10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAME POINT»
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game point in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Game Point: Basketball, Sex, Dreams, Reality....
Basketball, Sex, Dreams, Reality.... Deshon Hardy. THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME,
CENTRAL STATE UNI— VERSITY VS. KANSAS INT. MADISON SQUARE
GARDEN — DAY Two Announcers converse about the game. ANNOUNCER l,
WHITE ...
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Statistical Thinking in Sports
The question which concerns us here is whether players play each point “as it
comes” or whether they are affected by what happened in the previous point (ace
, double fault) and/or by the importance of the point (break point, game point).
Jim Albert, Ruud H. Koning, 2007
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Game Strategies and Tactics for Basketball: Bench Coaching ...
As with anything else in the game of basketball, all of the following defensive
tactics should be well rehearsed in practice prior to use in a game. Point
guarding: One of the favorite twists of all the teams I have coached over the years
has been ...
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Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science
The basic rule of the above chaos game is: generate a new game point Random
Affine by picking the midpoint between the last game point and the randomly
chosen marker, which is represented by a number from the set {1,2,3}. The three
...
Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe, 2004
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Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
Simple points are scored for holding the highest hand, the lowest hand, best
pairs, and best game point. Each outcome is treated in turn as the players
calculate their chances and take the measure of their opponents. If a player is
confident of ...
Losing an ace can affect your chances on the game point — and perhaps on the
low trump card: Another player may use his 2 of the trump suit to take your winner
and simultaneously score some points toward the game point. Don't lead your ...
During informal games, "advantage" can also be called "ad in" or "ad out",
depending on whether the serving player or receiving player, respectively, is
ahead. A game point occurs in tennis whenever the player who is in the lead in
the game ...
At game point, many players beat themselves with unforced errors. These usually
occur on the first shot, whether a return of serve or a serve. So when you're
leading at game point, keep the pressure on your opponent by making a solid
first ...
Scott Williams, Randy Petersen, 2000
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Tennis: Winning the Mental Match
A similar scenario can be made for any point, since you need only four to win a
game and any one of them provides 25% of the total. Losing any one point, if a
game gets close, means that you will be down game point rather than up game ...
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Operations Research for Management
The value of the game (point v) can be read from the graph in Fig. 3.1; it is the
lowest intersection point in the shaded area. The reasoning for this lowest
intersection point is that it is the lowest level, on an average, at which player B
can hold ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAME POINT»
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game point is used in the context of the following news items.
Serena Williams beats battling Garbiñe Muguruza to win Wimbledon
After an ace got her to game point, she again hit wide for deuce then double faulted. Williams had set point – and took it, after 44 minutes, with ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Defending champion Saina Nehwal bows out of Australian Open
Slowly and steadily, Saina clawed back to 14-14 but a ruthless Shixian reeled off six straight points to grab a massive six game point at 20-14 ... «The Indian Panorama, Jul 15»
Indian shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa win Canada Open
In a closely-contested opening game, Jwala and Ashwini broke away from the 19-19 and converted the lone game point opportunity to grab the ... «The Indian Panorama, Jul 15»
Serena Williams - Garbiñe Muguruza
... big serve down the centre of the court doing the damage on game point as Muguruza pulls her off-balance forehand return wide across court. «Eurosport.com AU, Jul 15»
Yorkshire driven to assuage agony of losing out to Lancashire
They finished level on eight match points with Roses rivals Lancashire, but the crown eluded them by half a game point. Yorkshire face ... «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»
A descent into Breckenridge's ping-pong lair
The one exception to Hoyle is that the loser-to-be is given the “sucker-serve” at game point. Though this is an aberration of Forrest Gump ... «Summit Daily News, Jul 15»
Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova to reach Wimbledon final …
A long pause between the first and second serves on game point, it's not one that helps Sharapova, double fault. But that's the only blot in an ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Minute by minutes
Will it be game point Gasquet or break point Djokovic? Djokovic has been so strong on the 30-alls and deuces during this match. And he takes ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Joplin native Jack Jewsbury scores winning goal for Portland
He was the only MLS player that season to record multiple four-game point streaks, and he was named the Timbers' player of the year in a vote ... «Joplin Globe, Jul 15»
Novak Djokovic defeats Marin Cilic: Wimbledon 2015 – as it happened
Djokovic comes forward and Cilic attempts to pass, but a brilliantly struck volley into the corner gives Djokovic a game point. Cilic error seals the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
