How to Use tiebreak in a Sentence

tiebreak

noun
  • Zverev went on to win the tiebreak and extend the match.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Halep won the next game at love, taking them to the tiebreak.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Even a split would ensure the two teams could do no worse than a tiebreak.
    — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The deciding tiebreak ebbed and flowed as the match had.
    — James Hansen, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
  • He’s only been pushed to a tiebreak once in his five matches.
    — Ben Morse, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Alcaraz won a game that went to deuce five times, sending them to the tiebreak.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Even those for whom birdies, bogies and tiebreaks are (sorry) par for the course.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Sinner overcame a break in the first game of the match to take the first set in a tiebreak.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The two teams split the two sets, and headed to a ten-point tiebreak to decide the match.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Entering the tiebreak, Djokovic had a chance to go up two sets to love.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • Krejčíková hung in, saved more match points and won the tiebreak to take the match into a third set.
    — The Athletic Tennis Staff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, Jódar won that game, and then the first set — in a tiebreak.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The set went to a tiebreak, where Williams rallied from down a break twice and forced a third set.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • Alcaraz came back from down two sets to love, with three of the sets going into tiebreaks.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • That would mean that the lower seed would almost always take the pool in a three-way tiebreak.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The lone doubles contest of the day also came down to the super tiebreak.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Both matches opened with a blowout set and ended with Djokovic winning a tiebreak.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Just imagine if Milos breaks early in the third and wins the tiebreak in the fourth.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 10 July 2016
  • In the three tiebreaks, Djokovic didn't make a single unforced error.
    — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In the final tiebreak, Djokovic had a set point three times, but could not deliver.
    — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 5 June 2018
  • The 10-time champion saved four set points in the nail-biting tiebreak.
    — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 29 May 2018
  • Djokovic double-faulted to lose the opening set, but then fought back to win the second in a tiebreak.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • Azarenka took a 5-2 lead in the first tiebreak, but Baptiste cut her deficit to one.
    — Varun Shankar, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • The only exception is that if the match is level at one set all, a tiebreak is played in place of a third set.
    — NBC News, 28 July 2024
  • Keys delivered a flurry of winners to steal that set in a tiebreak, before pulling away.
    — James Hansen, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The third seed came close, though, in the opener, as the big-hitting Rublev led the tiebreak 6-3.
    — Ravi Ubha, CNN, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The first to seven points is the winner of a tiebreak, but if both players are tied at six, the first to go up by two wins that game.
    — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Djokovic was up a break in the fourth set and then had two match points in a tiebreak but couldn’t close, as del Potro forced a decider.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • Matches were best-of-three sets and sets were shortened to the first to four games, with tiebreaks at three-all and next point wins when games reach deuce.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 6 May 2020
  • The scoring format was 6-game sets with a tiebreak to 7 points at 5-5 and no ad scoring.
    — miamiherald, 18 June 2017

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