The cheering, packed crowd of the stadium built momentum for both teams.

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The pressure was on the home favourite, with LTA chief Roger Draper and GB Fed Cup coach Nigel Sears among the crowd on a packed Court One.

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"I am here tonight under totally false pretenses, " he told the crowd of 3, 000 packed into a ballroom at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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The vast Olympic stadium in central Moscow was certainly packed with an enthusiastic crowd, which was entertained with the usual mix of the bold, the beautiful, the bad and the utterly bizarre.

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The largest crowd in Honda Center history was packed with boisterous fans of both teams for a prominent game in this lockout-shortened year.

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Kiss was filled well beyond its legal capacity with the crowd of 2, 000 people, who packed the club to hear the band play.

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Looking stunned, Francis shyly waved to the crowd of more than 100, 000 people who packed a rain-soaked St.

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And a packed Centre Court crowd, who had come in the hope of seeing Murray repeat the heroics of Monday's win over Gasquet, were left to applaud the brilliance of Nadal.

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Within minutes, we'd drawn a crowd, and only a short while after that, most of the editorial staff was packed into the conference room, laughing, enjoying the show and pushing for their turn at the remote.

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The first rendition of 'Stand up for the Ulstermen' reverberated around the packed grandstands and terraces and as the PA announcer urged the fans to even greater efforts, the home crowd hoped the game itself would live up to the pre-match hype.

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