Definition of tiebreak
: tiebreaker
- a tennis tiebreak
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Preda and Haygood not only lost the first set, but faced deficits of 4-5 and 5-6 in set two before forcing the tiebreak.
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Boys’ tennis Martha’s Vineyard 5, Barnstable 0 — Max Potter defeated Barnstable’s Trevor Blaze, 3-6, 6-4, 10-2, in a third set tiebreak.
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None of the sets have gone to a tiebreak and just one required Nadal to win seven games (that came against the lone qualifier he's played during that stretch, Martin Klizan).
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One of the few instances of that came in the first set tiebreak.
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Isner notched 13 aces in his win over Isner, eight coming in the second set, including two that topped 130 mph and forced the tiebreak.
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Even a split would ensure the two teams could do no worse than a tiebreak.
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Mason last won Flight A in 2014 – tying the Aviators at 270 before ultimately pulling out the win via tiebreak.
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Borg lost the tiebreak and the set, but won the anticlimactic fifth set to secure his fifth consecutive Wimbledon title.
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First Known Use of tiebreak
1970
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