Sentence examples similar to tightly contested match with from inspiring English sources

It was a tightly contested match which was won by Jones in a controversial unanimous decision.

A week earlier in Memphis, he had gained his first final in an ATP tournament -- the big leagues of the professional sport -- before losing to another rising American, Andy Roddick, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, in a tightly contested match.

But the tightly contested match turned in Cardiff's favour on 63 minutes when Miller, played clean through on goal, fell under the challenge of Davies on the edge of the box.

She lost to the Russian world number 3 in a tightly contested match.

It was a decisive intervention from Koeman that turned the course of this typically fiercely contested match with Tony Pulis's West Brom.

At the French Open, Kuznetsova lost again to eventual champion Henin in a tightly contested fourth round match, having wasted a match point in the third set.

Australia coach Ric Charlesworth agreed it had been a tightly-contested match but felt a mistake by his side with the score at 2-1 let Germany back into the match and they grew in strength from that point.

Birmingham had one of the most tightly contested votes in the UK, with 50.4% opting to leave.

The midfielder Chris Erskine changed the tone of the tightly contested game with a wonderful curling shot after 36 minutes.

Aberdeen made a minimal dent into Celtic's lead at the top of the table as they had to settle for a point from a tightly contested clash with Partick.

This election has been the mostly tightly contested in years, with the two major parties trading polling leads in the run-up to voting day.