In an echo of last year's Olympic final on the same court, the crowd chanted his name at the end, a rather clinching public embrace for an SW19 audience that has, in the past, been rather more muted in its affections.
Rather, it clinches the slow unraveling of a party whose passing is met with genuine regret.
The only disadvantage they could not overcome Wednesday was the 2,700-mile 2,700-mileo Philadistance where toey would rather have clinched.
Rather, he clinched a tie with Australian Owen Wright, who is second in the rankings, and if for some reason Slater doesn't win another heat in either the Rip Curl Pro Search San Francisco or next month's Billabong Pipe Masters and Wright goes on to win both events, Slater and Wright would be tied and have to meet in a "Surf Off" to determine who exactly is the 2011 ASP World Champion.
Display ads tend to be more complex than search ads and are designed primarily to enhance a company's brand rather than to clinch a sale.
The thinking is Carroll, believing the Seahawks would have no problem gaining the one yard they needed to clinch the championship, would rather have boy-wonder Russell Wilson been the Super Bowl hero than media-averse Lynch.
Similarly, the international trade minister, Liam Fox, drew fire when he said British business had grown "fat and lazy" and company executives would rather play golf than get out and clinch the new export deals the country will need.
He also must clinch his plan to name his own successor, rather than have that right snatched away by a disenchanted board.
The Obama administration's decision to focus on clinching deals rather than delivering messages was perhaps most evident in the announcement by Mr. Obama and Mr. Putin that they would create a working group on improving trade and investment to be led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev.
Rather than make a concession speech, despite Barack Obama's clear triumph in winning the votes needed to clinch the nomination, Clinton told supporters at Baruch College in New York City that she needed a few days to consider her options.
