Not much to cheer for after that, though: Williams won the next three points with a 111 mph ace, a 100 mph ace, and a 101 mph service winner.
Once again, his serve came to his rescue, a sixth ace earning him a fourth set point and Federer obligingly put his return wide to hand Murray the set.
"He pitched great, but that's the mark of a true ace, " Collins said.
Hs patient baseline game helped earn him the first set point at 5-4, only for Gulbis to fire a huge ace out wide.
They did have two break points on Broady's serve in the sixth game but he saved them both - the second with a 93mph ace.
Maria Sharapova double faulted 10 times, didn't hit a single ace and faced 14 break points in her semifinal match against Petra Kvitova, last year's Wimbledon champion.
Despite not being taken past 30 on serve the Scot still required a tie-break but he remained ice cool, breaking immediately and consolidating with a huge ace.
Pineda arrived with hopes of being a second ace behind CC Sabathia, but from the start of spring, his velocity was down, prompting concern from the Yankees and outsiders.
Federer opened the second set with a double-fault but normal service was quickly resumed and a thumping ace down the 'T' helped him take game one with little reason for concern.
Until the past decade or so, it had been accepted wisdom in the genetics community that only the tiniest percentage of the human genome contains the instructions that determine how we look, feel and act whether we (or our ancestral population group) are more likely to be grumpy or gregarious, impetuous or cautious, generous or a Grinch, a speedster or a marathoner, slow-witted or a math ace.
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The book was a present from an ace teacher, a literary evangelist in classy shoes, who also flunked me, of course, with good reason.
Dickey could obviously fall into two distinct categories: an ace of a pitching staff or a solid number two behind an ace.
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According to a study by Ace Metrix in Ad Age, celebrities do nothing to help sell a product, sometimes they can even hurt sales.
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The 2007 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies should lay to rest one of the great myths of modern baseball: that a dominant "closer"--a high-priced pitching ace who enters a game in the final inning to nail down a victory--is a must-have for success.
The Mets needed something positive a day after learning ace Johan Santana will likely miss the season with a re-torn left shoulder capsule.
So on one hand you have a brand, Ace, selling shovels, etc. to people who clearly need them and as such would me more willing than to buy one than say during a sunny day.
However, a triple therapy combination of a diuretic with an ACE inhibitor or ARB and an NSAID was associated with a 31% higher rate of kidney injury, particularly elevated in the first 30 days of treatment during which it was 82% higher.
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Each of his cookbooks has made it to the best-seller list, and both cable programs are big hits: "The Essence of Emeril" earned two daytime Emmy nominations in 2001 and 2002, and "Emeril Live" won a 1997 Cable Ace Award for best informational series.
It left him needing to serve out the set and Djokovic made what would be his final push as he attempted to recover the break, but Nadal held his nerve like a champion at 5-4, 30-30, with an ace and a service winner.
Last night at a party at the Ace Hotel in New York, Moto Guzzi and Hammarhead Industries unveiled the latest in a line of Guzzi Originals, a vintage-looking bike called the V7 Wayward cafe racer.
Morris was a mentally and physically tough ace that had pitched 240 or more innings in a season on 10 different occasions as well as starting 30 or more games 11 times.
The ACE is a coalition of 1, 800 higher-education institutions, ranging from Harvard to Honolulu Community College.
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Ace is a "master hunter, " one of the highest designations bestowed upon sporting dogs.
New York's ace had a lot to do with helping his team get the much-needed win.
Yet if the flop included a king and an ace--well, that would be ugly.
She followed with an ace off a 117 mph serve that Venus looked at before changing sides.
He then calmly produced an ace for a second set point and profited from a long Burrieza return to collect early lead.
James A. "Ace" Lyons was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations.
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