lines by a few meters.
At the end of the day, based on the scientific evidence I've seen, weighed against the credibility of opposing counterarguments, with Pascal's Wager thrown in as a tiebreaker, the need and urgency for righteous behavior is a no-brainer.
That single break gave the unseeded 25-year-old a perfect start to the match and even though the older American broke back, Vandeweghe raced through the tiebreaker to take the first set of the tournament off her compatriot.
The Chargers, the fifth seed because they lost the tiebreaker for the A.F.C. West division title with the Chiefs, would probably be the most feared team in the conference if they had earned home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
But the Titans, who moved into the A.F.C.'s second wild-card spot despite losing to New Orleans on Sunday, will have what amounts to a play-in game against the Texans, as they hold a tiebreaker over Pittsburgh.
He lost the final to Albot in a third-set tiebreaker despite holding three match points, but his ranking is up to No. 100 as he begins the qualifying tournament for the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif.
Toronto has more upward mobility than downward right now (it owns the tiebreaker against Washington, too), even if Kyle Lowry is still set to miss another week or two (or three; the team's been very quiet on timeline details).
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Belgium's David Goffin retained his Kooyong Classic title in almost farcical circumstances on Friday when he beat Ivo Karlovic 7-2 in a tiebreaker after the final of the Australian warm-up was reduced to a one-set shootout.
Tata Open Maharashtra Jiri Vesely hammered 28 aces and saved four match points in the third-set tiebreaker while outlasting Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis 6-7 (43), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7) to reach the championship match in Pune, India.
Verdasco, who reached the Miami quarter-finals in 2009 and 2010, rallied from a 3-27 deficit in the third set and again from 25-210 down in the decisive tiebreaker before prevailing in a match that lasted nearly three hours.
On a night when P.S.G. dominated much of the game, winning by a single goal — and, perhaps more important, allowing Chelsea to score an away goal, which serves as a tiebreaker in this tournament — felt like something less than complete satisfaction.
The Hurricanes and Canadiens both won on Tuesday, thrusting Carolina into the first wild-card spot with 95 points and pulling Montreal even with Columbus at 94 points, though the Blue Jackets hold the tiebreaker for the second wild card.

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