Sentence examples for rubber against from inspiring English sources

Lancaster's side face a testing week of scrutiny ahead of their final Pool A match, a dead rubber against Uruguay.

All of them were "live" rubbers and victory was secured in all four of Britain's ties when Murray won his second singles rubber against his opposing No 1.

The 23-year-old is at a new career-high ranking of 149 and will play Friday's second singles rubber against Croatian number one Ivan Dodig, ranked 35.

Rafael Benitez has vowed to take Liverpool back into the Champions League as they prepare for the embarrassment of a dead rubber against Fiorentina tomorrow.

He then gave him 20 minutes as substitute in the dead rubber against West Germany, a gesture of the richest humanity.

Pekerman gave him a start in the following match, a dead rubber against Holland with the Albiceleste already through to the last 16.

The tournament's hosts still had one more game to play, a dead-rubber against Uruguay, which they won 60-3.

Like Woakes, the spin-bowling all-rounder Mooen Ali missed Friday's dead-rubber against Afghanistan with a side strain but is expected to be named.

Martínez gave seven academy players a taste of first-team football in the Europa League dead-rubber against Krasnodar in December but, with the exception of the senior squad members Luke Garbutt and Tyias Browning, he sees no benefit in blooding them in the Premier League before the end of the season.

The hammer was Milos Raonic, who pounded a total of 60 aces indoors in Vancouver as he won both of his singles rubbers — against Fabio Fognini on Friday and Andreas Seppi on Sunday — on one of the quickest courts in professional tennis.

He won decisive fifth rubbers against France and Argentina and survived a statistical marvel of an opening match with the Croatian giant Ivo Karlovic in the semifinals, a match in which Karlovic served a record 78 aces and still lost 14-16 in the fifth set after five hours and 59 minutes.