Sentence examples for tense tie from inspiring English sources

Azarenka fended off four match points in the 82-minute second to set up a tense tie breaker.

Heavily favored to defeat the Carolina Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup finals, the Wings found themselves in a tense tie late tonight and fearing overtime.

She won a tense tie breaker against the woman 11 years her senior, and the body language of both at the start of the third set foretold the result.

But coming through a tense tie-break to level the match, with some help from a huge Tsonga misjudgement, ultimately proved the turning point.

That moment paved the way for a tense tie-break, won by Berdych after he stubbornly clawed back a 3-0 deficit, and the turnaround seemed to energise the powerful Czech, who raced to a 3-1 lead in the fourth set.

The 19-year-old Williams, who had to pull out of last year's final in Montreal with a foot injury in the third set, recovered from a rain interruption of almost three hours and a tense tie-breaker loss to win her second WTA title this summer.

The Yankees appeared eager to make the Orioles execute the big-time postseason play in a tense, tied game.

And then in the final inning of the first game of the American League divisional series game between the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles, Martin, an unsung cog in a batting lineup that has needed his power lately, smashed a long home run that was the go-ahead run in a tense, tied game.

The most common reaction among those paying attention was a nagging suspicion that the fix might have been in from the start against the Libyan defendant who was convicted, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, given the decades of tense ties with the United States.

The Spaniard saved two set points at 5-4 down before the second set went to a tense tie-break.

But with Ward serving for a 5-2 lead, Tsonga found his way back into the set after putting away a second break point with an overhead to get back on serve before a tense tie-break.