Wales led 6-0 at half-time but tries from O'Driscoll and Tommy Bowe in the opening minutes of the second half pulled Ireland back into the match and set up a thrilling finale.
But Dodig hit back with his first break of the match and the set eventually went to a tie-break.
However, the Belgian dug deep and took the match to a third and deciding set after winning the tie-break, having trailed 3-0 at one stage.
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Bogdanovic recovered from losing the first set to level the match and was a break down in the final set.
Talking to Today presenter James Naughtie, the Labour peer and former European commissioner, Lord Mandelson, said Mr Cameron had given game, set and match to the hardliners in the Conservative party.
Murray played well enough to win every set and actually served for the match in the fourth set.
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Jacques Cronje was impressive, and set the tone for the match early on as he set up Eddie Fredericks for a simple try.
Aces, set and match points are signaled by a moving graphic display which circles the entire arena.
The Sunday Express says England won 'Dane set and match' and that the country is now in 'Heaven'.
It sounds like game set and match to Ed Balls in the game of "who killed the UK recovery".
Killie go to Fir Park to face Motherwell this weekend for their final match of the season and is set to make a number of changes to protect players from suspension.
But regardless of the identity of the two players facing each other across the net on the final weekend, they'll be delivering their best with just four words in mind: Game, set and match.
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Game, set and match to the Windsors.
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Nadal prevailed 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to improve to 16-1 against Ferrer on clay -- Ferrer won their first match in 2004 -- and set up a showdown with Berdych in a repeat of the 2010 Wimbledon final, which Nadal won.
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In the eighth game they achieved their first break of the match thanks to a Murray forehand winner to go 5-3 up and Murray levelled the match at one set apiece with an ace.
The goal owed much to some awful Everton defending and it set the tone for the match - the hosts probing and controlling possession, but with Boro looking dangerous on the break.
Fish won the first set before being pegged back and saw a match point go to waste in the fourth set before Ward took it on a tied-break.
But Soderling never looked back after breezing through the first set of their fourth round match and closed out victory as Nadal sent a volley wide after bravely saving a matchpoint in the fourth set tiebreak.
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But Djokovic seized the match midway through the third set and then it skidded away from a classic into a coronation.
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Suddenly, Baghdatis was right back in the match with a love-set and a break at the start of the fourth after a Murray double-fault.
Gareth Bale tormented group four bottom side Liechtenstein with a man-of-the-match display and his run and cross set up Vaughan who slid in for the first.
However, the third seed responded brilliantly with three breaks of serve to level the match and then stormed through the third set to prevail 4-6 6-3 6-1.
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Berankis then held to move within a game of victory, and although Ward then held to love, it was just a temporary delay as Berankis served for the set and the match, a victory which was sealed when a Ward backhand went into the net.
The Briton won the first two points of the match on the Tsonga serve and that set the tone for what followed, with Murray making the first breakthrough in game three thanks in part to a beautiful forehand winner, and in part to the Frenchman's first double-fault of the day.
He is aiming high and immediately set the players the challenge to trying to match the standards set by Australia, the top rated side in Test and one-day cricket.
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