Sentence examples for serve to start from inspiring English sources

But the fourth-seeded Kuerten broke Golmard's serve to start the match.

But she skimmed her racket in anger through the red clay of Chatrier Stadium when Sharapova broke her serve to start the second set.

"He's got a huge weapon on his serve to start with, and he's slowly progressing," said Ricardo Acuña, his coach from the United States Tennis Association.

Kerber broke Pliskova's serve to start the match and then played an assured, clean first set, finishing with only three errors.

With the sun setting and the crowd left in shadows, Federer revived, holding serve to start the fifth set and playing it as the front-runner until Djokovic was serving at 3-4.

When Watson broke Sharapova's serve to start the second set, spectators began wondering if the winner of three of the world's four major international championships might be headed for an early exit.

2.14pm: Soderling serves to start the French Open final.

Whatever the truth, the phone call served to start a mini-Armageddon between the two former champions, a wreck-or-be-wrecked character battle, in which Landis comes up the clear loser.

Last week's tragic shooting at Virginia Tech University served to start another go-around on a number of issues including security, gun control and violence in entertainment.

As much as the exhibition lauds the right to vote, it also serves to start a conversation about the fraught history of voter rights in the United States.

The point of doing so isn't to diminish your achievement in any way; rather, it simply serves to start a conversation in which both parties are appreciated and celebrated.