| Any tournament with semi-finals and a final has three matches in which the winner takes all at the end. |
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| Serving for her first place in the semi-finals of the French Open in 11 years, she tensed up, double-faulted and blew a match point. |
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| I got to the semi-finals of my first tournament and knew that I wanted to play professionally. |
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| The league is being played in four geographical groups, with two semi-finals and a final at the end of the season. |
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| After so many lost finals and semi-finals and rank bad breaks, does his team still have the stomach for the fight? |
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| The Marshfield men beat favourites Morecambe in a thrilling game to reach the semi-finals. |
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| Stevens was gracious in defeat and he has now lost two finals in addition to three semi-finals at Sheffield. |
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| A number of other athletes got through to the finals and semi-finals of their events. |
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| The team progressed from Saturday's semi-finals to reach the final on Sunday. |
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| Two tables will be used in the main theatre for the quarter-finals and one for the semi-finals and final. |
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| The winners of the semi-finals will take part in a county final to decide the winner. |
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| The semi-finals and final will be played this coming Sunday at New Earswick. |
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| England have only made the semi-finals twice and been knocked out in the first round four times. |
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| That may be the case but Mowbray still wants semi-finals and finals for his players. |
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| But it's the Netherlands that move on to the semi-finals with the fastest time after being pushed by a strong Belarusian crew. |
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| Forty teams representing ten schools competed in this year's semi-finals with the top seventeen qualifying for the final. |
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| The early game between Chile and the USA was decisive for both teams, with the winner earning a berth in the semi-finals. |
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| The men in blue were looking to seal the semi-finals berth of World Cup cricket against Sri Lanka. |
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| But the second seed shuts the door and moves into the semi-finals on her second match point. |
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| This is the eighth time they have made the Olympic semi-finals and they have a respectable haul of three silvers and three bronzes. |
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| Mwamba who was unseeded sailed to the semi-finals via a hard-fought 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 scoreline. |
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| In his own words, Pearce is a nearly man, a player who never quite reached the pinnacle, who lost in too many semi-finals, who never won titles. |
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| After breezing through the preliminary heat, Carrington moved on to the semi-finals. |
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| Having won all their pool matches Yorkshire faced Cheshire in the semi-finals and notched a 3-0 victory. |
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| Number eight seed Guillermo Coria upset Wimbledon finalist David Nalbandian to reach the semi-finals. |
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| They will be finished this morning, along with the semi-finals of the fours. |
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| Clearly both players preferred to take it easy and rest for their semi-finals. |
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| West Indies strolled to a composed victory over Sri Lanka to book their place in the semi-finals. |
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| Tyrone are now in the All-Ireland semi-finals and you can be absolutely certain they will make it really hot for Kerry. |
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| The Heat, the lone new face in the Eastern semi-finals, also swept their first-round series, beating the Pistons in three games. |
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| They suffered a shock defeat to Puerto Rico in the opening game before being humbled by eventual winners Argentina in the semi-finals. |
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| As the only team not to suffer at least one really poor result throughout the patchy series they must surely secure a place in the semi-finals. |
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| But the pinnacle of her singles career came when she reached the semi-finals of the French Open last month. |
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| Both sides are very much in contention for a place in the semi-finals of the competition. |
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| The club are still bottom of the superleague, but semi-finals had been booked in both the Challenge Cup and the Continental Cup. |
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| Someone upstairs knew the importance of semi-finals and turned on a brilliant day of flat water with barely a hint of wind. |
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| Gardner has one more bout on Tuesday and will advance directly to the semi-finals if he wins his four-man pool. |
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| Wrestlers will fight each other within their pool, with the winners of the two four-man pools qualifying for the semi-finals. |
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| But their financial difficulties could have a galvanic effect, although the semi-finals would be a more realistic ambition. |
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| Such is his dedication to the job that he actually went along to both cup semi-finals to bone himself up on the main protagonists. |
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| It was to be the first of four successes for the evergreen Willcockson, who had been ousted in the men's semi-finals by Moss. |
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| Two door cars and two dragsters remained in competition when Saturday's Super Pro semi-finals rolled around. |
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| Chinese women have made the semi-finals in hockey and the quarter-finals in volleyball. |
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| They were, he continued, within a whisker of making it through to the All Ireland semi-finals when they had victory snatched from their grasp. |
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| His best effort yet came at Roland Garros in June, but he went down to a surprise defeat to outsider Martin Verkerk in the semi-finals. |
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| Carlow were the better team overall and are now within striking distance of the semi-finals. |
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| An excellent all-round display by teenager David Wilkinson saw Rawdon defeat Adel by one wicket in the semi-finals. |
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| The top four men's doubles seeds reached their appointed places resulting in the prospect of two excellent semi-finals. |
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| Because we consider only round-robin matches, and thus omit semi-finals and finals, there are no constrained observations in the sample. |
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| The quarter and semi-finals will then be held in London and will culminate in the nail-biting national final. |
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| The top four points earners in the final Challenge standings each won their first-round race, setting up a slugfest in the semi-finals. |
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| She fell off the balance beam in the semi-finals at the Worlds and finished seventh on floor at the World Cup. |
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| He arrived in Athens ranked sixth in the world, but only just scraped into the semi-finals after qualifying in 16th place. |
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| He certainly brought Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean down to earth with a bang in the semi-finals. |
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| Dividing the county into two main groups, with the first and second in each group to qualify for the semi-finals was a master stroke. |
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| The 25-year-old was at her balletic best against the feisty Myskina as she skipped into the semi-finals for the third time in her past three visits. |
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| He advanced to the semi-finals in the former and to the finals in the latter, then scratched from both events in order to focus on other upcoming swims. |
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| There is some interesting betting on Saturday's semi-finals. |
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| He's a great swimmer and was fast in the prelims and semi-finals. |
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| There are preliminary heats in the 50m, 100m and 200m distances that lead to semi-finals and then finals, all based on who gains the fastest times. |
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| It has been 50 years since the young men of the University of Texas reached the semi-finals, and a fair degree of pride has underlined their achievements. |
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| China proved to be the stronger side at the semi-finals stage as the Chinese shuttlers took a commanding lead of 3-0 by defeating Hong Kong on Wednesday. |
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| At the recently held semi-finals of the Miss India contests, she was adorned in an ornate diamond choker and later a platinum diamond drop necklace. |
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| The top team in each of the two groups go directly to the semi-finals, with the next two teams in each pool playing off for the remaining spots in the last four. |
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| While academicians and sitting district judges were the adjudicators for the semi-finals, three sitting judges of the High Court were roped in for the final. |
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| Venus Williams's straight-set victory over sister Serena in the Wimbledon women's semi-finals was the most affecting sports contest in recent memory. |
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| During his ultimately ill-starred tenure in Manchester, Brandon's only achievement of note was taking Britain's best-supported side to the play-off semi-finals. |
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| A series of terrific performances from the Belarusian contributed, in no small measure, to Arsenal's impressive progress into the Champions League semi-finals. |
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| The top four in the table based on those results will go into semi-finals, with the final being played as a curtain-raiser to the main York 9s finale. |
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| Both football semi-finals are fixed for February 24, but Nemo have been approached about playing the following week to avoid a clash with the Sigerson Cup. |
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| Then there was the famous Wembley turf itself, proudly unblemished, and depthlessly green compared to the mud heaps or the dust bowls of the semi-finals only weeks before. |
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| She made it to the show's semi-finals with her professional dance partner, having learnt to dance the waltz, foxtrot, samba, rumba, jive and quickstep among others. |
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| Bromsgrove Rovers can book their place in the Southern League Cup semi-finals when they travel to B anbury United. |
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| In Light Fly semi-finals, Hasnain beat Farhan Raza and Jahanzaib beat Shiroz. |
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| The England boss is facing a do-or-die clash on Sunday night in Viborg to reach the semi-finals. |
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| But Al Ahli finished with a better goal difference to advance to the semi-finals while Al Nasr finished third in the group. |
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| Under Jason Ryan they were tactically spot on but didn't get the credit for punching above their weight in reaching the All-Ireland semi-finals. |
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| German wildcard Sabine Lisicki conquered her nerves to defeat France's Marion Bartoli and take her amazing Wimbledon run into the semi-finals. |
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| We're down to the nitty-gritty as the two lowest scoring couples compete in a dance-off, with a place in the semi-finals at stake. |
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| Banks received a bye to the semi-finals following the withdrawl of Northallerton. |
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| Foundry 'C', Training Directorate, Calcinations and Smelter 'B' have already reached the semi-finals of the competition. |
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| Hello everyone, and welcome back to the blog where we will find out which YouTubular acts will be moving on into the semi-finals. |
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| A nervy-looking Ward, who reached the semi-finals at Queen's last month, lost his first service game courtesy of a double-fault and a wildly over-hit forehand. |
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| They then captured a 3-2 penalty shoot-out victory in the semi-finals against Group 'C' winners Al Haora in one of their best matches in the tournament. |
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| The semi-finals of the Fred Graham Trophy will be played simultaneously on Chester's two grounds at noon with Oxton taking on Mobberley while Alderley Edge play Hyde. |
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| The Jester from Leicester has been the epitomy of consistency this year hence his ranking and has to be the call at 11-8 to reach the semi-finals. |
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| Manni claimed her division crown after excelling on the third and final day of event, which featured a round-robin for the under-12s, followed by te semi-finals and the final. |
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| The trio are through to the semi-finals of a competition open to authors who live in the Ruhr area of Germany or places twinned with Oberhausen in the Ruhr. |
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| Esperance de Tunis had also qualified for the semi-finals of the African Handball Clubs Championship after beating Congo's JSK 27-22 at the quarter-final on Tuesday. |
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| They came through two penalty shoot-outs, against South Durham and Cestria in the semi-finals and Didcot Casuals in the final, to seal success in the invitation-only event. |
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| Through to the plate semi-finals are Netball 5s who are on an unbeaten run this season and face MMU 7s and men's football 3s who face tough opposition away Leeds City College. |
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| The Ancients are in fine fettle after progressing to the semi-finals of the Welsh Cup with last week's fine 1-0 win at Welsh Premier side Aberystwyth Town. |
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| Wales's two most experienced competitors, Catrin Davies and Bethan Coole, were also out of luck in the semi-finals of the women's 100 freestyle and backstroke respectively. |
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| One stepover turned into six, Middlesbrough's defence was bamboozled and, in the blink of an eye, Everton had effectively reached the Capital One Cup semi-finals. |
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| Birtley's John Ruddick was in Germany to take part in the Brandenburg Cup, reaching the semi-finals where he was outboxed by a Kazakhstan youngster. |
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| Romford's Done Deal, drawn one in opening heat, will be another well bet performer, who shouldn't have too much trouble in qualifying for Tuesday's semi-finals. |
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