Sentence examples for serve proving from inspiring English sources

With the exception of a scrappy game at the beginning of the second set she dominated, her forehand and serve proving particularly potent.

It was their first match together since they were juniors 12 years ago, and with Inglot's huge serve proving unbreakable all afternoon they forced the Bryans to win in five sets for the first time in the Davis Cup.

Federer battled hard to put the set back on level terms, but Raonic's thunderbolt serve proved to be impenetrable.

6.10pm BST Third set: *Federer 6-4 6-4 4-4 Raonic (*denotes server): Federer's serve proves as effective as Raonic's here, with the former No1 barely engaged in a rally in taking the game to love.

The 6ft 8in world number 18 won through to the fourth round for the first time as his formidable serve proved too much for Italian Fabio Fognini.

The home favourite continued to flirt with danger early in the third set, but time and again his serve proved the most trusting of weapons.

It came down to a tie-break - only the second between the pair - and Federer's now functioning serve proved the dominant shot as he converted his third match point after one hour and 48 minutes.

The best restaurants were churches with Episcopalians serving Proven-->al, the Methodists Tuscan, and so on.

All three were removed from service in 1920 and served as proving guns for cordite tests.

So while the presence of evil in the world does not serve to prove there is no God at all, it does show there is no God of the kind adumbrated in religious tradition.

"Your fatuous and ill-informed comments, clearly intended to insult, merely serve to prove how silly you are," he raged.