Sentence examples for lead a singleton from inspiring English sources

You lead a singleton club.

(West was unlikely to lead a singleton club queen with only one trump).

If West is known to be relatively inexperienced, he might lead a singleton but would be unlikely to lead from a queen.

If West had led a singleton spade, discarding a spade was a guaranteed play.

Or had he led a singleton trump, in principle a poor choice against a slam?

Now South knows that something improbable has happened: either West led a singleton, or he led from a doubleton queen.

This looked like a making contract, but the opener led a singleton spade.

East, correctly deducing that his partner must have led a singleton, returned the spade deuce, his lowest remaining spade being a suit-preference signal for clubs.

But not willing to bank everything on favorable breaks and thinking that West would have led a singleton if she had one, declarer won with dummy's spade ace and called for a club.

And since she could see the deuce and trey of diamonds on the board, South concluded that West had led a singleton or from a five-card suit, and that a diamond ruff was threatened.

(East knew that his partner had led a singleton or from doubleton six-deuce or from J-8-6, so there was no point in putting up his queen. He played the seven as the most deceptive card).