Williams hit 26 winners past the Belorussian, taking four of her five break-point chances and denying Azarenka's single break-point opportunity.
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Radwanska broke back for 3-3, and Baltacha failed to convert a break-point chance for 5-5.
Ferrer visibly grows in confidence and registers that hard-earned break point by wrong-footing Nadal with a brilliant crosscourt backhand winner.
Berdych was soon serving for the match and the pressure appeared to have got the better of him as Federer saved a match point and brought up a break-back point.
Henman was helped by a controversial over-rule from the umpire while facing break point at 4-4 in the opening set against ninth seed Lee.
Nieminen actually had a point to go 2-0 up in the second set, but failed to seize the only break-point presented by Federer in the course of the match.
Facing a break point at 30-40, she hit a second serve that was ruled out.
Sharapova feasted in particular on Zheng's weak second serve and went 8 for 8 on break-point chances.
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He lost just five games and didn't face a break point against fourth-seeded David Ferrer, winning 6-2, 6-2, 6-1.
Gulbis then fashioned a break-point chance in game 10, only for Murray to respond with a service winner of his own.
But he broke straight back, and then crucially took his third break-point in the ninth game to serve for the match.
"I had a lot of break-point chances tonight which is not something I expect to happen against Andy, " Querrey told the ATP Web site.
The Swede fired 26 aces past the Frenchman, who earned only one break-point against Soderling's serve in the last two sets after winning the opener.
Soderling had to save a break point at 2-3 in the second set and had another scare when falling awkwardly while hitting a forehand two games later.
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In the third, Massu had a chance to claw something back when he earned his first break point at 1-1, but Murray nullified the threat before breaking him twice.
The Briton then broke and went on to convert his lead, coming through a titanic 10th game thanks to a lunging volley at break-point down as he levelled matters.
The former Australian Open runner-up was left to rue converting only two of his 11 break-point opportunities against an opponent he had beaten in three out of four previous meetings.
GCSEs, which would be absorbed into the "intermediate" level of the diploma structure, would be downgraded to a "stepping stone and a progress check, rather than the present artificial break-point".
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By this point the sunshine in which the match started had given way to cloudy skies, a fairly strong wind and gentle rainfall, and break-point opportunities were few and far between.
Disregarding Monday night's disappointment, United -- who can no longer break the 100-point barrier -- certainly have shown an emphatic desire to reclaim a title they have already won 19 times.
Djokovic failed to convert his first 11 break-point chances.
Having squandered a break point at 3-2, Nadal earned two more when Murray shanked a forehand beyond the baseline and clinched it when the 21-year-old sent a routine smash long - to horrified gasps from the crowd.
"If we could have gotten a few runs earlier with the opportunities that we had and made a couple of the crucial break-point plays, then the outcome could have been a little different, " Houston manager Bo Porter said.
The match lasted more than four and a half hours, and the deciding set went for 99 minutes -- with Nalbandian furious that he was denied a video challenge at 8-8 when he held a break-point on Isner's serve.
Roddick had a break-point opportunity in the next game but failed to take it and he was made to pay dearly for that in the fifth when Federer broke him again then comfortably held serve for a 5-1 lead.
Spain, by comparison to Germany, has only a two-week winter break, as does Italy, while England sits at the opposite end of the spectrum: Between the Premier League and the FA Cup, the holiday season is extremely congested, making it a traditional make-or-break-point for many campaigns.
Mathieu Bonello was sin-binned for an intentional knock-down but Northampton could not make any more inroads before the break - Geraghty shinned another three-point attempt as the half-time whistle was greeted by an eerie silence at Franklin's Garden.
But the 2002 and 2003 champion lost focus early in the second, with her forehand especially error-prone, and Silva grew in confidence as the set progressed, saving a break point to move to 4-4.
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