Word: tiebreaks
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...unable to get her solid first serve over consistently, and the Tar Heels took advantage, capturing the game and then holding serve to go up 8-7. Anderson served the Crimson to a win in the next game, evening the score at eight. That sent the match into a tiebreak, which Long and Anundsen pulled out by a 7-4 tally, ending Harvard’s title hopes. “I’m pretty satisfied [with the fall season],” O’Riain said. “It is a bit disappointing...
...good wins on top of that, it can only help to propel her onward into the spring.” Junior Cindy Chu made it to the finals of the consolation Flight A singles bracket of the tournament. Chu defeated Princeton’s Joanna Roth in a semifinal tiebreak, but could not get past Angela DiPastina of Ohio State in the final. The team of Chu and freshman Catriona Stewart was the Crimson’s only entrant in the doubles draw. The pair, seeded no. 2, advanced to the semifinals before again running into Ohio State. DiPastina...
...Wednesday, 25-year-old James pushed crowd favorite Andre Agassi to a fifth-set tiebreak before losing in the quarterfinal round of the U.S. Open. It capped a spellbinding week and a half that saw James officially emerge on the tennis scene after years of middling results...
Which is why Blake smiled for that moment before the tiebreak, when the scoreboard knotted with sixes and threes. He surely wasn’t smiling after he squandered his 3-0 mini-break, and when Agassi planted that forehand in the corner and clinched a spot in the semifinal, Blake’s heart did drop...
Blake broke for 3-2 in the fifth set, but when he served for the match at 5-4, Agassi evened the count, bringing the crowd to its feet again with four consecutive points. It was more of the same in the tiebreak, when Blake went up 3-1, 4-3 and 5-4 before succumbing to Agassi’s groundstrokes...