Sentence examples for earned the advantage from inspiring English sources

Agassi had earned the advantage with his supreme conditioning efforts, and he was not about to let it go.

Federer finally gets a volley right to earn the advantage and then holds as Nadal hits long.

Sharapova is reprieved when Bouchard misses a rare backhand and she then wrongfoots Bouchard to earn the advantage, before a slow but well-placed serve seals an important hold.

After drawing laughs, Pitino said that North Carolina had earned the homecourt advantage -- whether Williams admitted he had it or not.

This year they finally earned the home-court advantage, but they also had to face the Lakers.

The Thunder earned the home-court advantage in this series with a 47-19 regular-season record (the third best in the league) and by grinding through the most grueling possible path to the finals.

The early, intense collaboration with the research groups of R. R. Ernst[ 41, 42] (see Figure 3) and K. Wüthrich[ 43, 44] at the ETH in Zurich earned the company pivotal advantages.

It is fair to say that the Consequence Argument earned the incompatibilists the dialectical advantage.

Saracens earned the right to home advantage for Sunday's match by finishing top of the Premiership table in the regular season, and they are unbeaten at their new home in Barnet.

The victory increased the MetroStars' chances of earning the home-field advantage in the first round of the Major League Soccer playoffs.

The MetroStars may not earn a trophy as a team this season, especially if they fail to earn the home-field advantage in the first round of the Major League Soccer playoffs, but they may have the rookie of the year, something they have never had.