Sentence examples for empty courts from inspiring English sources

Around me, a vast expanse of empty courts.

Li puts away a backhand into the empty court to take two break points.

More timeouts while one guy shoots a free throw on an empty court.

And many of those who really like the sport don't take chances on finding an empty court.

Especially when a hurricane looms, and events are delayed, the news media doesn't stand down; it keeps smacking the ball onto an empty court.

At least one spectator who sat at a nearly empty court to watch the final qualifying matches wore a fur-trimmed hood.

Gulbis gets it back, Federer smashes to the backhand corner, Gulbis stays where he is, and passes a winner down the line into an empty court.

Jo Ball, 47, from Sunbury, south-west of London, wearing a straw hat with a union flag tied around the brim, was ruefully watching the screen – now showing an empty court – as her friend packed up their picnic things.

She arrived from Rome – where Williams dropped out early to protect her minor injury – and enjoyed the serenity of an empty Court Philippe Chatrier to begin preparing for the defence of her title.

Now Nadal is making a couple more errors to hand Dimitrov 0-30 on serve, before producing a great wide serve before wrong-footing his opponent to play through the empty court.

He hit long to surrender break point, double-faulted with a shaking left arm for another and Goffin made sure of the break with a smash to an empty court for a 2-1 lead just short of the hour.