I'm not arguing for single-elimination in the NBA or NHL: I think you could do best-of-5 in the first two rounds, then best-of-sevens for the conference finals and finals.
"It was a very tough match and after losing the first two sets it was the best comeback of my career, " said Verdasco.
This season the wild-cards had the odd occurrence of hosting the first two games against teams with the best record in their leagues.
The Czechs had the best two chances in the first half but Radoslav Kovac and Milan Baros sent their headers wide.
The 29-year-old has been some way short of his best form in the first two Ashes Tests against Australia.
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Instead it was West Ham who created the first-half's best two openings.
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The hosts lead the best-of-five match series 1-0 after the first two Tests.
The 2006 sequel, Top Spin 2, the first of the series published by Take-Two Interactive subsidiary 2K Sports, may have be the best tennis video game ever made.
Fagan had the best two opportunities in a scrappy first half, shooting wide early on and being denied by a good Smith save on 42 minutes.
Top amateur Gary Wolstenholme and Dane Soren Kjeldsen were the next two best players and will be the first two reserves should anyone from their qualifier drop out.
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"Playing Montferrand away in the first game of the European Cup is a big ask, because Toulouse and Montferrand are probably the two best teams in France, " Connolly said.
With 34%, he was well short of the 50% needed to win the contest outright in the first round, but he looked certain to go through to the September run-off between the two best performers.
The third month was spent hearing an incredibly one-sided presentation from the prosecutor having no first-hand knowledge of the facts, and deposing two witnesses that have a peripheral relationship, at best, to the independent counsel's referral.
But mostly he talked about one week in 1942, the first week of the year, the week he met my grandmother, made his best friend, and killed two Germans.
"Minority Report" and "Munich" -- all have been more challenging and complex than much of his earlier work (his Best Director Oscars were won for the first two of these).
Coach Bernard Laporte has also been hampered by injuries to fly-half Frederic Michalak and skipper Fabien Pelous - who will miss at least the first two matches - and is still experimenting to find his best XV.
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In the first half the Seasiders cut out final balls to Meireles, one of Liverpool's best players, on two occasions and after the break the brilliant Craig Cathcart got enough on his headed clearance to prevent Torres from planting into the net at the far post.
Sinking two eagles, the rehabbed golfer posted his best ever first round at the high profile tournament.
So if you play those two first then I wouldn't say that was the best start.
After winning the first three games of the best-of-seven series, the Knicks lost two straight.
Telecom executive Theodore Bonnell, one of the best skiers in Brill's group, drops into Two Smokes first.
Bjoerndalen is considered the best biathlete of all time having won five gold medals in his first two Games, with four coming at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.
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The first two are single vineyard wines, and of these, I think the DuNah would be the best for Thanksgiving.
It's no bad thing that we play them first - we've played them last in the past two years and it's been our best performance of the autumn.
In that 2007 one-day series, England were reeling after a 5-0 thumping in the Ashes, and lost five of their first six ODIs before winning their last two group games to edge above the Kiwis and qualify for the best-of-three final against Australia.
Next year will be an extremely controversial one as Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, two of the best to ever play the game, will appear on the ballot for the first time.
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The industrious Bosc was at the heart of their best moves - and the stand-off gave them an early lead with two penalties in the first 20 minutes of the game.
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