Tiebreak

Quick meaning: Tiebreak is a noun meaning (sports) A tiebreaker, a game or an extension to a game played to resolve a tied score.

Meaning

(sports) A tiebreaker, a game or an extension to a game played to resolve a tied score.

More Meanings

1. (sports) To break a tie.

Example Sentences

Simon committed only one unforced error in the 47-minute opening set, which required a tiebreak to settle it.

Should the score in the tiebreak become tied at 6 points all, play must continue until one player has a two point advantage.

As the end of the game, game tiebroke in favor of triad, inexplicably. I thought that two people on different teams(even if nominally aligned), like a Triad and a Judge lost ties against single factions with more members(2 town).

2003, Athanasios Papageorgiou, Willy Spitzley, Handbook for Competitive Volleyball, Meyer & Meyer, UK, page 297, If there have not been any major errors in the service reception, then the service reception strategy should not be changed during the tiebreak.

Word Forms

• tiebreaks
• tiebreaking
• tiebroke
• tiebroken

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tie-break, tiebreaker, mini-break, playoff, mini-hold, play-off.

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